Celtic must be the street by freeing a “complete” star

Celtic coach Brendan Rodgers won the Scottish Prime Minister twice, and the League Cup and the SFA Cup once, since his return to the club in the summer of 2023.

The Northern Ireland manager has not yet reproduced the high servants with whom Ange Postoglou has ended his mandate as hoops, however, and has failed to qualify for the Champions League this season.

This means that the former head coach of Liverpool and Leicester City, despite four trophies in two seasons so far, is not indisputable in Parkhead.

A criticism that could be leveled to Rodgers is that he did not give enough opportunities to the graduates of the academies during his first two seasons in Parkhead.

As you can see in the table above, no graduate of the Academy aged 21 or less started a championship match for Celtic during the 2023/24 or 2024/25 campaign.

However, the 19-year-old side back, Colby Donovan reduced the trend of the current season, after starting in 2-1 victory against Kilmarnock in the first month.

Why Rodgers needs to give Donovan for Celtic more minutes

The injuries to Alistair Johnston and Anthony Ralston gave the graduate of the Academy the opportunity to start this match against Killie after the first international break of the season.

The two naked senior files, Donovan also started the 4-0 victory against Partick Thistle in the League Cup and the 1-1 draw with the red star Belgrade in the Europa League last week.

However, the graduate of the academy was left as unused substitute during the 0-0 draw with Hibernian in the first time on Saturday, while Ralston returned from injury and played the 90 minutes full.

The most experienced ralston, by Sofascore, won 25% (1/4) of its duels in the confrontation with Hibs, which occurs after Donovan showed good strength in his appearances against Kilmarnock and the star of Red Belgrade.

As you can see in the table above, the adolescent defender won the majority of his duels in these two games, while only led once in 180 minutes of action.

Hopefully Rodgers drop it aside to play Ralston on Saturday was more a question of rotation than what is a sign of things to come for the young rear, because its performance for the first team suggests that it deserves more opportunities to impress.

The Celtic manager’s record to provide young players in the first chances since his return to the club, as indicated, does not look great on paper, which can be a concern for Donovan to move forward.

By linking both the reluctance of the head coach to offer important minutes to U21 players and graduates of the Academy, as well as the rise of Donovan to the first team this season, there is a graduate of the Celtic academy that the club could end up regretting this summer.

The 21 -year -old left left was released by the Scottish first champions at the start of the summer, and moved to the Belgian team KV Kortrijk during a free transfer.

Why Celtic can regret having released Matthew Anderson

Celtic could end up regretting having published the Scottish talent because it had a strong beginning of life in its new club and seems to be a rear talent even larger than Donovan.

Anderson did not play a single minute for the hoops at the level of the first team, despite an impressive loan stay with admired Wacker in Austria, and explained that he thought there was a better way for him abroad.

The young left rear said: “There is a way to go abroad. Lennon [Miller] I did it now too. Max [Johnston] was abroad. I think the success rate is probably more than staying in Scotland, for any reason, it just seems to work. “”

It was despite the possibility of claiming at the beginning of 2023 that there was a way for Anderson, in particular, because he predicted that the great-back would have a “impact” in the first team by the summer of 2024.

Of course, Rodgers replaced the Australian head coach later that year in the summer of 2023, and the Scottish defender never had his chance to shine in the first team.

Instead, Anderson spent two seasons on loan in Austria with admired Wacker, winning a place in the season team during the 2023/24 campaign, and accumulated eight assists in 44 games, by transfer.

The 21 -year -old starlet, who was described as a “complete” player by the young team focused on the Scottish on X, delivered five assists in eight championship matches for Kortrijk this season, according to Transfermarkt.

As you can see in the table above, the old Whiz Celtic has produced more impressive performances than Donovan at the level of the league so far this quarter, carrying a much larger threat to the top of the field while winning more duels and plated by match.

Anderson has also shown more promises as an attack force of a rear position than Donovan at Team B level for Celtic, with four goals and four assists in 25 games compared to the right rear of three goals and a decisive pass in 36 games, by transfer.

This means that the left back was a greater attack talent at young people. Now, his performances in Belgium suggest that he has translated this form in football from the first team, while adding a defensive advantage to its displays.

Consequently, Celtic can come out of street that will come out Anderson this summer because its performance since which has passed hoops and its displays at the level of young people, suggest that it could be a rear talent even larger than Donovan.