An appearance at St Roch’s on the way back from Santa Ponsa hard to pick fault with. On the back of the Daily Record’s Liel Abada fantasy Rodgers took the winger out for dinner to round off his busy Sunday.
Sutton covers Scottish football for Sky Sports and the Daily Record, within the space of nine months at Ibrox Cantwell has lost four times to Celtic. In both cup competitions at Hampden and in the SPFL at Ibrox and Celtic Park. It seems that the Ibrox ace is sensative to…
Liam Scales was the main focus of this week’s Celtic TV interview although Rodgers also discusses the away ticket allocation at Tynecastle, facing Diego Simeone in the Champions League and dropping in on St Roch’s after starting his Sunday in Mallorca.
There were a variety of set-backs for Kennedy as he attempted to resume his playing career, thanks largely to the surgery undertaken by Dr Richard Steadman in Colorado.
I spoke also to Tomas Buffel who was long time a player here and knows the club really well, in that way I think that I gathered enough information to make a really good decision.
A season or two in Scotland with moderate success could have repaired his reputation but despite the backing of Souness it seems that Bennett opted to go with Philippe Clement.
Six weeks on from his last match Cantwell is dependent on his social media audience to retain any sort of profile, he knows the formula well and appeals straight to the instincts of the Deluded & Gullible.
It is one of the great sliding doors moments but if the Australian internationalist had signed for Celtic rather than Middlesbrough it is unlikely that O’Riley would be in the Danish squad with Champions League football on his CV.
Knowing players is one thing, getting them to perform is another task entirely with Clement having to work with the current squad until January when the transfer window opens.
Last Friday Sky were explaining all about succession planning, now after a week spent in London while Kevin Muscat is in Japan that claim is starting to wear thin as genuine candidates shun the approaches from Ibrox with Graeme Souness supporting John Bennett and James Bisgrove.