Rodgers made it clear it clear that he needed an experienced central defender, it wasn’t a position for projects with Celtic 365 understanding that the deal to bring Phillips to Celtic Park has been completed tonight.
With no travel or employment issues a deal should be fairly straightforward which could allow the 26-year-old to be training with the Celtic squad before the match at Ibrox on Sunday.
And then we come to summer 2023, Postecoglou is no longer involved as Mark grabs his big opportunity, a Lawwell family member in charge of transfer activity. What could possibly go wrong?
UEFA mathematicians have almost taken over the competition with a 10 year co-efficient determining how a certain pot of money is split between the 32 teams in the Champions League group stage.
Ajeti will forever be linked with Vasilis Barkas as Celtic splashed out £10m in the summer of 2020 with both players virtually worthless by the end of their first season in Scotland.
There could well be other clubs and agents interested in taking O’Riley back to England but having sold Jota and Carl Starfelt and saw Aaron Mooy retire the last thing that Celtic need is to lose another starter in the final days of the transfer window.
I feel proud that I was able to advise Celtic. I have always kept close to the president and scouts there who were colleagues of mine.
After this, Brendan Rodgers’ club made it clear that they were ready to pay even more, but Brondby also refused, as they need Kvistgaarden’s qualities in the runs that cut up the opposition defences.
More than a decade on from Tony Watt’s goal against Barcelona Celtic have notched up TWO more wins in the Champions League.
Ange Postecoglou had little option but to involve Soro in his early matches in charge of Celtic but tellingly brought in midfielders Reo Hatate, Matt O’Riley and Yosuke Ideguchi during his first January transfer window.