Ange Postecoglou

Jesus, that’s the last thing we need right now is more injuries


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However, on further reading, he has been with Gamba Osaka since 2019 as his latest club, played 67 times and scored 6 goals. That is a good sign so hopefully things are ok with him.

 

We'll give him a 5 year deal

 

Tbf to him his last two seasons with Gamba Osaka look like it went smoothly in terms of injuries. One of those seasons he was supposed to have been brilliant in regards to form. I'm optimistic Ange will get this deal done.

 

is there any chance Ange might be having a look at Mitchell Langerak?

33 year old Aussie GK playing in J-League for Nagoya Grampus.

retired from international duty.

previous clubs: Melbourne Victory, South Melbourne (loan), Borussia Dortmund, VFB Stuttgart, Levante (never played).

 

Hope not , or by deed poll I change ma name for that

 

Things are looking good with the squad post winter break

Jota, Kyogo, Karamoko and Jullien all returning, new signings from Japan arriving and hopefully a few more on top of that, including a new LB where Taylor, Scales, Boli and Montgomery most probably won't cut it as consistent starters

Try offload a few too if possible such as Barkas, Boli plus get some players out on loan like Shaw and Uroghide who are in need of playing time

I'd like to see this team post break

Hart
Ralston Jullien CCV Juranovic
Bitton CalMac
Rogic
Karamoko Kyogo Jota
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New signings on the bench desperate to make an impression and adding some quality depth to the squad, time to go on a run, overtake the scum at the top and do our best to make a good dent in the Europa Conference, let's be the first club to ever win it, why not.

 

Mitch is a Top Keeper, excellent at playing out from the back system, quick thinker.
Hey man, change your name to 'love symbol'.

 

He was good in his day , but no chance that happening

 

Why no good anymore?

 

Because it’s not his day

 

C'mon, embrace the changes, how will you ever embrace the Japanese guys with your 1960's outlook in your bubble? Kangaroos can play, they come out of a womb, eat, * and sleep like you Jebrone. They've even made four World Cups maaatte!
Your not Alan Brazil the kane toad?

 

I’m an Aussie too mate. He’s a good keeper but he’s on a fortune in Japan. I can’t see us paying £20,000 per week for a backup keeper. And that’s what he would be to Hart.

His day is in Japan earning £20,000 per week.

 

THERE is little argument that Ange Postecoglou’s reliance on his young players of late was born of necessity rather than design, but the Celtic manager is keen to stress that it won’t only be an injury crisis that leads to opportunities being handed to the promising talents coming through at the club.

The latest debutant was 18-year-old striker Joey Dawson, who replaced the injured Kyogo just 15 minutes into the win over St Johnstone at McDiarmid Park on Boxing Day, joining other recent academy graduates like Owen Moffat and Adam Montgomery in earning involvement in the first-team squad this season.




There is no greater poster boy for what can be achieved at Celtic than current captain Callum McGregor, who joined the club at the age of eight and has now become the undoubted leader of the dressing room.

His Celtic journey may have started long before Postecoglou was even known on these shores, and his development from talented fringe player to key midfielder took place over many years, but among the many reasons why the Australian handed him the armband was the example he sets for those coming through below him.


The balance of developing young players while consistently delivering success has always been a tricky one at a club like Celtic, where time is not often afforded to players or managers to prove themselves, but it is a priority for Postecoglou.

That being said, he has warned his youngsters that in the future, those opportunities will have to be earned. But giving a chance to young players and watching them flourish is one of the parts of the job he enjoys most.

“I certainly do,” Postecoglou said. “I think it’s an important part of any club, this club.


Having players who were brought up with this club is important. I mean, you just have to look at our captain. It’s not just for Callum, it’s for our supporters. To know that one of their own has gone from the terraces to on the pitch.

“It’s definitely something I want to do but we’re not just going to give away appearances. They’ve got to earn it.




The first half of the year, some of them have been given it probably earlier [than they would have]. That’s the reality of our situation with injuries, but that doesn’t dismiss the fact that they’ve had the opportunity.

“It’s certainly something I’d like to do. It’s important, it’s a priority, that we keep developing our own players.”

That focus on the bright side of Celtic’s personnel predicament prior to the winter break is one that Postecoglou prefers to accentuate, rather than the paucity of options he often had, particularly in the attacking positions.

The blame for a host of hamstring injuries he admitted, after all, lay at his own door, with the Celtic players slowly adjusting to the high intensity of his training and playing style.

The club’s call for the winter break to be brought forward – as it ultimately was – wasn’t universally viewed as an altruistic move however, with many Rangerssupporters believing it was designed to allow Celtic the chance to get some of those injured players back to fitness.

Postecoglou has predictably scoffed at such theories though, and points to the lack of complaints coming from him or his players during a hectic December – in which they used 27 players in just 18 days – as evidence that his philosophy has always been to just get on with it




As I said, we had challenges,” he said. “It would have been easy for me [to complain]…there is a helluva lot of violin-playing around the place, but I didn’t want us to be one of them.

“We are a big club. We will take whatever challenges are before us and not make excuses.

“We could have made excuses from the first game when we were throwing in guys who hadn’t even met their team-mates yet but we took our licks, we took our punches, we got back up off the canvas and that’s what we’ll keep doing.

“That’s the kind of club we want to be. Credit to the players and to the staff.

“[At McDiarmid Park], we had plenty of excuses, but if we didn’t get the job done, I wouldn’t be able to use many of them.

“I would be saying we were disappointed, as we were [against St Mirren].”

Meanwhile, as Celtic finalise the details of their first signing of the January window, with striker Daizen Maeda ready to join from Yokohama F Marinos on an initial loan with an option to buy, Postecoglou is buoyed by the opportunity to strengthen his squad.

Though, as always in the current climate, he qualifies that enthusiasm with a realism about the hurdles they face in bringing players in.

“I’m always optimistic but the worldflies in the face of it sometimes,” he said.

“We’ve just got to do what we do. That’s why I’m reticent to say, ‘yes definitely in this time frame’, because things change on a daily basis at the moment with the way the world is.

“We have been working for quite a while, Michael (Nicholson) and myself and the key people in the club, to try and do the business as early as possible, so I’m still hoping that will happen.”

 

Big Ange getting the 3 of them announced on Hogmanay.

Baws oot.

 

Just wondering, Ange no qualifications, J league * , Australia * , no idea about Scottish football and the board are *.
Well now raid Asia for players.
Wont be long other scottish teams will follow suit

 

Whit?