I'd play Robinson at left CB
Move him centrally like Gus did with Neil against Uruguay 

Rogic playing the full 90mins against Vietnam almost guarantees he won’t be ready to start on the weekend for Celtic. He got kicked a bit too, so hopefully he pulls up ok. Strange decision by Arnie to play a 60 minute player for 90 minutes. 

As long as there are no ramifications from the knocks 90 hard minutes will probably do him good early in the season. 

Kyogo starting at number 10 against China.

Possibly, yes, fingers crossed.

Played the full 90 I think. As did CalMac in his match.

Actually, some news reports out of Scotland indicate Kyogo injured his knee and was replaced in second half. Didn’t sound good. Bugger.

Kyogo out for up to a month 

Celtic Football Club announced today that Chief Executive Dom McKay has stood down from his position for personal reasons.

#CelticFC’s Director of Legal and Football Affairs Michael Nicholson has been appointed to the Board of Celtic plc as acting CEO.

Full statement ⤵️

Shame that. Seemed like a very forward thinking, progressive, open minded and brave CEO - he made the decision to hire Ange after all which he should be given huge huge props for. 

Hope he picks up a role with another club in future

Turmoil at the BJK camp. Ange will do well to last the season.

Massive loss. Especially as it sounds like Giakoumakis is pretty unfit and won't be starting for a while.

The odds have been stacked against Ange from the start. He inherited a squad that finished 25 points off the pace last season and needed (still needs) a significant overhaul and strength in depth. Then, since arriving, has had to play almost a youth side in pre-season friendlies and once the season got underway had tonuse new signings as soon as they arrived, with a number of key want-away players such as Christie, to now have his star signing injured and the CEO leave in the same week! Football, gotta love it. Still, Ange new this would be a challenge so kudos to him for taking it on. If we were using academic grades of fail, pass, credit, distinction and high distinction, I’d say he is sitting on a credit. Whether that’s enough for the Board or hard core Celtic fans, well I don’t know, you might be right.

Fair points. Ange has done all that can be asked of him at this point and from what I can tell most Celtic fans appreciate that. 

St Johnstone leading over Rangers after half time prob lift the Celtic morale a bit.

I've been watching this game for half an hour.  Some real average play, long balling a lot.  Horrendous tackles and strange (at times) Reffing makes you wonder about this League.  Both feet up from behind and scissor tackles have featured.  Yellow card might get given.  Keeper makes last man foul to prevent a goal and gets yellow.  Our Refs not as bad as people say.

That didn't last now Rangers have a pen.

Straight to brawl punches thrown.  Quite the spectacle.  4 Yellow cards no reds.  LOL.

ex Melb City O'Halloran doing good work for Ange

Rogic starting for Celtic.  90 mins in Hanoi good training hit-out apparently. 

Eduard takes 27 seconds to open his account for Palace.

And how did that work out in the end ?

this is crazy.

rumour is that his dealings with the board made him feel like he was unable to do his job.  supposedly he went over his chain of commands heads to sign jovanovic.

there's talk about a board rejig coming up now.  but that same thing has been talked about for a while.

i have to say, that after a very slow start celtic's transfer window has been about the best ive ever seen at a club.  they really recruited well. 

there are some questions hanging over a couple transfers - hart's suitability to angeball, how long starfelt is taking to settle, mcarthy's injury issues.  but they've really secured a lot of promise all over the park.  everywhere except lb is looking solid - but i really rate montgomery, i think he will overtake taylor as the first team choice.

all the departures have kind of sped the ange process up a lot. normally the first season would be him sorting through the squad but a lot of that has been done.  

it's a shame dom mckay has left because i feel like he has worked with ange to make this happen.

I pretty much agree with most of this. The only frustrating thing was how long/late it took to get the transfers finalised 😡 But that is nothing new, it has been the clubs/boards modus operandi for several years now. Every transfer window the club/board always seems to wait until deadline day to act, rather than get business sorted earlier during the transfer windows.

LB is a definitely a concern for us, as we seriously lack depth and quality. Taylor looks like he will be out injured a wee while, so there will either be a makeshift backline, or one of the young lads step up. I too like the look of Montgomery with what I have seen so far. You could be right and we may see him as our first pick LB in the not to distant future. There is also Bolingoli who could be considered and selected. Even though he screwed up (and us) last season with his shenanigans, he is still at the club.

If we can fix up our defensive issues, and get rid of the amateur/rookie mistakes/defensive brain explosions we seem to have, then things look promising.

As for Dom McKay, I'll wait until I hear the full story/reason for his departure before commenting too much on the issue. That said, it looks like another thing to add to the questions of the board that needs asking and answered. 

yer 2 goals in 6mins, what a debut.
Big loss for the Hoops.

He didn't want to be there,  he wasn't going to try so good riddance.

This greek striker needs to get fit quick and hit the ground running. They looked very flat on the weekend. 

So long as Ange can keep the team ticking over I think juanary will be more important than the last transfer period. They needed to just get anything in then, now they need a quality LB and to create some depth on the bench and I definitely think there needs to be more support for turnbull, rogic, McGregor.

Looking forward to the next few months. 

Oh look I agree when a player wants to leave always better to shift him but at the sametime IF he stayed and on the pitch its not like you see players intentionally thrwo games away or a forward purposely miss goal attempts.
All I said would be missed when you've played 116 games banging 66 in always hard to replicate unless you've bought even better or sunone steps up, Kyogo settled in pretty quick mind you.

I loved Lustig's Instagram comment/joke about the EPL being an easier league than the SPFL with regards to Edouard's quick-fire double 😄

i reckon ange rates montgomery.  has given him a few runs on the park when a lot of squadies aren't even getting on the bench now.  i dont think it's going to take a huge step up to displace taylor.  when he subbed in the the europa match he looked solid in defence and a threat moving forward.

it's quite possible that ange will be ok with inverted fullbacks as well for cover. he has them coming in to shoot already.  i was hearing the liam shaw might be left back cover - but from what i see he's right footed anyway.

ange has also mentioned numerous times now that they are looking at recruits from the j league but couldnt get anyone across the line in the j league midseason - so i think there will be incoming first team talent in the scottish winter break.

If Ange isn’t sacked beforehand and gets even just two or three quality signings in the next window, the last few months of the season will be pretty to watch. It’s a big ‘if’ though, whether the Board and fans have the patience for anything but winning the League this season, so my guess is that if Celtic are any more than 7 or 8 points behind Rangers by Christmas, it’s 50/50 for a sacking. I’d personally give Ange a blank cheque this season, but that won’t happen at this club.

The board better be in the process at looking for a "possible" replacement. As things currently stand, and the directional trend of results are far from being close to anything that resembles anything acceptable.

After the amount of matches already played (just under 20 – not including friendlies) and having a winning percentage of less than 50% isn't good enough. NOWHERE close at being at an acceptable level, or anything close to getting a 'pass' grade. It is one of the worst starts in the clubs history.😡😢😡