Hayato Inarmura

If that's the case I'd of preferred a Scottish Signing to make up the quota

 

Kind of gone off him with all the analysis that’s out there.

Plus one of his weaknesses is strength which we saw Kobi look absolutely honking when he played.

 

Will be interesting to see how we use him if he doesn't go straight out on loan.

If we sign another CB alongside him, then I'm fine with this. I think Lagerbielke, Welsh, Nawrocki, Murray and Trusty will all be sold this window, so that only leaves us with 2 centerbacks, easily room for another 2.

Still feel by his videos his future is at LB, he looks rapid and good on the ball, a bit wasted a CB.

 

See to be honest I like my centre backs hard as nails and winning everything in the air. We hugely lack threat from corners.

 

By all accounts that's his two biggest weakness

 

Exactly mate. Creative midfield , decent wingbacks to support the forwards and two hard * in the centre. Our two biggest flaws are we get bullied and are no threat at corners.

 

If this is our only cb signing then it’s poor from Celtic , unless he thinks trusty and ccv are our starters

 

Yet when we play nawrocki especially in the Aberdeen game away he scores with a header and for some reason Rogers won't play him regularly.

 

A lot of it is to do with mentality, though. Jullien and Trusty are just quite soft. CCV and Johnston are guys up for the fight and a battle, the other two aren't.

Inamura might fall into that camp as well, but if he can be coached into being more aggressive (and put on some beef) then you never know.

We absolutely need a quality CB bought on top of this though.

 

I think it was mentality thing with them tbh.

Trusty was fantastic against Lookman, handled Rogers well and kept Sesko quiet, yet he let Simon Murray man handle him.

Jullien the exact same.

 

His second video deffo showed good traits
Pace
Passing
Ability to beat a man
Crossing

Be interesting to see what our plans are for him, is he a seen as someone to fill in for KT? Looks more like it than a centre half..

 

The trouble with Trusty, Jullien and even Lenz wasn't that they didn't have the size or strength to cope in a rough league like ours it was simply that they had no heart for it. You could see it made them uncomfortable and, I suspect, they even found it distasteful, being used to a more technical style of play.

 

My mind is telling me this won't work, unless he plays LB. But my heart is already floating off into imagination, creating mental images of the Japanese Baresi.

 

If he's coming with a view to be turned into a LB then he might just get away with it, but if he's coming here to play CB he has disaster written all over him. The amount of CB's we've brought in over the last 10-15 years who were apparently 'good on the ball' really annoys me, because most of them couldn't actually defend, which is their main job. We need someone of a similar quality to partner CCV. This guy is gonna be sat firmly behind Scales and Trusty in the pecking-order by the looks of it.

 

He obviously has a lot of good attributes and his second highlight vid showed what he could bring. Trouble is, up here you do have to be a bit hard to succeed as a centre half, and he looks like he has 'bullied at the Tony Macaroni' written all over him. It sounds totally ridiculous, but some players just look soft, and it's that kind of thing strikers here feed off.

Hopefully he proves that wrong, because some of his clips show how good some of his attributes are. Composure, passing range, ability to drive forward and break lines.

 

If he signs he’s Taylor’s replacement I think

 

Aye I'm no gonna lie, he doesn't convince me much as a centre half..

Think he'd getting chewed up and spat out..

I can see good things about his game but why can't we just go out and sign a big, quick * beast that'll no just spit you out but swallow your bones as well. Someone that strikers will avoid getting in to battle with out of fear. * all this tryna fit Someone in and change their game..

Someone that'll nut the back of heads 'by accident' and chin guys for no showing for the ball..