Stephen McGowan of the Daily Mail knows more about the inner working of Celtic than any other reporter, late on Friday night he revealed that Gus Lagerbielke will be allowed to leave in January if a suitable offer comes in.
The game we want to play relies on us keeping the intensity levels as high as we can and Daizen’s energy triggers a lot of that for us, in terms of shutting down the time teams get to set up attacks.
We have to play in a way that makes it really difficult for teams, surprise teams with the quality of our football but there’s no doubt, you can’t get away from it, we have got to have a deeper squad of players to compete at this level.
You don’t build a team around one player but management involves getting the most from your resources. Providing chances for Kyogo should be more of a priority than adapting others into sync with Palma or Yang.
Phillips seemed to have the perfect profile, a member of Jurgen Klopp’s impressive squad in need of matches but like many others from the EPL he has struggled with the different demands of playing for Celtic
Ideguchi had to make do with five substitute appearances in the remainder of the 21/22 season, when Aaron Mooy and Oliver Abildgaard were signed in the summer transfer window it was clear that the former Gamba Osaka midfielder was already surplus to requirements.
With European football ending in a tame 2-0 defeat to Lazio, sitting in mid-table in Serie A Rodgers suddenly started talking about his transfer aspirations, when he took on the manager’s job he wanted four quality signings- before losing Jota, Carl Starfelt and Aaron Mooy.
Within a fortnight of Postecoglou leaving Rodgers was back at the club but it is hard to believe that he is in charge despite his recent claims over recruitment.
In the bigger picture he distanced himself from recruitment during the summer, putting his trust in the brilliant judgement of Mark Lawwell to deliver the players required to make progress.
Returning to Celtic in the summer surely things would be different, surely Rodgers had done his due diligence, especially with two Lawwell’s now in senior positions.