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. What a fantastic game. Credit to both players. Alcaraz will be going for 10 barring injury meethinks.

     

     

    Another level.

  2. WeefratheTim on

    Good evening all, I hope this post finds everyone in good health. Was just reading the guy who invented “auto-correct text” has died, his funeral is tomato. 😀😀😀HH

  3. Great game of tennis. At 4-3 in the 4th set they’d played a total of 320 points in the match, with both players winning 160 pts each. Talk about on a knife edge! Credit to both players for an enthralling final.

     

     

    As much as I like and respect the tennis legend that Novak has become, I was hoping the new kid on the block would triumph 👏👏

  4. Absolutely brilliant tennis. Hardly a game won easily. Some of the points were unreal. Glad young Carlos won but felt sorry for the loser, as always. Another game of fine margins. Novak wins the tie-break, he probably wins 3-0. Have the boys arrived in the land of the rising sun yet? Sweltering in Yokohama the next few days. Wish I was there, right enough 😎

  5. Special mention to Bob MacIntyre for his efforts at the Scottish Open, took a fine finish from Rory McIlroy to prevent a victory after a terrific final round from Bob.

  6. Good evening all, I hope this post finds everyone in good health. Was just reading the guy who invented “auto-correct text” has died, his funeral is tomato. 😀😀😀HH

     

     

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    Brilliant.

  7. |Love the actual tennis, but I find it excruciating to see the wimbers crowd, all decked up as if they were going to a fucking dance. Its a joke,

  8. Back to Basics - Glass Half Full on

    BBC News sink to new depths.

     

     

    Kemi Badenoch’s bull5h1t deal with an CPTPP

     

     

    (the UK would need to enter into 50 deals of the same size to offset the reduction in GDP arising from Brexit)

     

     

    …. got just 19 seconds air time.

     

     

    They then gave her another 12 seconds for an unchallenged piece to camera about bringing down inflation.

     

     

    By contrast, Keir Starmer’s stance on spending got two minutes.

     

     

    The word “refused” was 3 times attributed to him.

     

     

    The clincher …. that would make Goebbels or North Korean TV blush … was the conclusion to the piece.

     

     

    As the speaker uttered the words “to the problems they (UK voters) face now”

     

     

    a full screen image of Starmer appeared on screen.

  9. Great tennis and golf…brilliant last two holes from Rory felt sorry for Mcintyre think his driver cover was green and white.

  10. bigrailroadblues on

    WEEFRA

     

    You crack a joke like that and BelmontBrian loves it. Ffs F don’t encourage the Sunnyside hooligan. 🙄😉

  11. 54 degrees on my poolside thermometer at 2,O Clock today.

     

    Could fry Eggs on the tiles.

     

    Global warming,come ahead ya bam.

  12. turkeybhoy

     

     

    That reminds of going to the local outdoor pool in Scotland in the summer.

     

    They used to mark up the pool temp on a board as you were going in.

     

    Same 54 degrees…..

     

    Fahrenheit

  13. bigrailroadblues on

    Time for a nightcap in the hoose. Before Mrs BRRB gets home and assails me with weapons of death. Ain’t love grand.

  14. SEAN THORNTON

     

     

    Me anaw in Strathaven. Wee 1030s stomping ground. A top top ghuy. HH

  15. bigrailroadblues on

    Night all from Govanhill. Home at last. Mrs BRRB has given me a supper of cold shoulder and hot tongue.

  16. Hrvatski Jim on

    ‘GG

     

     

    So sorry to read this. You will be even more in our thoughts and prayers for a recovery.

  17. Good morning all from a dry at the moment Garngad.

     

     

    Lets get a couple of experienced players signed up.

     

    Competition for starting berths is always good.

     

     

    D :)

  18. ‘GG – Nothing I can say or do can help you but my thoughts are with you and hope that somehow you manage to turn the corner and get better. Hail, Hail from Spain amigo.