Last week it was already very restless during the Celtic Park. Fans asked the board of the illustrious Scottish club in word and gesture. The fans criticized the passivity of The Hoops On the transfer market.
No investments
Despite the transfer of former Ajax player Nicolas Kühn for 19 million euros to Como and a few smaller outgoing transfers, only 3.5 million euros were invested. The board would rather wait for the pot with Champions League money before it made large transfer spending, but that pot will not arrive in Glasgow this season.
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Because after 210 minutes of football and zero hits, penalties had to be taken in Almaty to determine who was allowed to go to the main tournament of the Champions League. Celtic missed three of the five, Kairat Almaty only one of the four.
Almaty does not become the first Kazakh club in ever in the Champions League. FK Astana already participated in the 2015/16 season and finished three points in a group with Atlético Madrid, Galatasaray and Benfica.
Ten hours of flying from Schiphol
Almaty is located in the southeast of Kazakhstan and that means that it will be quite a long journey for the four teams that will have to finish a match in the competition phase. From Schiphol it is about ten hours of flying. The chance of act PSV or Ajax actually travels to Almaty, is 1 in 9. Both clubs will meet two teams from each pot, but one of those opponents will visit Eindhoven or Amsterdam.