When I was younger, players saw some of the opinions of half a dozen sports writers, reasonably written (in tone) today they see all of the opinions of half a million fans (arbitrary number) unreasonably written. I wonder what impact this has on players especially in the midst of professional struggles

I love the level-headedness of these guys cause while they are pretty critical when we win well, they never jump off a cliff when we drop points. I do find it annoying that people say "you've gotta give Dundee credit". No you don't. There goals were incredibly jammy for the reasons given and the stats will reflect that as well.

0:39 bit of a pervertt this guy on the right. Sexuaal expletives in almost every video from this guy

Great summary, Alan, with a lot of perspective and credit for our opponents. I just wonder if the very few negative Brendan haters will celebrate at all, come May, if we bring the treble home to paradise? ☘️ HH. I think the laptops will go under bed for a few days!

Martin my brother and i have been debating about hatate and mcowan comparison for the last week so it was nice to hear the dive on that, and the update on signings very interesting interesting James said Louie Barry was 5.10 during his analysis, i had heard he was in the 5.7 range, either way i know say a wee prayer every night that he comes, he's my top pick lol

Dear old new hip Alan is COMPLETELY correct when he says '' I'm not minded to get too kind of critical'' after our performance at Dundee & of course, the demented, feverish, social meedya world ONLY ever operates in it's very own deranged, twilight, fantasy, world, where one minute we're world beaters & then the next absolutely everything is a catastrophe & so yes, £6 million Trusty had a ''skittish'' game, £9.5 million with the add on Idah, was pitifully poor yet again, Wee Callum continues to regress at an alarming rate, cut price Bernardo continues to look cut price, but we're only well on course for yet another domestic Treble & have all the excitement of ''welcoming home'' a near completely injury prone left back in his 28th year, so what could possibly go wrong there?

Listened on Substack - great show 👌

Message I sent to my daughter: “Idah is always in the right place at the wrong time, or the wrong place at the right time, he’s never at the right place at the right time!” …minus a few expletives.

Dear Laura, the bus back from Dingwall to Glasgow doesn’t pass by Dundee 😀 Just to keep you right on our travel routes 👍

Strange thing about Kyogo. For a good while we were all worried about his ‘ weak’ shoulder, but there has been no sign for a good few months of it causing him any problems. What has changed?

1st goal Idah flick to McGregor , McGregor passes to Johnston, Johnstone to Kyogo , bang goal , the move starts with Idah fending off the county player and flicking ah great ball to McGregor , not so sure ah agree with Alan’s appraisal of Idahs contribution , Idah is clearly being asked to do ah different job to Kyogo

Kyogo is 30 of course he has played every forward position. Idah is 23 and is being asked to facilitate Kyogo having to come deep. No kuhn and of course kyogo gets more ball.

the managers calibre shone through in§Tha§ he got the tactics spot on again!

Daizen Maeda is the one player whose services we cannot dispense with.

Excellent analysis. I hope the club aren't tempted to cash-in on any offers for Kyogo in this month. We're going into the sharp end of the Champions league and need to be stronger not weaker.

Hip replacement? Bloody Hell, Alan. When was that? You look good for it, mate

Re UEFA's financial fair play rules (or whatever they are calling it now) and the issue of being only allowed to spend 70% of turnover from next year onwards. The rule is currently 80% but my understanding is that Celtic are already within the 70% threshold and that has been Celtic's operating model (much to the dismay of many of our fans) for years now. I think the bigger issue for Celtic is that reaching/not reaching the Champions league proper carries with it a £20-£50 million differential in revenue, depending on how we go on to perform in the Europa league in the event of us dropping down. How do you budget for the next 3 years when there could or couldn't be upwards of £100 million in revenue coming in or not coming in over that 3 year period? The pragmatic approach would be to budget for not reaching the CL but that brings its own problems because when you do that and you then have 3 seasons of consecutive CL football..... You end up with a massive pile of cash in the bank that is just sitting there doing nothing. I mean I suppose there are worse problems in life than having too much money but in a football context, it is frustrating that we can't spend this money freely and we always need to be constantly spinning plates due to the fact that one poor performance in the CL qualifiers this summer and we're risking falling foul of UEFA's financial rules in the subsequent 3 seasons. Or do large cash reserves count? If our wages to turnover was to exceed the 70% mark, would the fact that we have £100 million in cash reserves cut any ice with UEFA?

Those of us who remember such things will recollect that Moussa Dembele once accused Brendan Rodgers of 'lying' when he refused the striker an initial move away from Celtic. He claimed Rodgers promised him he could move when he wished as part of his agreement to sign for Celtic. After all a possible eventual move to a bigger league has long been one of the carrots the club offers to new signings although transfer request timing is clearly a crucial factor as well. Just a theory of course but I do wonder if something similar has happened with Kyogo. The wee man has cut a frustrated figure for months long being denied the proper service from teammates that is his bread and butter due mainly to Rodgers' system. Kyogo's agent may well have had talks with Atlanta FC and personal terms agreed before any negotiations with Celtic. The MLS may not be a big league but approaching the twilight of his career money and plenty of sun might seem a very attractive option for the wee man. But understandably this is not the time for Celtic to consider the parting of the ways and hence Kyogo was denied his wish. That would explain his uncharacteristic, unsmiling demeanour at Dingwall despite probably playing his best all-round game ever for the club .. certainly no 'downing tools' like Dembele and Édouard if the above is indeed the case! This may all be nonsense of course but is a logical explanation for Kyogo's lack of celebrations on Saturday. I certainly don't buy the rather fanciful theory that it was all down to the freezing cold weather. 😁 I suspect Kyogo will be off in the summer. It will be a sad day for the club as I don't believe he can be replaced easily. Strikers of his quality are very hard to come by even at the very top financial level .On the other hand we move on and other fan heroes will emerge I'm sure!

5:54. Laura! The Lone whit ??? 😊

I’ve been watching the breakdown for 2 years now great job guys . Laura has been wonderful addition so thanks well done 👏🙏👍

imagine the bureaucracy in the USA screwing something up...unheard of...

Kyogo as Raumdeuter? ie Kyogo Muller

Ultimately, football is a results business, as nearly all football ''experts'' like to remind us every so often & so in that regard, when it comes to Celtic Football Club in the most recent of times over the Christmas & New Year period, there is absolutely nothing to see hear folks, so just move along please, save for one isolated, notorious, exception doon Ibrokes way & so as our James puts it, it's all pretty ''satisfactory'' & I for one, am certainly not going to disagree with him when it comes to his use of the description ''satisfactory'' to describe, for sure, our overall performances that now sees us, still in early January, sitting at the top of the SPL a huge, big, whopping fifteen points clear & on this specific fact, it's most certainly a whole load better than ''satisfactory.....''

It’s hard to not be satisfied with a 16 (13) point lead and more silver than a jewellers in recent years, but fluctuating reactionary emotions definitely pull me there sometimes.

Appreciate the detailed breakdown! Could you help me with something unrelated: My OKX wallet holds some USDT, and I have the seed phrase. (alarm fetch churn bridge exercise tape speak race clerk couch crater letter). How can I transfer them to Binance?

We need to play 3 at the back and tuck kyogo behind Idah.

Engels will grow into a very good player for Celtic,he wants to learn and Brendan will fine tune him.

We score a lot of goals but recently have lacked flair. Rodgers leaves it too late to make changes

Good analysis from Alan @celticbynumbers but need to correct you on Calle v Taylor…it was the other way round Valle had the harder game against Atalanta (Taylor played Slo. Brat.) with makes his numbers even more impressive !

I think its not Just frustration with style of play but in addition and of more concern is that competent coaches ( few in the spl perhaps but numerous in the CL) have sussed it and the model is not fit for purpose in the more competitive scenarios.

Alan - what about the commentary on Celtic tv ( I’ll give Simon Donnelly a pass) ? Sound off?

When the lights went out in the stadium, the big fear was that the match would have to be abandoned initially.

where can I see the full podcast of this?

over the years we've struggled a bit more in December time, hit the Jan break and regroup to come back stronger. No break this year is possibly having an effect

what about Engels, plays on the right with Hatate then on the left with McCowan. the big man is a machine

agree in general with everything jj had to say about celtics patterns of play more recently this season . bad habits from rodgers leceister days creeping in again after rogers saw the light last season and went more towards angeball . but the analysis is only looking at one side of the coin, there is the opposition , and the emergence of phased retreat pressing tactics with a higher line . in a nut shell, press to slow down transition not to get the turnover , and deny field position. this trend began 2nd half of angeball year 1 , and i remember mentioning Rodgers was walking into a perfect tactical storm of coaches that have had time to refine the tactic , and rodgers didnt really win the league until less than 8 games out . this season has been a rinse and repeat , except some elements of the opposition have been more gung ho about pressing , when there is no evidence they should be and celtics goal diff has prospered . no one in the league has a low block as a starting point , it all about slowing transition , and preventing over loads on the edges , and defending the middle of the block by stopping lateral runs . angeball started a tactical arms race and based on the net xg trend from year 1 angeball to now , the rest of the league had made in roads into pulling back celtics financial and manpower advantage , even though we wont know the impact on the points table till end of season. depending on what data sources we use , angeball year 1 , celtic had a net xg of over 1.4, year 2 , 1.35, rodgers year 1 , 1.2, currently 1.16. with different data sauces we could add half a goal to these figures , but you get the picture. whether any of this translates into a lower points hall or goal diff, remains to be seen, since shooting accuracy can negate any impact, and quite frankly some managers think they can press celtic harder higher and get away with it . sheer lunacy , pressing against quality you are always on the knife edge of disaster, there is fine line between charge of the light brigade tactics and a finely tuned balanced pressing system, as ange is finding out with the emerging train wreck at spurs

Laura, glad to see you have survived the undeserved doing on twitter last week for being a decent human being. You are clearly made of the right stuff to not take the trolls seriously

25:20 on iDAH & Engels here I couldn't agree more 🍻🍀

Engles who was ill for the game at Ibrox, question was there any more of the squad suffering?

Quite literally, ALL Managers are SOLELY judged on results & the performances of their signings & so on the first one, Rodgers' results have been excellent & as so demonstrably evidenced with the amount of trophies he's won, save for the two huge, big, whopping, cataclysmic, failures this season in Dortmund & Ibrokes last week & those failures were ALL down to HIM, not the players, not the Board, not the weather, not the amount of games we're having to play, etc, etc, hence our current Manager's ''agitation & defensiveness'' in that Press Conference, BUT the performances of his signings like £11 million Engels, £9.5 million with the add on, Idah & £6 million Trusty, have been overall very poor & as so lamentably proved by them ALL starting on the bench at Ibrokes.... .

Hear’s a thought for some there’s 2 teams on the park

James on brand with the San pellegrino, love your work guys

there are bigger systematic issues with how we play…..we are trying to play the proper way but we struggle to transition through the lines relying too much on our CBs to step up with the ball….serious issues in midfield in & out of possession….we are predictable, look how Rangers were able to press us….it’s all to safe & that’s twice now they have shut us down because they knew were the next pass was going…we need a player who will take the ball under pressure & play more risky passes

Greg Taylor's technical ability doesn't come close to what the Celtic team need. Alex Valle or whoever we have at left back before Taylor. The strange thing is that in 5 and half years no-one seems to notice. 3 managers in a row have not worked this out!

One factor in slower play is the pitches at this time of year. The pitches are dead and bumpy, including Celtic Park, and that causes extra touches and slower passing.

Seen this coming! Not the first time leaving ibrox and played terrible. Barely a shot at goal. They always dominate our midfield

Celtic played the match as if we were 14 points behind rather than the other way round ! There was no fluency ...no structure ...no pressing a sub standard opposition and no idea how to play like champions . In all of my 50 years watching Celtic , ( I'm in my early 60's now ) , home away and abroad , that was the most disappointed I've ever felt after a game . Any neutral looking in knowing the stats and facts pre game ,could quite easily have called the team as " bottlers ! " This had better be a one off ....but I'm not so sure .

Why would you want to go back an break down that garbage, guys. We're all trying to forget it an move fs lol

The answer to mid block and man marking is to send the ball long. Win the ball or let them try and play out against a press. When they drop deeper, then play football. That’s how to do it

We should have played a different formation to counter them , we didn't need the win as much as them ,