Tiémoué Bakayoko

But I feel like the reason why we didn't carry that on to the next season is because we lost Costa and Matic to Key.

And we went Morata and Bakayoko.

So I'm not sure.

I guess what you're saying with system, but I think we could have still won more.

In the Forbidden Forest.

Well, the captain of my PTSD-11 was definitely shaking his guy up from Watford and that's Bakayoko in 17-18.

Oh my God, yeah.

The worst performance I have seen from an individual in a Chelsea shirt.

Of

course.

My midfield partner to Bakayoko, I don't know if you remember this, it was Sal's debut against Villa at

home.

Like-

... Tiemoué Bakayoko, right? I mean, I, hmm, even when Tiemoué Bakayoko was good, I don't think he was particularly good.

Oh, he was a good goal scorer though.

He knew how to hit the net, didn't he?

Like, the only one I can think of is Joel Vandenberg, who we signed, but he's injured, who realistically should develop into that.

So then there's those rumors of Bakayoko training with us during the break, and we were linked with him at the same time we signed Ox last year.

Now, at least he's a, an actual defensive midfielder, but we need to do something because we're gonna get, we're getting overrun in the middle of the park, as you keep saying, Ian.

I mean, I just can't believe any of that's true because, uh, you know, we've got like a fully functioning recruitment team that has a vision and a plan and, um, and goes out and, uh, and, and identifies the, the key players that we need in key positions.

I was working, but I heard it on the radio.

Uh, but what I seen in the past couple of days was, uh, Bakayoko was training up at Lennoxtown.

Um, what I was wondering is why, why Celtic no offer that player like a, a contract when we've been crying out for a holding midfielder for God knows how many windows? And I was just wondering if yous know any more about that, if there was a kinda ideal offer for why he was training? 'Cause I feel like Celtic have needed something like that for, for so many windows, and we just have never got it.

I think Martin O'Neill had said that, uh, there was certainly a report that he'd been training with Celtic over the international break.

And if that doesn't come across in this video, then I just want to make that perfectly clear from the get-go.

Um, news emerged this afternoon that Celtic have been, in quotations, "running the rule" over for- former Chelsea midfielder Tiemoué Bakayoko.

It follows on from reported interest which came back in the January window of this year.

Uh, and instead, of course, Celtic opted for Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain.

Well, it's not quite done yet, and there's still a pretty decent chance Celtic will move for Tiemoué Bakayoko, uh, right now, as he's a free agent.

And we'll come on to the very little pros and very many cons of that in a moment.

This was the story that, that came out this afternoon via Anthony Joseph of Sky and James Green as well, who is a, a UK journalist.

Uh, Celtic have been running the rule over former Chelsea and AC Milan defensive midfielder Tiemoué Bakayoko during the international break.