As the football operation at Celtic enjoys its first break since returning to training in June, focus at the club moves to recruitment. Celtic have been busy renewing contracts throughout the first half of the season, the notable exceptions being Dedryck Boyata and Scott Brown, but reinforcements are needed ahead of the Champions League qualification games, if not the second half of the season.
The biggest area of concern is central defence. Filip Benkovic will (probably) return to Leicester City in June, while Dedryck Boyata will hope to cash-in on last summer’s World Cup appearances before he produces too many like those at Ibrox on Saturday. The Marvin Compper experiment was over before it began, while Jack Hendry has dropped to fifth choice and the fitness status of Jozo Simunovic has to be assessed on a minute-by-minute basis.
That leaves Kristoffer Ajer (20) as the only reliable option for a position that cost us dearly against AEK in August.
There is work to do elsewhere. Right back needs strengthened, we are crucially short of headcount in the striker department and there’s a reasonable chance Scott Brown will move on this summer, but while moves are underway to cover some of these gaps, I would forgo all other positions to get central defence sorted out this month, despite the fact that right now it is the most settled of the positions discussed.
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Dark Episode 2:40 Wincanton,good luck all.
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Pete the feat in the 3:00 Sandown for me
Good luck to all
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Good luck all and thanks for your efforts fleagle
I’m expecting nothing. For some years now the club has been run as a conservative business. If it makes enough money for the men at the top, they’re happy. Spending more to achieve more success on the field carries a risk which they’re obviously unwilling to take. We have some good players.We have a manager who gets it right quite often (although spectacularly wrong frequently). We shouldn’t be losing in the league. We need four defenders and two strikers. What do we have so far? A winger on loan…