Ange Yesterday Slapped Down One Of The Daftest Celtic Transfer Stories Of The Window.

Ange spoke yesterday at great length about the possible ins and outs at the club, and although he was pretty clear that there will be goings as well as at least one coming he was also pretty clear on those who would not be allowed to leave.

And the guy he explicitly mentioned was a guy who some ex-Celtic players have gotten their names in the papers talking garbage about quite a bit in the last few months; the player he slammed back at rumours about is David Turnbull.

The boss is emphatic on this one; David is going nowhere.

“He’s a big part of what we’re building here,” Ange said, and that should end all this nonsense about his place in the squad not being secure, about his not being rated by the manager and all the other trash that’s been talked by those on the outside who have no idea what goes on inside the club.

Turnbull is one of my favourite players at Celtic Park, a real star who would be in every other team in the country, every single week. He has the quality to do big, big things in our team and it’s great to hear Ange offer him such unequivocal support and encouragement.

He needs games more than encouragement, of course, but Ange is promising him those too.

As he said, Turnbull had a couple of games out because of a ban – games Ange is right to say that he would have been expected to play in. He has promised that Turnbull will get more games in the weeks to come as we try to close out this title race.

Of course, it’s important that when those opportunities come along that David Turnbull grabs them, and I fully expect that he will.

His goal the other night was outstanding and should serve as a reminder that this is a really gifted footballer we have here and one who has battled back already from a horrendous injury and shown the character needed to make it in the game.

There was no way in Hell that we were letting him go, no matter what the cast of Clown School had to say about it.

For ex Celtic men, Nicholas and McAvennie et al don’t know a damned thing about the club they spend so much time commenting on.