A Celtic participant as soon as labelled a “little bit of an fool” by Chris Sutton could have performed his closing sport for the membership, in keeping with an intriguing new switch report.
Celtic cruise into Scottish League Cup closing
The Hoops loved a rampant outing on Saturday, as they took on Scottish Premiership title rivals Aberdeen within the semi-finals of the Scottish League Cup. On paper, it appeared as if it will be a decent conflict between two groups who’ve each solely dropped a few factors within the league to this point this season, and even that was in opposition to one another at Parkhead.
As a substitute, Brendan Rodgers‘ aspect dismantled the Dons at Hampden Park, racing right into a 3-0 lead at half-time, because of targets from Cameron Carter-Vickers, Kyogo Furuhashi and Daizen Maeda.
After the break, Maeda continued to play an enormous half within the rout, including two extra targets to his tally to finish his hat-trick, with Nicolas Kuhn additionally getting on the scoresheet and sealing a memorable 6-0 win for Celtic.
It means the Hoops have booked a spot within the Scottish League Cup closing, the place they are going to come up in opposition to both Rangers or Motherwell, and it additionally stays to be seen how large a psychological blow this end result might be to Aberdeen within the Scottish Premiership title race, as they appear to stay with Rodgers’ males for so long as attainable.
Celtic defender could have performed his closing Hoops sport
Based on a contemporary declare from Soccer Insider, Alexandro Bernabei is “unlikely” to play for Celtic ever again, having been loaned out to Brazilian aspect Internacional at present.
Whereas the £4m left-back has loved higher type in Brazil, it’s believed that Rodgers is “understood to be sceptical about reintegrating him again into the squad”.
At this level, it will be a shock if Bernabei returned to Celtic and loved a superb profession there, having seemingly fallen utterly out of Rodgers’ plans.
The 24-year-old wasn’t precisely pulling up timber earlier than his mortgage spell at Internacional, only scoring once in 28 appearances for the Hoops, and it’s onerous to see him ousting Greg Taylor as first-choice left-back shifting ahead.
Bernabei was even criticised by Sutton up to now, with the previous Celtic striker describing him as an “fool” final yr for his unprofessional behaviour, saying:
“They received final week and you are going with the Bernabei story? You are fairly proper to deliver it up and Brendan left Bernabei out cos there isn’t any excuse for being late for a workforce assembly. He is a little bit of an fool often because it is a new supervisor, a clear slate and he hasn’t carried out himself any good.”
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The Celtic ahead confirmed the supervisor what he can provide to the workforce on Wednesday.
Celtic ought to now be trying to offload Bernabei completely within the close to future, maybe subsequent summer time, trying to recoup a lot of the cash paid for him again in 2022 when he arrived from Lanus for a reported £3.75m.
