Season 6
Record transfers everywhere as we try to take the next step
SPFL Pre Season Prices
We are now slight favorites for the first time. Celtic have only 3 outfield players, all midfielders in the media dream team. Rangers, Hibs and St Mirrens odds are stupid!
Season Targets
SPL - Win League
Champions League - Knockout phase CL or EL
Scottish Cup - Win
League Cup - Win
Now we have another title its time to take a step forward domestically. We sucked in both cups last year and this time nothing less than the treble will do. Not going nuts about Champions League wins yet. I'd still consider making the knockouts as an achievement.
Friendly's
We drew one won the other 5. Not good enough!
Transfers
Our biggest window ever! For the second transfer window in a row i broke the club and national transfer record and between record the clubs highest sale twice as well as the nations highest transfer fee
In
George Armstrong - DC *Scottish record £38.5m
Of all the u21 British defenders non rates higher than Armstrong and it does seem that £38m is a massive overpay its just the Brexit world in this game. And if you think thats a lot of cash the only reason i got him was due to Newcastle predictably getting relegated and his relegation fee kicked in. In January i couldnt even get negotiations under £60m! Astonishingly he's not in my plans yet and due to our depth at center back i've loaned him out for his first season!
Marcelo Maia - ATT
I had Maia tapped up in January as i was expecting to loose one of my 3 star strikers and the loaned players were not good enough to make a impact. He'll start up to with king Dejan
Rogelinho - GK
Like Maia i targeted the long term Brazilian U21 No1 in January but could not get him to sign a deal having just moved to Mineiro. I rate him higher than Strachan but for the first 6 months they can share the no1 jersey
Kids
Only 3 this summer.
Djurovic could become a top class player. I searched through a few of my usual filters and nobody has ever appeared as oftern as Djurovic.
Julian Lopez will see more first team action than i had planned due to some unplanned sales. And
Stojanovic was bought about 2 seasons ago but could only move now.
Out
Phase 2 of the squad clear out seen 8 players leave, 4 planned 4 unplanned but all of the 4 unplanned are far from disasters
Alexandru Nedelea broke every Scottish transfer record in a £59m move to Real Madrid. With our depth i was hoping to see a £30m+ bid for him but out of nowhere Real arrived with the first bid and i accepted. He never scored as much as i thought he would but his ave rating was through the roof. More of a strain to sell was
Mario Sanz. He came from Bilbao in 2019 as the long term star of my midfield and developed really well. sadly he became the victim of space, being from Europe and a fantastic offer from Spurs. £30m was the highest fee i ever received in this save, that lasted almost 2 weeks. He leaves after over 140 games for the dons.
McBurney i pray will be the very last time a minimum fee sings me in the ***. He was finally coming back to Aberdeen to have a defense built around him when Dortmund challenge his pittence of a minimum fee, his value as almost trebled already. Following this i checked every major players contract for min fees and now i hope the only ones left are players i'd be happy to see move on for the price in there contracts.
Filip Krejci was the last player i had not planned to sell that left and amazingly to Celtic! He was in the final 12 months of his contract and the only reason i'd agree to move him to a rival is if they pay far more than the rest. Celtic did and that is that. The 4 planned moves
Veiga, Gustafsson, Rasic and Murray failed to make an impact or were at an age where they had no chance of breaking into the main 25 man squad. Well except Gustafsson he was a **** bag from the moment he signed on the dotted line.
SPL Transfer
Celtic only make 1 major signing after Krejcl. Rangers make two very smart signing that would make me jelous. Almost
Aberdeen Starting x1
Youth and loan players for the future.
