All Quiet On The Celtic Front As Ibrox Fans Start To Realise The Trouble They Are In.

With the expected departure of Giakoumakis set to be confirmed in the next few days, and our fourth signing already in the building as his replacement, we seem to be heading into the last few days of the transfer window in a state of calm and with peace of mind. I’d say that’s unusual but in fact it is becoming the norm for Celtic.

And that, of course, is certainly a good thing as far as we’re all concerned.

It’s nice to be getting used to transfer windows which slide closed with a pleasant sound instead of those which rattle in a gale force wind, or slam closed with enough to force to break things. We’ve seen nail-biters go to the wire without deals getting done, and we’ve seen others where painful departures have happened last minute.

None of that will happen here. I’d be very surprised if we go into the final day of the window with anything still to do, and that may lack the drama of years gone by but it will not induce stress headaches either, and that has to be a net gain.

Earlier in the week, I wrote about how Ibrox is facing the opposite. An end to the window fraught with uncertainty. They have one deal over the line, but reports from Belgium today say they and Standard Liege are still far apart on a transfer fee for Raskin, and of course Swansea are digging their heels in over their own boy Whittaker.

So there will be Ibrox deals which go to the wire, incoming deals anyway. But perhaps more crucially, their fans have started to wake up to the full scale of the disaster they are facing in the summer and most of them cannot believe their club is sleepwalking towards it.

Morelos is being “offered to Inter Milan” was the headline which screamed out at them yesterday, and I daresay that he is. He’s probably been offered to half the teams in Serie A and to other leagues beyond that. Kent’s agent is free to talk to clubs and you better believe he’s been doing the same thing, going round teams in England for discussions.

There are other players at their club facing similar choices. The Mooch was talking the other day about Filip Helander and how they still hope to keep him; this is how desperate they are of course, and a sure sign of how little money there is in the kitty for players that they are considering extending that guy’s deal.

On top of that, they spent the early part of the window trying to find a buyer for Glen Kamara. They failed. They are now focussed on hoping that there is a bid for Hagi, which I think is as forlorn a hope as they have ever clung to. Something has to give, or the manager is going to have to do a lot of rebuilding on very little money in the summer.

This is now, at least, becoming clear to their fans … and they are worried and they are right to be.