IT would be entertaining to sit Mick Lynch, RMT General Secretary and master BS detector, down with a list of recent Scottish football transfer rumours. “Ryan Kent to Manchester United? Twaddle!” “You think Sevilla can get Alfredo Morelos for €8m? Liar!” “Fabrizio Romano? I don’t even know who you are!”
IF this management lark hadn’t worked out for Ange Postecoglou, he might have had a decent crack at a career in recruitment. A single phone call from the Celtic manager seems to be enough to persuade just about anyone to join his cause.
BEN SIEGRIST has set his sights on becoming the first-choice goalkeeper at Celtic, and the former Dundee United man believes that the competition with current number one Joe Hart can make him a better player.
MANY Celtic supporters have long suspected that opposition players raise their game when they face their team, and new arrival Ben Siegrist has confirmed that – at least for him – coming up against Celtic brought out that little something extra.
ANGE POSTECOGLOU has told his Celtic players they will have to move up to the next level if they want to enjoy the success they shared in his first season at the club, warning them that their rivals will be desperate to usurp them as champions.
‘WE never stop’ may be the slogan that has come to typify Ange Postecoglou’s reign at Celtic so far, and the philosophy the manager imparts upon his team, but the mantra of never resting on your laurels has been ingrained in the club since time immemorial.
BEING a centre-back at Celtic may once have been looked upon as something of a cushy number. Most weeks domestically, after all, you are playing for a team that keeps the ball at the other end of the pitch for the majority of the game.
ONE of the major summer landmarks for supporters has now passed with the release of the fixture list, and Celtic supporters may be quietly content with the opening run their team has been handed as Ange Postecoglou and his men look to defend their title.
I had a wry smile to rival that of the immaculately-gnashered Rylan - the face of Scottish Premiership sponsors cinch - when it was suggested Rangers were contesting their obligations to provide them advertising space by virtue of a noble quest to better the Scottish game for all, and not simply because it might cost Douglas Park the sale of a few motors on the forecourt.
IT is difficult to know just who is more relieved that the seemingly interminable Scotland camp at the end of a long, hard season is finally over; the exhausted players or the weary supporters.
