Seven months after joining Celtic Marco Tilio is delighted to have rejoined Melbourne City on loan for the A-League season.
The winger was signed wile injured, missed Celtic’s pre-season training and the Champions League squad and is now back in Australia with 27 minutes playing time, over two substitute appearances, on his record.
Alongside Kwon Hyeok-kyu, now on loan at St Mirren, Tilio was one of the strangest of Celtic’s seven summer signings.
Just after signing his five year contract Jota was sold to Al Ittihad of Saudi Arabia but there were two more wingers arriving at Celtic, Yang Hyung-jun and Luis Palma arriving during the same window. Another winger, Nicolas Kuhn, was signed in January.
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— Melbourne City FC (@MelbourneCity) January 31, 2024
There was no comment from Brendan Rodgers accompanying the signing announcement (June 30), discussing his new manager Tilio told the Celtic website:
I did have a chat with him a few days ago and I was really excited to have the opportunity to speak to him, and the plan the club has for me and for the team is a great opportunity as I said I couldn’t deny, and I’m really looking forward to getting over there to Scotland.
I’m just finalising a few things and I’m trying to pack up everything here in Australia, and as soon as I can, I’ll head over to Scotland, meet all the team, the whole club.
I’m really excited about that and hopefully I can get over there as soon as possible and get right into the thick of things.
Tilio is currently with the Australia squad at the Asian Cup in Qatar, returning to the A-League it is hard to imagine that he will return to Celtic more likely to work his way into the first team.
David Turnbull is expected to leave Celtic today with the Daily Mail reporting that a deal has been agreed with Cardiff City.
Tilo should never been sanctioned Brendan should vetoed all these postocoglu signings!! More wasted money on garbage players and wasting hard working fans money!! No massive money in grand scheme but this dumpling will be a rich man on a 5! Year contract never get that in Australia!God help us we should asked for our money back! Or send him to a st.mirren not back to an Australian summer!! Joke he been rewarded for being a disaster we never get our money back and he has 4 plus years left of our money at least we will get teams from Europe for other disasters never sign Australian player Rogic was an expection and low risk and even he was weak and homesick for long enough and his wife never stopped moaning about being here with weather etc ! Trust me Canberra ain’t great either especially in winter!! Tho money helped eh Having lived in Sydney for years myself trust me Aussie don’t travel well, another shit ” big Ange” disaster! Never should touched this guy!! We seen this movie before with the other Aussie winger ! Arzani wasit He ended up at ” McArthur” where I used to live utter joke! No real determination most these types they like idea of ” UK” but ain’t tough enjoy mentality to play for our club ! Not even close! What a waste of our money! Makes me sick as he going cost us about 4 million in total! Cheers ” Ange”! Not!