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Mulgrew call signals primacy ahead of Efe and Dedryck

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With the arrival of Dedryck Boyata, Jozo Simunovic and Erki Sviatchenko over the last 12 months, Charlie Mulgrew must have wondered if he would be offered a new contract which his current deal expires next month. Especially so considering how little football he’s played in recent years.

An incoming manager would be excused for looking at his squad and thinking Charlie was surplus to requirements, but, as we have touched on in recent weeks, the story of Celtic’s defence is more complicated.

Erik has been an unqualified success, but Jozo missed most of the season through injury, while Dedryck and Efe Ambrose suffered unfortunate (cough) spells of form. Charlie is a few years past his Player of the Year prime, but he’s a reliable consistent defender, who I’d have in the team before Efe or (Euros bound) Dedryck.

We have a bloated squad and need to move players on, but it’s no surprise Brendan Rodgers let Charlie know he wanted him to stay. He’s the right player to occupy third or fourth spot in the central defensive roster.  We’ll wait and see if Jozo can grab second spot.

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  10. Thunder Road on

    TET

     

     

    We played some amount of fitba in the 1st half of the season last year, with the Champs league qualifiers and then the Europa league group stage games all squeezed in between the domestic league fixtures.

     

    We need a run in Europe just to get into Europe!

     

    Could we face something similar this season…….id say quite possibly.

     

    Funny how that League cup reconstruction has been thrown in the mix……paranoia says that either fecks with our European campaign or it makes that treble which our managers now seem to need to win fecked up a bit to……maybe we should……or perhaps will need to play the youngsters in those games after all!

     

     

    Bring it on…..everything and anything they try to do should be used to strengthen our resolve to overcome it.

     

     

    HH

  16. OneMalloy on

    ROY CROPPIE – Just home from a Late shift, catching up, love the Photos and songs, Friday night on a Thursday will do for me :)

     

     

    HH

  18. setting free the bears for Res. 12 & Oscar Knox on

    Johann M

     

     

    “To jj smoked and sftb

     

     

     

     

    We also played 1up front at home to Dundee -it was dreadful

     

    I wish it wasnt-but it was hh”

     

     

     

    And what all those different examples show is that it is not the system that determines the performance but the performance determines the result.

     

     

    One of the teams in Saturday’s CL final will be playing 1 up front and they would use that system even if they drew Partick Thistle in Europe.

     

     

    Plenty of teams using that system.

     

     

    We get too hung up on tactics and systems. That’s just the basic shape – so many other things are more important than this in getting a result.

  24. Clink\o/ on

    You have to hand it to the Bears.Just when the old catchphrases are becoming a little jaded they feed us a new one.

     

    Here’s to Escape goats everywhere

     

    yuocouldntmakeitupcsc

  30. johnniem on

    James Forrest

     

     

    …. escape goat !!!! that is total quality …. my sides are literally sore laughing

  32. roy croppie on

    It still doesn’t sit right with me that our new manger flew in on a private jet (swooped is held back for transfers) and the magic hat was last seen at Charnock Richards services pleading for more change for the puggy…

     

     

    I’m asocialistbutgititrightrounyeCSC

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