The Hello and welcome to the Scouting Report, the Sunn podcast, where we analyze Celtic transfer targets and new signings using our eyes.

And yes, some big bad numbers on an Excel spreadsheet.

I am a host, Christian Wolf, and we're here today because Celtic have seemingly done something completely

unprecedented. They have moved timely, efficiently and hopefully very smartly to sign several

players before the transfer window has even opened with dice Meeda from Yokohama runners

Yosukee, aka Gucci from Gamba Osaka, and Rio Hatate from Kavasaki Fontala.

So in such unprecedented times, we need unprecedented super nerds to analyze and break down every single side of these three signings from the Japanese J-League.

That's what we're going to do. And to do that, I've left a nerd sign. The Statmobile has been fired up,

and there's summoned to me two of the finest super nerd around, also known as today's panel.

Let's meet them. First up, Stephen russell how are you mate i'm excited

i mean celtic have signed three players before the window even starts that's when does that happen

i mean i just said that in my intro stephen but yes don't you worry i'm just going to talk about

stephen we usually keep you locked up in cynic towers.

We're only the subscribers able to hear you and us talk tactics and stats.

So we're on the free feed today.

So for listeners, maybe I'm familiar with.

And, you know, your nerd credentials, Stephen, you know, they're're very much intact you can give us a quick

rundown or what you usually do for this thing yeah i mean i think super nerd pretty much covers it

but we break down pretty much everything that we cancel the big one is the team talk where

we're coming up to games and we'll break down the opposition

and what we can do to beat them and all this sort of stuff. So I like to pop in a lot of tactical

theory and a lot of really fun nerdy stuff into that. Then when we're doing players, we'll get

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