Scottish football/soccer : Scottish Premier League 2007/2008 season preview

key players

Aberdeen

Goalkeeper Jamie Langfield (€0.3m); Defense: Jackie McNamara (€2.4m), Michael Hart (€0.5m), Andrew Considine (€0.1m); Midfield: Scott Severin (€0.8m), Barry Nicholson (€0.8m), Richard Foster (€0.3m), Chris Clark (€0.1m); Forward: Steve Lovell (€0.8m), Lee Miller (€0.6m), Darren Mackie (€0.1m).

Celtic Glasgow

Goalkeeper Artur Boruc (€11.5m); Defense: Stephen McManus (€2.3m), Lee Naylor (€1m); Midfield: Shunsuke Nakamura (€8.5m), Scott Brown (€6.6m), Jiri Jarosik (€6.5m), Massimo Donati (€4.5m), Thomas Gravesen (€3m), Aiden McGeady (€2m); Forward: Jan Vennegoor of Hesselink (€8.5m), Maciej Zurawski (€4.3m).

Dundee United

Goalkeeper Grzegorz Szamotulski (€1.1m); Defense: Lee Wilkie (€0.4m), Darren Dods (€0.3m), Christian Kalvenes (€0.3m); Midfield: Stuart Duff (€0.5m), Mark Kerr (€0.5m), Barry Robson (€0.4m), Greg Cameron (€0.2m), David Robertson (€0.2m), Craig Conway (€0.2m); Forward: Noel Hunt (€0.6m).

Falkirk

Goalkeeper Robert Olejnik (€0.3m); Defense: Kenny Milne (€0.4m), Thomas Scobbie (€0.3m); Midfield: Arnau Riera (€0.8m), Steven Thomson (€0.5m), Stephen O'Donnell (€0.5m), Jack Ross (€0.4m), Patrick Cregg (€0.3m), Russell Latapy (€0.2m), Darren Barr (€0.1m); Forward: Pedro Moutinho (€0.5m).

Glasgow Rangers

Goalkeeper Roy Carroll (€2.4m); Defense: Cuellar (€3m), Alan Hutton (€2m); Midfield: Barry Ferguson (€7.5m), Thomas Buffel (€4.5m), Brahim Hemdani (€2.5m), Charlie Adam (€1.8m); Forward: Kris Boyd (€6m), Jean-Claude Darcheville (€4.5m), Da Marcus Beasley (€3.3m), Lee McCulloch (€3.3m).

Gretna

Goalkeeper Tony Caig (€0.5m); Defense: Daniel Grainger (€0.3m), Chris Innes (€0.1m), Martin Canning (€0.1m); Midfield: Eric Paartalu (€0.1m), Gavin Skelton (€0.1m), David Nicholls (€0.1m), Allan Jenkins (€0.1m); Forward: James Grady (€0.3m), David Graham (€0.2m), Colin McMenamin (€0.1m).

Hearts

Goalkeeper Craig Gordon (€1.8m); Defense: Ibrahim Tall (€1.3m), Robbie Neilson (€0.9m), Christophe Berra (€0.6m), Marius Zaliukas (€0.2m); Midfield: Neil McCann (€1.5m), Bruno Aguiar (€1.2m), Saulius Mikoliunas (€0.8m); Forward: Mauricio Pinilla (€2.5m), Roman Bednar (€1.3m), Andrius Velicka (€0.3m).

Hibernian

Goalkeeper Zbigniew Malkowski (€0.8m); Defense: David Murphy (€0.7m), Torben Joneleit (€0.3m), Rob Jones (€0.2m); Midfield: Brian Kerr (€0.8m), Guillaume Beuzelin (€0.8m), Alan O'Brien (€0.7m), Merouane Zemmama (€0.4m); Forward: Dean Shiels (€0.5m), Abdessalam Benjelloun (€0.4m), Steven Fletcher (€0.3m).

Inverness Caledonian Thistle

Goalkeeper Michael Fraser (€0.1m); Defense: Ross Tokely (€0.5m), Grant Munro (€0.4m), Stuart McCaffrey (€0.3m); Midfield: Ian Black (€0.5m), Roy McBain (€0.3m), Russell Duncan (€0.3m), Barry Wilson (€0.3m); Forward: Dennis Wyness (€0.6m), Marius Constantin Niculae (€0.5m), Graham Bayne (€0.3m).

Kilmarnock

Goalkeeper Alan Combe (€0.4m); Defense: Grant Murray (€0.4m), Frazer Wright (€0.2m); Midfield: Mohammed Sylla (€1.7m), Allan Johnston (€0.8m), Danny Invincible (€0.4m), James Fowler (€0.4m), Paul di Giacomo (€0.3m); Forward: Steven Naismith (€0.8m), Gary Wales (€0.4m), Colin Nish (€0.3m).

Motherwell

Goalkeeper Graeme Smith (€0.9m); Defense: Stephen Craigan (€0.8m), Martyn Corrigan (€0.5m), Mark Reynolds (€0.4m), Mark Fitzpatrick (€0.3m); Midfield: Paul Quinn (€0.5m), Jim Paterson (€0.5m), Krisztian Vadocz (€0.4m), Keith Lasley (€0.3m); Forward: Steven McGarry (€0.4m), David Clarkson (€0.4m).

St. Mirren

Goalkeeper Chris Smith (€0.3m); Defense: David van Zanten (€0.4m), John-Paul Potter (€0.3m); Midfield: Craig Molloy (€0.5m), Garry Brady (€0.4m), Gary Mason (€0.4m), Hugh Murray (€0.4m), Mark Corcoran (€0.4m), Richard Brittain (€0.3m); Forward: Craig Dargo (€1.3m), Stewart Kean (€0.4m).