January, another impressive month. Taking 4 wins out of 5, and keeping the month loss free. Haven't really been banging the goals in, whilst conceding still.... Ever since my praise of
Amido Balde, his form declined, but luckily one of the new boys that i brought in
Stevie May, has picked it up. Unfortunetly didn't manage to sign a strong defender, but i did manage to vastly improve my midfield and front line. In fact made some big signings i wouldn't of expected to have obtained so early in the game.
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There was only one permanent transfer, in
Stevie May, 3rd signing of Scottish Nationality this season ( which i never do).. The rest were all on loan
Abou Diaby,
Oscar Hiljemark,
Lucas Andersen and
Lucas Ocampos. All of which i feel are great signings for a club like
Celtic, and exactly the kind of names i would like to boost the side for the
Champions League. I am most excited about
Hiljemark and
Ocampos.
Oscar Hiljemark was one of my main players in the same story last season, and if he is the same in this game as the last, i am going to have a world class player in my midfield. We have the option of buying him for 6m, which i will try and find a way of funding. 2 other players that were close to signing were
Raul Garcia of
Atletico Madrid, and
Diego Buonanotte from
Granada, but they fell thru at the last moment.
RESULTS
Celtic 1-0 Partick Thistle
(Gauld)
St. Mirren 0-2 Celtic
(May, Commons)
Celtic 1-1 Kilmarnock
(Boerrigter)
Celtic 2-1 Motherwell
(Kayal, Boerrigter)
Hibernian 0-1 Celtic
(Forrest)
PLAYER OF THE MONTH
Derk Boerrigter
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In actual fact
'The Boer' has been a stand-out performer keeping
Samaras out when coming back from injury, but other players had just eclipsed his performances, but this month the boy will get his recognition for his work.... There was only 2 goals from him, but his constant threat from the left wing, shows how important he is especially the way he is playing. Although wee
James Forrest has been getting a few goals from the right, out main plays are coming from
Boerrigter down the left hand side. If he keeps it up we may see
Samaras on the transfer list come the end of the season, as we need a cash boost!!!
So were approaching our first leg of the
CL knockout stages, and i am more confident with a decent result now that i have managed to pull in an extra 5 very decent players. The squad depth has got alot better and i can start moving un-wanted/un-needed players to the reserves. As well as signing a few players we manageed to get rid of a couple.
Kris Commons is off to
Bolton at the end of the season on a free and we managed to Get 2m for
Teemu Pukki who was just playing like an absolute tool!!!! I failed to mentioned these departures in the above transfer update, but just proves how important they were in this seasons challenge for silverware... I basically forgot that they went!!!! So keep tuned, we have the
Chelsea games coming up and hopefully next months update will come with a draw for the next round of
CL knockout.
HAIL, HAIL