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.

And how did that work out in the end ?

Eduard takes 27 seconds to open his account for Palace.

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

ex Melb City O'Halloran doing good work for Ange

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

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.

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. 

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.

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

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

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

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.

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Kyogo out for up to a month 

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

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

Possibly, yes, fingers crossed.

Kyogo starting at number 10 against China.

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

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. 

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

I reckon Ange has had a pretty good window. You'd have to say nearly all the signings add something to the team and have the ability to play his way.

Couple of weeks to work with the non-internationals... would not be surprised if they're flying shortly. Didn't deserve to lose against Rangers.

Did you see Tierney and Robertson’s defending at both goals this morning?

Got McGinn too who is an excellent player, was Aston villa's best the last few years after Grealish. Then McTominay also. Just really lack a RB/RWB, CB and CF. 

Shankly, Ferguson and Stein combined could not make that shower of shite any use.

'Lately' being the key word there. CCV turns 24 at the end of the year, it was only really Pulisic at 22 who was the real outlier 4-5 years ago when he burst onto the scene. 
When the US failed to qualify for the WC I think this coincided with the likes of  Boyd, McKennie, Richards, Konrad, Dest, Reyna coming through representing this new generation post 2018. Before that it was pretty bleak, and I vaguely remember on some American forums they were pretty buoyant about CCV's future because there wasn't really anyone else bar Pulisic.

The US are having a real emergence, if anything its way overdue too. Heaps of quality coming through the MLS nowadays.

Hoping for Ange's sake CCV can kick on!

imagine what ange could do with this scotland team... Robertson and Tierney as wingbacks and Billy Gimour + McGregor... he would have a ball coaching them.

Hehehe yeah absolutely.... 

In fairness to American players lately in that age bracket, CCV sorta an outlier in terms of players not kicking on. Pulisic, Reyna at Dortmund, Richards at Bayern now on loan at Hoffenheim, McKennie at Juventus, Adams at Leipzig, Dest at Barca, Konrad at Marseille, Weah at Lille, Aaronsonn at Salzburg and some others all in that age group or even younger and solidly in good teams in top 5 leagues (minus Aaronson). 

there was hope CCV would join that group but he’s been left behind and pretty far out of the US depth chart going into WCQs. Most US fans think Celtic a good spot for him, been decent at all those Championship clubs. Had plenty of opportunities to make his way at Spurs and clearly not at that level. 

if memory serves me correct south melbourne have a long and good history of scottish players and managers, just returning the favour I guess,