Hard to know who is running the scouting show at Celtic.
Have to be realistic bearing in mind that Peter Lawell & the scouting buying team have left it so late (again) to do any business.
And keeping in mind that the board appear to like loans, loans that we the fans pay for!
Juan Foyth of Spurs
crap irrelevant music turned off! you can see this kid is actually a defender.
There was some vague google news speculation linking Foyth with us a few weeks back but more with Leeds, don't know if the lad is actually available for loan at all, but he looks a real player already and a great prospect.
If he is available, then he should have been just the type of loan player Celtic should have been in for. If we are going to loan and develop lets have players that are already obvious talents in highlights, not just prospects.
Only going by youtube highlights, but then by some accounts that is about the sum of what Congerton does before running stats into a database which kicks out supposedly if he is a player or not.
Reading up a bit a while back about Congertons and his buddies ideas on using stats appeared at best a little naïve, at worst bamboozling chancery.
in short it seemed to amount to 'we have a shiny system' that is so genius no one else understands it but us!!
One quote stuck out for me about their data system, and it was pathetic and scary embarrassing that they should even quote it.
Basically how using their data system they thought one lad stuck out as the next Messi.
Until! they realised they had forgotten to turn on 'the minutes played' factor!
He had only played a few minutes as a sub. but his 2 passes showed 100% skills presumably!
You'll find this on google if you want to be scared or depressed at the potential state of things.
And we were warned by Sunderland fans! Loads and loads of fans of theirs who thought Congerton was not so good!
Long for John Park, even David Hay could have done a more professional job and I suspect for a lot less money.
No intention of justifying Lawell's short sightedness for the pitch side of things (you know that most relevant part of any club) and his Del boy buy on the cheap tactics, but he is not all to blame. Unless that is Brendan was just saying that Congerton was his idea after being told.