Stephen McGowan of the Daily Mail knows more about the inner working of Celtic than any other reporter, late on Friday night he revealed that Gus Lagerbielke will be allowed to leave in January if a suitable offer comes in.
The game we want to play relies on us keeping the intensity levels as high as we can and Daizen’s energy triggers a lot of that for us, in terms of shutting down the time teams get to set up attacks.
We have to play in a way that makes it really difficult for teams, surprise teams with the quality of our football but there’s no doubt, you can’t get away from it, we have got to have a deeper squad of players to compete at this level.
Phillips seemed to have the perfect profile, a member of Jurgen Klopp’s impressive squad in need of matches but like many others from the EPL he has struggled with the different demands of playing for Celtic
Ideguchi had to make do with five substitute appearances in the remainder of the 21/22 season, when Aaron Mooy and Oliver Abildgaard were signed in the summer transfer window it was clear that the former Gamba Osaka midfielder was already surplus to requirements.
When Rodgers returned to Celtic in the summer Glen Driscoll was the only coach that he brought in, having had six months to assess the situation he’ll have a couple of names in mind that can add to his existing coaching team of John Kennedy and Gavin Strachan.
For a while Barton cashed in on the myth that he had turned his life around, that he had been misinterpreted, cynically hitching on to the Hillsborough issues to develop credibility.
Celtic have reaped the benefit of that with the 23-year-old clearly appreciating the work that Oh Hyeon-gyu puts in on the training ground with some dividents last night.
The only downside was the substitution of Cameron Carter-Vickers at half-time, afterwards Brendan Rodgers revealed that it was a precaution against a tightening of the hamstring.
I’ve got closer to the operations over the last six months, kicking the tyres etc. That £10.5m has to go away.