Greg Taylor

So many times

 

Has he ever played well against decent opposition?

 

I find it difficult to criticise the guy personally as he’s an honest player who has good attributes and definitely contributes domestically.

Is he the best left back that Celtic can possibly attain given the resources we have? Obviously not, but that’s not his fault.

Lacks basically everything you need at European level. Pace, strength, positional awareness, ability to beat a man. Terribly exposed again unfortunately.

 

This is a good example how group dynamics work in this forum. The last few weeks you'd thought he is world class Yesterday was a reality check for us and him.

He is brilliant for the league but people need to stop telling themselves he is European class when he has a good run domestically. I hope he stays but only if he can accept his role as a backup. Us neglecting the LB position issue for the last fee year made him a first team player and, judging from his contract expectations it got to his head and he now thinks he has first team class. Hope he takes yesterday as a warning and accepts his role as a backup. If we finally strenghten. Well, if, I know
No ill fealing thought if he wants to go away to play first team football, he nearly always gave his best when playing!

 

Time to give Valle a run.....we all know what Taylor can and more importantly, can't do.

 

Confidence was shot within minutes and totally crumbled.

 

Would happily have him signing a new contract domestically as you can tell he's a leader in that group and he's very good for how we play in the league.
However not once have I ever said he's good enough for the champions league. Horribly exposed last night like he has been on numerous occasions.

 

He's been excellent domestically..

But, I'm actually in two minds on whether we should give him a new contract.

I would have been happy to have his as backup but the trouble lies, when you need to play the backup in games like last night..

The inability to recruit quality at LB since KT left has been a disgrace..

Again, we look to January for a LB, of quality.

 

I think we should renew his contract. It would cost millions to just get a like for like to cover domestic games, we’d then need even more to improve the standard at left back. Keeping him makes good economic sense.

 

We need better though and it should be treated like any other position when it comes to strengthening there..

I'm honestly in two minds about him..

One things for sure we need a better starting LB than Taylor.

 

Taylor is a good player, but he’s not a top class player capable of regularly competing against Europe’s best. That can be said for almost all of our squad unless further results prove otherwise.

Still want him to extend his stay with us and still want to find a better left back going forward.

 

I think it was telling that he got hooked at half time. I expect Valle to start at the weekend with the view to making the spot his own this season. Taylor has made himself undroppable recently, but last night once again showed us that he just isn’t the answer against that level.