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Lessons to learn from Pukki mistake

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Teemu Pukki’s permanent move to Brondby for a reported £500k is good business for a player who never came close to commanding a regular starting place at Celtic.  While we did well exiting him from Celtic Park but his arrival two years ago is worthy of review.

He came from Schalke as a 23-year-old, having been at Sevilla as a teenager and scoring slightly better than one in two in Finland.  Even his Schalke stats were decent, 8 goals in 7 starts and 30 appearances from the bench, which for a sparingly used young player is around the mark expected.  On paper, Teemu looked a good fit for us, so do we have anything to learn?

For a start, being able to score goals in the Bundesliga does not guarantee you will be able to translate this into an even better scoring rate in Scotland.  We have made similar mistakes when recruiting strikers from Spain in recent seasons.  For all our lack of financial clout, delivering in Scotland is not an easy task.

There is a whole world of potential issues around psychology, motivation and appetite, which I regularly hear cited about players from people in the game.  For the most part, I reckon these are excuses to bridge the unexplained gap between expectation and outcome.  You get the odd indulgent nutcase, but most players have an overwhelming sense of their need to maximise their commercial value by delivering on the park.  I suspect Teemu is no different.

Whatever the reason behind him not fitting at Celtic, the exercise cost us not only the £1.5m net loss on transfer fees, and wages paid, but more importantly the failure to kick on from reaching the last 16 of the Champions League in season 2012-13.

There’s a truth in the game which has stood the test of time: only people who watch a player week-in-week-out know his true value.  Schalke fans would have told us things about Teemu which we can tell others about John Guidetti.  John will pick up a club keen to exploit his untapped potential.  A year from now they will be a little wiser.

Our lesson: scouting is the only important part of recruitment, stats, references and YouTube clips don’t count.

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  4. CultsBhoy on

    Lessons from Pukki should also include admitting and correcting mistakes quickly. Most fans could see he was not the answer after an hour of watching him. It was a mistake made over and over in our quest to buy cheap sell dear. I’m on board with this philosophy but wonder how well the £2m striker works in progressing this?

  9. petec on

    I am very conCERNed when Paul67 talks about Police having guns efter all the Political moments of the last year.

     

     

    Those Hun Monkeys are Angry, they are indeed tied to the Speculative Society.

     

     

    The Bad Roasters have a lot of Money and Means.

     

     

    I’m so Sorry

  10. jamesgang on

    Travellerbhoy

     

     

    Nothing Mhate

     

     

    We’ve all been sitting waiting for you to turn up!

     

     

    Hope you’re well and dandy!!!

     

     

    HH JamesGang

  12. petec on

    weeminger

     

     

    00:15 on 21 June, 2015

     

     

    Just back from an outrageously good Mogwai gig. My ears.

     

    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

     

     

    Where were they playing and mair important, was Estadio Nacional there?

  13. Gerryfaethebrig on

    jamesgang

     

     

    00:07 on 21 June,

     

     

    By all accounts the rubbish musketeer is their “Wordsworth” anyway good night & God bless Cqn take care & Hail Hail, Roy c great stuff yet again

  15. Travellerbhoy on

    jamesgang

     

     

    Righty ho

     

    This week I’ve been mostly laughing ma heed aff

     

    Pan bread

     

    :-)))))))

  18. Saint Stivs on

    quiz question,

     

     

    jinky, george , and doylie,

     

     

    uniquely did what in a celtic jersey ?

  19. estorilbhoy on

    cultsbhoy

     

     

    00:19 on 21 June, 2015

     

    Lessons from Pukki should also include admitting and correcting mistakes quickly. Most fans could see he was not the answer after an hour of watching him. It was a mistake made over and over in our quest to buy cheap sell dear. I’m on board with this philosophy but wonder how well the £2m striker works in progressing this?

     

     

    ——

     

     

    If we have learnt over Pukki, why did we buy Scepovic? I believe Kojo outlined before Scepovic signed that the the 23 year old had numerous previous clubs ( nine ? ) and not settled at any ( I believe ). Now I am no expert but a simple fact like that would ring some alarm bells and need something magical for me to believe that I should invest £2.5m in him. So what was the thought process which attracted us to Scepovic?.?

  23. SydneyTim on

    Cultsbhoy. The pukki window failure was down to PL. He sanctioned 5m on two non scoring strikers that cost our club millions in lost revenue

     

     

    Why we signed a failed Schalke project is beyond me. My mate watches shalke in Germany , when we lost our on our first bid , he called me to say that we got out of jail with pukki. Awefull was his words

     

     

    If Paul is saying in the header that our scouting failed us here then who is responsible ?? Park ?

     

    The buck stops at bonus pete

     

    He failed last season at CL

     

    He can’t be allowed to fail again

     

    Don’t even start in Balde. Or that other dud we signed for 2m bangura

     

    Heads must roll for these failures

  26. SydneyTim on

    estorilbhoy

     

     

    Who ever is scouting for our strikers over last 5 years should not be in a job

     

    Strikers cost a premium and also in wages

     

     

    We have spent a fortune on non scoring strikers that last in first team about a month before we realise they are gash

     

    Why don’t our scouts see that

  29. Travellerbhoy on

    Saint sivs

     

    Saved that for efter

     

    Watched it wi ma bhoy at Xmas

     

    My first hero

     

    After rocky

     

    :-)

     

     

    Hail Hail

  30. Saint Stivs on

    Travellerbhoy

     

    01:12 on

     

    21 June, 2015

     

    Saint sivs

     

     

    you keep it lit bud

     

     

    you know your one of my favorites .

     

     

    ourselves alone,#

  31. estorilbhoy on

    sydneytim

     

     

    01:03 on 21 June, 2015

     

    estorilbhoy

     

     

    Who ever is scouting for our strikers over last 5 years should not be in a job

     

    Strikers cost a premium and also in wages

     

     

    We have spent a fortune on non scoring strikers that last in first team about a month before we realise they are gash

     

    Why don’t our scouts see that

     

     

    —

     

     

    I agree. But for me to sign cheque for £2.5m are there not basic checks and balances in place to agree sign off of that amount ?

     

     

    Questions I would ask –

     

     

    Why do u want him

     

    Why will he settle here as opposed to previous nine clubs

     

    What improvement does he bring to the team

     

    Etc.

  32. Travellerbhoy on

    Saint stivs

     

    Ourselves alone

     

    On ma own

     

    Mammy?

     

    Daddy?

     

    God?

     

    Id?

     

    Ce

     

    Cel

     

    Cel

     

    Celt

     

    Celti

     

    Celtic

     

    Never alone

     

    You’ll never walk alone

  35. Saint Stivs on

    i wish

     

     

    danny had been allowed to stay 1 more year and got the centerary double,

     

     

    mcstay had been allowed, injured or not , to stay one more year, and stopped the ten, he desrved it more than anyone than anyone,

     

     

    that lubo had been allowed one more year, if he came on as sub in seville , well we would have won

  36. jamesgang on

    saint stivs

     

     

    A horribly poignant wish list my Fhriend.

     

     

    Good night.

     

     

    HH JamesGang

  37. SydneyTim on

    Estorilbhoy. In the case of Pukki they could have just spoke to local press

     

    Schalke were looking to loan him out as he was a failed project

  41. Travellerbhoy on

    When I was placed in the home

     

    At last

     

    New school

     

    New friends

     

    C’mon play

     

    Fitba

     

    Nah

     

    C’mon

     

    Eventually

     

    School team

     

    Primary six

     

    Ms da likes you

     

    West park

     

    Fair muir

     

    Ma first game

     

    Dundee v Morton

     

    A guy with a big lip

     

    Massive

     

    Abnormal

     

    Tactics

     

    The Dundee Derby

     

    Can you get any better?

     

    Well. Yes

     

    Celtic

     

    First game on TV

     

    The maestro

     

    Champagne Charlie

     

    Ms sis got his autograph

     

    First win

     

    First trophy

     

    First

     

    Celtic

     

    Celtic

     

    Celtic

     

    Hail Hail

  42. 16 roads - Celtic über alles... on

    Rot in hell was the cry. Stance for all murderers, or selective judgement?

     

     

    Murder is murder, surely?

     

     

    Rot in hell, reserved only for the drugged up Patsy, or what?

     

     

    Or is there some kind of hierarchy of murderers and victims?

     

     

    The double standards and hypocrisy never ceases to amaze me.

     

     

    Anyway :

     

     

    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=SDTZ7iX4vTQ

     

     

    HH.

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