Nicolas-Gerrit Kühn

And I mean, you don't have to look back to the '60s and '70s for that.

I mean, Nicholas Kuhn did that for us.

Nicholas Kuhn created and scored goals for us to the point where, you know, you're good for 25 to 30 goals and assists in a single season.

So if you're bringing someone in, you want them to, to have that productivity.

And in terms of writing players off, um, I don't think when you sign somebody at that age that they could be classed, and at that price, around the £5 million mark, that you can say a 23-year-old £5 million signing, who, who already is an international, who's already won a couple of titles in Norway, I don't think you can call him a project.

Um, Bridle spoke, James, a while back on this show about partnerships and how important they are across any team.

Uh, the, the most notable examples I can recall was Alistair Johnston and Nicholas Kuhn, just how effectively they linked up on Celtic's right-hand side, and to an extent at the time, Greg Taylor and Jota on the left-hand side.

And what we've got here is maybe the, the early signs of what could be some good partnerships.

Bridle mentions McGregor and Burr.

But, you know, a lot of people talk about the Bayern Munich clacks.

And if you look at those games again over the two legs, you'll see that Nicolas Kuhn scores a goal very early on at Celtic Park.

Adam Ida's apparently...

in the eye line of the goalkeeper in an offside position it's margins, it's just margins you look at the fact that that little bit of quality Greg Taylor misplaces the pass and Bayern go up the back and score You leave Harry Kane at the back post unmarked.

I think the previous year it would be like Matt O'Reilly, I think Keogh as well.

Last year I'm not sure, Ademida went, Nicholas Kuhn went, I'm not sure if he was included in last year's figures or the year before but clearly didn't sell as many players last year.

And all of that meant that Celtic went from a £45.7 million pre-tax profit the year before to a £6.6 million loss.

And you don't need to be Einstein to kind of read that and think that's not great.

And by that, I mean that when Celtic have Champions League football and our players are playing at that level and hopefully doing well at that level, that's when we can really demand the large transfer fees.

You think back to the biggest sales we've had over the past decade or so, all of them will have played and done relatively well at Champions League level.

When you think of Matt O'Reilly, Nicholas Kuhn, Kieran Tierney, Jota, even Arne Engels played at Champions League level in a good Champions League level Celtic team that made it to the knockouts.

So while Celtic don't necessarily budget on guaranteed Champions League qualification, it's definitely not great that we're posting a normal trading loss of around £11 million.