14 Jun 2018 21:36:49
Jamie McCart away to Inverness on a two year deal.

1.) 14 Jun 2018
14 Jun 2018 22:32:27
That’s another 4/ 5 players brought up by Celtic in the youth, taught how to be professional and sent on there way to decent Scottish clubs. Sadly not all make it at our club.

2.) 15 Jun 2018
15 Jun 2018 08:00:21
Good player. Quite surprised by this maybe the boy wanted to play first team. Good luck to him.

3.) 15 Jun 2018
15 Jun 2018 10:45:00
We produce players mostly for the wee diddy teams. It’s been a feature for years. Very, very few of our own young players establish themselves. I have the feeling this situation will continue as I haven’t seen anybody who is equipped to be in the team we want to be next year.

We can kid ourselves on, as many do year on year about this young guy or that one, the facts remain that apart from KT, it’s none since McGreggor and Forrest. I would wager at the end of this season, the only young guy who has a chance of that was bought from St Mirren.

4.) 15 Jun 2018
15 Jun 2018 13:20:23
Mikey Johnston will be a wonderful player for Celtic.

5.) 15 Jun 2018
15 Jun 2018 15:45:05
I will believe it when I see it Stan. Too many false dawns. mickey looks too fragile to me. He has technical ability but his stature isn’t strong enough.

Jury is out for me.

6.) 16 Jun 2018
16 Jun 2018 19:45:58
How much do we spend on our youth set-up? £2m per annum maybe?
Since Tommy Burns set it up properly - 18 years ago - we’ve had 12 player in the first team squad:
Marshall
Kennedy
McGeady
Maloney
McManus
O’Dea
Forrest
MacGregor
McGeough
Henderson
Tierney
Ralston

So that equates to an average of 1 player every 1.5 years - at an estimated average cost of £3m per player - not a bad return, especially when you think we got the guts of £10mil for McGeady and would get £20mil+ for Tierney, so we’d make our money back if we needed to.

Of course, we do produce a lot of players for other SPL sides, but that’s part of the selling point isn’t it? When trying to persuade a parent that Celtic is the best place for their talented kid, the club sell the “good grounding” leading to either breaking into the squad (like those above) or finding a good level club to take them on., and the potential of being a Jackson Irvine - didn’t quite make it with us, went to Ross County then the English Championship (for a decent wedge) and today is playing in the World Cup.