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Fullname: Andreas Thom
aka: Andy Thom
Born: 7 Sep 1965
Birthplace: Ruedersdorf, Germany
Signed: 1995
Position: Midfielder/Forward
Internationals: East Germany/Germany (after unification)
International Caps: 51 for East Germany, 10 for re-unified Germany
International Goals: 16 for East Germany, 2 for re-unified Germany

Biog

German striker Andreas Thom arrived at Celtic from German side Bayer Leverkusen in the summer of 1995 for around £2.2million. He was a tremendous capture for Tommy Burns and went on to be a huge fan favourite over his three seasons with the club.

Thom was born and brought up in what was East Germany and spent much of his early career playing for Dynamo Berlin winning numerous championships with them and becoming a regular member of the East German national team. He made a big money transfer to Bayer Leverkusen in 1989 with the fall of the Berlin wall and remained with the club until June 1995. He was wanted by Werder Bremen and Borussia Dortmund but he chose to sign for Celtic.

Burns hoped that he would be a partner for Pierre van Hooijdonk and from his first game, Andreas showed the class that had made him a regular contender for German Player of the Season. He scored goals and he made a lot of goals for others.

Towards the end of his first season he was used in a more withdrawn role behind the front two of van Hooijdonk and Cadete and it was hoped that he would fit to this position in the following season. The end of his first season saw him as easily the Celtic Player of the Season and won the most Man of the Match awards and was generally the factor that got the team ahead as far as it did. His guile and craft added enormously to the team.

He started 96/97 in his more withdrawn midfield role. He provided the maturity up front and in the midfield along with Paul McStay but was not an automatic choice on the team sheet. In fact by January ’97 there were rumours that Burns was looking to sell him. A possible move to Karlsruhe fell thru and he was allegedly told he could move at the end of the season if he found a club. Hertha Berlin then made a sustained bid for the player which came to nothing but he was thought to be off anyway.

He saw out 1/2 the next season with Celtic being under-utilised by Jansen before going back to Germany and Hertha Berlin, his transformed Dynamo, for £275k in January 1998.

A popular player, a book was written about season 1997/98 mainly focussing on Andy Thom with the author using a pseudonom of "The Andy Thom Experience". A cult player for some!

He continued to play for Hertha till the end of the 00/01 season. In July 2002 he became Assistant Manager of the Hertha ‘B’ team moving on to become Assistant Manager of the senior team under Falko Gotz. He resigned when Gotz was sacked in April 2007.

He is currently without a club.

Playing Career

Club	From	To	Fee	League		Scottish Cup		League cup		Other
Hertha Berlin	14/01/1998	2001	£275,000	No appearance data available
Celtic	04/08/1995	14/01/1998	£2,200,000	58 (13)	14	6 (2)	2	10 (3)	4	4 (0)	4
B Leverkusen	01/08/1995	04/08/1995		No appearance data available
Totals			£2,475,000	58 (13)	14	6 (2)	2	10 (3)	4	4 (0)	4
			goals / game	0.19		0.25		0.3		1
				Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals

Fees

1983-1990 BFC Dynamo. Sold to Bayer for 2.2M DM
1990-1995 TSV Bayer 04 Leverkusen
1995-1998 Celtic. Arrived for club record of 2.2m from Bayer Leverkusen. Sold on to Hertha Berlin for 275k.
1998-2001 Hertha BSC

Honours (Germany)

East German Player of the Year

• 1988

East German Champion:

• 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988

East German Cup:

• 1988, 1989

German Cup:

• 1993

Honours with Celtic:

Scottish League

• Champion: 1998

Internationals

UEFA European Championship

• Runner-up 1992

Pictures

• Pictures of Thom

Books

• 10 "the Andy Thom Experience"

Books

"10" by The Andy Thom Experience

A new and independent book by one north stand nutter on a journey to paradise, without the political correctness.
The story of Jansen's Celtic and the exorcism of the curse of the Ten
No publisher, only available through P.O. box number in Celtic fanzine, but neverless a great little book reliving season 1997/2000. If you havn't read this try to beg,steal or borrow a copy. Written by one of us, a fan who went through the emotions we all did that year. One of the best books about us and our club. It should have been given a wider audience at the time when you consider all the rubbish written about Celtic by people just trying to make a fast buck.

Covers 97/98 season.
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