I’m really excited by him (Nygren), he’s a forward thinking player, he’s got good legs, gets about the pitch and he’s showed up well since he’s come in.
All of the data is out there, agents are buzzing around drumming up business with players surely attracted to a club that impressed in the 2024/25 Champions League and is one Play Off tie away from the 25/26 competition and the real prospect of 10 very meaningful, high profile matches.
For years he had dreamed on owning a real life soccer club, at the June 23 EGM he took full control of the club, shifted it into private ownership registered in Delaware with a promise to be opaque about the finances. Oh how the bears loved it.
Nicholson and the recruitment team have had plenty of notice that Kuhn was leaving, just as they had in January when Kyogo left for Rennes without any genuine attempt at signing a replacement.
Fortunately for Nicholson his bosses think that he is doing a fantastic job, the people that appointed a low profile Sports Lawyer as CEO, a job requiring a very different skillset.
Being diplomatic some of the SFA types would happily pick anyone other than a Celtic player, that attitude survived through until at least the turn of the century as the cap totals of the Lions highlights.
Celtic’s path to the group stage is fairly straightforward, all will become clear on August 4 with one round to be negotiated with five potential opponents.
Rangers fans created The Banter Years as they switched their backing to the Tribute Act created by Charles Green. While SPL clubs went to the wall, denied the precious blue pound that they had fed off for decades.