Daniel Cummings

Callum McGregor made his debut 11 years ago. Tierney was 10 years ago. Ralston was 9 years ago (if you want to include him). Even Welsh was 5 years ago.

 

The fact Welsh was 20 before he made his debut for us is mad!
And he's one of the most recent "success" examples we can give to the youth.

Aye, stick around at Celtic and we may give you a game when you're 20, by the time you're 25 you'll have a total of about 42 games for the club and we will eventually ship you out on loan.

Or, as most players figured out, just leave when you're 18 and a half decent club comes calling.

It's not the money, it's the experience and opportunities.

Doak, better at Liverpool to get the loan to Middlesbrough. If he stayed here and we tried to loan him out, he'd be playing for * Arbroath or Greenock Morton.


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The domestic game in Scotland is truly *.

Unless your part of a youth system of a SPL team who forever just bounce around mid table and never really do anything, you're unlikely to get any real game time.

In the case of Celtic it's even worse, because clearly we are doing something right in finding talent because some of the clubs coming in of recent years have been crazy. Which really leaves even the most diehard Celtic lad struggling to turn down the chance.

As they will likely get far more in wages and as was pointed out in previous post, is going from * about in the lowland leagues which is a joke, getting loaned out to Scottish League two sides - to going to a well renowned youth system and likely getting better weekly competition in the case of EPL 2 or getting loaned to English League one/two sides which all in all is a much higher level than lowlands.

Or.

They getting poached to go mainland Europe.

Because whatever it is, unless suddenly the academy churns out a Yamal level talent that we had no choice but play them, then you aren't getting game time for us because of the unbalanced demand of success we have