Why we might need a pool of 7 wingers

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News from Korea today suggests we have agreed the transfer of Yang Hyun-jun from Gangwon.  The player turned 21 two days before our last league game of the season against Aberdeen.  Gangwon have won only two of their 22 league games and sit well adrift of safety in the relegation zone.

He is young and playing for a side who are surely the polar opposite of Celtic – always defending instead of always attacking.  The journey to Europe, to Celtic Park, potentially Champions League nights and the ever-present need to win, need to always be productive, will take a while to adjust to.

A fee of around £2.5m is a huge amount for a Gangwon, so we can assume this lad has metrics which place him in the upper echelon of potential superstars.  Whether that potential is realised will depend on how well Brendan Rodgers and his coaches develop him.  We should expect little in his first season.

Yet another winger!  He joins Daizen Maeda, Liel Abada, Marco Tilio, Sead Haksabanovic and James Forrest, while Mikey Johnston’s injury almost certainly precludes him from leaving on loan this summer.  That makes seven fighting for two starting places.

That sounds a lot, but as my brother pointed out to me this morning, since the five subs rule came in, we change at least one winger and often both in each game, so any four have a realistic chance of gametime each matchday.

With two injured (as there are at the moment), that’s four from five, so maybe we are not overloaded on the wings (pardon the pun) afer all.

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  1. Moderator1888 on

    NICK on 14TH JULY 2023 9:45 PM

     

     

    Mod – look up ‘Hi Ren’ on YouTube

     

     

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    Nick, thank you

     

     

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    And I learned to soften,

     

     

    and that dance got easier.

     

     

    It is this eternal dance

     

     

    that separates human beings

     

     

    from angels,

     

     

    from demons,

     

     

    gods.

     

     

    And I must not forget.

     

     

    We must not forget

     

     

    that we are

     

     

    human beings.

     

     

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    Listen this from the start to then end (and the first 30 secs are a hard watch but bear with it)

     

     

    “We must not forget

     

     

    that we are

     

     

    human beings.”

     

     

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    Fooking stunning, the mans a poet

     

     

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_nc1IVoMxc

  2. Good morning all from a groundhog day in the Garngad.

     

    Rain, wind, rain and more wind.

     

     

    D :)

  3. I know pre-season Friendlies are almost meaningless but I would have given that game a lot more importance had we lost 4-1 :-)))

  4. CQN has often been the source of some esoteric information for me over the years, so here I go again (fingers crossed).

     

     

    Mrs Emeraldbee and myself will be walking the Cateran Trail , starting/finishing in Blairgowrie, and I’m looking for information about parking my car for four days in Blairgowrie itself. Any suggestions gratefully accepted.

     

     

    Ave Ave

  5. bournesouprecipe on

    Alcaraz verse Djokovic was the final tipped by the experts, but it’s probably still a centre court too soon for the man from Murcia. Djokovic’s unique career is surely at the pinnacle of his powers?

     

     

    The very partial strawberry and cream brigade naturally side with the underdog any underdog, but Novak has too much in his locker and is likely to triumph. Speed tests and range of shot development on the baked clay courts of Europe, sailed the Spaniard to his first final verse the Serbian with a mere nine.

     

     

    Love to be wrong today, Alcaraz might get a set, but won’t stop the ten till this time next year .

  6. I cannot begin to fathom how it must feel to be the best player in the world at an elite and ultra competitive sport at the age of 19, an age when most of his peer group are still figuring out what kind of work they want to do. Now 20, I hope Alcaraz wins Wimbledon but as BOURNESOUPRECIPE says, it will take something extraordinary to beat Djokivic today. The man is a machine and shows no signs of faltering just yet.

     

    Saying all that, remember Becker winning there at the age of 17.

  7. Bournesouprecipe / DeniaBhoy

     

     

    As a Novak fan I feel the opposite of you guys.

     

     

    I never made it to Wimbledon or Queens to see him first hand but my daughter did and she reckons after seeing him live this boy Alcaraz is capable of taking this awesome gladiatorial sport to another level.

     

     

    I hope I am wrong today as I do really respect Novak and hope he can continue another year. If I were a betting man I would be going for the Spaniard.

  8. !!Bada Bing!! on

    Jun (winger) confirmed by his club yesterday

     

     

    Kwon (cdm) confirmed by his club today

     

     

    Expect both to be announced by Celtic Monday/Tuesday.

  9. If we were interested in Livakovic i am disappointed that we are not signing him .

     

    He is a top notch keeper a massive step up.

     

    We definitely need a new keeper going forward HH

  10. theBHOYfromU.N.C.L.E on

    FANADPATRIOT on 16TH JULY 2023 11:47 AM

     

    We definitely need a new keeper going forward HH

     

     

    Prefer one when we are defending…..

  11. bankiebhoy1 on 16th July 2023 9:57 am

     

     

    Welcome, but, ur ye a Hyun?

     

     

    HH

     

     

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    That is a Belter.

     

     

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gu1Mi8YhMWM

     

     

    It was Garry (and Aidan) who got me into Gerry.

     

     

    Celtic

     

     

    Celtic

     

     

    We are, IMHO, on the cusp of something very special.

  12. Prestonpans bhoys on

    Evans will be 36 in January…..

     

     

    That’s as far I got reading about this move!

  13. RIP Jane Birkin, singer of the sexiest song ever Je T’aime… Moi Non Plus, which she sung with her ex Serge Gainsbourg in 1968.

  14. This Celtic team isnae far away.

     

     

    Reo was ma POTY, so Obviously I’d want him re-signed.

     

     

    If he Curtley Ambrose it will be for Ωmega bucks.