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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Vespacide
I don’t even know if he can play fitba yet!
Kikinthenakas
tallybhoy…
Maybe nye meant thems are roast ducked :)
Totally left field – I went to see Memphis The Musical in the Shaftesbury Theatre in the West End last night.
Thoroughly enjoyable show with a message on racism. I recommend it to all.
Desertbhoy
We are both correct, the falls are in Killin
But known as the Falls of Dochart
Hail Hail
nowt wrong with this mon the faces
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=–HaFAtC17U
How much do you reckon the mentality of a player can be measured statistically speaking ? I think the club that cracks that metric could win the European Cup.
Hail Hail.
Vespacide
No disrespect Bhud, have you ever watched Amido – used to watch Danny McGrain spend time with him during warm ups, trying to teach him how to move his feet for receiving a ball
Shocking, for a professional footballer
Yes he has physique, but very very little football ability
I will never understand how we signed him, astounded at it
Hail Hail
I believe one can apply the Darius Vassell scale. If the player tries to drain a blister under his big toe nail with a power drill then you shouldn’t sign him…
That was to vespacide
Did Balde not score a screamer to defeat Liverpool in a pre season game, playing in what was practically a Celtic youth team ? I think he did.
Hail Hail.
CB… yes well aware… jumped on the stones many a time in younger days.. usually after a prolonged session in the pub across the road.
Davidopoulos
18:29 on
19 June, 2015
I believe one can apply the Darius Vassell scale. If the player tries to drain a blister under his big toe nail with a power drill then you shouldn’t sign him…
That works for me :-)
Hail Hail.
CB.. more like fell off them..
Desertbhoy,
What is the park / statue at other side of the Falls Bridge ?
Hail Hail
Vespacide, Hardly a screamer, it looked clever but to be honest I thought then and still do, that it was almost accidental.
Amido Baldé Goal – Celtic 1-0 Liverpool ( Dublin Decider )
18.31 Vespacide.
He was put through 1 on 1 with the keeper.
He sclaffed his shot off the keeper and it trundled over the line.
Not my idea of a screamer.
Having watched his every appearance in. Celtic shirt , and his pathetic warm ups with Danny McGrain.
I can state unequivocally that he is the most ungifted player I have ever seen in a Celtic shirt.
As for Vossen .
Jesus wept .
Yet another injury prone player.
A goal scorer with a 1 in 4 goals to games ratio.
A player that at Middlesborough couldn’t score double figures in the championship.
If true , will we ever learn.
TT
Well that link didn’t work. Its on YouTube if anyone interested.
can’t recall the name.. take it you mean the one on the left handside side possibly less than a mile from the bridge??
used to take the dug there, but had to be careful where placing feet.
Was used for all sorts… highland games, car boots and i think there were also livestock sales… can’t be too sure.
..or are you meaning the wee novelty type shop area just over the bridge.
Jee-sus. Not like BBC Scotland news to run a multi-negative article about Celtic, is it?
Hun wanks.
Buoyed by the signing of some lower-league reject. You’ve got to laugh – they’re more to be pitied than scolded as the Big Yin reminds us.
Well done big Ruby :-)
Well done Andy, a tight match.
Lennon n Mc Mjallby,
And with you.
I can say my time spent in church only left me empty
All beliefs,religions,philosophies and faiths,ultimately,strive towards the same thing; to teach people how to live orderly,helpful lives.To provide a support system when one is needed.To try to make sense of a universe that is,at best,unexplainable.We all want the same things;we just go about different ways to get them.Some turn to God;others turn to art;others still turn to science.
I have chosen science.Not for me the ramblings of ignorant tent dwellers of 2000+ years ago who have no knowledge of mankind of today,they remain as representative of their time and confined to the bin of history.
Theres no grand manipulative scheme here.
Theres no conspiracy to steal God away from you.
No athiest could ever do that if your faith is strong enough.
HH
Now need to go and manipulate the holiday dates to make it back for the first home fixture and the unfurling of the League Flag.
Sandman
12 oot wan in, sounds like everything is just peachy in the Govan Garden:))
When was the last time we got linked with javier saviola? Haven’t heard that in a while!
Could get him cheap no doubt!
Oh !
We actually won the match 1-0.
Very much against the run of play.
TT
Amido Goal Make your own minds up.
Hail Hail.
starry plough
18:55 on 19 June, 2015
Sandman
12 oot wan in, sounds like everything is just peachy in the Govan Garden:))
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Aye, you watch out – they’re coming back, and Timmy is terrified…
:))
Desertbhoy, just heading for Dinner
Coming from Lochearnhead side, it’s right on the RHS as you come across the bridge, there is a really old large brick shape, and a monument type thing ?
Hail Hail
https://youtu.be/lbIY-vjGcCc
Amido Balde screamer. Still don’t know what to make of him though.
Big Amido
Hail Hail.
Most of us learned a,long time ago not to believe the transfer hype in the papers.
Next week we will be closing in on some exciting prospect. The week after he will snub us. Some tims will phone the hotline to complain about Celtic’s inability to get their man. We will be in a summer of transfer frustration…… Blah blah blah.
Personally I am past giving a feck about the lies and I content myself with the reality…..
If we have a striker before the CL qualifiers and don’t lose virgil then I’m good.
After that we need a few more additions.
Sandman
Ah’m scared tae go oot the hoose so ah um:))
They’ll struggle again to get out the Championship, it’s only the extreme deluded and the acid heads that think otherwise:))
Who was worse, Balde or Bangura? Hmm…
No they won’t, Starry, no with Gordon Gekko and Droopy Dawg at the helm…
:))
robertressell
A left back too please.
Charles Kickum
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Got your point and was taking issue with you – I for one would be angry if we ever considered paying anyone EPL wages – unrest would set in with the rest of the squad – let’s do what we do and never be as devious and stupid as Rangers FC Ltd – Sevco 5088, Sevco Scotland, Rangers International and The Rangers Football Club 2012.
I’ll second Jonathas – you don’t score 14 in a La Liga season for Elche without being able to know which way you’re shooting