We all have our prejudices and mine kicks in when Celtic sign a player with a high profile in England. They usually come with zero development opportunity and they have all been scouted every time a ball bounced within five meters of them. We do very well when monitoring the development squad at Fulham and almost as well with the same cohort at Manchester City, but for the most part, Celtic need to cast the net wider than their English counterparts.
Azerbaijan is just about as far from the regular haunts of English scouts as you can get. If a Columbian striker can settle there, he can settle in Scotland. There are no guarantees any new signing will work, we know for sure some will not. Football is a numbers game, get the right profile in, in the correct volume and at the right price, and you have a chance of succeeding.
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Enjoy the game Celts…. coverage 5:45 CPT
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BRRB
Are you doing the live updates 👀
Celtic three corners
Have no sound on my stream so apologies for basic comments
Young McArdle’s corners are better than most we saw last season.
Shels hit post from outside box
OG
If we haven’t scored from 3 corners it doesn’t say a lot about our set piece coach. 😗
GENE
Cracked crests await
Egypt 2-0!
Disallowed.
It looks like we’re getting the Duran lad from Qarabag. Perhaps he has a brother who w could also sign…
They could be our notorious wild Bhoys, both hungry like the wolf with a view to a kill!
(Sorry.) 🙄
Bernardo chance off a garage roof
Bernardo lobs over when he should have scored though offside
Egypt 2-0. And that one counts
Dublin water break
hydration break in tropical dublin ?
Talent acquisition and development is very much a two part equation, and solving for how a club like Celtic approaches this, may not have been that difficult. But, that appears to be changing.
It’s hard to say that any of us know much about the club’s scouting/recruitment strategy, as it has been all over the map in recent years, and the department itself appears poorly defined and under-resourced.
I would not argue that the acquisition part of the equation is unimportant, but given how little we know about the club’s intended approach, it is probably easier to treat it simply as the “input” to the process.
The point being, whether we rely on agents, YouTube videos, a sophisticated analytics function, or the instincts of highly respected scouts, all of this results in a warm body that ends up in a Celtic shirt. Again, I’m not dismissing this part of the process, but we also know that those players who make it to Celtic Park have an established market value that we were willing to meet, and, even if we get a jump on other clubs in pursuing a player, anybody that wants that player more than we do, just has to be prepared to pay more than we will. Simple.
Once at the club, we have a great deal more to with what happens next. Over the last 15-years Celtic have dominated domestic football and enjoyed easier access to UEFA competition. This has contributed significantly to defining the player development process as well as determining our ability to build a player’s profile through exposure in European competition.
We may not have won the league at a canter last season, but for many of the 13 titles before it, we did. The lack of strong domestic competition meant that we often operated in an environment where players could be given game time and allowed to “find their feet” without the instant pressure of tight, must win games. That luxury, on the evidence of last season, may soon be a thing of the past. Players like MOR, Kuhn, Kyogo, Jota and others, were likely given more minutes than they might have got elsewhere, and had the benefit of playing in a team which was frequently winning – confidence building results are an important part of that personal growth and professional development.
The opportunity to play in UCL or UEL competition has been an added bonus. Not only is it attractive to players being recruited, but it immediately places those players in a database which inevitably adds to their potential value. If they have the talent and drive to make something of it, then they will find themselves very much in the shop window, as evidenced by key players moving out for significant fees.
This landscape has already changed, and Celtic’s apparent reluctance to maintain conclusive domestic dominance is going to affect the way in which new players can be blooded. There may in fact be greater emphasis on signing players who are first team ready, and a less forgiving environment for them to prove this. Perhaps this is the price the club is prepared to pay as we invite our nearest rivals to contest domestic trophies that were recently not in their reach.
Strategy or circumstance?
#wakeupandsmellthecloverCSC
Can’t get gamer….which premier sports channel ?
Game
Great to see CV back.
McGregor dictating the game. Forrest on the left, McArdle hitting some dangerous corners. Beautiful sunny evening with a big crowd. Whats not to like.
Chance but Celtic dither
VINNIE
Premier Sports 2
Shels chance
Celtic break, good save
Cheers
Jamesie just wide from outside box
Argentina score
2-1 arg are back
2-2!!
2-2 messi
Messi equalises
Balikwisha weak shot, saved
Escaping the orbit of the EPL scouts is the lead headline of this blog
I would suggest that we need to escape the orbit of our own scouts
Before we try to look any higher…..
3-2 to Arg
Argentina 3-2
Argentina FT
Egypt so close