Season 7 - Celtic
After the treble im in a very familiar situation of having the Champions League to really focus on the rest is just going through the motions, Until a job comes up.
Pre Season 2023/4
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We had tough games against Man City, Dortmund and Lyon but we won every game.
Pre Season Prices
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No real shocks in the top 5. The two promoted teams with Dundee Utd are favorites to go down.
Celtic Squad
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Teenagers Mangiarotti, Morales & recent teen Coll are the only 3* players. 4* players dominate the midfield while we hald a galaxy of 3.5* players waiting to evolve.
Celtic Transfers
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A far quieter summer. Rashford at 25 & Cuisance 23 are the only players out of there 20s
IN
Nahuel Morales - ATT
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Had a real conflict of dilema when going for a striker with only 13 for finishing but his other stats sold me
Emanuel Matheu - DC
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Hold on for £6m i can get a player with 3 Argentina caps!!! Sign me up. Should go right into the starting 11
Mickael Cuisance - MC
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Without a doubt in my mind this is the best player to grace Parkhead since Henrik Larsson! Only 1 summer ago the closest i could get to this quality of player was a 35 year old Vidal. Now Celtic have another 3 cap wonder, and we know how amazing that French team is in FM18
Marcus Rashford joins me on loan, just like season 3 at Aston Villa. Youngsters
David Mackay & Prodanovic join with limited 1st team action now but buys for future Celtic managers
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Out
Three major players from last season are moved on. 1st out was
Fran Tudor who i had earmarked to sell in the summer but before i ever got that far Watford came in for him and we some how got £14m for a player that was going to be at best 2nd choice this season. Next up is long time midfielder
Stuart Armstrong. Relegated to 3rd choice last season and away to fall behind Cuisance in the depth chart his demand to move at 30 was more than reasonable and the money we got for him pushed through the Matheu and Rashford deals. Our final sale was a bit of a risk.
Luke McGee had to play the second half of last season with Mangiarotti's injury so i hope his long term injury has not put him back in development and he is ready to be No 1 and does not get injured again!
SPL Transfers
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Only Celtic spent over £1m on a player, Except Dundee Utd who bought a Celtic youth player. Rangers did sign a pile of players on a free including a former RB of mine Mattia De Sciglio, Aberdeen, Hibs and Hearts follow a similar model with less spending, Hearts aside
World Transfers
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Ousmane Dembele's total transfer fee's now hit £351m as he join Man Citys squad of talent with the other English teams spending a reasonable amount with no other massive deals.
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Older players will remember Shearer coming home to break the world transfer record at £15m, almost 10 times that fee was needed for Mbappe but look at the plus side. Monaco made a £23m profit off him and get him back for his best years. Juve sell 1/2 of the 6 man strikerforce i put together for £140m with a return of £203m while keeping 3 players, Real Madrid who had a +72 goal difference bought two of those strikers. Sneaking in down the page is Gian Donnarumma joining Man City for £42.5m and he is probably the best keeper in the world at this stage. Former Villa loan stars Theo Hernandez & Munir move clubs for a combined fee of £100m