A few weeks can’t be much longer than that celtics.
The Hoops face Dinamo Zagreb in the Croatian capital on Tuesday night, seeking to grab three more valuable Champions League points, having failed in each of their previous three games against the Maksimir Arena, beating 2-1 in 1963. Defeated 0-3 in 1998. The most recent 4-3 was almost exactly ten years ago today. This time, however, they ended the game with a score of 0-0.
Brendan Rodgers’ side will look to beat their tough rivals next Sunday rangers In the League Cup final at Hampden, Rodgers will be aiming to lift his 20th major trophy (out of a possible 25) since Rodgers first arrived in Glasgow.
Celtic’s success over the decades, including in the modern era, has been built on Scotland’s homegrown talent.
Captain Callum McGregor has been in fine form this season and has scored six Premier League goals, each of which came from outside the penalty area, in his 486th appearance for the club in Zagreb and is expected to Become the 14th person Played more than 500 times for the basketball team.
One of the players who has reached the milestone is James Forrest, with the 33-year-old winger making his 516th appearance for the Boise last Saturday at half-time against Hibernian The player is an increasingly unusual single-club player.
Left-back Greg Taylor is also an important cog in the Celtic machine, but the Scottish Championship side haven’t always gotten it right in attracting the best talent in the country.
Celtic’s domestic signings have mixed results
Throughout Celtic’s history, they have been able to select the best young Scottish talent from other Premier League clubs.
Taking a brief look back at the past decade, Dundee United’s basketball team has made a strong start to the 2014/15 season. A total of £2.25 million was paid The Orange’s two best players, Stuart Armstrong and Gary McKay-Steven, put to rest any championship talk Tannadice had begun to brew.
Ryan Christie (Inverness Cali Thistle; £500,000), Scott Allen (Hibs; £250,000), Jack Hendry (Dundee; £1.2m), Lewis Morgan (St Mirren; £300,000), Greg Taylor (Kilmarnock; £2m), David Turnbull (Motherwell; £3.25m) and Luke McCown (Dundee; £1m) are all subsequent examples of Celtic snapping up Scotland’s best young talent, paying a fee their domestic rivals simply couldn’t refuse, with the latter arriving as recently as late August.
So why do this? Well, there’s certainly a Bayern Munich-esque aspect to this, about asserting domestic dominance by undercutting rivals. But, more specifically, the Celtics need both “Club Training” and “Association Training” UEFA matchday squads require at least eight domestic players, which is why the likes of Scott Bain, Anthony Ralston and Stephen Welsh are still in the squad despite regularly featuring.
The Scotland roster above outlines a rather mixed bag, with a player on the list who didn’t achieve much at Parkhead but went on to become a star across the pond.
Lewis Morgan’s post-Celtic career
Lewis Morgan joined from St Mirren in July 2018 but made little impact at Celtic, scoring just one goal Appeared 31 times and scored 2 goalsthese teams will face AIK in the Europa League qualifiers in Stockholm and beat Stade Rennes in the group stage.
When he arrived, Morgan discussed how proud he was of his dexterity with his hands, saying that he Admired club legend Zubomir Moravchikbut to be fair, he didn’t achieve the same cult hero status as the Czechoslovak midfielder.
Morgan actually spent the second half of his first season on loan at Sunderland, Before being sold to MLS expansion Joined Inter Miami Club in January 2020 for £400,000.
His two seasons in Fort Lauderdale were chaotic, largely disrupted by Covid-19, with just seven goals in 58 games for the Herons, but he must have sparked some excitement in New Jersey Impressed onlookers noticed that in January 2023, Morgan joined the New York Red Bulls for a small price $1.2 million in general appropriations for his service.
The Scot has certainly found his home in New York, scoring 31 goals in 79 appearances for RBNY under the name 2024 MLS Comeback Player of the Yearthe award is given to a player who “shows impressive improvement after overcoming a serious injury…or experiencing a slump in his career.”
Morgan was a key figure in New York’s second-ever MLS Cup appearance, which they last did in 2008 with a narrow 2-1 victory over the LA Galaxy at Dignity Health Sports Park on Saturday. Team.
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Notably, the former Celtic winger is one of the best attackers in MLS.
Lewis Morgan’s MLS 2024 statistics | ||
|---|---|---|
statistics | Morgan 2024 | Major League Soccer Rankings |
Target | 13 | =20th |
Goals + assists | 18 | =23rd |
expected goals | 12.5 | =15th |
lens | 90 | No. 11 |
To make that happen for a Red Bulls team that was sitting in seventh place in the Eastern Conference and was mediocre. Became the lowest seeded team ever to enter the MLS CupNot bad results for a player who rarely showed his full potential during his brief spell with Celtic.
Morgan even returned to Steve Clark’s Scotland plans this year, including being named in the Euro 2024 squad, making his first international appearance in six years and playing in Three UEFA Nations League A fixtures In autumn. Maybe the basketball team might regret letting him go all those years ago?
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