Despite having misplaced Ange Postecoglou, Celtic is ready to spice up its Australian contingent with the signing of Socceroos attacker Marco Tilio from Melbourne City.
The 21-year-old winger will be part of Socceroos teammate Aaron Mooy and assistant coach Harry Kewell on the Hoops, who final week confirmed the return of supervisor Brendan Rodgers to take over from the departed Postecoglou, who has taken cost of English Premier League membership Tottenham.
A member of Australia’s 2022 World Cup squad, Tilio has made 5 appearances for the Socceroos.
He has spent the previous three seasons at City after transferring to the Melbourne membership from Sydney FC.
In his 79 A-League appearances, Tilio scored 18 objectives and received the championship with City in 2021.
While City coach Rado Vidosic wouldn’t verify Tilio’s departure, he was all however resigned to being with out the gifted winger subsequent season.
“I doubt we will be able to keep him,” Vidosic mentioned.
“He had a fantastic season for us.”
Tilio’s departure continues the exodus from City, who’ve already misplaced a bunch of gamers – together with Socceroos pair Aiden O’Neill and Jordan Bos, imports Valon Berisha, Thomas Lam and Richard van der Venne, and goalkeeper Thomas Glover – from the workforce thrashed 6-1 by the Central Coast Mariners within the A-League grand closing earlier this month.
Club captain Scott Jamieson additionally retired after the heavy loss and can be part of City’s teaching workers subsequent 12 months.
City will quickly verify the signings of veteran goalkeeper Jamie Young and skilled midfielder Steven Ugarkovic and has already confirmed the acquisition of 32-year-old German midfielder Tolgay Arslan, who has spent the previous three seasons at Italian top-flight membership Udinese.
Originally printed as Socceroos and Melbourne City winger Marco Tilio set to affix Aaron Mooy at Celtic
Source: www.dailytelegraph.com.au
