Daizen Maeda

£25m is nothing, especially if he is the difference in us making the Champions League. Only sell if he states he wants to go, otherwise, he is worth more to us here.

 

Daizen is in his prime; Doak is a young man with considerable resale value.

 

That's not how this works. Arguably, it should be; but it's not.

 

Be a slick piece of business, bring him in on a free, flip him for a quick 10-20m before he has a chance to get injured, Inamura poty at lb.

 

As always, if the man gets a good offer and wants to go, fair dos. £25 mil seems to be the going rate for our top talent so not a penny less.

The world keeps on turning despite the absolute state some pathetic wee * get themselves into

 

I realize that.

But, if the board want to keep Brendan, they may have to side with what he wants. In an ideal world, we wouldn't be in qualifiers, so I am a bit wary of changing the team too much before then.

 

The world does keep on turning; but it gets tiresome losing at least some of your better players every year. Fair enough if Arsenal or Liverpool or Bayern (etc) come in for someone- it's always been the case in every era that that they can take players; but watching the likes of Southampton, Bournemouth, Crystal Palace and Brentford circling every summer gets very tiresome after the first decade or so.

 

If we lost Maeda and Kuhn in this window then we have lost Maeda 33 goals 11 assists and in Kuhn 21 goals and 15 assists.

Maybe not one player wins it but without their goals it would be extremely hard. But I honest don’t see us winning it if he’s sold cause we won’t replace him.

 

Course it does, it's *. What can you do though? Greet and moan about it on the Internet, on a continuous loop for weeks at a time?

I prefer to let guys who've put their heart and soul into being a Celtic player follow their path, and look to see who's the next one to step up. Enjoy the ride.

 

I don't think Brendan intends to stay and I don't think the board want to keep him as they want someone who won't compete with them for power. That was DD who wanted Rodgers.

I think normal service will return again regarding managers, which will mean rolling the dice on someone relatively unproven, as we have almost every time since WGS (Mowbray, Lenny 1.0, Ronny and Ange), the exceptions being Lenny's second stint and DD personally getting Rodgers in twice. Our signings will reflect that IMO.

 

We’ve survived before


We will be absolutely fine

 

Greeting and moaning's more my cup of tea during the window TBH.

I'll do "making the best of it", "getting behind the team" and "enjoying the ride" after the window has shut.

 

See ye on the other side

 

Kieran Tierney has witnessed plenty of top players in the past six years. English Premier League, Spain’s La Liga, the Champions League. He’s rubbed shoulders with some of the great and the good of world football.

Yet one of his new teammates at Celtic has caught his eye. You could probably guess who, the Duracell Bunny of Scottish football that is Daizen Maeda, last season’s player of the year and the Glasgow side’s current talisman.


You think, ‘how can he run like that all the time’? said Tierney. “But he's actually like that in training as well and, being away for six years, I've not seen anyone that can sprint like that, consistently sprint and press.”



High praise indeed for the Japanese, who scored 33 goals and provided 12 assists in 51 matches last season. He will be ably supported by Tierney in the upcoming campaign after the fellow 28-year-old signed a five-year deal to return back to Celtic following spells at Arsenal and Real Sociedad.



Tierney may have arrived on a free transfer but he is undoubtedly the marquee signing of the summer for Celtic. A shoo-in as first-choice left-back, he prospect of him and Maeda linking up down that flank has plenty of supporters salivating. They combined to good effect in a 2-0 win over Sporting CP on Wednesday and may get the chance to link up again in Saturday’s home friendly against Newcastle United.

“As a full-back, it’s the amount of times that he helps you defensively as well,” continued Tierney, who watched on from afar while away given he is a huge Celtic fan. “So far I've only been a couple of games, but he’s a joy to play with, so I'd say he's the one [that has stood out the most]. Not that he's surprised me because I watched him for six years, but the fact that he's so consistent in his sprints is incredible.



You want any winger that you play with, or a centre-back or a centre-mid, the people around you on the pitch, you want to build a connection on and off the park with them, so we'll get there.

“I've watched him play. Even though he might never have seen me, but I know how he plays. I know how him and Greg [Taylor, previous left-back] worked, so I can take from that and learn well. If I'm in this position, I've seen Greg and stuff do this kind of move. So it's not a brand new system to me.

“Some aspects are new and the role that I'm asked to play, but watching them for the last few years under the gaffer, I kind of know what he expects from his left-back as well."



Even in the searing heat of the Algarve, where Celtic faced Sporting during the week, Maeda refused to rest. A clip of him doing press-ups after playing an hour in 30C temperatures went viral. Tierney was more than impressed. "Me and Jamesy [Forrest] were sitting on the bench having a recovery shake after, thinking how hot was that?” smiled Tierney. “And he's doing there doing press-ups. He's a machine. A total machine.

 

Totally agree. It's vital for us to keep Rodgers. But the only way that happens IMHO is if we actually back him in this transfer window which so far we haven't. If we are not clearly a stronger team once this transfer window closes I think Rodgers leaves at the end of the season if we do get stronger I think there is a very good chance Rodgers then stays.