At some point, doesn’t our media get sick of regurgitating the same old tired nonsense, over and over and over again?
At some point, don’t they just stop and find something fresh to write, something original?
Transfer stories involving the departure of Celtic players are always good for them; clickbait crap that must have an appeal, somewhere.
But not for me, and I suspect many Celtic fans.
These days, you only have to play a handful of good games in the Celtic team before the media here is working tirelessly to unsettle you. The transfer window shut a fortnight ago, it won’t be opened for three more months, but already it’s started.
And no surprises, really, that it’s Ralston this time, our new breakthrough kid from the other night who went toe-to-toe with Neymar and didn’t flinch. The club linked with him is Everton, for no reason that I can fathom seeing as how they have, on the books, one of the best right-backs in Europe (when he’s again fit.)
A couple of years ago, someone sent me a graphic which was a “Scottish Media Guide” to writing transfer stories.
Using a ten sided dice, you roll once for the Celtic player, once for the club he’s linked with, and one more time for the transfer fee.
I swear to God sometimes I think that’s exactly how it’s done.
Is everyone at Celtic Park being watched, all the time?
I daresay they might be, because unlike the pitiful Sevconites we have good players here and a history of developing top talents from either our own youth setup or signings from elsewhere.
But does every single one of them have to be linked, over and over again, to moves elsewhere?
Kieran had barely had a chance to get himself a number on the back of his shirt before they were at it.
Ralston has, if possible, been packaged and sold in even less time.
Which is to say nothing for young Karamoko Dembele, who is not even old enough to sign his first professional contract yet, and they’re trying to punt him already.
It bores me. It bores all of us. You might think we’d take it as a compliment, but of course that’s not the intention at all. Games are always being played and our media is either at it or is a willing participant in an effort to unsettle Celtic’s future stars.
And not even the closure of the transfer window ends this nonsense.
Teams which want to make a bid, they should make it and have done with it.
The kid signed a new three year deal last season, so he has plenty of time left on it and he will not be cheap, so sides who are genuinely interested can try to tempt us with their wares or piss off somewhere else. This garbage over and over again does nothing but create friction … which is partly why the media does it, and the other part is that they are just heart lazy and making up nonsense like this is easier than real work.