My knowledge of Chinese football since 1979 is limited, and I don’t watch a lot of Brighton or Huddersfield, so I’ll need to bow to Ange Postecoglou’s judgement when it comes to Australian international midfielder, Aaron Mooy.
Mooy was a mainstay in the Huddersfield team that won promotion to the English Premier League, stayed there, then were relegated after two years. His form won a move to then-EPL side Brighton, where he stayed for two years before the lure of the yuan.
20 games in 18 months in China ended at the turn of the year. Since then, Mooy has played only internationals, including three games for Australia last month. The reported one-year deal, with a one year option, for a free transfer, is low risk for the club.
Celtic have cover in the wide positions but central mid is an area where the headcount is down, after the departures of Nir Bitton and Tom Rogic. Rogic is easier to compensate for in the existing squad, it’s the No. 6 position, where Ange is limited to Callum McGregor and largely untested Yosuke Ideguchi.
Some of us will have a Pavlovian reaction, Mooy is two months older and has the same positional profile as James McCarthy, who signed a year ago but looked short of fitness all season. There is certainly reason for caution.
Celtic faced a genuine battle for the league last season, and I expect nothing less in the season ahead. Getting the mix right in central mid is one of my biggest concerns. This feels like a pivotal decision.
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VINNIETHEDOG
18TH JULY 2022 10:30 PM
I’m a wee bit underwhelmed by the up coming signing of Moritz…….he struggled for games for a team finishing 16th !!..their manager doesn’t want him…..hope I’m wrong.. but be pleasantly surprised if he’s a success
That’s the way transfers work outside the big billionaire clubs. If we’re only going to sign players from the top leagues who play every week and their fans and managers hero-worship, we’re talking 8-figure fees.
There can be many reasons why a player doesn’t shine at a particular club, but excels elsewhere. It happens all the time.
Henrik Larsson wasn’t wanted at Feyenoord and wasn’t getting a game. How did he turn out at Celtic?
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JIMTIM
They bottled it in the qualifiers
They did the same against us in the league.
They’re a cup team, who excel when they’re underdogs. Serial bottlers when they’re expected to win
Or they were, who knows what GvB’s Sevco will look like
AHMAD AFTY
Why are you welcoming yourself?
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JIMTIM
The Huns are an anomaly in European football, it’s why they did so well, that and the intimidating atmosphere at Ibrox
Nobody plays like them anymore, almost everyone plays like we do, with the emphasis on high pressing and players who get up and down the park
We won’t meet a team like them in Europe next season
TOM MCLAUGHLIN
Yuv loast mee rer big T
Aribo & Bassey will be a huge loss to them,
They had a vey good run in Euros last year but that doesn’t guarantee them anything this year.
What happens to them whether they qualify for Group Stages or not is outside our control so why worry or get bothered in any way about it,
What we do know for sure is we will be in the Group Stages, so we can look forward without the worry of qualifiers, I’d take our position any day,
Let them worry about us.
Cheating and free masonry …2 cheeks of the same arse ….and as we all know the old Rankurs were dedicated to them …oh but that’s right the brithers welcome all…and do a lot of works for charity ….evil personified ….🤔
GENE
Not been this hot in bed since my honeymoon 🔥😂
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Welcome to the Superannuated Fenian
Didn’t know that membership of the Brotherhood paid a pension.
Learn something new every day.
Welcome too to Aaron, saw mainly for Brighton and Oz.
Could be good for us.
One player who seems to go under the radar for rivals is Scott Wright, formerly of Aberdeen, but last season getting more game time under GVB. He really has progressed, and showed up well against us.
Proper footballer, and with him and Kent in their midfield can be very effective attacking from midfield.
Important we get off to a good start in the SPL
Celtic are champions.
They is champions cos thy won the league.
After an unimpressive 3-0-3 record in first six league games …
… played while negotiating European competition qualifiers playing young lads.
AN TEARMANN on 18TH JULY 2022 2:45 PM
Qduadrophenian
You detect a bit of smoothness re mooy.
I kinda get where you are there Quad,my generation are more akin to checking oz pools teams in close season.There is a tendency to look down on Oz football(from Scotland we tend to look down on all football do we not?:-),TomR had plenty boo bhoys if you recall too….
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Cheers AT; Aussie football/soccer seems to be growing in participation and popularity downunder and is cited as one of the best leagues in the world for blooding young players [many of who now plying trade in Scotland]. So the ‘snootiness’ is baffling.
The Oz national team has punched above its weight for many years. Scotland has gone in the other direction.
Aaron seems to have a v calm and confident mindset – I’m hoping we’re getting him at exactly the right time for both parties. Earlier compares with Lubo and Stark are valid pointers. HH
Wee jamesie at presser
https://twitter.com/CelticFC/status/1549033855407079424?t=L0oCrkPdiNkgICm5UqoADA&s=19
HH
QUADROPHENIAN on 19TH JULY 2022 1:17 AM
Snootiness is rife,we see it visibly,we’re all bit guilty,you know ‘never Celtic class or poor player,all it may take as Ange has shown,a new broom in,inject a bit of confidence,maybe reposition a player,define a role within a team and voila a player is reborn.
We are benefitting big time from knowledge/knowhow
In Ange, kyogo,maeda,hideguchi,hatate, from his experience in japan 3 outa 4 excellent am sure hideguchi would have made 4 out 4 .other signings Abada and Starfelt before making ccv and Jota ours.
All because of the clarity of Oz Ange
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I think now the game being global the remoteness of J-league/Oz league are not so now,Scouting nets are being thrown wide now.
In the US Seattle have taken the north American equivalent of champs league to the US for the first time so power templates are shifting.
We also have the world Cup in Qatar,human rights are ignored as football has its biggest party in a new country/market future look at the growth in soccer in US after 94,maybe Qatar will generate the middle east as a football power in 28 years.they also have money.
How we deal with snootiness is best answered by likes of Ange being a success,TomR,Aaron Mooy being a success,those japanesebhoys/anyone signed really who come and fit Anges plan is a giruy to the false snobbery.
I trust Ange,he knows a player,he knows Mooy,so good one for our team. I was little surprised at
Oops to early
Suprised at his age.31.but in Ange we trust
HH
QUADRAPHENIAN
I think that’s a Brit history thing goin on too,
‘ We gave the game to the world’ is the cry from the Brits,(omitting how the world took the game and made it better.
Tom Mc Laughlin has a distant relative from Busby along the road here helped football in South Americs,
Tim Vickery(good South American fitba writer) talks of ‘la scossezi'(sp) the short nippy ,baw tied to feet type of player that could carve defences when the game first came to Argentina,Diego and Messi being described in those terms.
I think the 4 home fa’s still have a big say in lawmaking votes in the game.Tim Vickery talks of the shifting tectonic plate that occurred when Jo’s Havalange took over from Sir Stanley Rous.
Rous and the conservatives the game wanted to keep the World Cup to 16 countries..Havalange(a Brazilian)
got elected as president on a promise of expansion,more countries from Africa,Asia and we have world cups goin to Asia in 02,South Africa and now Qatar.
As we seen when England didn’t get the finals that went to Germany,its a diplomatic incident.(well eng fa wheeled out Beckham and a prince)
It’s an analogy with cricket,it was founded here,but the rest have takin it on an made it better.
HH
AT – yup and yup.
The idea that football is the exclusive preserve of Euro and Sth American countries along is ending. Sure was a bit of kultchural imperialism attached (cept in Oz where it was anecdotally that football was a game for sheilas (women) wogs (any swarthy immigrants) and poofters).
Oz A-league is a nice – if not always highest quality – of home grown players, once good Asian and Aussies coming ‘home’, English and French doing their final tour and promising loanees from some Asian teams. Lots of 2nd gen african players coming thru their city teams too (Baccus, Djite, Ibini, Mabil, Traore etc etc)
It’s pretty democratic in that regard, ergo, it’s pretty ‘Celtic’ imo. HH
apols – nice mix…
Good morning all from exotic Govanhill. Glad we have palm trees for a bit of shade.
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I suppose we could have signed the boy Reid and loaned him back to St Mirren for the season.
Don’t know if this had already been posted the boy from St Mirren is a massive blue nose so is his dad we should move on.
What was the point of trying to sign a 17yr old from St.Mirren, he would be nowhere near the first team or even the first team bench for games, we have/had plenty prospects none or very few make it so zero loss to Celtic I think.
Be interesting to see which first team ready signings will be this week, if possible I would move Mccarthy and julienn on, neither of them are mobile enough to play at the tempo we play at.
DESSYBHOY
It was made clear to the player that he would be placed into the B Team squad. All big clubs aim to recruit the best young players for the future. It’s the business they’re in.
When I heard of Mooij playing for Brighton, I presumed he was Dutch (or of Dutch extraction). He always impressed me. Hope he is the one who can release Callum to play further forward.
Don’t know anything about the others mentioned. I imagine if we were after a youngster from St Mirren, then our manager rates him highly.
How many midfield players do we need? It’s looks like there’ll be some dissatisfied players in the squad.
new article posted.
79Caps – I recall Hatate, Ideguchi, Turnbull and Calmac all been injured at various times last season. Some lengthy ones too. With Rogic and Biton gone, we need some extra guile and experience in there. Better to have 1-2 unhappy players (assuming that the likes of MCarthy and Ideguchi are desperate to play) than the alternative of not having back up 3-4 months from now.