Going to the media isn’t the sort of negotiations that Celtic encourage, it works at other clubs but Celtic prefer silence rather than dealing with agents that like to see their names appear in print.
The influencers had been briefed, Rodgers signings were risky and represented bad value, he should have shown faith in the job-lot of seven projects presented by Mark Lawwell a year earlier.
My dream is to represent this club on a daily basis. There’s so many games at this club and I hope I can break in and get opportunities to do that because that’s all I want to do. It’s such a big club and I want to be part of…
So money will have to be spent on it. And if you wanted to increase it from the current 7,000 up to 12,000 to make it up to 65,000, I suspect the cost is in excess of £100 million at least, at least. And to do that the club can…
Typically the club has decided to keep quiet about the new development but the full size indoor pitch appears to have been ready earlier this year, from the occasional drone reports the site seems to have been completed in May but there hasn’t been a single comment from the club.
Nicholson and the recruitment team have had plenty of notice that Kuhn was leaving, just as they had in January when Kyogo left for Rennes without any genuine attempt at signing a replacement.
Celtic’s path to the group stage is fairly straightforward, all will become clear on August 4 with one round to be negotiated with five potential opponents.
Having him back inside the club with his coaching and management experiences is clearly worthwhile but it can’t be denied that the role he is taking up isn’t the best match for his skills.
That’s a penalty, it’s a penalty kick. His arms are up, in an unnatural position, it’s a stonewall penalty and once again Celtic denied by a decision by the referee, the referee has bottled that.
In those days I really did not want to give an inch, I knew how it worked. I wasn’t letting anyone get the upper hand on us.