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Ange Postecoglou relishes quiet Celtic transfer deadline day as he revisits madcap deals from Down Under

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For most managers, yesterday was transfer deadline day.A mostly frantic, sometimes hair-on-fire affair spent scrambling around in the final hours of the January market in search of last-minute, season-defining deals as the clock ticks down to close of business.

For Ange Postecoglou, it was Tuesday. Yes, he was waiting for a call from the chief exec’s office to confirm that the lockers of the likes of Giorgios Giakoumakis and Oliver Abildgaard can safely be emptied out.But, for the most part, the big Aussie was going about his daily routine of preparing those players still at his disposal for another 90 minutes of title chasing, this time ahead of tonight’s visit from Livingston.

And this low maintenance approach to management leads to a pretty obvious conclusion. The football world would be a far less stressful place to navigate if it had more Postecoglous in it.

Celtic’s most meaningful business was concluded long before Sky Sports dispatched their roving reporters for a late shift at training grounds up and down the country.Having foreseen the departures of Josip Juranovic and Giakoumakis coming from a mile off, the manager had already identified his priority targets long before the January sales had even opened.

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