Copa America took a turn for the better for Celtic last night. Cameron Carter-Vickers’ second half appearance was not enough to prevent USA from losing to Panama. That result leaves both sides on three points going into the final group game. The USA face Uruguay (two wins from two) in their final game while Panama play Bolivia (two defeats from two).
The final group games take place on Tuesday, so Cameron could be back home to cast his vote on Thursday. Let’s hope.
Alistair Johnston’s Canada need a point against Chile on Sunday to progress to the quarter finals. Canada have the advantage as they got a better result against Peru but Chile are favourites to win. It would be good to see both defenders home soon.
Sead Haksabanovic is one of a procession of wingers who passed through Parkhead gates over the last decade without leaving much of an impression behind. At 25, he is still young enough to make a good career in the game, but as with all players, he needs a run of games. Hopefully he’ll get that at Malmo.
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Kelvinbhoy
Belated congratulations on completing the Camino. Was surprised to read that you used a Sherpa to carry your bag.
Did you give St.James a hug.
Celticmac
As you alluded to only the purchase of newly issued shares goes to the Club – otherwise it’s from buyer to seller
GENE on 29TH JUNE 2024 2:17 PM
I did indeed give my namesake a hug, a stunning cathedral. Re the transfer of our bags, one of our group decided early on they wanted to transfer so the other three of us thought it best to do same. That said, on some of the really demanding walks, e.g. Villafranca to O’Cebreiro, I think it would have been nigh on impossible for me to have carried a full rucksack. I doff my cap to those who do 👏
gene
Wonder if Celtic PLC, given their sound financial position, could in fact raise a substantial genuine investment via a new share issue, say to rebuild the South Stand, given the sheer scale of equity funds available in NYC and elsewhere. I’m thinking £100 mill here
Good afternoon all from the Victoria Bar. You are an absolute shower. So there now.
celtic mac
Yes back then MON says he spotted Joos at the Euros and we were able to buy him.
Couple of points
Valgaeren had been an International player for 3 years by the time MON claims to have spotted him. His club team had won the Dutch Cup and he was being tipped for Bayern Munich and Ajax to buy him.
MON had to play almost £5m for him, despite his history of cruciate ligament injury, Back then we were paying £6m for Lenny and Sutton too. All 3 left on free transfers and in Joos’s case on the back of less playing times as injuries caught up with him.
Those were the days where we could sign and compete for players with middling EPL clubs for signings.
Those were the days before Worldwide data Analysis on every player, of Scouting networks that know every promising player across Europe and all top players in S. America and Africa too. Though Ange was still able to exploit laziness in the Japan market- we did not get any regular Japanese Internationalist except Maeda.
MON should have known about Joos before the Belgian performance at the Euros. If he did, he could have bought him for less than the premium price he paid.
And finally, one exception, even an historically older one, might break a rule but it doesn’t break a trend. Who has been brought in the modern era to Scotland or Austria or Poland or Belgium from scouting at a major Euro finals
All players going to the Euros know they have a big shop window to impress. No player, agent or club is gonna sell you a player before they get this shop window chance because they want the premium bonus payment from those clubs lazy enough to scout at the Tournaments only? I can only think of possibly Juranovic- but it was Legia who signed him after he played for Croatia in 2020- we got him a year later.
I would suggest that we should be recruiting players from the nations that failed at the Euros- Scotland squad, Poland, Albania, Serbia and Czech Republic, because their players looked bad and are currently undervalued. Their club performances were better than those they produced with the National teams.
At Euro 2000- Joos played in a Belgium team, playing 2 games in Belgium and one in Holland, that beat Sweden (Mjallby starting & Henrik came off the bench on 50 minutes), but lost to Italy and Turkey and got knocked out.
celtic Mac
Above post got knocked out of the original shape- hope you are able to join together the intended sections
sftb
Point being Martin saw Joos play up close, figured he would fit into the type of team he wanted at Celtic and made sure Celtic signed him. Played in the 6-2 defeat of Rangers the following month. The Euros give the opportunity to see what players can do, not what they might do in the future which appears to be the guiding light re Celtic transfers in recent history.
celtic Mac
Vinicius Jnr was absolutely brilliant last night.
Go get him, Celtic.
sftb
On recent form would not sign one England player, wouldn’t buy John McGinn either mind, but you are right there are players from the so called lesser Nations, inc. Georgia, that would not break the bank. Whoever we sign has got to be capable of improving the team, some newish challenges ahead with the new CL format, and I would like to think we could make the top 24 of 36 teams.
sftb
Looks like Brazil are once again on the verge of footballing greatness, not only with Vini Jr, Raphena and with young Endrick breaking through. Outclassed England at Wembley recently, could have been 2-3 goals better than the 1-0 score. As for Vini, well he has already played at Celtic Park, scored too, so another one of the greats that’s passed through Parkhead’s gates….
Or something like that
Kelvinbhoy
My rucksack was only 7kg – could have done longer than the week with laundry facilities available.
However the original pilgrims only had the clothes on their backs.
Brendan has offloaded a fair few players in a very short time frame from his appointment to assessment period, which of course ended in the double. We’re still in transfer recovery mode from signing development players that didn’t and probably won’t at Celtic. Kwon, Yang, Tilio, Holm, Lagerbielke, and Nawrocki could all move on, five year contracts or not.
You don’t do a full pre season which has already started at Lennoxtown with one senior keeper especially when he’s well ‘ring rusty’ . A new number one and probably Paulo Bernardo should be about to put pen to paper with nothing to do with the Euro’s or the data base prices or availability.
Conditioning the Celtic support to believe that exceptional players are out of our reach might have been true in the old days, but not now, it’s time to sign ‘difference makers’ the CL will be heaving with them.
5 pm deadline for Superbru predictions
Still to trap
Angel Gabriel
Billy Bhoy
Chalmersbhoy
Leggy
& Scaniel
If you can catch the highlights- Vinicius Jnr’s opening goal against Paraguay was a hing of beauty and he had a wonderful night of trickery and being chopped down.
The Paraguayan defending for the 2nd and 3rd goals would have a schoolboy coach tearing his hair out. They were unlucky when Brazil got a 2nd penalty (missed the first) from a defender whose hand was quite close to his body and who had turned sideways making his profile smaller. The ball did strike his hand as he tried to withdraw it but it was not an. attempt o make himself bigger. These rules need looked at again.
bournesouprecipe
Wouldn’t give up on young Holm just yet or Nawrocki for that matter, especially if we are clearing the decks.
I think the only time lagerbielke let us down was on the plastic at Kilmarnock in the league cup.
garygillespieshamstring
Some might say that getting sent off against Feyenoord in Rotterdam was a bit of a letdown…..
Celtic Mac
I think we’re looking for a CB as per, Reckon Welsh and Nawrocki both have fitness issues with time out and when they do get a game they still struggle. Holm is a disappointment, but the general development issue was compounded by signing too many, with nowhere to play except Lennoxtown on week day mornings.
I’m firmly in the get the chequebook out Celtic CSC
BOURNESOUPRECIPE on 29TH JUNE 2024 11:45 AM
Jobcentre have a few vacancies for straight banana benders
Nearly laughed by beer oot my nose
Thank you😂
CELTIC MAC on 29TH JUNE 2024 3:56 PM
bournesouprecipe
Wouldn’t give up on young Holm just yet or Nawrocki for that matter, especially if we are clearing the decks.
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Perhaps concentrating on fewer projects rather than flooding the squad with them might give the most promising a little more game time/first team involvement . Nawrocki and Holm would come into that category , for me . Easier for BR and the coaching staff to spend more development time with 2 or 3 than with a dozen .
Celtic Mac
Fair enough, but he’s not the first to fall foul of a ref and won’t be the last.
Was solid v Huns at ipox, scored the winner and won several important headers and blocks v Feyenoord and steadied the ship at Celtic Park when Brendan’s Iwata at centre half experiment went tits up and could easily have cost us.
I think he is being binned on very flimsy evidence.
The Swiss and Italians both do the Huddle before kick off.
Nuns on the Buckie
https://twitter.com/SanctaFamiliaTV/status/1806831798154096719
gendalystonsils
You know I almost wish we were in one of those Scottish League Cup sections, 8 groups of 5 teams, including the likes of Buckie Thistle, Stenhousmuir etc, which would have given us opportunities to use our younger players and newer ones needing game time. Not to be. We cannot keep turning over players on the scale we have in recent history, not if we have any realistic hopes of competing in the CL at a decent level over the next few seasons. All for improving and developing players but there is a limit to what we can do in Scottish football as presently run.
Hopefully Brendan will get the balance right.
CELTIC MAC on 29TH JUNE 2024 1:50 PM
sftb
Martin O’Neill, already the new Celtic Manager worked as a TV panel pundit during the Euros in 2000, where he was impressed by Joos Valgaeren playing for Belgium. Joos signed for Celtic in July of that year. Not like you to let the facts get in the way of your narrative. Again
*and he was castigated on Celtic sites as he should have been at Parkheid preparing for the new season no matter that he had a contract he had to adhere to
tontine tim
Martin was one of the best pundits at the time, and, he was paying attention.
Tally manager will be sacked before he’s on the plane home
!!BADA BING!! on 29TH JUNE 2024 6:49 PM
Tally manager will be sacked before he’s on the plane home
*when we cum over here in 1968 to play AC, my late brother was at the game and told me our support were singin “I’m no a tally I’m a Tim”
There’ll be rioting in the streets of the Vatican tonight
SFTB
Sales of tomatos in Rome have gone through the roof.
Spalletti was hoping for a bit of tally ho tonight but now it seems a bit of cheerio is more likely.
The future is ours
Full Celtic associated panel tonight.
“SETTING FREE THE BEARS FOR RES. 12 & OSCAR KNOX on 29TH JUNE 2024 7:08 PM
There’ll be rioting in the streets of the Vatican tonight”
:-)))))
McCoist again! Sound off.
Denmark look like Scotland against the Germans.
I’ve got sound off now.
Don’t know if it was just me, but I thought he sound like he’s had a few before the match.
Sounding even louder and more obnoxious in his comments tonight.
Nonsense, that’s a goal,players get blocked at every corner