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Playing him left centre back makes sense I think. Although if he's going to progress as a centre back, even a left footed one, that will pretty much mean the end of his international hopes I think. There's just too many better options at centre back. It's left wing back where we needed someone like him to come good.
agree with that. lets see how he does. hopefully able to eek out a career with a 'best of the rest' club in spl. i never fancied him lwb with rovers tbh was surprised at how well he did. lcb should suit him better imo. he is a good footballer, a bit too good for loi i think but just not at the level of a celtic/rangers player.Quote:
Originally Posted by liamoo11
Scales will bring balance to the Aberdeen side.
He's tipped for great thingsQuote:
Originally Posted by Trequartista20
Is this heading down the fish run ?
I need to weigh it up a bit more before I decide if its good or bad move
Yeah, don't cast any aspersions.Quote:
Originally Posted by Razors left peg
Did you mean asperchions?
There's a weight of expectation around Scales, fans think he's really going to tare it up next season.
Playing well so far for Aberdeen. Haven't been watching but scanned their forum and they seem very happy with him even if they generally don't like taking loans from Celtic. There was a lot of negativity around him (or the idea of a loan moreso) but he looks to have won them over on the field. Seems to be playing mainly as a left sided centre half but also had a game at left back I think. "Effortlessly solid" "just a really good defender" "sign him up" etc.
https://www.aberdeenlive.news/sport/...scales-7498593
Just in addition to the above. Good start.
Had to go 9 pages back to find this thread. Passed James McCarthy, Darragh Burns and a few players I've never heard of to get here!
For a lad who is still in and around squads Scales obviously hasn't captured the foot.ie imagination but he's back playing well for Aberdeen who are on a bit of a roll.
Looks like he's lining out as the left sided centre back for the most part.
He ain't heavy.
Why didn't you use the search option? Click "Advanced Search" -> "Search Single Content Type" -> Enter "Scales" as the keyword, then click "Search Entire Post" and change it to "Search Title Only"Quote:
Originally Posted by ontheotherhand
You can change the "Show Results As" option to Threads as well, but it's not necessary.
Thanks tets.....I actually wanted to see how many pages back he'd be. When I clicked one and didn't see him despite his fairly recent call up I thought it would be interesting to see how far he's fallen back!Quote:
Originally Posted by tetsujin1979
Fair enough, the thread is missing from the player threads list in the important threads post as well, so I've added it there too
Swimming upstream for a while in Scotland but he's flying now. Goal, clean sheet and MotM today against rangers.
good write up here...
https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/65369221
"At some point in recent weeks Liam Scales must have jumped through one of those portals you see in Marvel movies and entered the multiverse of footballing madness.
The haunted Aberdeen defender of before has been left behind amid the smouldering embers of all those losses under Jim Goodwin - the 4-0 at Tannadice, the 5-0 at Hearts, the 6-0 at Hibernian and the catastrophe that was Darvel, a loss that only feels like it happened in another lifetime.
Scales played in all of those. He bore the scars. He got sent off at 4-0 at Easter Road and as he made his way off he would have given Goodwin and owner Dave Cormack an almighty run for their money as the nation's most miserable man. He could not have looked more at sea had he hired a boat and sailed off into the distance, back to his homeland on Ireland's south-east coast.
That was then. This is now. The Scales we see now, alongside Angus MacDonald and Mattie Pollock, is a different person; utterly comfortable in a reconstituted defensive line that has not conceded a goal in an age, a trio that had the presence of nightclub doormen turning away Rangers players at every turn with a 'not tonight lads' vibe."
Played the second half of Celtic's 1-0 win over Osaka in Japan today (as did Lawal and Vata)
Though Celtic linked with a defender from Legia Warsaw, which would be bad news. Still not yet clear what his role for the coming season is likely to be
Not named in the Celtic squad today despite featuring regularly enough in pre-season. Disappointing, if not massively surprising. Hopefully he has another loan move lined up
Seems likely to return to Aberdeen on loan by the end of the current window - https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.foo...r-27511702.amp
Silly question, but is James McCarthy still playing football (theoretically)?
He's still at Celtic, if that's what you mean. Rodgers was asked about him recently
https://www.independent.ie/sport/soc...860200931.html
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Former Ireland man McCarthy (32) has not played for Celtic since October and made just one league appearance last term but has two years left on his Parkhead contract. He has been linked with a summer move to the MLS as he had appeared to have played his last game for Celtic in a dismal spell there, but Rodgers says he will assess the former Everton man.
“I’ve known since he was a young player at Hamilton. At this moment I’m assessing the squad to see where they all fit, and where it’s at. I’m taking the chance to see the squad up close,” he said.
He was listed as injured today, muscle injury, on the line ups & scores app I use.
MLS surprised me a bit, he is a guaranteed injury.
How is McCarthy still only 32?! It feels like he should be 36 or 37 somehow.
Looking at his stats, he was pretty much done as a top level footballer by 29. Had an odd career, over 250 Premier League appearances yet it doesn't feel like he ever really established himself as a standout player at that level or for his country. He's as well to just sit out his last two years at Celtic now and call it a day after that. Beyond belief that they gave him that contract.
Similar to Harry Arter, really. Given an insanely long and lucrative contract in spite of their limitations and highly questionable fitness history.
It wouldn't sit easily with me, but I suppose they're perfectly within their rights to continue to swing the lead and pick up the pay-cheque, despite doing absolutely nothing to deserve the money.
More fool those who gave them the deal in the first place, I guess.
I hope he buys his agent a good Christmas gift each year because only God knows how he got him that four year contract.
Does Arter have the same agent as James McCarthy, managed to get a 5 year contract from Celtic when he hadnt been fit in about 8 seasonsQuote:
Originally Posted by JR89
Named on the bench for the first time this season, away to Kilmarnock.
Starts for Celtic today, his first Celtic start since Jan 2022. They're 0-0 against St Johnstone with 15 to go, but at least it's a clean sheet so far.
Starts the Old Firm derby.
Done fine for the most part so far,looks more assured than his partner beside him anyway…..
Chalk that down cause he looks like an accident waiting to happen and only for VAR it would have happened.Quote:
Originally Posted by joey B
Seems to have been named man of the match, looking at the Celtic forum?
Looked solid defensively and decent in possession, from what I saw of the match.
That looked a very soft freekick to save Lagerbielke, though I expect it'll still be Scales that gets dropped when Phillips inevitably comes into the team.
Fine performance from Scales,his distribution in comparison to the fella beside him was night and day in the first half in particular,hopefully he'll get more game time.....
Gets Player of The Match nod from BBC.Quote:
Originally Posted by joey B
Named in Celtic's Champions League squad for the upcoming group stage. Presumably the only Irish player across any of the squads?
Kelleher at LiverpoolQuote:
Originally Posted by pineapple stu
EDIT: whoops, they’re Europa League this year. Move along now nothing to see here :)