Those of us who have followed Celtic in recent years will want to mark the departure of Reo Hatate. His time at Celtic was transformational for our club. Along with Kyogo and Daizen Maeda he brought us delight and so many trophies. He announced his arrival in January 2022 with a thunderous shot into the Hearts goal at Tynecastle. At the time, it looked like Goal of the Season. It turned out to be his third most memorable goal of the week. Days later scored twice in the first half against Newco to put Celtic top of the table, where we have only temporarily left since.
The record books will show that with Celtic chasing an equaliser, he had three attempts on target in the 90th minute at Ibrox in February, when defeat would have ended our quest for five-in-a-row. Sure, you can be picky with all your “It was a penalty” gripes. Three attempts, all on target, ending in a goal, when we needed him most. That’s what mattered. Our three Japanese greats defined an era of Celtic history. Best of luck, Reo.
Oliver Sørensen has become the latest player to arrive at Celtic, with the Danish midfielder joining on a season-long loan from Parma, with an option to buy.
He spent five youthful years as a Midtjylland player and had two loan moves before he made the first team on a permanent basis as a 20-year-old in 2022. He became a mainstay at Midtjylland in his second season, winning their Player of the Year award and prompting Parma to pay €8m for him a year ago.
He played in all but four of Parma’s Siere A games last term and remained an automatic starter until March, but his Midtjylland form was not replicated in Italy, which is why he was available to Celtic.
As we publish, there is a possibility Celtic will sign six more players today! All that excitement will disappear like sunshine on Fair Friday if Celtic do not get a result against Aberdeen tonight.
Johnny Kenny (23) departed for Preston for a tidy £3m yesterday. The striker is a better player than we saw during his difficult spell last term. A loan spell at Bolton proved this and earned a move across Lancashire. Not everyone makes the cut at Celtic, but turning a £150k signing into a £3m sale is still great development work.
The Dons have had an inconsistent start to the campaign. They were battered at home for 90 minutes by Hearts on the opening day of the season, but scored twice in added time to record an unlikely win. Dundee picked up where Hearts left off in their next game, but there was no rescue for Aberdeen this time. Four days later Aberdeen took revenge over Dundee with a 3-0 League Cup win, while they looked the lesser of two bad teams at home to Newco on Sunday.
This is not a good Aberdeen team by any measure. Still, a transitional Celtic side will need to find composure to get the job done.
ALERT: It’s an earlier than usual kick-off – 7.45pm.
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Just before the goal, Sinisali badly caught out at a corner, Dons hit the post. Breakaway and goal.
Madra Rua on 2nd September 2026 8:34 pm
Just before the goal, Sinisali badly caught out at a corner, Dons hit the post. Breakaway and goal.
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He’s been ok aort from that. Well, apart from giving the ball to the sheep a minute before 😁. Very good going forward. Front three and the Ox👍
Live updates are up!
Philbhoy on 2nd September 2026 8:42 pm
Live updates are up!
Are you sure ??
HH
Live updates DOA
A few good performances tonight but cant help single out Donovan who had a particularly great game
Donovan and Yang but a really great team effort
Dearie me.
What a performance from the referee. Truly shocking ! The power that one man has to stop eleven en playing football
HH
Very good performance but Aberdeen are very weak.
Welcome to all the Bhoys making their debut.
McGregor controlling midfield as usual.
Scales, excellent cover for Tierney tonight.
Colby Donovan will make mistales he’s young, but he is improving big time.
Wingers were excellent.
Duran is a gem.
Who broke blog …any last minute spends 😂😂😂
Test
Not sure what to make of the ref and linesman but it really felt their mistakes all went one way and it was not for Celtic.
Thank goodness we were good.
Aberdeen less so but much improved than they were on Sunday.
So much to be pleased with tonight for Celtic fans. For some though Celtic will always bring total misery.
Really enjoyed the game despite the weather and the officials.
So many plus points on and off the park today.
Striking options
Midfield options
Full back cover
Goal keeper
Jota and Johnston and Osmand still to come back.
Add Tiernay and Hogh to tonight’s team and the new guys.
Wow. What squad. Cover everywhere.
92% of transactions outside of the EPL in the UK were either loan or Frees this window.
We got a great balance.
Yang will be missed in the 2 Derby games.
Stop it Burnley, who cares if the board spend the money on players with money they made on player trading. They didn’t cover every position twice with champions league kwality. What did the Roman’s ever do for us.