Our lives were brightened by a little bit of insight into the workings of the inner beast of Celtic. Our manager told newstalk.ie:
“We go and try and find the diamonds that maybe get overlooked. We certainly found a couple last year in the likes of Gary Hooper, Beram Kayal, Emilio Izaguirre and Kris Commons. It’s difficult to replicate that but we’ll keep pursuing those markets.
With a modern club like ourselves, we have a great recruitment office where [I can say] the type of player I am looking for. So I will go in and say, for example with Izaguirre: ‘I am looking for a left back’.
Then our recruitment team come up with three or four options. That may be from players they’ve seen themselves, or have been recommended by an agent.
Then we go and do some homework and research on the player. We look at DVDs and then go and watch them in person.”
“Then the buck stops with me. The backroom staff and myself have to say yes or no. That’s the process that goes on 12 months of the year, 24 hours of the day.
We know who to blame for Darryl Murphy then….
Previously on the blog….click the picture below
Extra Time.
Gary Medel (Chile) gets a handful of Giovani Dos Santos (Mexico) as he challenges for the ball. Chile v Mexico Copa America