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Squad; Post-transfer window discussion
Topic Started: 14 Nov 2017, 03:50 PM (112,497 Views)
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Actually, had totally forgotten that the English transfer window is open between 17 May and 9 August this year after their rule change. Pretty sure the EFL opted to align with the Premier League too.

So compared with previous years where it has dragged on a bit, any activity involving English clubs should see a bit more movement earlier in the window for some of the players with only a year left, or someone like Dembele for example.
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Right back should be the number 1 priority IMO, I think we've really suffered from Lustig's lack of form / injuries. 3 at the back with two wing-backs looks good on paper but in reality it hasn't been very effective. When Lustig's in the team, and playing well, everyone seems to benefit from the 4 at the back
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Right back should be the number 1 priority IMO, I think we've really suffered from Lustig's lack of form / injuries. 3 at the back with two wing-backs looks good on paper but in reality it hasn't been very effective. When Lustig's in the team, and playing well, everyone seems to benefit from the 4 at the back
100 per cent

Unless we're signing several much better centre halves, right back is the priority

Imagine 3 of our dumplings at the back against real Madrid or man city next season... :twitch:
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There's a solution to that.

Use the January window as our priority transfer opportunity, or at least begin our scouting and discussions much earlier.

We scrape around at the end of the window, because that's what we do.

Jack Hendry missed Dubai, because we refused to meet Dundee's valuation early in the window & then farted about for ages, to eventually pay the asking price anyway.
The January window is not a good value window to be operating in. Far fewer players want to move, there's less than half the amount of time to get something done, and the brinkmanship from clubs and agents moves up a few notches affecting fees and salaries.

In short, we will never bring in as many players in January as we do in July/August for all of these reasons.

We can use January for short term necessities like GK cover when Gordon gets injured. Or we can use it to bed someone in over half a season with a view to them being settled by the time of the qualifiers.

The fact that Jack Hendry missed a week's trip to Dubai is not what is going to make or break his Celtic career. In fact, it is not in the top 20 things that might do so. People may not agree with him as a signing, but the start to his Celtic career is not a consequence of missing Dubai. Compper went to Dubai and has played less, partly because he was injured out there.

The make or break games in our season for both the Board and the Fans (albeit for different reasons) are before most of us get back from our summer holidays.

Therefore we should not go in to these games unprepared. Which means we need to have a solid squad with cover in all positions in June. That in turn means recruiting better in January if you have areas with clear deficiencies that you haven't sorted in the summer.

As matters stand we will be going in to the qualifiers with a defence that isn't up to the task. What are the chances of signing enough quality players early in the summer window and bedding them in before the qualifiers? Previous experience says very little.

We need a right back and two good quality centre backs. We also need a back up keeper (I'd be happy with securing Bain) and a back up left back. The worrying thing is that I am fairly sure I posted the same last summer and again in December.
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The January window is not a good value window to be operating in. Far fewer players want to move, there's less than half the amount of time to get something done, and the brinkmanship from clubs and agents moves up a few notches affecting fees and salaries.

In short, we will never bring in as many players in January as we do in July/August for all of these reasons.

We can use January for short term necessities like GK cover when Gordon gets injured. Or we can use it to bed someone in over half a season with a view to them being settled by the time of the qualifiers.

The fact that Jack Hendry missed a week's trip to Dubai is not what is going to make or break his Celtic career. In fact, it is not in the top 20 things that might do so. People may not agree with him as a signing, but the start to his Celtic career is not a consequence of missing Dubai. Compper went to Dubai and has played less, partly because he was injured out there.

The make or break games in our season for both the Board and the Fans (albeit for different reasons) are before most of us get back from our summer holidays.

Therefore we should not go in to these games unprepared. Which means we need to have a solid squad with cover in all positions in June. That in turn means recruiting better in January if you have areas with clear deficiencies that you haven't sorted in the summer.

As matters stand we will be going in to the qualifiers with a defence that isn't up to the task. What are the chances of signing enough quality players early in the summer window and bedding them in before the qualifiers? Previous experience says very little.

We need a right back and two good quality centre backs. We also need a back up keeper (I'd be happy with securing Bain) and a back up left back. The worrying thing is that I am fairly sure I posted the same last summer and again in December.
Sviatchenko's loan aside, all of the defensive players that got us to the Champions League last year, despite apparently not being up to the task, are still at the club.

We qualified for the Champions League on our last two attempts. It's not exactly being unprepared, is it? We put up five clean sheets out of six in qualifying, and had a 5-0 lead going into the second leg of the final qualifier.

I am under no illusion how difficult it is, and that statistically speaking we are almost certain to fall at one of the hurdles again soon.

The points about the business that is possible in January are valid. Far less is possible, and that which is will only be done at inflated prices.

No first pick central defender under contract that is having a stellar season in a decent European league is moving in January unless a premium is paid. Because the likelihood is he doesn't want to move and neither does his club.

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The make or break games in our season for both the Board and the Fans (albeit for different reasons) are before most of us get back from our summer holidays.

Therefore we should not go in to these games unprepared. Which means we need to have a solid squad with cover in all positions in June. That in turn means recruiting better in January if you have areas with clear deficiencies that you haven't sorted in the summer.

As matters stand we will be going in to the qualifiers with a defence that isn't up to the task. What are the chances of signing enough quality players early in the summer window and bedding them in before the qualifiers? Previous experience says very little.

We need a right back and two good quality centre backs. We also need a back up keeper (I'd be happy with securing Bain) and a back up left back. The worrying thing is that I am fairly sure I posted the same last summer and again in December.
Sviatchenko's loan aside, all of the defensive players that got us to the Champions League last year, despite apparently not being up to the task, are still at the club.

We qualified for the Champions League on our last two attempts. It's not exactly being unprepared, is it? We put up five clean sheets out of six in qualifying, and had a 5-0 lead going into the second leg of the final qualifier.

I am under no illusion how difficult it is, and that statistically speaking we are almost certain to fall at one of the hurdles again soon.

The points about the business that is possible in January are valid. Far less is possible, and that which is will only be done at inflated prices.

No first pick central defender under contract that is having a stellar season in a decent European league is moving in January unless a premium is paid. Because the likelihood is he doesn't want to move and neither does his club.

A 5-0 lead we nearly threw away with kamikaze defending. A defence that looked seriously weak in most subsequent European games even when the opposition wasn't PSG or Bayern.

You seem to keep saying that the defence isn't that bad. It's an accident waiting to happen especially if the opposition are up for it and decide to press us and not allow easy possession. Boyata (who has returned to the form of his first season) will either have to sign a new contract or be sold. Simunovic - whose form has fallen off a cliff - almost certainly will be sold. Something is clearly not right with regards to Compper.

We have no one to challenge either full back and with Lustig not having his best season, we have chosen to play Ajer and Hendry there rather than Gamboa.

Given injuries (remember this season's qualifying campaign) we will probably have to sign at least three defenders by the middle of August who can play from the get go if needed. Our defensive recruitment over the past 12 months has been dreadful. You say they will cost a premium. We had money especially given the sale of VVD by Southampton.

Edited by Corky Buczek, 25 Apr 2018, 02:28 PM.
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Sviatchenko's loan aside, all of the defensive players that got us to the Champions League last year, despite apparently not being up to the task, are still at the club.

We qualified for the Champions League on our last two attempts. It's not exactly being unprepared, is it? We put up five clean sheets out of six in qualifying, and had a 5-0 lead going into the second leg of the final qualifier.

I am under no illusion how difficult it is, and that statistically speaking we are almost certain to fall at one of the hurdles again soon.

The points about the business that is possible in January are valid. Far less is possible, and that which is will only be done at inflated prices.

No first pick central defender under contract that is having a stellar season in a decent European league is moving in January unless a premium is paid. Because the likelihood is he doesn't want to move and neither does his club.

A 5-0 lead we nearly threw away with kamikaze defending. A defence that looked seriously weak in most subsequent European games even when the opposition wasn't PSG or Bayern.

You seem to keep saying that the defence isn't that bad. It's an accident waiting to happen especially if the opposition are up for it and decide to press us and not allow easy possession. Boyata (who has returned to the form of his first season) will either have to sign a new contract or be sold. Simunovic - whose form has fallen off a cliff - almost certainly will be sold. Something is clearly not right with regards to Compper.

We have no one to challenge either full back and with Lustig not having his best season, we have chosen to play Ajer and Hendry there rather than Gamboa.

Given injuries (remember this season's qualifying campaign) we will probably have to sign at least three defenders by the middle of August who can play from the get go if needed. Our defensive recruitment over the past 12 months has been dreadful. You say they will cost a premium. We had money especially given the sale of VVD by Southampton.

The point is about what is possible in the January window, and I don't think people are actually aware how difficult we find it. The part of the market we operate in, our limitations are especially acute in January. That's the reality and that's what is at issue in this discussion. We've got money, yes, but we've got a wage structure and the type of signing that appears to be demanded in here, will largely be beyond us. Not just because we won't push the boat out, but because the vast majority of players in this bracket want nothing to do with coming to play in Scotland.

We went on the 4000 mile journey to Central Asia to play on a plastic pitch 5-0 up from the first leg, with Boyata, Sviatchenko and Simunovic injured. At the time, our three first choice centre backs. This is having recorded nothing but clean sheets up to that point.

It got testy in a 20 minute second half spell where we lost the plot, then recovered. Nearly threw away? Even at 4-1 we needed to lose another three goals in 20 minutes of football to lose the tie. As it was, we ended up scoring two, and ended up with a four goal aggregate win, the joint highest margin of any of the ten Play Off matches.
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A 5-0 lead we nearly threw away with kamikaze defending. A defence that looked seriously weak in most subsequent European games even when the opposition wasn't PSG or Bayern.

You seem to keep saying that the defence isn't that bad. It's an accident waiting to happen especially if the opposition are up for it and decide to press us and not allow easy possession. Boyata (who has returned to the form of his first season) will either have to sign a new contract or be sold. Simunovic - whose form has fallen off a cliff - almost certainly will be sold. Something is clearly not right with regards to Compper.

We have no one to challenge either full back and with Lustig not having his best season, we have chosen to play Ajer and Hendry there rather than Gamboa.

Given injuries (remember this season's qualifying campaign) we will probably have to sign at least three defenders by the middle of August who can play from the get go if needed. Our defensive recruitment over the past 12 months has been dreadful. You say they will cost a premium. We had money especially given the sale of VVD by Southampton.

The point is about what is possible in the January window, and I don't think people are actually aware how difficult we find it. The part of the market we operate in, our limitations are especially acute in January. That's the reality and that's what is at issue in this discussion. We've got money, yes, but we've got a wage structure and the type of signing that appears to be demanded in here, will largely be beyond us. Not just because we won't push the boat out, but because the vast majority of players in this bracket want nothing to do with coming to play in Scotland.

We went on the 4000 mile journey to Central Asia to play on a plastic pitch 5-0 up from the first leg, with Boyata, Sviatchenko and Simunovic injured. At the time, our three first choice centre backs. This is having recorded nothing but clean sheets up to that point.

It got testy in a 20 minute second half spell where we lost the plot, then recovered. Nearly threw away? Even at 4-1 we needed to lose another three goals in 20 minutes of football to lose the tie. As it was, we ended up scoring two, and ended up with a four goal aggregate win, the joint highest margin of any of the ten Play Off matches.
Are you seriously saying that in Europe our defence is in good shape ? You can certainly point to a very solid performance away in Norway in the qualifiers but Asatana was dreadful and it was far more than a poor 20 minutes. At 4-1 with ten minutes left, they nearly made it 5 and you would have had very few folk betting on us if they had scored. N'tcham and Griffiths's late goals gave the scoreline a respectability that the performance didn't merit.

Bottom line.

We sold Izaguirre and the manager decided that Gamboa's backside was out the window last summer but we still did not decide to invest in one full back to provide competition for either Lustig or back up for Tierney. At centre half Toure retired, Sviatchenko was considered surplus to requirements after he got injured in Norway, Boyata's form nosedived after coming back from injury, Simunovic fell out with BR and his form has collapsed to Mike Galloway levels. Boyata is going into the last year of his contract - in all likelihood he will be sold unless there is an unexpected turnaround of events. In January we signed a young Dundee centre-half who prior to this season played in England's lower leagues - his best performance so far has been in a Scotland friendly. Finally we signed at 32 year old Red Bull Leipzig reserve who despite being fit and training can't make the bench.

Recruitment in the defence has been awful over the past 12 months (I include last summer not just January) which I think it will make an already tortuous process even harder when it comes to qualifying for the CL. No one is asking for us to sign players on £50K a week. But I do think given our resources we can do far better than Hendry and Compper. And the idea of reserve full backs should not be foreign to us.



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Amazing to think that we looked stronger defensively with Caldwell and McManus in the Champions League than we do currently with any of the current lot, even in the SPFL. :blink:
Both of them were bang average but they look like Baresi and Costacurta compared to what's come after them VVD excluded.
That was under WGS though.
I bet Stevie Clarke would improve our defense.

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I wonder how much of a good defence is down to tactical coaching as opposed to some good old fashioned fear of what the manager will say if you keep effing every thing up.

Most teams with great defences either play horribly dull football or have a very tough character managing the side.

Brendan doesn’t seem like the kind of coach that puts any fear in to his players, he seems more motivational than confrontational.

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The point is about what is possible in the January window, and I don't think people are actually aware how difficult we find it. The part of the market we operate in, our limitations are especially acute in January. That's the reality and that's what is at issue in this discussion. We've got money, yes, but we've got a wage structure and the type of signing that appears to be demanded in here, will largely be beyond us. Not just because we won't push the boat out, but because the vast majority of players in this bracket want nothing to do with coming to play in Scotland.

We went on the 4000 mile journey to Central Asia to play on a plastic pitch 5-0 up from the first leg, with Boyata, Sviatchenko and Simunovic injured. At the time, our three first choice centre backs. This is having recorded nothing but clean sheets up to that point.

It got testy in a 20 minute second half spell where we lost the plot, then recovered. Nearly threw away? Even at 4-1 we needed to lose another three goals in 20 minutes of football to lose the tie. As it was, we ended up scoring two, and ended up with a four goal aggregate win, the joint highest margin of any of the ten Play Off matches.
Are you seriously saying that in Europe our defence is in good shape ? You can certainly point to a very solid performance away in Norway in the qualifiers but Asatana was dreadful and it was far more than a poor 20 minutes. At 4-1 with ten minutes left, they nearly made it 5 and you would have had very few folk betting on us if they had scored. N'tcham and Griffiths's late goals gave the scoreline a respectability that the performance didn't merit.

Bottom line.

We sold Izaguirre and the manager decided that Gamboa's backside was out the window last summer but we still did not decide to invest in one full back to provide competition for either Lustig or back up for Tierney. At centre half Toure retired, Sviatchenko was considered surplus to requirements after he got injured in Norway, Boyata's form nosedived after coming back from injury, Simunovic fell out with BR and his form has collapsed to Mike Galloway levels. Boyata is going into the last year of his contract - in all likelihood he will be sold unless there is an unexpected turnaround of events. In January we signed a young Dundee centre-half who prior to this season played in England's lower leagues - his best performance so far has been in a Scotland friendly. Finally we signed at 32 year old Red Bull Leipzig reserve who despite being fit and training can't make the bench.

Recruitment in the defence has been awful over the past 12 months (I include last summer not just January) which I think it will make an already tortuous process even harder when it comes to qualifying for the CL. No one is asking for us to sign players on £50K a week. But I do think given our resources we can do far better than Hendry and Compper. And the idea of reserve full backs should not be foreign to us.



I'm saying we've qualified for the CL twice in Rodgers' time, when the initial accusation I was responding to was that we have been unprepared. We've been that unprepared that we've done what we set out to do both times.

I think you've got a bit of a tendency to go overboard about everything recruitment related, so I'll leave you to it. It'll be the same on the pages of the transfer window thread when it appears. You won't be alone by any means, and I don't necessarily agree with every signing we make (Jonny Hayes?), I just think there's a gap at times between reality and the sort of recruitment people seem to expect, and that it happens every window.

By the way at 4-1 with 10 minutes left in Astana, the team that scored was us.
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Are you seriously saying that in Europe our defence is in good shape ? You can certainly point to a very solid performance away in Norway in the qualifiers but Asatana was dreadful and it was far more than a poor 20 minutes. At 4-1 with ten minutes left, they nearly made it 5 and you would have had very few folk betting on us if they had scored. N'tcham and Griffiths's late goals gave the scoreline a respectability that the performance didn't merit.

Bottom line.

We sold Izaguirre and the manager decided that Gamboa's backside was out the window last summer but we still did not decide to invest in one full back to provide competition for either Lustig or back up for Tierney. At centre half Toure retired, Sviatchenko was considered surplus to requirements after he got injured in Norway, Boyata's form nosedived after coming back from injury, Simunovic fell out with BR and his form has collapsed to Mike Galloway levels. Boyata is going into the last year of his contract - in all likelihood he will be sold unless there is an unexpected turnaround of events. In January we signed a young Dundee centre-half who prior to this season played in England's lower leagues - his best performance so far has been in a Scotland friendly. Finally we signed at 32 year old Red Bull Leipzig reserve who despite being fit and training can't make the bench.

Recruitment in the defence has been awful over the past 12 months (I include last summer not just January) which I think it will make an already tortuous process even harder when it comes to qualifying for the CL. No one is asking for us to sign players on £50K a week. But I do think given our resources we can do far better than Hendry and Compper. And the idea of reserve full backs should not be foreign to us.



I'm saying we've qualified for the CL twice in Rodgers' time, when the initial accusation I was responding to was that we have been unprepared. We've been that unprepared that we've done what we set out to do both times.

I think you've got a bit of a tendency to go overboard about everything recruitment related, so I'll leave you to it. It'll be the same on the pages of the transfer window thread when it appears. You won't be alone by any means, and I don't necessarily agree with every signing we make (Jonny Hayes?), I just think there's a gap at times between reality and the sort of recruitment people seem to expect, and that it happens every window.

By the way at 4-1 with 10 minutes left in Astana, the team that scored was us.
there is no doubt that Rodgers has been brilliant for the club. And his first window saw excellent recruitment. Toure came in and settled the defence whilst Sinclair and Dembele were excellent signings and just what we needed and it was very successful.

But recruitment has been a historic weakness for Celtic when it comes to positions of strength. Last summer a with full season ticket uptake and record turnover from the previous season, we had a real chance to kick on. But failures with regards to the defence weren't addressed and it has been an achilles heal in Europe

In the last 18 months we have signed one player who can be classed as an automatic starter - N'tcham. Genuine question - is that good enough ? No reserve full backs worth talking about - do you disagree ? Of the three centre halves that were first choice at the end of last season, we sell one and the form of the other two collapse. So we address this situation by signing a young Dundee player who at best can described as raw and a Red Bull Leipzig reserve who cannot get on the bench - is that OK squad management ? Should we be worried that after 15 months Kouassi is making no impact and that all our other signing are bench warmers or in the case of Benyu been sent away on loan.

To be concerned about the above is hardly going overboard. Its actually stating the obvious. We also pay a Chief Exec EPL wages and I'm sure Mr Congleton ain't on chicken feed.

Oh and btw N'tcham scored just after Astana missed the chance to make it 5 with around 10 minutes left.


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Rhian Brewster at Liverpool is an early rumour for us that I've heard.

Maybe Gerrard will hijack the deal.
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We should have two players for each position. As FB we have Lustig and Tierney who will probably continue as first choice. After that BR must decide if Ralston, Miller or Gamboa are fit for purpose otherwise we need to recruit two decent FB's.
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Rhian Brewster at Liverpool is an early rumour for us that I've heard.

Maybe Gerrard will hijack the deal.
A 18 month loan?
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Rhian Brewster at Liverpool is an early rumour for us that I've heard.

Maybe Gerrard will hijack the deal.
A 18 month loan?
Don't know. Its a very convoluted ITK
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Gordon - Keep
DDV - Punt or release at end of contract
Bain - Buy
Hazard - Send on Loan


Tierney - Reject all offers for
Lustig - Keep
Gamboa - Punt
Ralston - Needs to step up
Miller - Same as Ralston


Ajer - Keep
Hendry - Keep
Simunovic - Punt
Boyata - Punt
Compper - ??
Sviatchenko - Punt

Brown - Keep
Ntcham - Keep
McGregor - Keep
Armstrong - Punt if no new contract
Rogic - Punt if no new contract
Musonda - If not contributing by early next year terminate loan if possible
Bitton - Keep
Kouassi - Keep
Christie - Give a chance
Benyu - Loan
Allan - Punt

Forrest - Keep
Sinclair - Keep until January, if same pish then punt
Hayes - Keep
Morgan - Keep

Dembele - Punt
Griffiths - Keep
Edouard - Try to sign for reasonable fee
ciftci - Punt


We need a big summer, should be the revolving door Rodgers claimed it would be in January, Need a striker to replace Dembele, a replacement for Rogic/Armstrong if we cant get them on new contracts, a complete overhaul in cb and preferably a new rb
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Gordon - Keep
DDV - Punt or release at end of contract
Bain - Buy
Hazard - Send on Loan


Tierney - Reject all offers for
Lustig - Keep
Gamboa - Punt
Ralston - Needs to step up
Miller - Same as Ralston


Ajer - Keep
Hendry - Keep
Simunovic - Punt
Boyata - Punt
Compper - ??
Sviatchenko - Punt

Brown - Keep
Ntcham - Keep
McGregor - Keep
Armstrong - Punt if no new contract
Rogic - Punt if no new contract
Musonda - If not contributing by early next year terminate loan if possible
Bitton - Keep
Kouassi - Keep
Christie - Give a chance
Benyu - Loan
Allan - Punt

Forrest - Keep
Sinclair - Keep until January, if same pish then punt
Hayes - Keep
Morgan - Keep

Dembele - Punt
Griffiths - Keep
Edouard - Try to sign for reasonable fee
ciftci - Punt


We need a big summer, should be the revolving door Rodgers claimed it would be in January, Need a striker to replace Dembele, a replacement for Rogic/Armstrong if we cant get them on new contracts, a complete overhaul in cb and preferably a new rb
Thank ghod you're not involved in this. Wow.
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26 Apr 2018, 11:54 AM
weeShughie
26 Apr 2018, 11:46 AM
Rhian Brewster at Liverpool is an early rumour for us that I've heard.

Maybe Gerrard will hijack the deal.
A 18 month loan?
Don't know. Its a very convoluted ITK
Won't pretend to know much about Brewster but I know that great things are expected from him.
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Can I have 12 bottles of bleach please?
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weeShughie
26 Apr 2018, 11:46 AM
Rhian Brewster at Liverpool is an early rumour for us that I've heard.

Maybe Gerrard will hijack the deal.
Are we talking millions here?
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I'm looking forward to seeing Christie in the squad next season. He could be a different attacking option that we currently don't have.
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