You will remember we track the number of appearances young players make before they sign for Celtic. We have a sweet spot of around 60 games (van Dijk: 62, Wanyama: 51, Dembele: 56).
It typically takes this number of games before a prospect will raise his profile enough to come to our attention, and for subsequent scouting to take place. Consider the process. Before recommending a player to Celtic, one of their in-country scouts will have to see him perform on a number of occasions and tested at a level comparable to the challenges faced by Celtic.
Alternatively, agents will need to produce DVDs to entice some interest. It takes time to differentiate a Kieran Tierney from a one season wonder.
Leave it later, say until around 100 games have been played, and a van Dijk is likely to flicker on radars in England or Germany. Celtic’s chances of acquiring the player would be considerably diminished, as even one season wonders can fetch £8m when an EPL club shows interest. Out of Celtic’s reach, but often still rubbish.
Kouassi Eboue breaks our guidelines. The teenager has made a starting line-up on 16 occasions in senior football plus three as a sub. He was red carded once and subbed off four times, so he’s only played 11 full games. 11 games is not a lot to base a £3m purchase on.
On the plus side, the quality of many of those games is reassuring. Five of his 90 minutes came in the Europa League against Salzburg, Nice and Schalke, so Celtic will have had the chance to see him perform against decent European sides – as an 18-year-old.
There are things I don’t know about this deal, where the recommendation came from being the most significant. I don’t recognise his agent, so not surprisingly it appears we’ve reached beyond the pools we were fishing in under Ronny and Neil. Kouassi also appears to be the agent’s most/only valuable asset. As such, I doubt the initiation came from the agent, or if the player’s profile was raised with anyone outside Russia before Celtic had the preliminaries signed.
Is a season in the Europa League the new sweet spot for a Celtic prospect? Stay tuned.
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Watching Ku Klux Klan on sky nat geo 526, lots of similarities with the VB mob in what they say and believe!!!
FB
Was your gingy bottle your potty, then your hot water bottle. Hahaha
PB
Same Clan.
Things you no longer see.
Gentian violet around the cold sores on wains mouths, or snotterry noses.
Carbolic soap, suleo and a bone comb.
DD,
Sure he said the middle word was associated with a circle and they did indeed take our clan to be converted to klan, ku was inserted to make it memorable. Amazing how one brain cell can be so creative…..
Things you never ever saw
Handsome huns
I’m just after filling a litre beer bottle with hot water for Mrs TET, nothing like a hot water bottle :-)
Where I was brought up it was Milne’s lemonade, the factory in Stonehaven closed mid 60s, Bon Accord was the main one in Aberdeen, Alpine tried to muscle in for a while but it never caught on, maybes cos it was pish right enough.
Sorry if this has been asked before but why is the an advert for the game vs St. Johnstone, between Paul’s article and the comments, saying that the game is on Tuesday 24th instead of Wednesday 25th?
Thanks.
Klipso bars?
Almore
i remember them well,
Then again I remember having to jump out of the way of cattle being herded up Connaught Street in Phibsboro on their way to the cattle market
Barcelona making a bit of a bad tapas of their game v Bilbao.
2 -1 Bilbao but now down to ten men.
Barca anything but fluid.
Five Boys
This place is a bit cliquey after all-;;back to lurking I think
PB
Aye, creative in ways to hate others.
The klan is alive here today in Scotland, and they are very angry just now. The weearrapeepul culture is dying a horrible death. Their children are becoming Tims, nevermind their grandchildren.
Auldheid
Barca for some reason always struggle in the Basque region.
HH
American cream soda was my favourite. When I heard it was King Kenny’s favourite too I was well chuffed.
Fairhill Bhoy
I was just about to say …things you dont see anymore
Cliques on CQN
Trying to smoke cinnamon sticks. Penny caramels. The halfpenny tray, the penny tray, the tuppeny tray and the thruppeny tray. Telling the conductor/conductress to ‘keep the ticket’ on the bus – a good way of implementing your pocket money but just wrong when you think about it ;-)
Penny for the Black babies
Things you dont see on CQN anymore….nostalgia
Wits-things you do see-:)) bed time
Weans with an elastoplast over one lens of their glasses.
Maggie
You could add Deja Vu
Nostalgia is not what its used to be
But you could add Deja Vu
Remember;
Aztec Bars.
White dug jobbies on the pavement. (As in job was white as opposed tae the dug!)
job = jobby
BSR
Specs held together wi tape.
Mags
I thought you previous post was about nostalgia:-))
Emusanorphan
Never mind the jobbies
Dogs in the street…..unattended ,roaming free,
Just to lower the tone – who me?
Black dog sh*t that eventually turned white ( due to the fact nobody cleaned it up)
EMUSANORPHAN
You beat me to it, lol.
Pog
You just reminded me when you mentioned the Cinamon sticks, we graduated from them to carving out Elderberry wood into home made pipes, there is a pith in the center of the wood so easy to make into tubes and bowls, we then raided the ashtrays in our abodes, when I think back, dearie me, I also remember replacing drink with water, didn’t take long to get caught for that one right enough :-)
HH
The smell of pish in a red telephone box.
Rangers.
TET,
I noticed you giving a wee medical update on your wife a few days ago.
I hope your optimism is well founded and she can return to robust health, all the better to keep you in check.
…..and a Happy New Year to you all plus Felix.
Emusanorphan
Rangers …boom
Things you dont see any more
So obvious,we all missed it
give the man a Cigar
Scurves
Wi Yir wellies slapping aff the back of Yir legs
Almore,
You don’t see the Calypso Bar anymore either.
Great pub in the 60s and 70s.
Yorkhill CSC
Thomthethim
Happy New Year to you
Let me know if you fancy coming to Dublin on Good Friday for the St Kevins Tournament
DELANEYS
I’ve still got a pair.