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Scott Sinclair; New baby arrives, and there to greet her were her mama and papa.
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8 Aug 2016, 01:35 PM
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BRENDAN RODGERS last night revealed Scott Sinclair pushed through his £3.5m move to Parkhead by demanding Aston Villa sell him to Celtic. The champions’ latest signing made a stunning impact on Scottish football by climbing off the bench to net the winner against Hearts at Tynecastle yesterday and Rodgers believes the strike will be the first of many as Sinclair rebuilds a career that looked stellar at one point but has stagnated in recent years. The duo worked together at Chelsea and Swansea and although Rodgers had to wait six weeks before landing him for Celtic, the Northern Irishman believes Sinclair’s desire to be reunited with his mentor was the clincher in a deal finally being brokered with Villa. Rodgers said: “Aston Villa didn’t really want to lose the player, but Scott made it clear he wanted to leave. "Roberto di Matteo’s situation, I respect and understand. "He has a player that wants to move, but also a player he knows could go a long way to getting out of the Championship. "So that takes time, but thankfully Scott was very clear he wanted to come here, come in and enjoy his football again. "Thankfully we got him for reasons like today when you see he is such an important player. “It was an outstanding goal. You track the speed of his run and once he’s breaking away it’s that hunger and desire that you see from really good players to want to get up and join in. “His pace to get up there from being so far behind. Leigh Griffiths has done great and then like great strikers, he knows where he wants to put the ball. Scotty has just checked his stride and got a great finish on it. “He couldn’t have asked for any more considering he’d had just three hours sleep on Friday night to travel up and had a long day yesterday. “It was a great start for him in front of our supporters as well.” Rodgers believes there will be far more to come from his new signing when he gets up to speed. He added: “He can play in a couple of positions I think his home is on that left side. Hes not an out and out winger I’d call him and 11 and a half, he likes to be on the inside at times. He’ll run and be direct, he wants to get goals. He scored 27 goals for me in The Championship for Swansea and he wants to get in there and score goals in the Premier League. His natural habitat is off that left side, coming, joining in the game and getting in the box to score goals. "Scott has always been about enjoying his football – but the last four years have been really difficult. "I had him when he was 16 at Chelsea. He played in a really good youth team I had there. “He went out on loan to a couple of clubs and then I brought him to Swansea where he was outstanding. “That got him a move to Manchester City. From there really his career stalled. "So no one has really seen the best of him and probably forgot about his qualities. "But this was a guy who four or five years ago was scoring a hat-trick in a play-off final under big pressure in front of 90,000. "He has a big talent. "He is still young, 27 years of age, physically strong, robust, can play in big games and loves the big occasion and has a lot to learn still. "So I think he will be really big for us. “He knows he had to get his career going again, because it stalled a little bit. “At Aston Villa he always seemed to play full-back. “I always felt with Scotty you had to get him 50 metres higher up the pitch to help teams and hopefully he can re-create that here at Celtic.” Spoiler: click to toggle Rodgers was delighted with the 2-1 win at Tynecastle and admitted that his team’s attitude was as pleasing as the ability they displayed.
He said: “Hopefully people are starting to see a trend. There is a mentality in the team. The football will come later. I need a certain type of player in order to play the way teams of mine are known to play. But while you are searching for that, you have to build a mentality and a resilience in your team.
“We have big games early on and fluency doesn’t come that early but while building it you have to have this attitude that you can keep coming back in games and you are never beaten. I think that’s something that’s critically important for any team and certainly a Celtic team.
“To see that, to see we keep going and the fitness level of the team. We are scoring goals late on and that’s a good starting point for any football team.”
The Celtic manager was delighted with the contribution of James Forrest, who scored the opener - cancelled out by Jamie Walker’s controversial penalty - and hinted that there could yet be a future for the winger, whose contract expires in December.
He said: “He wants to stay. I said to him when I first came in that I thought he’d been on loan for two seasons! I wondered where he was. I remember down in England watching him and I saw this young player who I thought was a real talent, fast, dynamic, could get at people, and for whatever reason it hadn’t worked out for him in the last couple of seasons. I had a joke with him that I’d like to see James Forrest back here because the guy who was here was away on loan for a couple of years!
“Since pre-season he has been absolutely first class. He’s starting to understand that he has to press the game and be aggressive and you saw that a couple of times today.
“And as a winger he has to create and score goals and he created the opportunity with good skill in the first part and it was a wonderful finish. I have been delighted.
"He wants to stay, he pulled me in Slovenia and said he was enjoying the work and he feels an important part of the squad would like to stay. So it’s between the agent and the club now to arrange that.”
And Rodgers refused to be too critical of referee John Beaton, whose decision to award Hearts a penalty when Walker clearly dived, could have had an enormous bearing on the game.
“I don’t want to kill the ref,” he said. “He knows fine well he made a mistake and he admitted it on the pitch. Thankfully it didn’t cost us. The young guy has taken a dive but before that we should have been two or three up. We had good chances to score but we all make mistakes.
“The referee said to me afterwards and he was man enough to do that on the pitch.” http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/brendan-rodgers-hails-celtic-new-8582494#trcuWsHvJH3L6STK.99
"Scotty" it is then?
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DannyBhoyy
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8 Aug 2016, 02:22 PM
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Scotty, Broony, Paddy and Griff
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8 Aug 2016, 03:10 PM
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some start for the boy.
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8 Aug 2016, 03:21 PM
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You can observe a lot by just watching
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- DannyBhoyy
- 8 Aug 2016, 02:22 PM
Scotty, Broony, Paddy and Griff Sounds like the first line of a song. It fits the metre of "play football the Glasgow Celtic Way"!
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8 Aug 2016, 04:00 PM
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For eating a meal?! A succulent chinese meeeeaaaal????!
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Sevco killer, Scott Sinclair
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8 Aug 2016, 05:01 PM
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- CelticInMySoul
- 8 Aug 2016, 01:10 AM
I have a feeling Sinclair is going to be a player I like. Sometimes you can just tell. What I like about him immediately is that he looks really fast. It stands out so clearly in Scottish Football when a genuinely quick player arrives on the scene, mainly because the standard of player in our league is so low. That pace is going to cause opposition full-backs no end of problems and should go a long way towards making Sinclair a success here. It's having the intelligence to use that speed which sets top players apart. How he controlled his run and finish at top speed was an absolute joy to see. Although the finish looked simple it was a thing of beauty from start to finish.
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8 Aug 2016, 05:07 PM
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- 8 Aug 2016, 05:01 PM
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- 8 Aug 2016, 01:10 AM
I have a feeling Sinclair is going to be a player I like. Sometimes you can just tell. What I like about him immediately is that he looks really fast. It stands out so clearly in Scottish Football when a genuinely quick player arrives on the scene, mainly because the standard of player in our league is so low. That pace is going to cause opposition full-backs no end of problems and should go a long way towards making Sinclair a success here.
It's having the intelligence to use that speed which sets top players apart. How he controlled his run and finish at top speed was an absolute joy to see. Although the finish looked simple it was a thing of beauty from start to finish. Also having the intelligence to stay onside
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8 Aug 2016, 05:09 PM
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I have a feeling Sinclair is going to be a player I like. Sometimes you can just tell. What I like about him immediately is that he looks really fast. It stands out so clearly in Scottish Football when a genuinely quick player arrives on the scene, mainly because the standard of player in our league is so low. That pace is going to cause opposition full-backs no end of problems and should go a long way towards making Sinclair a success here.
It's having the intelligence to use that speed which sets top players apart. How he controlled his run and finish at top speed was an absolute joy to see. Although the finish looked simple it was a thing of beauty from start to finish. This it was the sign of a really really good player...His speed at the start of the run was quite amazing to be honest....
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8 Aug 2016, 05:38 PM
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- CelticInMySoul
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I have a feeling Sinclair is going to be a player I like. Sometimes you can just tell. What I like about him immediately is that he looks really fast. It stands out so clearly in Scottish Football when a genuinely quick player arrives on the scene, mainly because the standard of player in our league is so low. That pace is going to cause opposition full-backs no end of problems and should go a long way towards making Sinclair a success here.
It's having the intelligence to use that speed which sets top players apart. How he controlled his run and finish at top speed was an absolute joy to see. Although the finish looked simple it was a thing of beauty from start to finish.
This it was the sign of a really really good player...His speed at the start of the run was quite amazing to be honest.... He also had to slightly check his run at the end. Placed the shot as well didnt just connect where it could have hit the keeper.
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8 Aug 2016, 05:41 PM
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Everyone's Fantasy Football first pick
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- londonroad
- 7 Aug 2016, 10:29 PM
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- 7 Aug 2016, 09:17 PM
Has he signed yet?
Nope. Lawwell sacked the admin team responsible to save money so he's not been registered. . We've been deducted 3 points and last years Premier title has been awarded to Legia Warsaw. It's been awarded to Sevco as they are the nearest 'champions' to us - in the new SFA rules just out today, Timmy.
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8 Aug 2016, 05:45 PM
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Quoting limited to 3 levels deep
This it was the sign of a really really good player...His speed at the start of the run was quite amazing to be honest....
He also had to slightly check his run at the end. Placed the shot as well didnt just connect where it could have hit the keeper. Showed a composure that even Griffiths fails to show at times in that situation.
He looks like a great signing - a player who could allow us to play 1 up front in games but still give us an attacking threat supporting the main striker.
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8 Aug 2016, 05:51 PM
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- 8 Aug 2016, 03:21 PM
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- 8 Aug 2016, 02:22 PM
Scotty, Broony, Paddy and Griff
Sounds like the first line of a song. It fits the metre of "play football the Glasgow Celtic Way"! If only Cifci was decent. Chif would rhyme well with Griff. I say keep him for the sake of the new song in the making
Lustig, Broony and Leigh Griff Jamesy Forrest, Armstrong and big Chif...
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8 Aug 2016, 05:52 PM
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- 8 Aug 2016, 04:00 PM
Sevco killer, Scott Sinclair
Brilliant haha!
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8 Aug 2016, 05:59 PM
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He's so ridiculously fast, wonder what his 100m time is.
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8 Aug 2016, 06:24 PM
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Just seen him on STV news, said Stan sold him on the move to Celtic, and he was looking forward to working with Brendan again.
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8 Aug 2016, 06:36 PM
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I never realised he scored 27 goals in Swansea's promotion season under Rodgers.
Was he played as a striker back then? Either way thats a good return but if he scored those goals from a wide area then thats phenomenal!
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8 Aug 2016, 06:42 PM
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Sevco killer, Scott Sinclair
Yes!
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8 Aug 2016, 06:47 PM
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Still we sing with our heroes, thirty-three-rounds-per-minute
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- 8 Aug 2016, 06:36 PM
I never realised he scored 27 goals in Swansea's promotion season under Rodgers.
Was he played as a striker back then? Either way thats a good return but if he scored those goals from a wide area then thats phenomenal! Brendan Rodgers was talking after the game yesterday about how when he had Sinclair in his Chelsea youth team he was a natural striker, but because guys like Drogba, Crespo and another whose name escapes me were at the club at the time he turned him into a winger, feeling it would better progress his career at the club. He retained that striker's instinct to get into the box, as we saw yesterday, and with his 27 goals at Swansea.
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8 Aug 2016, 07:11 PM
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hes scored quite a lot of penalties as well. him and dembele look like great options from the spot. might actually be able to feel confident when awarded a penalty for a change
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8 Aug 2016, 07:22 PM
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