A Big Pizza Pie....

With the countdoon to oor date wie Spartak Moscow for the 10m bounty, which could decide oor transfer budget from now, to the end of the window and January, or decide if any offers sitting on the table gathering dust for oor star men suddenly become interesting you can always count on a scoop from the red tops.

The Daily R*nger has tracked doon Dmitri Popov and in a bond villain style described in the offending article as a Russian Super Spy .

Now oor Dmitri gave the soundbite that oor 3m Italian stallion Massimo Donati was a bit overweight and slow. Slow, well he did get oot run by a 39 year old forty a day man with such ease on Saturday and lung bursting speed disnny seem to be in the locker.

Passing ability to die for, a vision and a comfort on the ball that seems to ooze from Italians. He also has what i call the "Di Canio" look of an unexploded bomb that is just waiting to go off. When he was taken off on Saturday his face on the bench was like a 3 year old who has dropped his ice cream cone and you could tell that he was going over his missed sitters in his mind.

I can take the overweight jibe, mair worrying for me was this quote

"One thing about Donati is he is very tactically aware and always in his
correct position on the field but I doubt he will have a major role for Celtic at this moment. I preferred Scott Brown."

This hits the nail on the head. Donati is being told to sit deeper and cover the back 4 when he needs to. This is against his natural instinct as his defending is akin to Donald Findlay trying to get a guilty as sin murderer off the hook.

I only hope Tom O'Neill was as perceptive on his scouting mission.

Forza