Neil McCann told a press conference today that Celtic’s interest in their defender Jack Hendry was real.
How does he know that?
Because by his own admission we have not submitted a bid for the player.
This isn’t Sevco leaking their interest in players to the media prior to bidding ludicrously low fees, this is a manager unsettling his own player.
And I wonder, what the Hell is McCann up to?
I said in a piece the other day that if Celtic want Hendry we should just pony up the £1.5 million and go and get him.
Brendan said in an interview that he doesn’t believe the central defensive position is a priority.
I disagree with him – strongly – on that one, but I am unconvinced that we would buy a Dundee player, and I always was.
I am not even slightly surprised to hear that we’ve not yet made a bid for him.
I would be more surprised if we had. Our “interest” appears to be that which is alleged in the press and a few admiring comments from our coaches. There doesn’t seem to be more in it than that. So McCann’s comments are bizarre at best.
Hamilton has dropped one of its players because of alleged interest from a club. This is the first time I’ve heard of a manager up here deliberately putting such a thing in the public domain about his own player, and I can only surmise there’s one reason and one reason only for it.
I can only presume that there is genuine interest in Hendry, from elsewhere, and McCann thinks invoking Celtic can drive the price up even further.
It’s a nice gambit. But Celtic ought to call his bluff.
Brendan ought to nip this story in the bud and get it shut down.
If we’re not interested in the player we should make that clear.
If we are we should stop messing about and get our offer on the table.