Celtic Must Not Fly Out To Austria Without Critical Signings Being Made.
Soccer Football - Scottish Premiership - Celtic v St Johnstone - Celtic Park, Glasgow, Scotland, Britain - April 9, 2022 Celtic manager Ange Postecoglou celebrates after the match REUTERS/Russell Cheyne
Pre-season started today with Celtic weaker than they finished the last campaign.
Talk about a club which knows how to drag its feet.
The manager was explicit in not wanting this scenario to unfold. He spelled it out.
Those above him … well, I hope they aren’t reverting to past form.
The team flies out to Austria at the end of the week.
To be frank, it will be appalling if this squad goes out there without some quality additions and the board apologists can stamp their feet as much as they like over that assertion.
The manager delivered big time last season.
This board must get its business done quickly, as he wanted.
There are some who will tell you that transfer business is hard. It’s garbage.
Clubs all around Europe manage to get deals over the line in a timely fashion.
There are clubs in Scotland who have signed more than half a dozen players. Hibs and Hearts are busying away bringing guys in. If we are, again, fumbling, stumbling and bumbling about as usual, taking an eternity to close deals, then hard questions need to be asked about those above Ange’s head.
Deals will be completed soon.
This is what we keep being told. But to be honest, all I get every day from Celtic right now are a host of emails encouraging me to buy stuff. Here’s a though; why doesn’t the club spend some money instead of us asking us to?
No matter how this is dressed up, there is no Bitton. No Rogic. At the moment there is no Jota. Our squad is notably weaker than it was, and that’s the reality of it at the present time. If some of our fans have the jitters over that it is not terribly hard to understand why.
The Jota deal will be done soon, so says the media. But this is the same media that has gotten it wrong time and time and time again in this window already, so I’m not sure at this point why anyone is taking their word for that.
It’s hard not to form the impression that we’re slow-walking as per usual.
The board has until the end of the week to change that perception.
If this squad goes out to Austria still weaker than it was when the last campaign ended I don’t imagine that the blogs will be the only people pointing this fact out. Don’t be surprised if Ange is too.
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