I’ll never understand why a player leaves a club in the championship to go north of the border to a league that is in all honesty league 1 at best, and is constantly won by 2 teams only, who’d struggle in our championship
Agree but they play in the Champions league! I have read that his " get out" clause is to a Premier league club. So it may not happen We will see
Better than we can offer. https://www.scotsman.com/sport/foot...c-players-including-mcgregor-and-hart-4545922 It's still pennies compared to the Premier League though. It's also a bigger shop window for him, with Champions League appearances - assuming they get to the group stage, not sure if they need to go through qualifying rounds first. Get a decent price for him, and a good sell-on clause. Van Dijk went from Celtic to Southampton, before Liverpool, so some decent players do go through the league.
Do the SPL Champions get into the CL group stage? Or do they go through the qualifiers? Bit **** choosing Celtic for CL showcasing then getting knocked out by the champions of Latvia in August. Whereas losing 6 games in the group stage at least gets televised. Sorry just read your post properly. Seems neither of us have really followed this crucial matter closely enough. * just looked it up and they have to go through qualifying as the Czech Republic now has a better European record than Scotland.
They did have direct access to group stage, but it changes from year to year dependant on how **** the Old Firm and the dross (Aberdeen, Motherwell, Hearts etc) do, so it's difficult to keep track of
I suspect / hope that Nourry will set about his business discretely, efficiently and in plenty of time for Marti to have a good preseason.
Why do you suspect this? Neither Nourry nor Cufientes have had an English pre season before. I hope they will do as you say, but there is no evidence to say they will. First thing Nourry should do is get Cifuentes to do is sign a long contract .
The timeliness of the stepped announcements feels like it’s all choreographed - which means it is also carefully planned. I hope this is right as we have lacked this in the past (usually everyone buggers off on holiday when the season ends and we wait 2-3 weeks for anything to start happening). I’m sure finding the right targets incoming will be mixed as we win some, lose some. Just glad Plan B (us being relegated) was quickly thrown in the bin and we moved on. There is certainly an air of change coupled with direction. Then again, it could just be me being ‘hopeful’
Bolton scored over 120 goals this season, must have a few players looking to move up a division. Doesn't look like they are going up through the play offs.
