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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Any day you see an ole red kite is a good day
DBBIA/milvus milvusreturnsCSC [thumbs up]
apologies to them what live in Scotland innit and have to put up with them on a daily basis but I Iove the smsm because they are killing the hordes what are already dead by feeding thems shipe they’re too thick to see through.
btw anybody ever had money thrown at them from the flats above by their gran to get stuff from the van cos I work with a great Joanna whose gran would have called her janna and threw money at her to get milk etc from the van
Ah, Fixture announcement day!
I used to LOVE that in the 70s & 80s. I would first scan to see when the first OF game would be. Then I would go back and work out the possible point accumulation between us and them before the first 6 pointer. Concern would build as I saw that we would have Aberdeen and Dundee United away in the first quarter whereas THEY would have them at home.
Then I would consider that by the time we played them in game 8 or 9 we would be in a situation where we might have to win at Ibrox just to keep the season alive!
Today, i haven’t really bothered to see who we’re playing when.
Want them back though? Nah!
I’m happy to settle back and see which MIB will deprive us of the treble this season!!
I too watched in amazement and horror as danny McGrain tried to teach Amido how to trap a ball at half time.
He did score a screamer once he’s left us to go on loan. Here it is.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=lbIY-vjGcCc
I would be so bold as to suggest that it wasn’t completely representative of his overall potential!
HH JamesGang
Guidetti playing for Swedenu 21 now v Italy on BT Sport.
Shuggiebhoy67
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.
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So no Eurocamp holiday for you this summer then?
HH JamesGang
Jamesgang – I think that’s the *only* goal he has scored since going out on loan…
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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Mark my words yon Chinese international will make as big an impression for thems as du Wei did for us.
HH JamesGang
Supercoisty at the Royal Highland Show, hopin’ his beetroot will win a rosette to cover some of the tatty asbestos in the Blue Room.
the pantaloon duck
You’re probably right!
I scored one like that once. Complete miracle. Was the week before my birthday and my kids – though tiny at the time – told me God had given me my present early by making me Henrik for 5 secs in my life.
That worked for me!
I wouldn’t buy me though! And nor should Celtic!
HH JamesGang
jamesgang
Grasshoppa:))
Rafael Scheidt,Du Wei and Amido start of a super team
jamesgang 19:33
Hoy!
………………..pick on someone your own size.
:-)
starry plough
19:45 on 19 June, 2015
jamesgang
Grasshoppa:))
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Fekin spacehopper mare like!!!!!
;-)))
HH JamesGang
Praecepta
Sorry Da!
How you been getting on with Grace Jones since she moved in?
Saw she left her overnight clothes at your place and was a bit underdressed in Manchester the other day…..
http://m.telestar.fr/var/telestar/storage/images/media/images/2015/photos/20150608-grace-jones-67-ans/grace-jones4/965188-2-fre-FR/Grace-Jones_max1024x768.jpg
Night night!
HH JamesGang
And when did you learn to pole dance???
HH JamesGang
http://www.contactmusic.com/pics/ln/20150607/grace_jones_parklife_070615_03/parklife-2015_4769206.jpg
googybhoy ♥ celtic
19:34 on
19 June, 2015
Guidetti playing for Sweden u 21 now v Italy on BT Sport.
Stick £100 on him to equalise.
He did that yesterday when the game was shown “live” :-)
Googhybhoy
Sweden v Italy was played yesterday.
HH!!
Who was the other Chinese bhoy, Strachan signed on loan from Charlton.
I’m sure he pitched him in for his debut in a 4-2 win versus the old club Rangers
jamesgang
Poor lassie probably needed to cool down!
ruggygman
The Mighty Zheng Zhi:))
Praecepta
Touché!
Or was it touche?
Good comeback you old fox you!
HH JamesGang
Amido Balde speaks fluent Portuguese.
HH!!
Ah the very one….Zheng Zhi …
To be fair, the guy looked to have decent technique…. I just think the hyper-bowl that is Scottish fitba , is just too much for them
Tallybhoy
Just as well you posted that – joined the game late and thought that was a hell of short half-time interval. Doh!
lennon’s passion
19:47 on 19 June, 2015
Rafael Scheidt,Du Wei and Amido start of a super team
– don’t forget Braafheid!
Don’t forget….. Paul Byrne
The Pantaloon Duck
Surely you mean ‘World Cup Final,’ Braafheid >)
Oooo it is a replay.
Anyway do not tell me the result.
glendalys – indeed!
Sorry Bhoys was out with BT last night and missed that game.
Tallybhoy
Only problem is his feet only speak Urdu:))
Butsybhoy: See you Sunday.
Mike in Toronto: Get in touch with me through BMCUWP and I’ll try and sort something out for you when you are over. ClogherCelt would probably be interested as well.
Is 1st August confirmed or might that fixture be moved to the Sunday?
Alreadybookedmyflightscsc
Away to watch Selma.
Horribly timely.
KTF y’all
HH JamesGang
Campbell Dallas LLP, were appointed administrators for The Arches, Glasgow on 18 June 2015.
Today, 24 hours later, they made 129 of the 133 workforce redundant and the Arches has closed down.
http://www.thearches.co.uk
So we can now see the farce that was the DuffNPhelps circus at oldco.
Who advised DumbandDuffer that oldco should not be treated as any other company in adminiistration?
They continued to trade, they continued to incur debt, they continued run at a loss, they continued to fail to pay unsecured creditors.
Oh and DumbandDuffer ran up a multi-million pound bill while failing to fulfill their obligations: Save the company if at all possible and get as much as you can for the creditors.
The company was liquidated and creditors got nothing.
Wonder how that criminal case is going?
FabricofScottishSociety CSC
Shuggiebhoy
Fair play bhud,just remember and think on this,when Einstein was asked if he believed in an afterlife he replied that when all energy dies it must turn into another type of energy……
the appliance of science
zanussicsc
HH