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Recruitment metric to improve

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Successful recruitment requires several elements:

Player analysis
Development
Opportunity

Recruitment will fail without even one of the above aspects. Celtic should look for metrics to measure, not just on those who remain in the squad, but those who leave.

Look at two player who left last year: Alex Bernabei and Oh Hyeon-gyu. Both have had very productive times since moving on from Celtic. Alex has been a stand-out in the Brazilian league, while this week Genk rejected a €10m opening bid from Feyenoord. Overwhelming evidence suggests that both are more than good enough to succeed in the Scottish Premiership, but whatever talent they had withered in the South Stand on matchdays.

We are not in the business of buying the finished product, Celtic coaches are there to coach talent into better players. And when they achieve this, the player has to be given an opportunity to deliver on the pitch. On leaving Celtic, Alex and Oh were given the opportunity to show their talents and thrived.

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Recruitment needs to be aligned with squad requirements. Coaches must be able to improve players (substantial evidence that this happens at Celtic) and the manager needs to make space in the team or the whole exercise is a waste of time. None of this is easy. Failures happen at every stage, but without recording the post-Celtic metric, we have insufficient data to measure how and where we perform well and poorly.

Oh and Alex will not be the last players we look back on and wonder why we did not see the best from them. Maik Nawrocki, Gus Lagerbielke and Tomoki Iwata will follow, Tomoki is already flourishing at Birmingham. I am also worried Yang – who clearly has something about him – will continue to endure long absences from the pitch.

If I was an agent speaking to Celtic about my player, “Opportunity” would be mentioned in every conversation, it is the hard question we have to ask of ourselves.  Still, at least we got the best out of Nat Philips and Auston Trusty.

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  11. scullybhoy on

    Yogi also scored a cracker for Crystal Palace.

     

     

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1b6cm-FYj5A

     

     

    The top 10 televised Crystal Palace goals of all time voted by the fans.

     

     

    10. Ian Wright v Brighton

     

    Division Two – March 27, 1989

     

     

    Ian Wright raced onto a long ball down the left channel, controlled the bouncing ball with his head and unleashed a vicious half-volley into the bottom corner from the edge of the box.

     

     

    9. Don Rogers v Stoke City

     

    Division One – February 17, 1973

     

     

    Don Rogers played a one-two with Alan Whittle in the centre of a boggy Selhurst Park, jinked his way past two defenders before cooly lofting over the keeper.

     

     

    8. Ian Wright (2) v Man Utd

     

    FA Cup Final – May 12, 1990

     

     

    John Salako delivered a peach of a cross from the left to the far post where Wright got ahead of his marker to volley into the roof of the net for his second goal since coming on as a sub.

     

     

    7. Alan Pardew v Liverpool

     

    FA Cup Semi-final – April 8, 1990

     

     

    Alan Pardew became an instant hero with the Palace faithful when he headed in the winning goal after Andy Thorn had flicked on Andy Gray’s corner kick.

     

     

    6. John Hughes v Sheffield United

     

    Division One – December 4, 1971

     

     

    John Hughes collected a short free-kick just inside the United half and surged towards goal before firing a 25-yard rocket into the top left corner.

     

     

    5. Ian Wright (2) v Wimbledon

     

    Division One – May 4, 1991

     

     

    Nigel Martyn’s punt upfield was taken down on Wright’s thigh and the livewire spun away from the defender and launched an audacious lob from 40 yards and into the net.

     

     

    4. Ian Wright (1) v Man Utd

     

    FA Cup Final – May 12, 1990

     

     

    Mark Bright slipped in strike partner Wright on the left of the area and he left a sorry Gary Pallister flat on his backside and drilled a low shot past Jim Leighton into the far corner for his first goal of the day.

     

     

    3. Dougie Freedman v Stockport

     

    Division One – May 6, 2001

     

     

    David Hopkin’s huge punt forward from his own box was controlled by Clinton Morrison and he fed Freedman who ghosted past two defenders and curled home the winner that kept Palace up.

     

     

    2. Don Rogers (2) v Man Utd

     

    Division One – December 16, 1972

     

     

    Rogers got on the end of the perfect throughball before rounding the keeper and swept the ball home past three United defenders desperately trying to keep the fifth goal out.

     

     

    1. David Hopkin v Sheffield Utd

     

    Division One Play-off Final – May 26, 1997

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  13. Back to Basics - Glass Half Full on

    Good morning CQN.

     

     

    From a Celtic only perspective does another slow news day beckons among all the other nonsense being spouted during this silly season … ahem … transfer window?

     

     

    (I don’t even know if the window is officially open).

     

     

    Here’s a new one to me.

     

     

    “No bid but interest has intensified”

     

     

    Whatever that means.

     

     

    In my simple brain it means £15m just became £20m

  14. timmy7_noted on

    Istaeli settlers attacked a Palestinian settlement in the west bank last night. So Israeli soldiers were called and arrested three of the attackers, however they also killed 6 of the people being attacked.

     

    They are animals.

  15. garygillespieshamstring on

    Scullybhoy

     

     

    I think the bear scored another goal in the same game that was second in the “goal of the month” competition when the one you posted was the number one choice.

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  19. scullybhoy on

    garygillespieshamstring on 26th June 2025 11:23 am

     

     

    Scullybhoy

     

    I think the bear scored another goal in the same game that was second in the “goal of the month” competition when the one you posted was the number one choice.

     

     

    >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

     

     

    I will try to find it later.

     

     

    HH

  22. bigrailroadblues on

    I remember Yogi crashing one against the crossbar v the hun and Wispy netting the rebound. Great days.

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