Strachan talks up 'ready to go' Celtic youngster Scott Robertson ahead of Livingston visit

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Originally published at: Strachan talks up 'ready to go' Celtic youngster Scott Robertson ahead of Livingston visit - 67 Hail Hail

Gavin Strachan reckons Celtic youngster Scott Robertson is ‘ready to go’ for the first-team after returning from loan at Gillingham. Robertson was recalled early from a season-long loan at the Gills amid self-isolation chaos within the Celtic squad. He’ll come right into contention for a place in tomorrow’s team against Livingston. The in-form West Lothian…

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Is there a financial concern with the youth squad? After hearing about furloughing the U18s, are we going to sell some of our promising starlets?

I’m excited to hear Robertson is in the matchday squad and I’d hate to lose him.

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I don’t think that is the problem. The U18s is almost an unrelated issue due to covid. With no matches and training the club are just looking to cut costs as much as possible and use the Govt scheme.

Re: Robertson and Harper etc, there just needs to be a more coherent strategy to get youngsters into the first-team in my opinion.

For all his faults, it’s something Ronny Deila did successfully.

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Ok. I thought that all the youth system was getting furloughed and they were starting with 18s.

Thanks for clearing that up.

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