I notice that it's not taken long for the MSM to jump on the Oh deal, and the imminent outgoing of Giakoumakis on top of Juranovic, surprisingly notably Chris Sutton, saying this makes us weaker, and he's not the only one saying this.
Both are/were good servants yet neither guaranteed a starting place for us.
So we have the MSM lining up to tell us that we are weaker without our bit part players ( no disrespect to GG or JJ but that's what they've been).
I'd be far more concerned if we were letting Kyogo go.
I dont have any reservations about Oh coming in , largely because of Ange's incredible eye for a player.
Oh, like Giakoumakis looks like a big lump of a bhoy who is going to be a handful for Scottish defenders.
Giakoumakis is wanted here, just not for the money he reckons he should be on.
I understand that Oh's goalscoring numbers arent as high as Giakoumakis upon arrival at Celtic but I'd doubt that Suwon Bluewings have been supplying Oh with the amount of opportunities that he will get for Celtic, a side that regularly creates 30 plus attempts at goal in a game.
I'd have thought that the MSM would know better by now than to second guess what Ange is doing.
Everytime they have they've been proven wrong each time and I see no reason for this to change.
I see it as short sighted, sensationalist,
' journalism ' and it overlooks our other very good signings as well.
Only the SMSM would have Celtic as ' weakened ' by this , no thought of the Japanese player of the year joining , no thought given to the great starts to life at paradise for the likes of Johnston, Kobayashi and Iwata.
Losing Juranovic has been covered by Johnston who's settling in very well but JJ wasnt the player for us that we saw at the world cup.
I dont recall such a big deal being made over Celtic selling players who are not guaranteed a start in the past.
This is all on the back of JJs bronze medal performances in Qatar.
I look forward to seeing Ange and Oh prove everyone wrong yet again just as he did with Maeda , Kyogo, Mooy, Abada etc etc.
It's not ideal losing Giakoumakis at this point in the season but I'm utterly convinced that we will be just fine without having him as our second striker.
In Ange we trust