Welcome to Celtic Viljami Sinisalo

I got nothing against Kasper, but I think Sinisalo should have started today. Very conservative approach by BR.

 

Big man saves that header

 

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Viljami Sinisalo, 22, is busy with Lukas Hradecky and Jesse Joros, who are higher in the hierarchy in the national football team, which is preparing for the opening of the Nations League. However, the recent twists and turns in the goalkeeper's career point to a different kind of future


The 190-centimeter Sinisalo signed a five-year contract with Scottish Premier League giant Celtic in the summer. According to the British media, Celtic paid Aston Villa a million pounds, i.e. just under 1.2 million euros in transfer compensation. According to MTV Urheilu, there was interest in Sinisalo from many directions.

- That's all I'm saying, when Celtic was a concrete option, you didn't have to think about it many times. We are talking about one of the biggest football clubs in the world, and such an opportunity does not come up many times in a career, if ever, Sinisalo told MTV Urheilu.

- After the way those five years were described to me, it would have been stupid not to get involved


The pattern is pretty much as simple as it looks. Even at the age of 38, Kasper ( Schmeichel ) is still a top goalkeeper, who signed a one-year contract, which seems to include the club's option for an additional year, but the plan is very far that I will be Celtic's future number one. I have to be ready for that.

Sinisalo, who was born in Hyvinkää, has spent the last few years on loan at England's third highest league level with Exeter City and Burton Albion. The screens in the first mentioned opened the way to larger galleries.

- You have to be realistic. You don't jump directly from League One to Celtic's starting goalkeeper, but I already know that this season the responsibility is coming. Certainly even more next season. If I'm Celtic's number one keeper at the age of 24-25, I've succeeded in my plan, and after that we'll talk about a little bigger things.

Last season, Sinisalo kept a clean sheet in Exeter City 13 times in 45 series matches and once in the four League Cup matches he played.


At the age of 16, who went from FC Espoo to Aston Villa, his dream was to become the first goalkeeper of the famous representative team. At least at this stage, the goal was not achieved.

- I'm really grateful to everyone I've had the chance to work with at Villa. I got to learn there from many different goalkeepers, coaches from different countries, different game systems. They were good for six years.

For the very first time, Sinisalo is not playing in Scotland. In 2020-2021, he gained about half a year of experience at Ayr United, which prepared the then 18-year-old Sinisalo for the current Celtic era, above all linguistically. Teemu Pukki, who also represented Celtic, also served as one of Sinisalo's advisers before the deal was struck in the summer.

- I learned about the country and friendly people at Ayr United. However, the culture there is a bit different than in England. However, this is, after all, football. People recognize here, here and there, Sinisalo smiles


Celtic has started Sinisalo's first season with the club by taking four wins out of four league matches. Sinisalo has not yet accumulated playing time.

- The beginning has been great. And best of all, we took a big derby win at the weekend. As I've said before, you don't necessarily realize how massive a football club is until you get there.

In the aforementioned derby victory, Celtic beat Rangers 3–0. The Old Firm between the two most popular and successful clubs in Scotland dates back to 1888.

- A completely stupid match. I've never experienced anything like You'll Never Walk Alone playing before a game and a crowd of 60,000 singing it. Celtic's finesse lies in the supporter culture and the default value that only winning is good

 

Fantastic attitude from that interview, really impressed with that.

Needs to start against Falkirk.

 

These new guys will get a stroke when the CL anthem gets going

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Honestly it’s that spot on for what I want from a young player being coached into the role with an older vastly experienced option infront of him it seems bordering on feeding the guy lines to say. I don’t think it’s that though, any noises I’ve heard from him I’ve been mega impressed with the attitude.


He needs the league cup and/or Scottish Cup. If we back him to be what we think he will be, he needs the experience.

 

Top class attitude. Bodes very well indeed.

 

They’re not the only ones!!!

 

It's a shame we have a bunch of away games after European games midweek as I would like to see him get an odd league game at home to the lesser sides. Definitely due a game in the league cup

 

Play him as striker against sevco.

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Great attitude and as we all assumed he's been told the situation that he's viewed to take over.

My only "gripe" is we didn't use him in the cup game against Hibs. I get we have the option for another year with Kasper, but we may not use that or Kasper may decide it's time to hang up the gloves. So I'd like is to use him in the cups, her him up to speed a bit quicker, on the chance he is needed next season and not in two.

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It important to give Kasper as much game time with our defenders as possible in the first few months. After he's developed as strong understanding with the defence, then give Sinisalo some cup games.

 

In an ideal world, yes he'll play some cup games and any if he's called upon.

But, that being said we may only have Kasper for a season so plenty of time for Sinisalo to establish himself for next season.

 

Schmeichel came here to win trophies, Sinisalo will need to bide his time for some league action, minus an injury to Kasper he won't play cup games

 

This. Bar injury or suspension, Sinisalo will be limited this season. Hopefully he was brought here with forward thinking in place and the intention that he would be spending most of this season absorbing as much as he can from one of the best 'keepers in world football over the past 15-odd years and when time comes he will be ready to become first choice in his own right.

 

The more I think about this, the smarter it is. Kasper Smeichel is a great keeper, but who trained him and passed the knowledge on to him? His father, Peter Schmeichel. So what are we going to ask Kasper to do: train and pass knowledge on to Sinisalo. And who can Kasper ask for advice on how to do that: Peter. So we haven't just got a top keeper to train up Sinisalo, we have a top keeper who's dad was an amazing keeper and is likely and excellent goal keeping coach, and who Kasper can hit up for coaching advice.