It was revealing that days ahead of the international break, the subject of the January transfer window tripped off Ange Postecoglou tongue. It is as though he spent much of the previous week planning ahead.
When you manage a team that competes in Europe your availability to scout players in person is very limited. Most of the work is delegated out, supplemented by TV coverage, but the latter will only ever tell part of the story.
Club managers have been known to take in eight games over an international break. With travel restrictions still in place, Ange is unlikely to see anything like this amount of action, but if he is going to spend some of our money in January, he will want to make the most of the break in Celtic action this month and next.
I’m in the glass half full camp and expect us to improve as the season progresses, but the squad is perilously thin in places. Reinforcements in January will be crucial for whoever wins the league. This is an important fortnight for Ange and his scouts.
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Celtic40me
The north east can be pretty Hunnish so I generally like to see their teams getting beat to be honest
Yogi Hughes (from earlier chat)
Aye, a bit of wealth and land distribution in Ireland would be great 👍 . Missed opportunity in the 20s/30s
The interesting thing for me is would an Independent Scotland and a United Ireland be partners or rivals?
hurrah for Roger,
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Roger Mitchell reveals Celtic ownership plan as vows to give ‘good people what they deserve’
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Roger Mitchell has revealed he plans to organise the funds to buy Celtic in the future and give the fans “what they deserve”.
The former SPL chief executive is now an ‘angel investor’ based in Italian lakeside city Como and runs a sports businesses podcast.
But the 57-year-old has never hidden his love for the Hoops, whom he has a deep connection having grown up in Paisley.
And he took to social media to tantalise a plan to get much more heavily involved in the club in the years ahead.
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He said: “What is truly astonishing is how big a club Celtic is and how many people are totally invested in the club.
“One day I’ll try to get some private equity money together and buy it, and give these good people what they deserve.
“But not today.”
Mitchell has been an outspoken critic of the club’s strategy in recent years, calling for a big picture focus on European improvement and suggesting following a data-led plan like Premier League shock-troops Brentford.
GREENPINATA on 7TH OCTOBER 2021 6:18 PM
Interesting watching the events unfold at Newcastle FC.
New owners and a new board.
Sometimes we really need to be careful what we wish for.
HH.
Indeed Gp.keep in mind Lindsell train or to be more precise how they got the holding.
Suddenly 2nd biggest shareholding.
Clue- it wasn’t a Celtic fan,the majority of them are in frames and unregistered thus part of the 20% or so
whose votes goes to majority(DD) at Agm.
There is also DD future strategy,at his age he could drop any day now(hope not) so I would like to think he has a strategy in place to carry on with the fiscal stability that has been there since 1994
Hate international weekends:-)
HH
St Stivs
I like the ‘having grown up in Paisley’ angle on being a Tim😎
Watching Saudi vs Japan. Kyogo on now as sub for Minamino with 30 minutes to go. Still 0-0 with the Saudis dominating.
dont let the saudis see kyogo, he will be in newcastle in january.
Hi Saint:
Unfortunately, he is now front and center. I just hope he dies not get injured. Saudi right back is a player, just beat Kyogo for speed, which takes some doing.
CONEYBHOY on 7TH OCTOBER 2021 7:18 PM
St Stivs
I like the ‘having grown up in Paisley’ angle on being a Tim😎
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To be fair
He has Italians in his family from the town of Barga in the NWest. There is a considerable connection between Paisley and Barga and over the past 100-120 years many have come from there.
Including, I believe, a chap by the name Nutini.
Does not dies, DOH!
TURKEYBHOY-
Might be coming out your way soon.
Have you always liked GT as a Celtic player 🤷🏻♂️
Japan keeper too casual. Nearly sells the jerseys.
scotland u21s are on bbc scotland now. v denmark.
walsh and montgomery playing,
only when you see a team constantly blooter the ball up the park, do you appreciate our style of football, this is torture.
scotland 0 denmark 1
danish mangaer looks like alex rae, poor sod.
Scotland U21s on BBC Scotland channel at the moment, trailing 0-1 to Denmark at Tynecastle.
Welsh captains the side, Montgomery also starts.
Neither culpable for the goal which was a
howler by the young keeper on books of Man City
SD
That’s great , I just never saw Paisley as an nest of Tims
PS I was physically born in Paisley despite my folks living in Linthouse (not Govan)
I put that on my passport and when I eventually was allowed to have my full cert, it said I was registered at John St so I could have said Glasgow. Would have saved me the abuse at Uni for not supporting St Mirren or Kilmarnock where I went to school😎
Saudis almost score after 70 minutes. Now the sub scores. Outstrips entire defence for speed. Saudi Arabia 1 Japan 0. There is no substitute for sheer speed.
Tam Rogic just started for Aussies. Will switch to that game in 29 minutes.
Paulos dad is a lovely man.
i would buy something most days out his chippy when i went to paisely college.
i took a tour of work colleagues to the chippy a few years ago, to let the boss get a picture.
incredibly Alfredo remembered me from my youth, some man.
Must be hot in Jeddah. Even the Saudis are sweating.
Kyogo earns a corner. Taking it himself.
SAINT STIVS @ 7:21
dont let the saudis see kyogo, he will be in newcastle in january.
On the basis of just this game, they have some talented players of their own. But can they play on a wet Wednesday night in Burnley?😊
The Saudi players’ great grandads played at Hampden in 1989😎
PS cannae wait for the game on Sat; taking trip over to meet some pals and going to the game
the perfect place
https://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/2267057
INIQUITOUSIV on 7TH OCTOBER 2021 7:35 PM
Must be hot in Jeddah. Even the Saudis are sweating.
Kyogo earns a corner. Taking it himself.
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did he get on the end of his cross ?
The younger Saudis are far faster than the Japanese today, in both attack and defence. That is the main difference between the two teams. If Japan lose this today, their home game against the Aussies in a few days is a must win.
Aussies 1 Oman 0 after 15.
Kyogo misses a sitter from 2 yards with 2 minutes to go.
SAINT STIVS
Kyogo earns a corner. Taking it himself.
did he get on the end of his cross ?
Unfortunately, no, but it was a good swerving corner into the danger area.
4 minutes extra time now.
Many in the Saudi huge crowd wearing masks.
Saudis wasting time.
Japan lose, but at least Kyogo is not injured.
Switching to big Tam’s game.
Rogic’s 50th cap today for Aussies. Leasing 1-0 after 24 minutes vs Oman. Jackson Irving also starts.
The Labour mps at Westminster wear masks in the chamber.
And yet last week at Labour conference in Brighton, not a single Labour mp wore a mask !!!
Something isn’t adding up !!!
Oman equalize with a belter. 1-1
Coney 😂
As it stands, Aussies 2 points behind Saudis, with Japan 4 points behind Aussies.
Big Tam playing the same way he does for us. Strolls around, graceful on the ball, passes well, but often gets caught in possession by much quicker players.
Aussies 1-1 Oman at HT. Couple of Aussies squabbling as they leave the park.
tic – toc……………
Aussies 2-1 Oman. Howler from goalie, and Martin Boyle scores with header from short range.