That's a fair point Gary, though like Bridie said Forrest is a confidence player.
It's a straight toss up with Forrest and Kuhn for me.
The way Forrest has been playing of late I'm more inclined to go with him and Kuhn replacing him after the hour mark.
Kuhn has improved leaps and bounds , it wasn't part of his game, the tracking back part but he's incorporated it into his game very well in recent games he now knows that defending starts with kyogo and attack starts with big Joe Hart.
It's a nice problem to have , if Forrest can tire out their backline like Daizen is hopefully doing on the otherside that would be perfect circumstances to introduce Kuhn and his willingness to run at defenders.
Seems we all have the same players in mind just whether they start or join play later.
It's also great to see our Japanese bhoys really stepping up to the plate when required , Daizen, Kyogo and Hatate really starting /started playing well in recent weeks and can add Iwata too that as well when he's been called upon he's been very safe and reliable, not many would be able to step into the void left by calmacs absence but I thought after a shaky start Iwata more than held his own there.
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I was looking at the Celtic squad pre-post and thought that though were definately losing big Joe Hart, Seigrist has to go as well, leaving Bain and young Scot Joe Morrisson as back up keepers to whomever we bring in.
In defence its clear we require a left back , preferably with height and pace to give Taylor more of a challenge , not that he hasn't been challenged by the spfl, and he's done really well in that challenge but needs competition for his place.
Also around 6 CBs , I think we should look to loan or sell some out to Scottish or English championship/ league 1 level.
Lawall is already interesting many, Kobayashi and Lagerbielke might need to go get some game time elsewhere for a time. Crazy how we went from 6 or so to 1 fit CB at times, maybe we require at least 2 as back up.
In midfield, I know we hear/heard that Celtic are in no hurry to sell Oriley but imo that was because the title looked to be slipping slightly and when we hopefully win it we will likely sell him for a new club record, if this happens Bernardo has to be bought , the £6 million or so for Portugal u21 captain appears good business and in time perhaps he can emulate Oriley.
Having calmac, Bernardo, iwata, Hatate in place is no bad starting position for midfield, perhaps Odin Holm could go on loan, McCarthy must find another club sadly it's not worked out and it's a lot for a player who's not making the bench.
Kelly has been a bit of a revelation , one for the future perhaps and something has to happen with Vata, if we're keeping him then loan him out with game time the target.
Lastly I see in news that Celtic have or allegedly are about to test the waters with a £5 million bid for Idah, which seems reasonable given his contribution so far but it spells trouble for Oh, still highly rated back home hasn't had the opportunity under Rodgers, another for the loan market either that or cut our losses he didn't cost us a great deal comparatively.
Of our other attackers all are doing reasonably well apart from hot and cold Yang, perhaps next season we'll see better from him and he's still young , different language, culture, food etc but his performances have to increase in quality and consistency.
So really we need a GK, LB, (1perhaps 2), I'd say another winger and perhaps time to swap out Oh for another , I'd love to see Oh hit the heights really would and its unfair he's compared to Giakoumakis but that's the standard we require.
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