30:45 Gareth’s comments on Rodgers ‘really struggling in England’ and being ‘more suited to Scottish football’ are one dimensional and likely based on one truly bad season in the EPL with Leicester. While it ended badly, when viewed on the whole, Rodgers period at Leicester was one of the most successful in their history with two top 5 finishes and an FA Cup victory. It’s not a stretch to say that Rodgers is an accomplished manager in England with 312 games over 10 seasons at EPL level: 139 wins 71 draws 102 losses Indeed, only a handful of managers have accrued more points in the Premier League over the last 15 years.
And those two top 5 finishes were top four until the last day of the season. So close to champions league football two years running. Winning cups. But for me selling Harry McGuire for £80m is his greatest achievement there. Eye Watering!
It sounds like Kyogo asked for a move around October last year based on Brendan’s statement and for all we know possibly earlier than that. That gave us scope to do the Jota deal.
There is no more cup tied in the champions league, changed after coutinho went to Barcelona so Tierney if he signs could be registered. Can register 3 players after the league phase
Rodgers was poor at Leicester 😅.. ?… Villa have no real weaknesses and only Liverpool would concern him? Old firm? Did I hear those things right? That lad needs to go back and do his homework before appearing on podcasts. 😂
Exactly. He actually said Rodgers ‘struggled in England’. Rodgers who managed 312 games in the English Premier League and only lost 33% of them. Two top 5 finishes and an FA Cup/Charity Shield double at Leicester. One bad season apparently writes off a decade of fairly solid work as a Premier League coach.
Villa London guy way aff the mark about Brendan. He might not ‘mind’ him as a manager and think he’s suited to the Scottish league but to say he was a failure in England? Swansea promotion to EPL, Liverpool second, Leicester top five finishes… all above expectations and finances. We are 3 main men down for this tie and that will be the deciding factor. Only thing he said of any insight was the crowd ffs. Our ‘stattos’ outclass most others in their sober stating of the facts. The most important variable is luck and like Atlanta game we are going to need a lot of that in this game to take anything out of it. Great show guys
Villa are on the dortmund/athletico level and we're going in with yang & idah up top. No idea where this confidence among the support is coming from but there's a good chance we're in for a very rude awakening
The main reason for delinking the kyogo and jota deals is the impact it has on both clubs turnover I think. On paper Celtic have just made 10 million rather than 1 million plus Jota. Financial regulation means clubs tend to want money rather than players. It allows them to spend more the higher their football income is.
This is a fair point and, from an administrative point of view, probably makes sense. Everyone, probably for that exact reason, will continue to say the deals aren’t linked and the audit trail will remain unblemished. I still can’t help but think that they are, though,
He’s got very average pace, whereas Kuhn and Maeda are two of the fastest players in Europe. Jota has more technical ability in his pinkie toe than both though.
James, maybe I’m misremembering but I was sure yourself and Alan used to be quite complimentary about Jota’s pressing and defensive willingness. Often I think your pessimism is justified but this feels misplaced. For me, Jota is a great signing with the only drawback being his lack of match fitness
My failing memory struggles with my own bloviating let alone recalling Alan's sage comments! My recollection on my own views/comments was oriented towards his defensive actions getting more efficient in season 2 vs 1st, but volumes remaining quite low. For some context, his defensive action volume in 2nd season were more than 50% below levels of wingers under BR. Jota's defensive effectiveness also declined to be pretty poor in EL and CL at Celtic, though admittedly limited sample sizes. So my concerns are not really domestic (other than injury risk) - but how will he cope with being expected to be 50%+ more active at EU level when he was not good in that facet at a materially lower level demanded?
I have no issue with people using whatever terminology they like to refer to our games against Rangers. That’s up to them. I’ve called the fixture the Old Firm numerous times since 2012 out of pure habit. That’s all leaving aside the fact it’s not my job to pull anyone up on anything.
Might eat my words here, but think villa are getting more credit here than they deserve.. While they're a good side, I wasn't impressed by them against West ham. Who knows. On the day anything can happen
Still not quite got over Kyogo. I'll probably get more into the Jota hysteria when I see what he has got to offer on the park. .My first observation is that he has clearly lost some weight since he was last here though I'm not really that interested how stunningly handsome he looks to some fans. We now desperately need a striker and he can be as ugly as hell if he can bang 'em in like Kyogo.
Yes indeed, ''the Jota hysteria'' that like you, I can't participate in at this precise moment in time, other than to say he's obviously quicker than Palma, but then again, Lisbon Lion Bobby Lennox MBE, is quicker than Palma & oor Bobby is now in his 82nd year for goodness sake & again like you, my very low ebb & poor mood when it comes to things Celtic, is all to do with the departure of oor beloved Wee Japanese Bhoy Kyogo, which we knew was always going to happen & for sure, we will NOT see his like again at Celtic Park anytime soon, if ever at all & talking of ''ugly as hell'' goal scorers, they didn't come much uglier than Dixie Deans & Leigh Griffiths & their respective goal scoring exploits will, sadly, NEVER be witnessed again either.
There are no real red flags for fitness like him having gained a ton of weight, but he does look out of condition, and said in his interview that he's not match fit. So he's not going to hit 'superstar from Portugal' heights in his first match, and we shouldn't expect it.
@@Anna-fp3bkHim hardly having kicked a football in earnest in the last couple of years or so, should ONLY ever be a matter of real & legitimate concern for both the hysterical & the non - hysterical cohorts & so in that context, what is it exactly, that most rightly can be expected of him from now until May & we the uninitiated on the outside looking in, don't have ANY real idea when it comes to the specific detail in that regard, but certainly in the coming weeks ''superstar from Portugal'' will be the very last thing on the minds of oor current Manager & the coaching staff as they get to work on him & so for sure, NO unexpected denim clad surprise guest appearances at The Brazen Head in the near future....
And of course James didn't ''criticise the move for Jota'' in the slightest in this particular video, but instead only questioned the ''ambition'' of it & most rightly so, in the context of & ''context is everything'' as dear old absent on this occasion Alan, most rightly often likes to remind us & so was this the very best we could do on this occasion, whilst for Jota on a personal level, a move back to Celtic makes ''perfect sense'' in the context of that nobody else wanted him & the small matter too is he even a Rodgers '' type of player'' & so I would also ask in that context, is he a Rodgers' signing or a Paul Tisdale, Celtic's Head Of Football Operations, signing & if indeed the latter's, nothing too innovative or cutting edge to speak of....
@@DavidByrne85 We ALL love ''a wee bit of sentiment'' when it comes to oor fitba & never mind solely in a Celtic Football Club context, the list of those who have been even better second time round than they were first time round at their respective football Clubs, is not the longest list you will ever find & taking ALL the emotional hysteria oot of second so-called ''homecomings'' it's really not that difficult to begin to understand why, in fact in this specific regard, you really can make quite a long list as to why things are just never as good second time round as they were first time round & often shockingly so & now brace yourself for another second ''homecoming'' of a near completely injury prone left back...
I'd hate James to ever give us a team talk before a big game. Jeezo, how negative was that. And as for suggesting Jota might get a surprise spot against Villa? The squad has been set in stone since September and can't be changed. Everyone - obviously expect you guys- know that
Hello Mark - perhaps my memory is failing me, but believe that is what I said relative to Jota not being available. I don't profess to be a rules expert so usually qualify statements as such. As for negativity, it is a result of my good faith attempt to analyze the situation heading into the game. Hopefully will end up looking like a horses arse but trying to provide objective analysis is the entire point of our platform - even when it results in unpopular opinions or negativity.
@ appreciate your response, and believe me, I’m a glass half empty Celtic fan but our record away in Europe (apart from the game that shall not be mentioned) has been fairly solid and should give us cause for some optimism? For the record, I actually think we’ll lose tomorrow. Combination of the absence of Kyogo and Maeda and the fact Villa seem in bigger need of a win than us suggests they will probably prevail but I live in hope - not fear.
@markturkston957 A lot of my concern has to do with relative strengths and weaknesses of this specific matchup. We enjoyed a tremendous result at Atalanta but that was materially aided by poor finishing by them on the day...and they are more system-driven vs raw athleticism, IMO. Villa present a systemic challenge AND with athletes closer to what Dortmund posed. That is the confluence, along with Villa likely going all out to win the game, that has me negative. I do not think this specific confluence existed in any of the other away games.
With all due respect @markturkston957, it was me who erroneously suggested Jota could feature against Villa. James rightly corrected me on that and STILL had the humility to ask people to fact check him if he was wrong, which I did not. Sorry to be so direct but, in this instance, I have to notify you of your error.
Most negative I have ever heard from him and that’s saying something,we shouldn’t be on the same park as Villa and Jota is a waste of money according to this guy
30:45 Gareth’s comments on Rodgers ‘really struggling in England’ and being ‘more suited to Scottish football’ are one dimensional and likely based on one truly bad season in the EPL with Leicester. While it ended badly, when viewed on the whole, Rodgers period at Leicester was one of the most successful in their history with two top 5 finishes and an FA Cup victory.
It’s not a stretch to say that Rodgers is an accomplished manager in England with 312 games over 10 seasons at EPL level:
139 wins
71 draws
102 losses
Indeed, only a handful of managers have accrued more points in the Premier League over the last 15 years.
Yeah he really let himself down with those comments
And those two top 5 finishes were top four until the last day of the season. So close to champions league football two years running. Winning cups. But for me selling Harry McGuire for £80m is his greatest achievement there. Eye Watering!
@@otisbdriftwood6520and the HuddleBreakdown let him away with it. For a podcast grounded in data pretty poor
If Rodgers ‘really struggled in England’ with his very decent record, how does golden boy Emery match up then 😂
Felt sorry for James interviewing that bloke. Thinks he is " Alfie Solomons ". Hard bloody work mate. !!!
It sounds like Kyogo asked for a move around October last year based on Brendan’s statement and for all we know possibly earlier than that. That gave us scope to do the Jota deal.
Ange Ball was ALWAYS best more suited & so got the very best out of oor Wee Japanese Bhoy rather than Brenda Bore Ball.....
Totally disagree that with the assertion that Jota isn’t pacy , he has pace and power particularly with the ball and obviously an abundance of skill
Enjoy your time off Alan HH
At the end of the day we got into the play offs, so if villa play well we'll probably struggle to get a result, but we'll give it a go .
There is no more cup tied in the champions league, changed after coutinho went to Barcelona so Tierney if he signs could be registered. Can register 3 players after the league phase
Yang and Taylor vs Villa 😳😨😱
Thank you again 🍀
Rodgers was poor at Leicester 😅.. ?… Villa have no real weaknesses and only Liverpool would concern him? Old firm? Did I hear those things right?
That lad needs to go back and do his homework before appearing on podcasts. 😂
Exactly. He actually said Rodgers ‘struggled in England’. Rodgers who managed 312 games in the English Premier League and only lost 33% of them. Two top 5 finishes and an FA Cup/Charity Shield double at Leicester. One bad season apparently writes off a decade of fairly solid work as a Premier League coach.
@ by those standards we can confidently affirm that Unai Emery has been a disaster of a manager.
Agree with your concerns around Jota , James . Let’s hope he still has the hunger to play the game, despite his now bulging bank balance.
Hope the bedwetters stay away then. We need positivity; Jota thrives on it. Kyogo seems to have seen it too.
Villa London guy way aff the mark about Brendan. He might not ‘mind’ him as a manager and think he’s suited to the Scottish league but to say he was a failure in England? Swansea promotion to EPL, Liverpool second, Leicester top five finishes… all above expectations and finances. We are 3 main men down for this tie and that will be the deciding factor. Only thing he said of any insight was the crowd ffs. Our ‘stattos’ outclass most others in their sober stating of the facts. The most important variable is luck and like Atlanta game we are going to need a lot of that in this game to take anything out of it. Great show guys
Great show again. Where’s Alan? Footballs no excuse. He’s a part timer!
Villa are on the dortmund/athletico level and we're going in with yang & idah up top. No idea where this confidence among the support is coming from but there's a good chance we're in for a very rude awakening
Villa just played 110mins on Sunday, they are beatable & they struggled towards the end against West Ham at home.
The main reason for delinking the kyogo and jota deals is the impact it has on both clubs turnover I think. On paper Celtic have just made 10 million rather than 1 million plus Jota. Financial regulation means clubs tend to want money rather than players. It allows them to spend more the higher their football income is.
This is a fair point and, from an administrative point of view, probably makes sense.
Everyone, probably for that exact reason, will continue to say the deals aren’t linked and the audit trail will remain unblemished. I still can’t help but think that they are, though,
Jota's got pace. Its not Kuhn or Maeda pace, but he's got adequate pace.
He’s got very average pace, whereas Kuhn and Maeda are two of the fastest players in Europe. Jota has more technical ability in his pinkie toe than both though.
James, maybe I’m misremembering but I was sure yourself and Alan used to be quite complimentary about Jota’s pressing and defensive willingness. Often I think your pessimism is justified but this feels misplaced. For me, Jota is a great signing with the only drawback being his lack of match fitness
My failing memory struggles with my own bloviating let alone recalling Alan's sage comments!
My recollection on my own views/comments was oriented towards his defensive actions getting more efficient in season 2 vs 1st, but volumes remaining quite low. For some context, his defensive action volume in 2nd season were more than 50% below levels of wingers under BR. Jota's defensive effectiveness also declined to be pretty poor in EL and CL at Celtic, though admittedly limited sample sizes.
So my concerns are not really domestic (other than injury risk) - but how will he cope with being expected to be 50%+ more active at EU level when he was not good in that facet at a materially lower level demanded?
looks like James lost the argument on the opening theme music
You should have called him up on his ‘Old Firm’ use - educated and corrected him. Good content though as always
I have no issue with people using whatever terminology they like to refer to our games against Rangers. That’s up to them. I’ve called the fixture the Old Firm numerous times since 2012 out of pure habit.
That’s all leaving aside the fact it’s not my job to pull anyone up on anything.
Might eat my words here, but think villa are getting more credit here than they deserve..
While they're a good side, I wasn't impressed by them against West ham. Who knows. On the day anything can happen
You'll eat your words, villa are generally far better focused at home in the champions league, tho a tight game, villa to edge it
West Ham aren't Dundee .....
@frankgreen1663 and your not Liverpool
Not to be confused, Celtic ain't Liverpool
@@kevinjeenes They've got a lot of key injuries TBF and the pressure is all on them
'active in the industry' and 'consultancy' are opposites
What do you call ten thousand ''consultants'' at the bottom of the River Clyde? Quite a good start, but still lots more to do....
Still not quite got over Kyogo. I'll probably get more into the Jota hysteria when I see what he has got to offer on the park. .My first observation is that he has clearly lost some weight since he was last here though I'm not really that interested how stunningly handsome he looks to some fans. We now desperately need a striker and he can be as ugly as hell if he can bang 'em in like Kyogo.
Yes indeed, ''the Jota hysteria'' that like you, I can't participate in at this precise moment in time, other than to say he's obviously quicker than Palma, but then again, Lisbon Lion Bobby Lennox MBE, is quicker than Palma & oor Bobby is now in his 82nd year for goodness sake & again like you, my very low ebb & poor mood when it comes to things Celtic, is all to do with the departure of oor beloved Wee Japanese Bhoy Kyogo, which we knew was always going to happen & for sure, we will NOT see his like again at Celtic Park anytime soon, if ever at all & talking of ''ugly as hell'' goal scorers, they didn't come much uglier than Dixie Deans & Leigh Griffiths & their respective goal scoring exploits will, sadly, NEVER be witnessed again either.
There are no real red flags for fitness like him having gained a ton of weight, but he does look out of condition, and said in his interview that he's not match fit. So he's not going to hit 'superstar from Portugal' heights in his first match, and we shouldn't expect it.
@@Anna-fp3bkHim hardly having kicked a football in earnest in the last couple of years or so, should ONLY ever be a matter of real & legitimate concern for both the hysterical & the non - hysterical cohorts & so in that context, what is it exactly, that most rightly can be expected of him from now until May & we the uninitiated on the outside looking in, don't have ANY real idea when it comes to the specific detail in that regard, but certainly in the coming weeks ''superstar from Portugal'' will be the very last thing on the minds of oor current Manager & the coaching staff as they get to work on him & so for sure, NO unexpected denim clad surprise guest appearances at The Brazen Head in the near future....
STOP telling him our weaknesses😬
Is this when James criticises the move for Jota.....
And of course James didn't ''criticise the move for Jota'' in the slightest in this particular video, but instead only questioned the ''ambition'' of it & most rightly so, in the context of & ''context is everything'' as dear old absent on this occasion Alan, most rightly often likes to remind us & so was this the very best we could do on this occasion, whilst for Jota on a personal level, a move back to Celtic makes ''perfect sense'' in the context of that nobody else wanted him & the small matter too is he even a Rodgers '' type of player'' & so I would also ask in that context, is he a Rodgers' signing or a Paul Tisdale, Celtic's Head Of Football Operations, signing & if indeed the latter's, nothing too innovative or cutting edge to speak of....
A fitbaw fan can't live on bread alone: I'm happy for a wee bit of sentiment to step on optimisations toes here and there
@@DavidByrne85 We ALL love ''a wee bit of sentiment'' when it comes to oor fitba & never mind solely in a Celtic Football Club context, the list of those who have been even better second time round than they were first time round at their respective football Clubs, is not the longest list you will ever find & taking ALL the emotional hysteria oot of second so-called ''homecomings'' it's really not that difficult to begin to understand why, in fact in this specific regard, you really can make quite a long list as to why things are just never as good second time round as they were first time round & often shockingly so & now brace yourself for another second ''homecoming'' of a near completely injury prone left back...
Yaaas!
Jota needs to hit the gym
If we took Juco's advice, we wouldn't turn up for Aston Villa and would forfeit 3 - 0. However, Juco may end up being right if we lose 6-0.
I'd hate James to ever give us a team talk before a big game. Jeezo, how negative was that.
And as for suggesting Jota might get a surprise spot against Villa?
The squad has been set in stone since September and can't be changed. Everyone - obviously expect you guys- know that
Hello Mark - perhaps my memory is failing me, but believe that is what I said relative to Jota not being available. I don't profess to be a rules expert so usually qualify statements as such.
As for negativity, it is a result of my good faith attempt to analyze the situation heading into the game. Hopefully will end up looking like a horses arse but trying to provide objective analysis is the entire point of our platform - even when it results in unpopular opinions or negativity.
@ appreciate your response, and believe me, I’m a glass half empty Celtic fan but our record away in Europe (apart from the game that shall not be mentioned) has been fairly solid and should give us cause for some optimism? For the record, I actually think we’ll lose tomorrow. Combination of the absence of Kyogo and Maeda and the fact Villa seem in bigger need of a win than us suggests they will probably prevail but I live in hope - not fear.
@markturkston957 A lot of my concern has to do with relative strengths and weaknesses of this specific matchup. We enjoyed a tremendous result at Atalanta but that was materially aided by poor finishing by them on the day...and they are more system-driven vs raw athleticism, IMO. Villa present a systemic challenge AND with athletes closer to what Dortmund posed. That is the confluence, along with Villa likely going all out to win the game, that has me negative. I do not think this specific confluence existed in any of the other away games.
With all due respect @markturkston957, it was me who erroneously suggested Jota could feature against Villa. James rightly corrected me on that and STILL had the humility to ask people to fact check him if he was wrong, which I did not.
Sorry to be so direct but, in this instance, I have to notify you of your error.
Luke McCowan on the wing instead of Yang?
I bet Engles could do a turn wide, his crossing is his best attribute
Honestly tho: anyone but Yang. Palma, a youngster, Engles, the tea lady
@@DavidByrne85 the tea lady is off to Rennes, I hear
Leo’s score 🤣🤣🤣🤣 means nothing.
Go to records against English opposition .
Most negative I have ever heard from him and that’s saying something,we shouldn’t be on the same park as Villa and Jota is a waste of money according to this guy
And it's common knowledge jota can't play 😂😂 jesus guys. ..