Maik Nawrocki suffered a minor injury and will not be at our disposal during tomorrow’s competition. The rest of the players are at my disposal.
Even without the injured Cameron Carter-Vickers, Lawal was left on the bench during the 6-4 defeat from Yokohama F Marinos with Brendan Rodgers starting the match with Carl Starfelt and Yuki Kobayashi then finishing up with Stephen Welsh and Liam Scales in the centre of defence.
Celtic’s move to bring in Maik Nawrocki will cost around £4million plus a hefty 15 percent sell-on fee.
Finding another Carter-Vickers would be perfect but in Nawrockiego it seems that Celtic’s recruitment team have found a robust, reliable defender with the potential to improve and possibly move on.
Incredibly Hatate’s fee seemed to involved around £1.2m going to Kawasaki Frontiers, it was a Larsson like steal.
Back in 2016 McGregor’s future was far from certain at Celtic, after breaking through at the start of the 2014/15 season under Ronny Deila his form and appearances had started to drift.
After attending the Scottish Cup semi-final at Hampden on April 30 Rodgers kept a closer eye on the remaining matches of the season, not many of the fringe players advanced their cases as Celtic crashed to two defeats and a draw in the four matches following the title clincher at…
Rodgers will have to go with the same squad of players again on Saturday against Gamba Osaka although Yuki Kobayashi could miss out through injury.
McPherson has a genuine opportunity to progress his Celtic career in the next fortnight with Tony Ralston joining Alistair Johnston in the treatment room.
The report in The Sun claims that the players will arrive in Scotland next week which leaves them with their Korea clubs to prepare for life in Europe while paperwork is progressed.