Two years ago Celtic made a call on the fitness of Jozo Simunovic after receiving specialist advice from Harley St. It was a value judgement on a player who has blossomed into an excellent defender, but who requires a specific training regime and is rested at times.
There are parallels with Rivaldo Coetzee, who failed his medical despite his injury never interrupting his professional career thus far. Celtic’s recruitment format is evident, buy and develop talent who can be retained or sold at a profit, but the latter option is only available if the player can pass a medical, and for Coetzee, that means an operation and recuperation period.
Brendan has the option of playing Kris Ajer in central defence from the youth ranks, or can move Mikael Lustig inside. Nir Bitton could be moved there for domestic football, but I don’t think we’ll see the Israeli at centre half in the Champions League group stage.
We have a first-choice pairing, but as has been illustrated with Dedryck Boyata and Erik Sviatchenko both out injured, while Jozo needed to be rested, we could do with cover who can operate at Champions League level.
Teenage Jason Denayer’s trajectory looked assured when he left Celtic in 2015 but the years have not been kind. He played second fiddle at Galatasaray for a year before being a jack-of-all-trades at Sunderland – once playing the No. 10 role. Needless to say, there are those who don’t see the potential in him we did.
The parallels with Dedryck Boyata, his Belgium international teammate, are striking. Dedryck was developmentally ahead of Jason when the latter joined Celtic in 2014, but that picture changed when Brendan Rodgers put Dedryck on a firm path, as Jason’s stock went the way of Sunderland’s.
The player would be a hugely popular signing for Celtic, but he’s just one name in what’s sure to be a stressful next 24 hours.
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Doesn’t look like Denayer signing then.
Agree with BRTH on his suitability for Celtic right now anyway. He’s pretty much low on everything right now – morale, fitness, confidence and height.
HH
Declan John, heard he has a pair of green boots :0)
So who is Alison Conroy and what do Wimmin know about fitbaw anyway ? ;-)
worms. can. opened. stands close to door and prepares to run……. :-)
BOBBY MURDOCH’S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS on 30TH AUGUST 2017 2:13 PM
TURKEYBHOY
Fella who works beside me is called Wayne John. No kidding.
I’d sue my parents.
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John Wayne’s real name was Marion Mitchell Morrison … if anyone should have been suing his parents…
no wonder he preferred to be called the Duke!
Dignity…
https://mobile.twitter.com/PaullieWalnuts/status/902883538831331328
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We’re Sure Steve McManus Could Still Do A Job For Us, In The Short-Term…
Especially Since Bomb-Scare Glen Has Moved On.
http://m.bbc.com/sport/football/40925353
Go For It…Brendan !!
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There was about in my class at school called Marion Bates we called him Master
about should be a boy
Einstein “Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler”
Shakespeare “Aye, there’s the rub”
T
tobago …
“there’s the rub” … unfortunate timing of that post… given Timjim’s posts that preceded it!
:)
CELTICROLLERCOASTER
Aye. And WHATISTHESTARS is looking at the first weekend in June 2018 for a rerun.
I’m giving it some serious thought…
BABASONICOS
What are they doing selling poppies in August.
Jee-zoh.
Sigurdsson goes from Swansea to Everton, Clucas from Hull to Swansea, Jackson Irvine from Burton to Hull. This transfer lark reads as a dawdle. Will it be John McGinn or Liam Henderson to Burton?
I don’t understand how Jozo can walk away from a country that’s shaped like a Star Trek chevron.
SOUTH OF TUNIS
Laugh of the week:))
Greta tune..
Radio Clyde reporting no deal for Denayer, looking at other options.
Then CQN reports we’re closing in on a deal for Denayer…
Hmmm
BMCUW…
Mate,I was more interested in the ‘keep it private…tarriers’ response.Not bothered about profiting from charity but that ‘taigs’ might find out.Despicable scum.
WILLIEFERNIE on 30TH AUGUST 2017 2:10 PM
My dad would be 88 today.God bless.With all this transfer talk, I remember the day we signed Joe Mc Bride and he said”Great! just exactly what we need”.Probably still the best natural striker I have seen in the hoops.HH.
They asked arguably one of England’s greatest players Tom Finney who was the best player he ever saw, his answer…Willie Fernie …what a player.
Paul
I always respect your opinion but young Kris Ajer would be an accident waiting to happen if played at centre back in the CL. We saw that against Astana. The young fella is a natural midfielder and is only being played at CB because of his height. We can get away with it in SPFL (he did very well at Killie) but not in Europe. I hope he makes it with us but in his natural position. These experiments have destroyed careers and teams’ ambitions before.
Whatever happened to financial fair play.
https://www.theguardian.com/football/2017/aug/30/psg-kylian-mbappe-neymar-uefa-financial-fair-play
TheOriginalSadiesBhoy on 30th August 2017 3:11 pm
Agreed – its fine when you’re up against Bendtner and Kyle Lafferty but when you are facing players with pace and movement you need specialised CB’s comfortable in the role,
HH
Thought the blog might like to read a reply I received from the BBC following a complaint I made about Sportsound’s interviews with EBT Recipients.
Dear Mr Redacted
Reference CAS-Redacted
Thank you for getting in touch about Sportsound broadcast on 20 August 2017.
Our guests discuss issues relevant to the football matches and sporting issues being covered in our programme.
We chose to interview the players because we considered this to be of interest to our audiences to hear from their perspective what happened at the time, how they might have behaved if they had known then what they know now and what their view of the consequences being suggested in various quarters.
We do not share your further views about individuals we “feature (employ)”.
Regarding your comments about our coverage of Rangers and for the avoidance of doubt, we report, in good faith, news emanating from Scottish football games irrespective of the clubs involved. Any suggestion to the contrary is without foundation. We are disappointed that Rangers took the decision to ban one of our reporters from Ibrox. We believe it is unjustifiable and we stand by the integrity and the quality of our journalism. We will continue to report on Rangers both on and off the pitch and will feature match action where appropriate but, until this issue is resolved, we will not be sending journalists to Ibrox or attending Rangers’ press conferences. The BBC would respond in exactly the same way if any institution or body acted in a similar fashion.
Your comments have been fully registered on our daily audience log. This internal document is made available to all our production teams and senior BBC management.
Thank you, once again, for taking the time to contact us.
Details of the BBC complaints process are available online at http://www.bbc.co.uk/complaints/handle.shtml
Kind regards
Fiona Sheridan
BBC Complaints Team
http://www.bbc.co.uk/complaints
My bold views questioned why BBC Licence Fees were being spent on; tax evaders and those with criminal convictions.
Seems I touched a nerve!
I remember Bobby Lennox being interviewed when fat Sally went one goal ahead of Bobby to beat bobbys record as he had scored the most spl goals, …what do you think of Ally beating your spl goal record Bobby… I didn’t know I had it, so it obviously didn’t mean anything when I held it… priceless wee man priceless :))
Jason was known affectionately at Parkhead as Sevco because he was viewed as the new Kompany.
Thank goodness Grant Hanley has signed for Norwich
WILLIEFERNIE on 30TH AUGUST 2017 2:10 PM
My dad would be 88 today.God bless.With all this transfer talk, I remember the day we signed Joe Mc Bride and he said”Great! just exactly what we need”.Probably still the best natural striker I have seen in the hoops.HH.
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I’m related to Charlie Gallagher through my wife. At Charlie’s Ruby Wedding celebrations some years ago, how was showing some pictures of Celtic teams that he had played in. I asked him who had been his favourite fellow Celt and he picked up a photograph of a team when he was a young player and pointed to Willie Fernie. Charlie said that Willie was his all time favourite. “He would just slide the ball in front of you and say, ‘On you go son. Show them what you can do.'”
I had a neighbour who broke into 176 meters back in the day.
Oops ……… er, did I break the blog?
new article posted.
JIMMYNOTPAUL
Many thanks
MIT. I posted then buggered off ( will that get me my second deletion? ) The post was in response to one of yesterday’s offerings!
As Albert Einstein would have said “Simples”
T
Have a blast in Glasgow at your mini hoot!