The 7 Celtic new boys in transfer wilderness as Brendan Rodgers stares down at £16m recruitment hole

The 7 Celtic new boys in transfer wilderness as Brendan Rodgers stares down at £16m recruitment hole

The Celtic fanbase are starting to get tired of recruitment misfires from the hierarchy.

Bernabei, Tilio and Lagerbielke could all be heading for the Parkhead exit door

The grumbles and groans have turned into loud shouts and moans from Celtic fans.

And the cries from disgruntled Parkhead punters are being aimed squarely at the Brothers Grimm’ – the board and the stars who have not hit the heights expected. It was a summer of change at Celtic Park when Ange Postecoglou upped sticks for Spurs, and the heralded return of Brendan Rodgers signalled a second Celtic chance for the Prodigal son, with fans expecting the same level of utter domination that painted the picture of the Irishman’s first spell.

But since his arrival it’s been more deflation that domination, with back to back defeats in the Scottish Premiership for the first time since 2007 compounding a feeling something isn’t quite right in Glasgow’s East End. And the recruitment has been getting in the neck with many of the most recent arrivals unable to make the grade. There were nine new bodies in the door in the summer, but with Luis Palma so far the only new boy to show the right indicators, Record Sport took a look at some of the newest faces and what their transfer state of play looks like with loanee Nat Phillips also set to head back to Liverpool in January.

Yuki Kobayashi

Celtic’s hit rate in the Japanese market has been lauded, but when one boils it down the Hoops are sitting at about half and half for success. For every Daizen Maeda, Reo Hatate and world beater Kyogo Furuhashi there is a Yosuke Ideguchi, with the jury still out on Tomoki Iwata. But for another import from the land of the rising sun, Celtic has been a dark cloud. Youngster Kobayashi left boyhood club Vissel Kobe for Glasgow, but seems to be struggling to make the grade. He’s fallen way down the pecking order in defence despite Celtic not having their problems to seek. He arrived just over a year ago but has managed just seven appearances in total. An exit looks like it will be rubber stamped in January.

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Odin Holm

A Golden Boy nominee with a track record of being the best in class – what could possibly go wrong? Odin Thiago Holm may have the namesake of a Spanish hero but it’s been something of a villain story so far in Glasgow. And after the 20-year-old’s £3m summer move, he has been conspicuous by his absence in the last two matchday squads. He’s impressed in flashes, but will he be one sent out to pastures new to gain experience? Time will tell.

Marco Tilio

The Aussie adventurer has found Glasgow an uncharted path, and despite injuries, he is being held up as the scapegoat of bad summer recruitment. As soon as Tilio checked in he was deemed not fit to feature, and has made the sum of 27 minutes of action this campaign.