Hannibal also spent the second half of last season in Seville – playing six times in La Liga. That deal included a £17m option to buy – but the Spaniards have not taken up United on their offer.
Various issues dogged the Hummell deal, very few outlets stocked the kit with the Danish firm using a clause to cancel with a year left to run on the deal.
The shambles at Ibrox continued last night with Phil Clement making a bizarre statement about the absence and future of Todd Cantwell.Over the course of three pre-season defeats the former Norwich City starlet hasn’t played a single minute despite being part of the squad that trained in Holland for a…
In the absence of any known Recruitment Team Nicholson and McKay are tasked with improving the playing squad to give Rodgers a fighting chance of competing in Europe with last season’s dead-rubber win over Feyenoord highlighting how far Celtic have fallen on that stage.
The Board’s commitment is to strengthen and improve the playing squad in every transfer window and although resources were available, we were unable to further add to the squad due to the unavailability of identified targets.
During the close season the Daily Record published a story that Jack Butland was about to take Tav’s cherished Captain’s Armband, that story was quickly watered down but the damage was done.
Cypriot teams rarely pay transfer fees, at the age of 31 an undisclosed fee is likely, possibly sweetened up with an Ibrox pay-off as one of the highest earners left following the June departures of Kemar Roofe and John Lundstram.
Forty-five years later it could be that there are issues with the concrete used in the Copland Road Stand, perhaps 20 plus years of Doing The Bouncy has had some unfortunate consequences.
It’s very difficult for a club of this size to have three top strikers. You can live with two because we play so many games and the specific nature of them means we can change it about.
And yet, almost ten full months into the job, it is still unclear as to what exactly Clement is doing to arrest the decline of his side. There’s certainly no sign of an identity or even a suggestion of his preferred style of play.