GLASGOW, SCOTLAND - AUGUST 29: Celtic's Kieran Tierney in action during a William Hill Premiership match between Celtic and Falkirk at Celtic Park, on August 29, 2026, in Glasgow, Scotland. (Photo by Paul Devlin/SNS Group via Getty Images)
Kieran Tierney, Kasper Hogh and Landon Emenalo were all posted missing from Celtic training this morning.
There were a few new faces pictured for pre-match training ahead of the game against St Mirren but it is the players missing that are of most interest.
Tierney and Hogh missed the midweek win over Aberdeen with Shaun Maloney hopeful that both would be in contention for Saturday’s match.
That seems unlikely with both players not involved in training.
CELTIC AND THE LEFT BACK PROBLEM POSITION
New signing Emenalo was also missing, Martin O’Neill confirmed on arrival that the teenage Chelsea defender was a few weeks away from playing.
That leaves Liam Scales almost certain to play at left-back although new signing Jordan Lotomba could also be an option.
No Kieran Tierney, Kasper Høgh or Landon Emenalo in training today ahead of @saintmirrenfc (A) ? pic.twitter.com/nI0UsCl6Ma
— Everything Celtic (@aboutceltic) September 4, 2026
Camilo Duran is a more than adequate back up for Hogh but left-back is a recurring problem for Celtic.
On the plus side Jota was prominent in the training ground pictures from SNS.
It isn’t known if he is back involved with contact training but he has been out the gym and training on grass for a month.
Jota was left out of Celtic’s Europa League squad but if he is back involved domestically next month most fans will be pleased.
The winger missed the whole of last season through injury with little in the way of updates about his rehab.
Naturally he won’t be thrown in at the deep end but hopefully he can be involved in some closed door matches over the next month as his rehab is completed.
Martin O’Neill is expected to host a pre-match media conference ahead of a run of three away matches.
Celtic have yet to comment on their allocation of 300 tickets for the League Cup match at Ibrox on September 13.
Interestingly the Ibrox Tribute Act have still to release tickets to their own fans.
After the bravado of announcing Celtic’s reduced Ibrox allocation they’ve possibly realised that Celtic can return the favour a week later in the SPFL match.
Backing down or surrendering more tickets to Celtic won’t earn Andy Cavenagh and his fellow investors many staunch points.
Made of Glass FC…
Every single fu**in season…
Every one !
To be fair Clach a lot of the serious injuries suffered by Celtic players are due to the overly lenient, myopic if not staunch interpretation of the rules of the game as practiced by the MasonsInBlack when officiating Celtic games. For the full Domestic Season, Celtic Players are subjected to a perverse level of physicality, by most opponents, who realise that seldom will they face onfield sanctions for outright thuggery.
Thankfully VAR, despite early reservations, is now levelling the playing field on home soil. A fact that the hordes of Hunnery ,having been accustomed to Historical Institutional levels of positive bias, now find difficulty in accepting that the ‘taps have been turned off’. Decisions that now favour Celtic must now be viewed as cheating and or corruption.
Their whole ‘wurld’ view is now in turmoil and even their ‘theme’ pubs are folding, exposing the mythology of the ‘£Bloo’ . They have Surrendered without realising it. There is no going back.
OH HOW WE LAUGHED……