Kyogo Furuhashi

See Gary Hooper career for further reading on the importance of realising how lucky you are.

And as evidence of how easily you can become un-important, un-noticed and anonymous very quickly as you struggle to emulate being a Celtic player for the rest of your * bleak career. It's like chasing that first hit. It's never gonna be the same again and you will never feel as complete and satisfied.

Nothing ever has or ever will compare to life in Paradise. To suggest otherwise is untrue and a completely false belief...the pursuing of which can only lead to bitter emotional disappointment and despair. Once again see Gary Hooper, see also Jorge Cadete, Moussa Dembelle and Leigh Griffiths and Anthony Stokes. It's not easy to survive life as a striker after Celtic

 

I wouldnae go that far mate. Kenny Miller has a complete lack of any sort of moral compass. If Kyogo ends up at ibrox doon the line then I'd put him in that category.
Most players are not capable of completely changing from one polarised extreme to the other. Normal people cant do that even if they really wanted to. Kenny done it without breaking breath. Still no as twisted and plain ridiculously insane as what MoJo done.....but he's a close 2nd.

 

I think if u come out and say u want to leave, then the club is going to offload you to the highest bidder regardless of who it is. If you want to leave then you shall get your wish.

Beggars can't be choosers. It's none of our concern now if Rennes was where he wanted to go or not. Tough * I'm afraid.

I always found it strange that Shunsuke Nakamura preferred a move to Espanyol, to accepting a new contract with us.
Espanyol had very little hope of getting near a trophy in Spain. They are known as serial losers and a joke compared to Barca who share the same city.
It was a downgrade of a club for him, that's not debatable. He did very little in Spain and drifted into obscurity. I can see the same happening to kyogo. Be careful what u wish for or you may never get your hands on another trophy again!!

 

I wasn’t being serious mate.

 

Oaft. I'm getting bad at this. You do get some people on here with riculous but honest opinions.
It's becoming more difficult to tell the difference between them and people saying deliberately ridiculous things for comedy value. I apologise

 

A thoroughly stupid remark, from a truly rancid hun-serving shitrag... Pretty sure an unused sub touched it less... How far out of your way do you need to go to find a negative than getting a foreign player, on the week of his transfer to another country where he's on his 3rd or 4th language and a difficult management position and not exactly great team to start with, to get something you can finally knock them for

 

They just dislike him and want him to fail due to the death blows he's been dishing out to rangers the last 3 n half years.

Being involved in the game all the time is not his thing. He would be easier to mark if he was always involved. He can do nothing for a long stretch of the game...and still pop up and score.

Ibrox 1st Glasgow derby of last season. * game, not many chances. Not much happening. Kyogo has done nothing. Right before half time 1 chance 1 goal Kyogo, nice controlled volley from just outside the box.. He proceeds to do nothing all 2nd half. Celtic win 1 nil.
Was I or anybody else concerned about his lack of possession of the ball? Absolutely not.
Possession doesn't get you any points.
Having 1 chance and scoring the only goal of the game does.

We will miss that ability to do nothing and suddenly score out of nothing and win us the game. Strikers like that are hard to find

 

Yes. Kyogo was like a chess player - lots of movement that most people don't appreciate, followed by a quick and unavoidable action when it actually paid off. We'll miss THAT... It's also why they couldn't work him out, we often didn't get the most out of him and if someone else triggers him correctly he'll be truly spectacular

 

When it came to his movement and the runs he would make. He was the best in Scotland by a mile. He was on a different level from SPL defenders. They'd never encountered anything like him before.

There's a reason Iniesta rated him so highly in Japan. He wasn't just giving him compliments to be nice.

Rennes are daft if they play him on the wing and not through the centre. Which they just did in his 1st game for them.
It's not his position. You are not doing your team or Kyogo justice by playing him out of position.

But hey ho....not our concern what happens to him or Rennes now. And there is no point in reminiscing. He's gone. Move on Celtic. Find another striker. Don't look back.

The problem though....
If we can't find a striker as good as Kyogo was for us. Then we definitely are not going to find a better striker than him......I mean they obviously exist but there's no way that standard of striker is signing for Celtic. This makes improvement more difficult than it sounds

 

Looking on opta stats doesn’t looked like he was involved at all. Dancing about after a scraped win In relagation battle. The fall for the wee man. But bank balance will soften it I’m sure.

 

We complain that we never improve our team from a position of strength. Unfortunately this has been true so many times in the past.

I don't think people get that Celtic have a glass ceiling when it comes to transfer fees and wages. Also if you keep trying to upgrade players in every position you'll get to a point when it's not possible to upgrade any further cause that standard of player is looking at perhaps a big team in Italy or Germany. Not Scotland. It really is detrimental to our recruitment when you are offering players a midweek evening trip to Ross County in the * rain and freezing cold.

When obviously they'd rather (I'd rather....and anyone would rather) be playing Real Bettis in lovely warm Sevilla say. Or playing in the grandeur of the San Siro for Juventus v AC Milan. No one wants to play fitbaw in the Scottish Highlands or on a plastic pitch in * Kilmarnock. It hardly screams top quality class and style.
Scottish football is embarrassing let's be honest. Top players don't play in Scotland. In fact in some cases players lose their place in their internationalvyeam because they've moved to Scotland

 

Actually more gutted about giakoumakis leaving than i was for kyogo but when both were at club i thought kyogo was better but now they are both gone and i had the chance to bring one of them back it would be big giakoumakis. Weird

 

Personally thought Giakoumakis was wildly overrated on here

 

I have this opinion as well. Had some brilliant spells but also had times when he looked like he'd never seen a football before. Was definitely a different option for us though and ultimately had a decent time with us.

 

Might be a controversial take but * him, I honestly hope they get relegated just to make it worse.

If he had moved to a team that was in a decent position then fair enough, but to push for a move to a team in a relegation battle and clearly a * joke right now then he can get to *.

Loved him while he was here, but that's drastically changed the past few weeks.

 

Nah I agree with @cfcturbo

Maybe I did overrate him as well but loved his tenacity, never got bullied and gave us a bit of aggression that we sometimes lack, especially against physical opponents.

Plus he had that arrogance a good striker needs. I was gutted when he left.

 

Scored some big goals for us and really came into his own during the second half of Ange's first season.

But defo felt people acted as if he was Ibrahimovic. Plenty of games where he was totally ineffective

 

This just can't be true, because in the late 90s and early 2000s, we had some incredible players who would be out of our reach now: Larsson, Lubo, DiCanio, Van Hooijdonk, Lambert, Viduka, Berkovic (yes really), Petrov, Sutton...
The Huns too: Laudrup, Gascoigne, the De Boers, Numan, etc.

Also, the winter is cold and wet in northern Italy and much of Spain too.

 

Yes ma man. gazza, Laudrup, Di canio, cadete, even larsson and Moravcik played in the 90s. 3 decades ago.
Sutton and Hartson 25 year ago. Quarter of a century.
25 years before that Billy McNeil and Jimmy Johnstone were playing. That maybe puts it in perspective.

In quarter of a century the gulf between top teams in Europe and us has become a lot lot bigger. We cannot go and sign top English Premier League strikers anymore......not by a long long way.
Scotland is a backwater that no one else in Europe really pays attention to (clement thinks the whole world are watching rangers VAR decisions but this is not true).

Nobody cares. Even our showcase fixture....the Glasgow derby can't even accommodate away fans. Hampden is also the worst national stadium in Britain. We allow plastic pitches in our top league. It's amateurish. Not an attractive footballing country. It's detrimental to Celtic.

 

Florence is in Northern Italy. It's more picturesque and cultured than Paisley.

So they sign with Fiorentina and not St Mirren. I'm just saying