All eyes are on Lawwell Mini to see if he can buck the trend and deliver players capable of going into the team and improving things rather than bloating the wage bill.
Selling Jota and Carl Starfelt at the same time as Aaron Mooy retired has trimmed quality from the squad. Injuries to Reo Hatate, Liel Abada and Daizen Maeda has left Rodgers with just four or five reliable performers forced into carrying others that are miles short of the standard required.
With a goal difference of two for and 22 against it was quite a campaign for the club which had tooled for the campaign by signing Rabbi Matondo, Ridvan Yilmaz, Ben Davies plus other stars including John Souttar and Tom Lawrence.
the Scottish press was invited to a largely off-the-record meeting at Hampden last week to give an update on how VAR has been going. What was clear from a meeting that lasted nearly two and a half hours was that Crawford Allan, the head of refereeing is trying to be…
James Forrest, a scorer in 2019 against Lazio, wasn’t in the squad for Saturday’s draw with Motherwell but Rodgers confirmed that the winger will play tomorrow night.
Lennon fronted that up, repeatedly telling the media how bitterly disappointed he was while hanging on for a pay out rather than earning a scrap of respect from resigning.
Despite two defeats to Celtic in April winning the Dead Rubber Trophy convinced bears that all was well, having signed Cantwell and Raskin every summer signing was given instant superstar status.
Prior to the shirt pull Sam Lammers had blocked Gartenmann as he moved to track the ball, an incident that Dallas decided to overlook, as did Walsh.
Kyogo is still a brilliant, incisive, instinctive and clinical striker but it seems that the possession based game installed by Brendan Rodgers has left him neutered. His Champions League record this season is outstanding.
Last week Stewart was on the phone to his favourite newspaper, telling the Daily Record about his disgust at the actions of some Celtic fans. Exactly the content that the Glasgow publisher gorges on.