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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RWE……..keep checking in pal,always enjoy yer post’s,
well not always,ach!!! ya know whit I mean,take care
anyways.
Hello T
Enjoy your holiday…. well earned my friend.
Tallybhoy outstanding
Awrite hands up which of you tampered with the wiki entry for Jelle? ??
Tight-lines update:
Fish for tea :)))
50 shades of green
I read bobo baldes recently and he had a goal scoring record better than mcgrorys and had played for Real Madrid and won pretty much every single cup in the world! Did you tamper with that?
Sepp Blatter must have organised the U.S. Open. Like a scene from Game of Thrones.
Not much greenery, no trees, looks like cement in the bunkers. Butch Harman said the greens are worse than temporary greens on local courses. They are like those on a 2nd rate municipal course. Have a bet on Tiger to break 100 today. Worth a look even if you don’t follow golf.
Robert88
Not me mate am not that clever :-)
Don’t normally get too excited with new signings until i actually see how they perform but the thought of this guy Jelle gave me chivers.
Collins’ comments on supposed Celtic transfer interest – are you reading Jingle while you compose another ‘article’ for the Level5 in-house magazine ??
Celtic rule out transfers for Ikechi Anya and Steven Fletcher
Celtic assistant manager John Collins says the club will not be signing Scotland internationals Steven Fletcher and Ikechi Anya…..
…. Collins, who also confirmed the Scottish champions will not be pursuing their interest in former Hearts captain Danny Wilson
Also BBC on FF banned list after this comment ?? …
Rangers and Celtic met in last season’s Scottish League Cup, but have not met in the league since the Ibrox club’s liquidation
Phillbhoy & MiT
Stayed up at Mains of Taymouth ( Kenmore) for a long weekend earlier this year, absolutely stunning, and would highly highly recommend
Now I don’t play golf, but there was a Golf course there, which was open
The drive between Mains of Taymouth, (right at tip of the river Tay) right along the side of the River Tay, to Lochearhead ( along Loch Earn) is a beautiful drive, includes the Falls of Duchart
Now Jelle Vossen, were we not also linked with him 2 or 3 seasons ago ?
Hail Hail Bhoys
Over in RM their discussing strip they should wear….. Black and red socks just so people are reminded what we are up to our knees in
.
Philbhoy 15.44
I too had my honeymoon in Dornoch. Even made time off for a round or two !!
I spoke about Jelle two years ago, I think he has a lot of potential if he can find the right team. We could offer him Champions league and the chance to fight his way into the national side also we could help to develop his natural ability to find the net. I would be amazed if we could bring him in. Especially on our budget. I think he is much better than Guidetti. As far as other rumours are concerned I like the sound of Jonathas and the Argentinian dude. I don’t know if they can speak English and that could be a problem.
Hail Hail.
Genk have said that they have not yet received any offer or even a firm inquiry from CFC and that they are prepared to wait until someone matches their 3 million Euros (£2.2m) valuation.}
nye bevans’ rebel soldier…
If you read on one post is about needing blue shorts for playing in Europe…delusional or just mental ;)
Vespacide
Wee Izzy will see them alright:))
Cowiebhoy
17:30 on
19 June, 2015
Phillbhoy & MiT
……made that drive many times… bit hairy at places, an that’s in the summer.
Killin for falls.
BOBBY MURDOCH’S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS
01:08 on
19 June, 2015
Just been reading back,so…
Congratulations to TONTINE TIM on the 40th Anniversary of life in his adopted second home.
By my reckoning,he was lucky enough to see 9 in a row,then buggered off at the first sign of the Huns winning.
*ha ha ha, my da was convinced that the reason I left was the deid team stopping our 10IAR, Big Billy retiring and Jock’s car crash although I was over here by the time the latter happened.
Can Jonathas speak Spanish ? If so then my reservations will dissolve :-)
Hail Hail.
Could there be a new version of the Jelle Piece song… obviously not with warburtons.
Vespacide
I doubt it but never fear we’ve got Big Amido to take care of him:))
sipsini…….I have a wee look on there now and again,God
love them,I’m amazed,they think it’s only a matter of time
before they are ruling the roast and reaping horrible revenge
on all the Sevco haters.
Almore
See you Sunday night pal.
I will try and be a wee bit sober.
Gonna be a long weekend HeHe
HH
roast= roost,eff me see whit happens when you
visit the dark side.
BGFC
calling
BGFC
if your around bud, can you get me email from Paul67, and give me a wee send
Former England and Chelsea footballer Kerry Dixon has been jailed for nine months for punching and kicking a man who is said to have called him “fatso”.
Nye bevan.
Ruling the roast?
Lamb I expect.
HH!!
Tallybhoy- Isa Karim! Just burst out laughing on train. People opposite think i am a nutter!
Anya and Fletcher – we just can’t afford them STV have just proclaimed
I can’t be bothered reading back but I trust the “Jelle and ice cream” line has been used?
Just bothered to read back and glendalystonsils did the needful. Many thanks, sir.
nye bevans’ rebel soldier
17:33 on 19 June, 2015
I thought shite was brown ……HH
Goodnight Timland.
A bit of running around to do,be nice ffs.
Kevj…..whits happening,have missed you,get
back on here and keep rattling them cages.
charles kickum
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Of course we can’t afford them – both of them togethet, over four years, would cost the ‘thick-end’ of £20 million, in transfer fees and wages.
Of course they are not worth £30/45k per week on performance, however coming from the EPL (one leaving, one joining), these kind of wages are the lower end of normal.
ThompsonTwin
18:12 on 19 June, 2015
My point was STV led with the story that we couldn’t afford them rather than the true story that we have no interest in them – there’s a big difference – non story
Big Amido has all the physical attributes to become a fantastic target man, but does he have the heart and mind to make it happen, I don’t know. I don’t even know if he can speak English yet.
Hail Hail.
and there’s also luck paul – I remember a quality blog by you on gareth bale and the dilemma spurs faced with what to do with his money – it came down to luck and i’m sure espoused investing to try and find more luck