Marco Tilio

This is the one area where the board is actually good at and the fact that we actually are going to not just sell Tilio but basically for the say 1.5m euro that we ridiculously paid for him is actually pretty remarkable.

 

Great..

 

Rapid’s winger scouting has been unreal last few years. Guaranteed Tilio sold next summer £6 mil after 15 goals 15 assists for them

 

He’s better than he ever showed for Celtic but not Celtic level atm. Austria may well suit him.

 

Failed his medical apparently


Issue with his left foot

 

Which ones that?

 

The wee one

 

You pretty much got that spot on lol.

How much did we pay for him, anyone know?

 

We paid about 1.5m euro so if his is confirmed we basically have managed to get back what we paid for him.

 

Probably made a bit on him fees wise by time you factor in the 2 loan fees plus the transfer

 

To be fair, these cheap punts actually don’t bother us at all. Been loaned out his whole career with us. Wages will have been a % or covered by Melbourne.

It’s low risk high reward. There is always the chance they perform and we make a huge amount in comparison to the initial fee. And now in football unless someone leaves for free usually we get our money back.

only time it’s actually affected us is when it’s come to amount of international loans this year. Which then thankfully Rapid just bought him anyway

 

The most similar one to Tilio the cheap punt, infact on paper a lot worse a punt, was Rogic.

Only played in the same league, the A League. Had something bout them but not been amazing, one of them, was only playing due to winning a Nike tournament. Not even a football one as well, Futsal.

Both got injured early on Celtic career, brief glimpses, loaned back to the A League.

One hasn’t worked. One we absolutely * adore in Rogic.

I’ll never complain about the ‘punts’ the ones we think is a long shot maybe. Rogic is perfect example. There’s two others that stand out as great examples as well stick in my memory - Didier Agathe. £60k. A striker at Hibs for what 5 games? And then converted to full back for us, couldn’t actually pass a medical but O’Neill didn’t care about that. And * him as a RB at the top level, had no right to be what he was. Still the best at slide tackles I’ve ever seen for us.

The last example that sticks in my mind, Victor Wanyama. Signed in the hope he could cover at CB, had no thought of him actually being a midfielder. His first couple games could barely control or pass a ball. Used to be made to warm up and at half time train with Majstorivic to win aerial duels. Then it clicked, very suddenly for him. And he’s a player never ever been replaced