Not Actually that Crucial a Summer as of August 2023...beginning to now think everything isnt fine!

The only realistic path for us is to play a style of football where a pure shot stopper is fine. BTW, I've no idea for how much Kovačević will go for. He's Serbian, and I don't see much news on him on Croatian portals.

 

I wish we were as quick with other positions as we seem to be with CB

 

Steven Caulker is a free agent...

 

However, Rodgers confirmed Celtic will look to sign another defender - with an emphasis on landing an "experienced" centre-back to ease the defensive injury crisis.

He said: "I think we have to look at it, there is no doubt it is an area we are light on.

"When you are losing three players for that length of time and knowing the number of games that we will have and the importance of every game, it's definitely something we have to look at.

"I think especially at centra-half it's a specialised position where the experience always helps.

"We've got lots of young players in the squad but naturally to bring those players on and bring them through they need to play with players not just of experience, but players of quality.

"You need to hopefully try and align both because you'll see the best of those players, the guys that are young and developing and dealing with the expectation - they can play alongside the guys that's going to pull them through and bring out that potential, ideally that's what you want.

"That's something that we will look at."

 

Scales will be happy that would let him go to Aberdeen

 

So from the whole presser the only thing we have taken is 2 players we knew were injured are injured. We also might look an experienced replacement.

Thought we would hear more about transfers tbh. Good news re AJ though.

 

Fully fit, do we still have the best squad in the league?

 

Yes

 

They just bought another CB, not sure they'd take Scales now.

 

Sounds like its going to be a nasty start to th season.

 

Johnny evans?

 

Fucksake playing champions league games without our two main centre halfs * disaster.

 

Wasn’t that just to let him play pre season games?

 

Doubt we'll let anyone with center back on their CV leave at the moment.

 

Cheeky bid on Millwall's Jake Cooper (it would wind up the blue tarts lol) - Joking aside, he's come up with some good goals for Millwall, scored 21.

The Millwall defender was indispensable to manager Gary Rowett last season, appearing in all 46 of the club's Championship games, in a season where they only narrowly missed out on finishing in the top six, finishing one point below Sunderland.

 

Brendan Rodgers has refused to confirm Celtic's interest in Luis Palma.

The Hoops are believed to have lodged a bid of around £3.5million for the Aris winger as they seek a direct replacement for Jota who left for Al-Ittihad this summer in a £25million swoop. Palma, a long-standing Rangers target, is believed to be on Celtic's shortlist but the manager opted against addressing the player specifically.



Instead the Northern Irishman hinted that there would be movement between now and the end of the transfer window in that area. "I think we need to improve the squad but there'll be no confirmation of names," he said when asked about Palma.




There's been lots of names that have been floated about. As soon as we sign anyone we'll let you know.



The boss did reveal centre-back was also another area he and the recruitment team may need to focus on as he confirmed Maik Nawrocki and Cameron Carter-Vickers both face two months out.