Frank Murphy
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#73
Here are Postecoglou’s comments from the Sunday Times today:
Four out for Celtic’s European opener
Celtic manager Ange Postecoglou revealed last night that James Forrest, Mikey Johnston, Kyogo Furuhashi and Kristoffer Ajer won’t feature at all in the first leg of Tuesday’s Champions League second qualifying round against FC Midtjylland.
Ryan Christie, Nir Biton and Ismaila Soro also only have an outside chance of being available to face the Danes.
“There are a couple who are close and we didn’t want to risk them today so they will all train tomorrow,” he said. “Because James missed so much [self-isolating] - he was out for ten days and we have just got to be a little bit careful with him. Tuesday could be a little bit early for him.”
Norwegian international defender Ajer, who has been the subject of a £13.5m bid from Brentford, wasn’t in the squad and Postecoglou was reluctant to discuss his position. “I’m not thinking about that stuff,” he stressed. “The guys who are going to leave will leave. That’s not my department: I’m concentrating on what’s in front of me.” Asked whether he was left out due to his impending departure, Postecoglou replied: “Yeah, well he wasn’t involved today. I can’t afford to waste time on anyone other than the ones who are here and committed to being here.”