At 23, German central defender Moritz Jenz emerged from the Fulham youth setup two years ago. A season in Switzerland with Lausanne, then one in France with Lorient, 45 games in total, is apparently enough to convince Celtic to move for the player.
Interestingly, before leaving London, he was in the same Fulham youth team as Matt O’Riley. It seems likely that much of our scouting of the player took place before he left England.
Last season was a start-stop period for Moritz. He kept his place in the team until injury kept him out for six weeks until December. Thereafter he was as often on the bench as the starting line-up, as Lorient struggled to avoid relegation.
The parallels with Jota are also interesting. Moritz is one month younger than the Portuguese, who also drifted between starting line-up and bench before arriving at Celtic, as his previous club struggled near the bottom of the league.
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growing up, in the 50s and 60s my mum was an orange wummin, as was her mother , and her granda was as staunbch as they come.
she married a catholic, had 4 kids together, brought them up as catholics, my proddy granny forcing me out on a sunday to go to mass so that i wouldnt show her up to the other side. also basically funding all my teenage celtic supporting days.
my mam made jokes all the time about us being cathy cats and wearing green , but still bought us celtic strips if we wanted them.
leave billy gilmours mam alone,
Zbyszek…
……welcome back, moy droog.
Yak see mash?
Van Morrison’s “Listen to the Lion” immediately playing in ma heid when I saw your post.
The proof of the pudding re Boruc is simple …name me one other Celtic goalkeeper in our history , apart from the legendary John Thompson that the fans composed a song for …respect due Sir …take a bow and enjoy your night Artur …legend because you made them “ go aff their nut “
All these negative comments about being cannon fodder in the Champions League.
I remembered we beat Barcelona ,Man U ,Milan ,juve etc.,
Have faith in Ange ,do you think he has a negative bone in his body ,No.
I think we will surprise a few teams this season HH
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St stivs …thanks for your advice mate …I have listened to what you said etc …like most Celtic fans on here I come from a very mixed background and despise bigotry in all its forms including the subtle stuff…think you are missing the point in your rush to defend Billy’s maw …we were talking about probability in a Scottish context and like the boy Reid …Billy won’t be seeing if the jersey fits due to similar family influences …sad but true ..,,anyway on a light hearted note I would thoroughly recommend re watching the England/Italy penalties followed by the Rangers/eintracht penalties ..pure dead brilliant ..especially with a beer in this heat
as a mention of Sentinel Celts pops up.
can I just mention, the article from BOBBY MURDOCH’S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS today is really worth a read and struck a chord with me on so many levels.
superb, feed tha back whoever posts on there.
i would like to see the adrossan csc pic he talks about
Zbyszek
Good to see you. Artur is one of the biggest and most loved characters ever to have won the hoops (or the yellow jersey in his case) which really is saying something. Good luck with your speech and Hail!Hail!
A mention of Eintracht.
all around bishy/erskine there are members of the onion pears, and a few of our own brigaders,
famous for their colourful graffiti, they try outdo each other by regular spray painting and those “gang tag” type scrolls i havnt a clue what they mean but hey ho.
added ti them in late may, just at erskin dump is a contribution from i am guessing not someone in the gangs, but an opportunist.
in traditional style , black spray paint.
FRANKFURT
A crude effort at a male appendage with its moment of winning penalty excstacy
RFC
makes me laugh every time i pass
SETTING FREE THE BEARS FOR RES. 12 & OSCAR KNOX on 19TH JULY 2022 5:42 PM
The only evidence we have that our defence has or hasn’t improved is very unreliable evidence.
Except that the group of players involved in every game this season will be better at defending than the ones last, which suggests improvement.
It wont be possible to make a completely like-for-like comparison, seeing as the teams we face will be much better. It is possible to make a comparison which takes into account the quality of the opposition, but in this particular`r argument it wont happen.
Big Wavy @ 6.01
Left or Right Footed?
CARPE DIEM 63 on 19TH JULY 2022 6:46 PM
St stivs …thanks for your advice mate …I have listened to what you said etc …like most Celtic fans on here I come from a very mixed background and despise bigotry in all its forms including the subtle stuff…think you are missing the point in your rush to defend Billy’s maw …we were talking about probability in a Scottish context and like the boy Reid …Billy won’t be seeing if the jersey fits due to similar family influences …
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out on a limb here, but this is what i am thinking, lots of players in a scottish sense, dont come to celtic because they dont want to wait for first team opportunities at celtic, they cant get a promise of first team involvement.
Hickey an example, and at the other end of the spectrum McGinn.
I personally doubt that young players turn down celtic cos their mum hates us.
that would be a stupid rationale.
same for gilmour, if i was an advisor i would actually say, aye leave chelsea, but stay in english football for the easy fortunes.
trust me if he goes back there and he doesnt perfomr like messi, he will be next target for the boo boys
anyway who gice a flying fux about thems.
i tried to post earlier hmmmm another right footed CH
but watched that earlier and seemed to make an awful lot of left footed tackles
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BOURNESOUPRECIPE on 19TH JULY 2022 7:03 PM
Big Wavy @ 6.01
Left or Right Footed?
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FX9sBxeWAAI3OZH?format=jpg&name=small
oh the banter
Z- nice to see you back on, i don’t think ive seen any Celtic player, stay longer after a game, and sign so many autographs ,he always had time for the fans.
Northern Irish actor Charlie Lawson has confirmed he’s under investigation by the Environmental Agency due to his involvement in lighting a bonfire on the Twelfth of July.
Mr Lawson, famous for his role as Jim MacDonald in Coronation Street, took to Twitter on Tuesday morning to announce his agents in both London and Northern Ireland have been contacted by the agency, alongside The Irish News who first reported on the actor was facing a probe.
https://youtu.be/P2cNRvJ48tc
Moritz interview
Z,
Great to see you posting. Your countryman, Artur Boruc, was a fine goalkeeper, who faced down the bigotry in Scotland he was subjected to simply because of his religion. He won’t be forgotten by the Celtic support.
would be good to get another Spanish speaking player to help Bernabei
We have good cultural connections throughout the team – Japanese, Jenz & Matt, Ozzies, Scots etc.. bring in the Argentine midfielder and we have a nice balance.
These wee things make a difference.
In the CL Qualifying first legs, Azerbaijanis beat Swiss 3-2 at home ( despite a Kamberi goal ), Lithuanians beat Malmo 1-0 at home, and Luxemburgers beat Armenians 0-1 away.
Shamrock Rovers down 2-0 away to Ludogorets at HT.
Bodo/Glimt keep their 2 main attacking threats, Pellegrino and Boniface on the bench away to Linwood.
0-0 after 12 minutes.
Good to see Nick Walsh ,getting an early season game at Poundland under his belt
not going to get sleep tonight – 24 deg at 12 midnight
Midtjylland 0-0 at home to Cypriots after 60 minutes.
Embdyy got a spare for Norwich….cash or donation
YouChooseCSC
H.H.
INIQUITOUSIV
You mean Linfield
GENE
A real faux pas! Proves I can’t type and chew gum at the same time.
Montgomery scores for St. Johnstone.
Zbyszek
Great to see you posting!
So many memories of Artur playing for us but will give special mention to the night he played in goal,….
October 3 2007, at Celtic Park in the Glasgow rain, when we defeated the mighty AC Milan 2-1
in the Champions League. One of our greatest ever victories!
JACKIEMAC on 19TH JULY 2022 8:03 PM
not going to get sleep tonight – 24 deg at 12 midnight
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Get a bottle of water , put it in the freezer till frozen take it out and put it in front of a fan .
It won’t help but you can then watch it melt , take your mind off not sleeping 😜🙈
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Seriously though you have my sympathy .
I saw that Artur was worried naebody was gonba turnip ;-)(
CELTIC40ME
“Regards defending and conceding goals in Europe……..”
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Good post, cogently argued. And I really hope you are right!
2 last points. It is the responsibility of the management of each team to get their teams settled and prepared prior to the competition. You are correct that in many cases we did not have a settled team, but that reflects poorly on our planning. The Lawwell years were disastrous in that regard, and it appears we have improved our performance there.
Secondly, my recollection of our European play in recent years includes frequent and needless loss of possession, immediately followed by our opponents surging through a completely shapeless and open midfield towards our goal. I really hope we are addressing that, as even Gardiola and Klopp have acknowledged that team shape without the ball is critical.
Cypriots go 0-1 up late, but Sviatchenko equalizes after 84 minutes for Danes.
Macedonians go 0-1 up at Dynamo Zagreb.
Linfield 0 Bodo 0 at HT.
Sheep 5 up
SFTB
Signed up and predictions for round 1 in. The app was keen to tell me I was ‘picking an upset.’
JACKIEMAC on 19TH JULY 2022 8:03 PM
not going to get sleep tonight – 24 deg at 12 midnight
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Hang up a few wet towels in your bedroom
Helps a little