The excitement they had for the new season has disappeared and the grumblings are audible. That heaps pressure on Beale, even if a new Sky Sports colleague of mine can’t see it.
Beale enjoys very special status in the media with almost every outlet hanging on his every word, how he knows everyone in English football and best of all he was the brains behind Steven Gerrard’s reign of one trophy win out of nine which includes cup defeats to Hearts, St…
In almost every sense there seems little logic in Tierney returning to Celtic but football has a habit of ignoring known logic.
Casually sitting on a bench inside Murray Park, Thompson had to rely on his notes to get through an interview as dull and bland as an episode of Sportscene.
Football’s biggest club competition would expose a new-look Rangers team to the kind of searing heat which sent Greek sunbathers running for cover.
Celtic have got a very good B team and they do well, but they’re desperate to get players out and playing proper football and into the first-team.
Celtic aren’t short of midfield options but until last Saturday most fans would have started with Callum McGregor and Hatate plus AN Other as their midfield trio.
Beale brought in nine new players before the first game of the season at Kilmarnock, his THIRTIETH match in charge of the club.
So it was mainly pain management. Some weeks, I wouldn’t train at the start of the week and just come in at the end.
With Carl Starfelt joining Celta Vigo on Thursday the bulk of that fee is on its way to Sweden as Lagerbielke becomes the second major addition to the Celtic defence following the arrival of Maik Nawrocki.