The Daily Record today did what a lot of people think it does best.
It lied about a Celtic player.
The newspaper that helped to sell the Sevco version of events over Joelen Lescott has been caught telling porkies now about a Celtic player and a medical examination.
To be fair to The Record, they didn’t spread the story about Lescott failing the medical. They, instead, went with the story about him not wanting to uproot his family, the one Sevco was putting about early doors. They mentioned the rumours about failing the medical, but gave them little credence beyond that.
Today they have issued a flat-out piece of garbage and irony of ironies it was the BBC, who themselves were the ones who spread the same lie about Lescott, who got in there first to correct the paper and broke the story about Torino changing the terms of the deal.
That appears to be the problem.
Torino have gone from offering us cold hard cash to deciding they now only want the player on loan; that’s a colossal waste of our, and the player’s, time and I think we ought to tell them to stick it.
But The Record, like the BBC did with Lescott, haven’t helped matters and they’ve cast a cloud on the career of a young footballer. That’s appalling, but I neither expect an apology nor will I count on them publishing a retraction. They only seem to do that when they are harassed by Sevco fans. Some of the lies over the Scottish Cup Final persist today because that paper printed outright falsehoods and is yet to correct them.
Simunovic hasn’t signed for Torino yet.
I suspect that he will, when the club and Celtic hammer out the final details.
He appeared on Sky Sports just a short time ago, in a café, and did a very nice interview where he confirmed that he’d be happy to return to Celtic if this deal doesn’t go through. I don’t think too many of us would be opposed to that.
The Record is at it with this one, and I don’t really know where they got their information or what they hoped to gain by broadcasting it without any sort of verification. This isn’t just another rumour; something that impacts on a guy’s livelihood should be handled with a lot more respect than the way they’ve handled this.