Yang’s call up to the South Korea national team squad is recognition of his current form. The player arrived in Glasgow as a raw 20-year-old in 2023, shortly after compatriot Oh (then aged 21) became a Celtic player. A week later, Kwon (then 22) made it three came in from Korea that year.
Kwon never played a minute for Celtic. He was left to wither on the vine for two years, with short loan spells at St Mirren and Hibs, before Nantes took him to Ligue 1 last summer. He moved to Germany in the winter transfer window and is now a regular in Bundesliga 2 for Karlsruher. Kwon (25) is a 6’ 4” No. 6 who was brought in to shadow Callum McGregor. He joins Yang in the Korea squad this month, and had the profile of recruit we were looking for in 2023. If we’d developed him correctly, he would own the No. 6 role in Callum’s absence.
Oh left Celtic for Genk for £2m in 2024 and has not looked back. A medical denied him a €20m move to Stuttgart a year later, but Besiktas paid €14m for him in January. At 24-years-old, he is a hot talent who is now miles out of our reach. He makes it three players Celtic signed in 2023 who are in the South Korea squad this month. The Koreans rank 22 in the world; Scotland are 38th.
Others who arrived in 2023 were Tomoki Iwata, who starts every week for Birmingham while Kyogo watches from the bench. Gus Lagerbiekle (25), who is ripping it up for Braga in Portugal. Maik Nawrocki (25) came in that summer and is currently on loan at Hannover – he scored against Schalke on Sunday. Hannover will exercise their option to buy if they gain promotion from Bundesliga 2.
Luis Palma got 18 months and more game time than the others before being shipped out. He is a big favourite at Lech Poznan, where he is on loan. Marco Tilio is a player who signed that summer, picked up an injury almost immediately and was then ignored. He rescued his career with a move to Rapid Vienna last summer after a productive loan spell back in Australia.
Alastair Johnston joined from Montreal in January 2023 and despite an injury-hampered season he has been a standout at right back. Illness denied Odin Holm an early chance and he has made little impact since. He is the only permanent signing made in 2023 who has not kicked on in the game.
It is almost vandalism that talent like Oh, Kwon, Lagerbielke, Narwocki and others, recruited in one calendar year, were left to wither on the vine at Celtic, only to prove their worth elsewhere. Why did Honda Civic Man take the job if he didn’t want to do the work? No wonder the squad has a hollowed out feel to it.
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When will Brendan respond to his erchie kicking from DD?
During the close season to derail the new manager?
I wouldn’t put it past him.
Celtic play with 2 strikers, not one, like the Rodgers grifter tried to brainwash you all in to thinking.
Smarten up CSC
To be, or not to be, that is the question:
Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles.
Rufus T Firefly 1916.
Majestic Hartson
That .Motherwell fan cut me off last week for saying, Askou was our manager in waiting!
Flynn, nothing a Free Stater has ever done, or continues to do, would come as much surprise to an Irish Republican of this generation, or past.
Vatican Media Live
https://www.youtube.com/live/03pYP2Nmreo?si=wG3RPJAGfM2ZtpV9
Ave Ave
Post Scriptum
The Old Fenian Gun – The Blarney Pilgrims
https://youtu.be/0C0dO4zCI5w?si=0pOlwhPmMYgzukVf
Good Morning Fholk – Grand Day To Be A Tim
Interesting read back last evening…
Looks like the…
Squad vandalism visible in Korean players
…deflection didn’t work
Some excellent posts and points debunking the ballyhoo…
It is also worth pointing out that AJ and Iwata were signed in December ’22 before the return of Peter Lawwell, which saw moneyball returning and HVPs like GG and JJ sold and loanee Mercedes Jenz shown the door.
By tying one hand begind his back, the Chairman did Mark Lawwell and Joe Dudgeon no favours…
Flynn @ 11:38 pm,
Don’t know where you get your info from Kev, but we don’t have a new manager and…
“A lot more than a new manager required”
https://youtu.be/rGTMrkKfl4s?si=wfh5E54ib7c4QXPA
Why would BR respond to DD’s hissy-fit?
Our self appointed autonomous leader embarrassed himself and the club with his official Celtic statement at the end of last year…
”We met with Brendan regularly, including in December last year [2024] and at the start of the summer [2025]…
REGULARLY!?
We now have a greater understanding of how the decisions were made and signed off at Celtic.
Dermot Desmond, with Peter Lawwell and his son Ross as proxies, controlled everything with an iron fist.
The Executive were and are powerless puppets.
The absentee landlord feels meeting the manager twice and allowing “dialogue” with the heavily stymied Executive, supported the manager, while the Lawwell faction were working hard, utilising their dark arts against him.
Yet the fact remains DD and PL have been found out, opinions in Scotland mean little for but when Englandshire, Europe and USofA take notice of Scottish football and Celtic’s “business acumen” and “Executive” management is becoming a laughing stock, the placemen are mobilized and the blame culture, misdirection and deflection are once again the order of the day.
On tge “Business of Sport”, the complacent, unambitious Celtic PLC are exposed.
Fritzsong said this the other day…
”…The whole situation [at Celtic] is a dog’s breakfast. It calls for leadership. In the past, no matter your opinion, Peter Lawwell offered those qualities. He is gone….”
Does that make one iota of sense to you!?
Celtic are a dog’s dinner, yet our Chairman who left at the end of December 2025, offered quality leadership?
Seriously.
His great leadership built such a great solid platform for the club, that within two and a half months of him leaving, the club descends into a dog’s dinner [and that’s the groupies] – a large contradiction there I’d suggest.
Burnley78, argues Peter Lawwell gave us great leadership but is not responsible for any failures as he was only following orders.
Accordingly, Peter “the great” Lawwell won us 36 domestic trophies but Brendan Rodgers who won 11 out of 13 trophies was a disaster as a football manager.
Peter Lawwell gave us financial stability but Celtic PLC’s revenue figures under this Chartered Accountant as CEO looked like a rollercoaster ride.
It’s all myth and legend isn’t it? Based on ballyhoo isn’t it?
Just the other week Tontine Tim gave us an example of the nonsense, – SFA football official’s daren’t have cheated Celtic if Big Pedro was about.
Talk of him getting in top Barristers to sort them out…
Yet when you ask for evidence none.
There is evidence of the much slighted Brendan Rodgers bringing in Nick de Marco, Lord Reid bringing in Paul McBride.
But Big Pedro collated secret dossiers don’t you know!?
Martin O’Neill said when he came back that it wasn’t a Celtic squad fit for purpose, he clearly stated – he came back because he felt somewhat beholden to Dermot Desmond for giving him the opportunity the first time round and he clearly stated he would not have returned for anyone else.
Certainly NOT Peter Lawwell.
Back in Y2K, from Martin O’Neill coming in to Peter Lawwell being made Chief Exec in 2004/05, we had won 3 out of 4 titles.
The seasons following PL as CEO, in eight seasons we won four out of the eight championships and that includes winning the trophy the season Rangers selfcombusted.
After Rangers died and Celtic coasted in neutral for eight [8] seasons, until Pedro’s car-crash in 2020, Peter Lawwell got circa 8.5 mn in salary, 3 mn in bonuses, plus expenses, plus perks, plus pension – a 2.5 mn bonus in 2019 – an eye watering sum for that level of complacency.
He left as CEO of Celtic with the football club totally debased.
There was a marked improvement, firstly under Dominic McKay as CEO, then Micheal Nicholson as interim CEO.
Yet, that soon took a backward step, as his tenure as Chairman took hold, temporarily plastered over by BR&Co and guaranteed UC League football, yet under Big Pedro’s leadership it wasn’t long before the club was again debased, our current position.
Here is my prediction, now Peter Lawwell has gone, once his augean stables have been mucked out there will be a marked improvement in every aspect of the way Celtic Football Club will be run.
Due to a more competitive domestic football environment, we may not see the percentage of trophies won under Ange and Brendan being emulated again (16 out of 19 is phenomenal) but we will see Celtic ascend back to the levels they operated at 2000 – 2004, as we hark back to that level of quality.
If anyone thinks the 2023 intake were going to make us “world class” and “take us to the next level in Europe…
As the saying goes…
I have a bridge to sell you.
Yet, no one believes it do they? This is all deflection away from the Board’s cluster….
Hail Hail
Chairbhoy on 18th March 2026 5:50 am
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If DD said those things about Rodgers and none of it was true, then what kind of a man is Rodgers to just suck it up?
Now we see were the fans have learned to just suck everything up and sell the park oot and tut tut at the Green Brigade.
Sad are the homes…..
laters.
THE HAND OF GOD my very thought. I will keep on supporting the Celtic that I grew up with. The zoomers can keep on flicking their hair in the mirror. Every game a cup final. Bring it on.
RAY WINSTONE’S BIG DISEMBODIED HEID on 17TH MARCH 2026 12:29 PM
” and there off ? ”
Oh dear.
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Indeed, “OH F****N DEAR”, in fact.
Not withstanding the failure of syntax/spelling or context….
BLOGGA firmly ken as the grand master of whatever the f….. I’ve been patient and courteous, even encouraging of your counterpoints and contributions, but now I’ll distinctly elect to see you next Tuesday! Done – no response necessary.
Paul67, as the generous and accommodating host, we appreciate the forum that you have created for us to exchange our thoughts and opinions, but…….
1) Rodgers IS an elite level manager, and his Honda Civic remarks should not be derided, but instead investigated.
2) Gaps in our squad and player quality are entirely the fault of our feckless board. Review any of my 100+ posts critically examining how that is the case! You and your lapdogs can ask the board to help with any kind of rational alternative position.
3) The board are simply not fit for purpose. They are going to get rooted out, now or later, it disnae matter – they are done!
It pisses me off, but this kind of nonsense has me questioning how I want this season to end. Go figure out the dilemma.
AngrypunterCSC#1
Looks like Kasper will not be back. Last night he said on TV:
“I was at a specialist yesterday and basically I’m going to need two surgeries now to fix my shoulder which is a bit of a body blow.
“It’s a torn bicep, I’ve torn the rotator cuff, disclocated the shoulder, torn the labrum – torn everything.
“To be maybe put it into terms you’d maybe understand, it’s like an outfield player doing their ACL and their Achilles at the same time.
“It’s looking like 10-12 months of rehab. It’s been a strange few days.”
CBS presenter Kate Scott asked Kasper: “You are smiling, but how do you really feel about that?”
He replied: “I was told yesterday.
“I don’t really know anything right now, in the sense that you don’t know how to react to this.
“I could have potentially played my last ever football game.
“I have been a footballer since the day I was born. That kind of thought is devastating.
“It’s very, very hard to wrap my head around, at the moment.”
Gedinte, don’t worry plenty of peepul want to see Celtic fail. You are not alone. Bored hunters unite. Only as good as your last game glory hunters. If we don’t win the league GB wet dream. A club open to all who think the same.
CHAIRBHOY on 18TH MARCH 2026 5:50 AM
I’m working back through comments, but, you are BANG ON!
Sorry to hear that about big Kasper. Hope our young Fin can grow big boots. So far so good, not been assassinated by the keyboard warriors, yet.
Bang on or Banger. Take yer pick.
In case you’re wondering, yes having a few brews. Will answer if I can arsed.
THE BADA BING on 17TH MARCH 2026 10:38 PM
Trump has claimed the AFCON Trophy
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Word is that he will not formally accept it until they make it out of solid gold!
TAURANGABHOY on 18TH MARCH 2026 6:18 AM
Feel like you are missing the point.
I along with many others want and expect a version of Celtic which has ambition and belief. That is sooooo far removed from the position/mission of the board we have. You apparently approve of the board, but don’t seem able/capable/willing to express why that is.
BACK TO BASICS – GLASS HALF FULL on 17TH MARCH 2026 6:49 PM
Fact!
Being in the same zip code as Rodgers added value to the sometimes ordinary and often unwanted players that we shipped out.
Kev…
No rational person thinks DD’s rant is true…
“In June, both Michael Nicholson and I expressed to Brendan that we were keen to offer him a contract extension, to reaffirm the club’s full backing and long-term commitment to him. He said he would need to think about it and revert. Yet in subsequent press conferences, Brendan implied that the club had made no commitment to offer him a contract. That was simply untrue.”
What is simply untrue was that Brendan said there was no offer – time and again he was asked about the extended contract at media conferences, time and again he said an offer had been discussed and stated no formal offer had been made, if it was made he’d seriously consider it – he had stipulations, one was the restructuring of Celtic’s player recruitment – a view that has been echo’d by numerous people including Martin O’Neill.
DD states: “His later public statements about transfers and club operations came entirely out of the blue. At no point prior to those remarks had he raised any such concerns with me, Michael, or any member of the Board or executive team.
How do you figure that one out, the world and his wife knew that Brendan Rodgers was unhappy but according to DD’s statement, neither he, nor Micheal Nicholson, nor the Board, nor the Executive team knew anything about it, it was even discussed after the 2024 summer transfer window.
The Celtic hierarchy went to Roger Hannah of The Sun at the beginning of September 2025 and said among other things…
“He’s the only manager in the club’s history who has repeatedly questioned things.
But DD is telling us at the end of October 2025, no such concerns were known by – “…Michael, or any member of the Board or executive team.
How do you reconcile that nonsense.
Hail Hail
GLENDALYSTONSILS on 17TH MARCH 2026 1:35 PM
Thank God those days of terrible recruitment are behind us now .
Don’t you agree messrs Balikwisha , Mvuka and Adamu ?
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I know that I’m stealing this from others, but ya couldnae make a single player if moulding the three of them together!
BURNLEY78 on 17TH MARCH 2026 3:25 PM
Small correction on the post-split fixtures as only one of Hibs or Falkirk will actually have 20 home fixtures.
Per my previous posts on this, I suspect that it will be Falkirk.
Gedinte @ 6:18 am,
Cheers…
There are a number of great points that have been made, an outpouring of uncommon sense.
Hail Hail
Serious questions should be asked about the medical and physiotherapy KS has received since being injured with Denmark, it was very obvious his flexibility was impaired, was he told to get this diagnosed and treated properly or was it ignored? The extent of those injuries is massive.
Kasper’s form this season has been erratic at best and now we know why. The injuries he lists above surely were suspected? He must have been playing while in pain and with limitations on shoulder movement?
The fans knew he was out of sorts, why didn’t the medical team and coaching staff? Or they did know yet thought an injured Kasper was better than Sinisalo?
Sounds like the bad old days when players with chronic injuries were excused training sessions and given steroid injections to allow them to play.
https://x.com/aboutceltic/status/2034158046318866877?s=20
everything Celtic@aboutceltic
🇩🇰 / 𝙆𝙖𝙨𝙥𝙚𝙧 𝙎𝙘𝙝𝙢𝙚𝙞𝙘𝙝𝙚𝙡 – 𝘾𝙖𝙧𝙚𝙚𝙧 𝙊𝙫𝙚𝙧 🤔
Celtic goalkeeper Kasper Schmeichel admits he may be forced to retire through injury.
No doubt he was an excellent signing after Joe Hart, he was an important part of 2 title winning teams
That injury sustained against Portugal last season never properly cleared, he played when form affected by injury should have seen him step down for Sinisalo
– “ I could have potentially played my last ever football game.”
DB
I had a rotator cuff/frozen shoulder the restrictions on movement were huge but also your body adjusted as the shoulder muscles couldn’t work properly , so other muscles tried to cover for parts that were damaged hence you get biceps tearing I also had multiple rib muscle tears took well over a year to recover, I’m still wary of what I can do, I did not get steroid injections as they only mask the pain not cure the condition.
https://x.com/Paddystinian/status/2034063659014451501?s=20
Sir Norman of Nowhere. 🏴☠️ reposted
Paddystinian@Paddystinian
Epstein files on St. Patrick’s Day Ballinrobe, Co Mayo, Ireland 🇮🇪🤣
Brillant
aff oot
General comment to acknowledge the possibly career ending injury that Kasper is dealing with. Sad, but at his age, full recovery is incredibly difficult. Great career, and a short but wonderful contribution to Celtic.
Regardless of circumstance, I’m confident that the greatest beneficiary will be Sinisalo, as he will not only get first team time from here until the end of the season, but there is little doubt he will have Kasper in his corner as a true team mate and the consummate pro that he is!
Morning all from a dry and cool Dublin.
Had dinner with work guys last night after a few pints in Bankers bar. We had Greek, French, Argentinian, Scots and English so they were glad I talked them into the experience.
The walk home was fun as everyone was having a great time.
Gedinte 20 years of dominance, counts for nothing in one season, maybe longer if you think we should have risked everything. We haven’t excelled in Europe but I don’t think it is for lack of trying. The season ticket money covers the basics, player trading gives us the paying power to attract talent to a backwater league. Yes they got Nancy wrong, changes will happen, like Brendans man Tisdale. Hating the people who built up a buffer is senseless in my eyes. Assuming they are not true Celtic supporters is based on emotion, not fact . Spend all the money, which we can’t anyway under the rules, doesn’t mean a thing, will not get the glory hunters what they want. £30 million on three players didn’t move us far. Sevco spent a fortune in recent years, how did that go. Our recent success came from attracting young talent and growing them, under a supportive environment. I don’t understand why our ultras want to be like the onions and our collective want to undermine our club. Maybe it’s because I have been a long time away from home and hating people who are wealthy is what makes people feel good now. Might as well hate the players who are wealthier, wait…None of it changes how I feel about Celtic and I am not going to follow follow the mob. I’ve never hid mate. Just can’t be bothered with the negativity most of the time. CQN is a far shake from what it was. Sign of the times. Hail Hail
“ It pisses me off, but this kind of nonsense has me questioning how I want this season to end. Go figure out the dilemma”.
There’s no “dilemma”, Gedi. It’s been pretty clear for quite a while how you and yer mates want the season to end😉
flynn on 17th March 2026 7:07 pm
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murdochbhoy on 17th March 2026 6:29 pm
Celtic Mac on 17th March 2026 5:46 pm
Thank you for your considered and knowledgeable reply.
My post was designed to agitate the conspiracy theorists here on a Celtic FC web site who submit long debunked views from medical outliers advancing nothing but their own mercenary objectives.
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Even the Joker from The Dark Knight sums you up right at the start of his video of ESTABLISHMENT creeps when he says:
“When the chips are down, these civilized people, will eat each other!”
…….And when Covid scam was rolled out people like you were wanting folk who stood strong to be put into Concentration camps for rebelling against the lobby groups and their fake vaccines.
No wonder these creeps killed the Joker after that Christopher Nolan film in 2008.
“The worldwide Cabal and its mockingbird media. How they treated people who did not want to take their experimental “vaccine
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Equating the fantasy world of The Dark Knight of Batman and the Joker is a poor correlation to my earlier post.
Claims that governments were building internment camps for unvaccinated individuals have been widely debunked as false. One who championed such nonsense was Senator Ron Johnson, a perfect example of an unreconstructed eejit. Here is some background info about some of his other extreme right wing views.
https://wisdems.org/wisdems-news/icymi-ron-johnson-blasted-by-editorial-boards/
Taurangabhoy @ 7:37 am,
Always the issue with the narrative of the Board fanbhoys is you can’t rely in facts – facts don’t back you up, so you use the ballyhoo…
The 30 mn the club spent, I’m assuming you mean in 2024…
Well, that was on more than three players…
Kuhn
Sinisalo
Schmichel
Trusty
Idah
Engels
McCowan
That’s 30 mn on seven players, players who certainly have moved the dial.
We have already got back 25 mn for the two player registrations we have already exchanged.
The players that are left have made a massive contribution and are still worth 30 mn.
Hail Hail
Should point out the two players we sold made a big contribution.
Hail Haul
Facts, eh?
When’s Brendan filing his lawsuit, Chairbhoy?
The Blogger Formerly Known As GM @ 8:40 am,
Whitch one!?
Loving the King Kanute impression btw you are rockin’ it;)
Hail Hail
The one you were alluding to here:
CHAIRBHOY on 2ND DECEMBER 2025 12:04 PM
Burnley78 @ 7:12 pm,
You seriously think Brendan Rodgers, is not talking to his lawyers? Along with John Kennedy, Adam Sadler, Jack Lyons and Glen Driscoll are not talking to their lawyers:)))))))))))))))))
Is that your or Peter or both’s wishful thinking!?
THE BADA BING on 2ND DECEMBER 2025 4:39 PM
Brendan has a few quid as well, not always about how much money you have in a court of law,it’s about who is right and who is wrong,
CHAIRBHOY on 2ND DECEMBER 2025 4:48 PM
The Bada Bing @ 4:39 pm,
100%
Anybody that doesn’t understand that hasn’t the first clue about legal structures.”
I’m sure you were in possession of some facts when you wrote it?
I mean, it wouldn’t be like you to simply make stuff up.