When you’ve just scored four goals, that always seems to be OK, but we lost an important player in January in Kyogo, who scored a lot of goals, and we’ve lost Nicolas Kuhn, a lot of goals again, and even Matt O’Riley last summer.
Others, in the boardroom rub their hands, pat each other on the back and look across the city to remind themselves of their own brilliance.
Today there have been pictures at Glasgow Airport and Rennes Airport to signal a very low key departure for one of the most popular Celtic players of this century.
At Tynecastle in March Beaton was quick to spot a ‘handball’ by Tomoki Iwata, called Don Robertson over for a VAR review with the decision to award a penalty inevitable. At Hampden in May he was much more reluctant to get involved.
Three years ago the loyal bears were laughing at the prospect of Kyogo Furuhashi posing any sort of threat to the behind-closed-doors champions.After the freaky circumstance of the 20/21 season Ibrox fans carried more entitlement than normal, after winning their first ever title they were now on course for a…
It seemed a fairly contrived criteria with City looking for a top quality striker that could step in as back up for the prolific Norwegian but be content at being a distant second choice with very limited playing time.
Lawrence Shankland from Hearts would be the laziest replacement possible but with little sign of a scouting network or recruitment strategy a move for the Hearts striker can’t be ruled out.
CAA Base is headed up by Frank Trimboli, the agent that pushed Ange Postecoglou towards the Celtic job in June 2021, you wouldn’t need to be paranoid to put together the jigsaw pieces.
Managers are loathe to read too much into pre-season performances and results but after having a staggered return to action of his international players it looks like a very definite pattern of play has already been established by the champions.
Reflecting the balance of the season only one of the highlighted matches was played before the end of February with three coming in a golden May fortnight that will be long remembered.