Saidy Janko

Janko is rank rotten.
People are fooled by his young age and athletisim, but trust me he cannot play the game!

 

He is absolute dog *. Doesn't look like a footballer. Always seems to take several touches to get the ball under 'control'.

 

Fantastic athlete. Doesn't look like a football player. Not the answer if Lustig spends much of the season injured - which sadly I fear he will.

 

He's basically a younger Ambrose. A good athlete but terrible reactions and no brain.

 

Nowhere near Celtic class. You could barely hear our away support in the second half but you sure as * heard them all going daft when we were chasing the game, and instead of going forward or playing a forward pass in plenty of space , he turned and went back again. Right at that away corner, punter's going daft..

Sums him up for me. Offers literally nothing..

 

Give him a chance, Utd rated him highly and he's just back from a bad injury, judge him in a few weeks when he's had a few games and is fully fit.

 

How many Ambroses have we actually got ? :smiley-laughing002: Boyata is another one.

Fisher or Ralston for me, Lustig is finished. Or buy a new right back.

 

Punt him.

 

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Doesn't look the same player that won YouthPOTY at Man Utd.

 

SAIDY JANKO has spoken for the first time of the devastation he felt when his first season as a Celtic player was ruined by the only serious injury he has suffered in his entire career.

The defender was thought a year ago to be a perfect signing for the club. The Swiss was a former captain of Manchester United’s reserves so arrived in Glasgow with a good grounding in the game, he was 19, fast and desperate for first-team football. So far so good.

But when the season began his form wasn’t great and then a serious of set-backs reduced his campaign to just ten games for Celtic, and many of them came as a substitute. If it had not been for bad luck, Janko would have had no luck whatsoever.


He has returned to this pre-season fit and raring to go. It is fair to say the right-back has a lot of catching up to do. The Celtic supporters haven’t really seem enough of him to make up their minds about his merits as a footballer.

All Janko himself is looking for is a chance to show he should not be put in the same category as the far too many who have come and gone at Celtic Park in recent years without making even the slightest mark.

“For me personally, last season was very hard,” he admitted. “Football is everything and it was my first serious injury but my family, friends and the club helped me get through it. I am just looking forward to the new season.”

“In training I got kicked and some of the ligaments went in my ankle. I was out for five months but they said it would heal naturally in eight to 12 weeks. It didn’t, I had to have the operation and I was out again for eight to 12 weeks. That was the problem.

“I was devastated. I was doing well. I got a few starts and I was also doing well with the national team. It was very frustrating but it is good to be back.”

Janko has looked rusty in the games so far but will need to get himself ready because, as it stands, Mikael Lustig will start in central defence against Lincoln Red Imps so the Swiss under-21 international will be required at right-back.


“I am fully fit,” he stressed. “Obviously, everybody needs to get their match fitness and that is why we have had so many friendlies because these qualifiers are so important. The main thing is to get the fitness back now.”

It is a lonely business being an injured footballer, especially if they are living abroad. Janko is still only a kid and to be faced with hours of rehab in a strange place would not have been much fun. Thankfully for him, support was at hand.

“Everybody helped,” he said. “Celtic is a big family and everyone is supportive, especially the foreign players like Dedryck Boyata, Nadir Ciftci and whoever else helped me through it.

“My family were the main people who helped me through it. They are still in Zurich but my girlfriend came over after it happened and then my mum and dad, along with my brother.”

Brendan Rodgers has name-dropped Janko a few times over the summer. In many ways he is the manager’s type of defender in that he has pace, stamina and likes to get forward.

Janko’s Celtic career is starting all over again under the new manager, who has likened him to a train, and you sense he is determined to show the club were not wrong to offer him a four-year deal last summer.

"This is a fresh start for me at Celtic,” he said. “That's the case for everyone, to be honest. The manager wants to take us to the Champions League and everyone is giving their all. So far, things are looking good. It motivates me personally and I know that is the case for a few of the other guys as well.

 

Still not gonna write him off.

Got great potential, need to see much more defensively from him though but that pace and power he has when in full flow is frightening. Also has some skill. With Tierney though you can see that's he's got that right balance of attackig and defending all at once not leaving any space behind him for the opposition to exploit, this is where Janko fails. Leaves far too much space behind him getting caught out when needing to defend, but he's still young and may learn under Brendan hopefully. If he doesn't though, he'll be like a rich mans Tavernier.

 

I'm not going to judge him after a * pre season, he's back from a big injury and should be given time to settle in. *'s only 21 in october so plenty of time to develop aswell.

 

Also worth noting that Brendan has played him at LB a couple times now which shows his versatility, could be good cover for that position if Tierney got an injury.

 

I think theres a player there.
He was good today, against a tough test. Tbought he showed better than a few others. Fast and strong.
Continually disrupted last season, stuttered and never quite got going. I would genuinely stick with Jamko at right back and i feel a prolonged run will do him the world of good.

 

Pace to burn and powerful.

Needs to get his head up and start developing an end product, but other that, I like what I see of wee Carlton Banks.

 

He defended quite well but still doesn't do near enough offensively. Needs to start taking defenders on and whipping the ball in.

 

I probably sound boring but I do not rate him in the slightest..

Really, really poor (football) player in my honest opinion..

 

Today was the first time I've been even slightly impressed with him. Really needs to work on his end product though.

 

I'll slash ye, ye *