#club-recruitment

#club-recruitment

Unfortunately, our application for a period of grace to fulfil the required criteria for our SFA bronze licence was declined by the SPFL board. On this basis we are not eligible to participate in the pyramid play-off competition.

"Quarter-finals are never easy and we made it a bit tougher than it needed to be. Fiorentina got the belief back with the penalty. It was a very difficult game to manage to be honest."

Barcelona's La Masia is a factory that never stops churning out talent, and in recent years, its stocks have gone sky-high once more.

Vincent Kompany was at Tegernsee [last summer], he drove out there with Christoph Freund, and said: 'Uli, we need Xavi Simons'. I had put an apple pie on the table for the meeting and replied: 'Vincent, you can have another piece of the apple pie, but you're not getting Xavi. We want you to play the young players'.

Barcelona had tabled a contract renewal offer for Christensen that would have kept the Dane at the club for another year, but he rejected it due to a massive pay cut.