Exclusive video footage of trialists

I can hold my two widow makers, my right and left and hold them up so far and woof profusely and exclaim that the transfer window for us Bhoys has not been exactly blown open by humongous ticker tape multi headline winning transfer targets as of yet.

The big names have been linked, well some have if you can call them big names, but yet we wait to see which new Bhoys can grace the back of our jerseys. I have I once exuded that long gone are the days of £6 million signings and we have to rely on our scouting network to find us gems on the cheap.

We have not broke the bank as yet. Victor Wanyama cost a cool £1 million spondoolix and as of yet in the friendlies he has played in he has seemed comfortable but we will probably see more of him tomorrow night maybe in the twitterfest friendly against Wolves.

Adam Matthews and Kelvin Wilson have come in on free transfers, which to mine keen eye seems a great couple of catches already. Kelvin seems very athletic and with the right nurturing will develop into a very well established centre half. Matthews I have not seen enough of to pass real judgement as of yet, he looks decent from what I have seen but the cliche phrase of the jury is out comes to mind, for now anyways.

Which all leads me to the excessive trialists that we either have or have not had on board at Lennoxtown and riding the first team pony around in friendlies and the likes.

I have scoured the online media world as such and come up with a few great dink-dank-doo splendid videos of our current trialists that we may see more of IF they pass the test.

First stop Stipe. If you have not seen him or heard of him by now you are maybe not a football connoisseur or just new to football maybe, who knows. Whatever your level of football knowledge sit back and have a look back at the goalkeeping exerts of  Stipe Pletikosa in action: –

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Stipe looks a bit handy, but it has been told that Mr Lennon will be casting his keen eye over Stipe in tomorrow nights friendly against McCarthys Wolves. With Wolves having arguably more attacking talent than Cardiff, Stipe may be tested more by Doyle, Ebanks-Blake and Fletcher. I would expect a full decision to be made by next week at the latest. Lennon may want another look when we face Inter Milan this coming weekend.

Enough talk of the progressive conversation about the goalkeeping void and straight onto the ‘Do we have enough firepower up front’ debate. This debate has been partially answered by a few key trialists that are in our camp at the moment.

If you ever wanted a striker with a nickname that could strike fear into opponents (Other than Big Bad John of course) it would be Killer Mphela. The South African born, bred and based predator Katelgo Mphela is a striker that has been plying his trade for the effervescently named Mamelodi Sundowns and at 26 years of age he has bags of goalscoring seasons ahead of him.

For his current club he has scored a recorded 33 goals in 70 games which is not a bad goals to games ratio for a striker. His goalscoring record states he is doing his job but can he do a job for Celtic? We have yet to see him in the hoops but here is what Killer Mphela is capable of: –

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Killer Mphela is not the only striker we have on trial, big Dolph Mjallby let loose that we have once Celtic linked Slovakian Milos Lacny also on board and on trial. Not much is known about this young player but I have managed to seek out a video of him in action and from what I can see he looks nippy and a very eager 23 year old, have a look for yourself Bhoys and Ghirls: –

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Well Bhoys and Ghirls its over to you.

I know its easy to comment on seeing all the best bits in video form but what do you think?

Is Mphela Celtic material?

Can Stipe stop the goals leaking?

Can Lacny help out our lack of extra firepower?

Comment as you wish…