Tapping into the speculation Anthony Joseph dug into his archives to share an image from the summer of 1997 which had more than a few Celtic fans putting 2 and 2 together and guessing at the fourth signing.
Incredibly Hatate’s fee seemed to involved around £1.2m going to Kawasaki Frontiers, it was a Larsson like steal.
Rodgers will have to go with the same squad of players again on Saturday against Gamba Osaka although Yuki Kobayashi could miss out through injury.
Brendan Rodgers is very much cut from the same cloth, wanting to give players the maximum opportunity to impress and make the best of the opportunities from a relatively short career although Nakamura has demonstrated that careers can be extended.
No Australian has ever managed in the EPL but that is about to change with Ange Postecoglou in charge of Spurs, following on from Antonio Conte who needs no introduction.
The Centre Court scoreboard is regularly featured on the television coverage, today among the usual collection of conservatively dressed Conservatives there was one fifty-something male wearing a bright green Celtic treble t-shirt.
After two seasons impressing in the Lowland League for Celtic B the teenager needs to take a significant step forward which means getting regular first team football on his CV.
The young hoops will start their Lowland League campaign next Saturday away to Cumbernauld Colts with the trip to the Indodrill their third and final public friendly.
One of the three new features might have been acceptable but throwing together broken hoops, the ‘stained glass’ look and lots of black just doesn’t work. Tellingly there is no sign of the long sleeved shirt in today’s video.
Brendan Rodgers was due to get to see his side in action against Portimonense at their Campus Training Complex at 5pm but the kick-off has been delayed by an hour.