Adam Idah

He doesn't seem agile enough to drop deeper and wide to create space for others in the way Kane-esque big strikers do. And he doesn't seem to get in enough good positions to be a poacher. Nor does he seem powerful enough to ragdoll defenders and create gaps that way like Sutton and Hartson did.

He will continue to score goals because that comes with the territory playing up front for celtic in spfl games. But I've never seen anything in Idah really. Obviously Rodgers and many others see and understand players far more than I do, but I just don't get it.

The only reason to be optimistic is Kuhn showing how such a drastic turnaround is possible. So not giving up on him completely but he's absolutely miles off where a 9m striker should be in my opinion

 

You don't survive at Celtic having a performance like that every 1 in 10 games. For every rugby park last season he had an Aberdeen cup semi performance too.

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That's his one standout performance, said it at the end of last season that game aside he's done nothing to convince me, and still hasn't, he's not a massive upgrade on Oh who had a good goals to minutes ratio but looked equally clumsy on the ball at times. He's not worth half what we paid for him, absolutely rinsed by english market inflation.

 

Saying he's not worth half of what we paid him is massively OTT. He was worth £5 million based on his stint with us last season alone, not to mention he's still a young player.

He wasn't worth £9.5 million, but we knew that when he signed, I bet Rodgers did too.

He is coming to the point where we need to see a bit more from him, but I still think he's a cracking player when he's on it and he is, unfairly, being analysed under a microscope by a large portion of our fans, Engels is the same.

I'm not directing this at you, but I wish we'd cut off players a bit of slack at times. We wrote off Kuhn last season and look at where he's at now. If Idah is at the same crossroads come the end of the season then fair enough, but we should just be backing the boy in the meantime. I still believe he'll fully come good.