Liel Abada is a Southampton goal however Celtic don’t need to promote. What sort of supply do you suppose may tempt the Hoops?
MICHAEL GANNON: There’s no must promote Abada proper now however when the time comes he may make Celtic an enormous stack of dosh. At 21 and with confirmed finish product, there’s no purpose he couldn’t command £20m plus when the time comes.
DAVID McCARTHY: Celtic have him on a deal till 2026, so maintain all of the aces right here. The teen has been excellent for them and so they’d certainly be wanting someplace north of £15m for him.
FRASER WILSON: If Celtic are severe about conserving the Israeli then it could take one thing fairly ridiculous to alter their thoughts. Upwards of £12m.
Jon McLaughlin returned for Rangers final evening rather than sickness-hit Allan McGregor - what do you make of the state of affairs between the sticks at Ibrox?
MICHAEL: Rangers want a brand new goalkeeper. McGregor has been nice servant however time has caught up and it’s beginning to value the aspect objectives.
DAVID: McGregor is one of the best he’s bought and he’s nonetheless superb however this can certainly be his final season. Jon McLaughlin and Robby McCrorie are strong goalkeepers however Rangers want higher than ‘strong’ so I’d count on a brand new No 1 subsequent time period.
FRASER: I mentioned in the summertime McGregor’s time - excellent because it has been - was up and I've not modified my thoughts. The saves have gotten few and much between similar to the clear sheets. Jon McLaughlin is an all spherical higher goalkeeper proper now however the actual travesty is how Robby McCrorie has dropped proper out of the equation at an important age in his profession.
Aberdeen have had a torturous week shedding to each side of the Previous Agency on the dying however how a lot had been Jim Goodwin’s ways guilty?
MICHAEL: Under no circumstances. Goodwin had been three minutes away from a draw with Celtic and was seconds away from beating Rangers. If his gamers had saved the top they may have had 4 factors and he’d be getting hailed as a genius.
DAVID: In opposition to Celtic, it was one hundred pc on Goodwin for organising so defensively. However towards Rangers, that was all the way down to the gamers’ mentality. They wilted and there was nothing the supervisor may do from the sidelines.
FRASER: Outcomes drive the narrative so it was no shock to see the criticism that adopted the extremely defensive show towards Celtic regardless of being so near gaining some extent. However the Dons had been excellent for an hour towards Rangers and deservedly led just for the sport administration of gamers making the mistaken choices and unhealthy errors within the closing levels to value them.
Within the spirit of Christmas when you had one reward to unwrap for Scottish soccer what would it not be?
MICHAEL: A quick ahead button for VAR.
DAVID: That Lionel Messi has a secret 16-year-old Scottish love-child chopping about Drumchapel, who has inherited all of his dad’s footballing genius and at 16, is about to pledge his allegiance to the nation of his start. We will however dream!
FRASER: For the handball rule to be black and white. Deliberate handball - foul. Every part else - no foul. Then the weekly arguments would quickly go away, proper? Ho, ho, ho .. nae likelihood.
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