Charlie Nicholas Should Be Ashamed Of His Idiotic Speculation Over Celtic Right Back.

You know what this club doesn’t need right now?

More loony speculation about what might or might not be going on inside the walls.

So, of course, Charlie Nicholas throws his two bob into the ring on the Juranovic issue, by suggesting that he and the manager might have had a “bust up.” What an irresponsible goon that man is.

Juranovic had a bad game. He was just back from the World Cup and from an injury. He was playing on the wrong side of the pitch. For all we know he might have been one of those players who the manager hinted at not being totally fit because of a bug sweeping the squad.

The hysterical over-reaction to the guy not playing well is pretty shocking.

Juranovic is a pro.

This is not a guy banging down the door to be allowed to leave.

Every time he or his agent have commented on things at Celtic Park he has expressed his affection for the club and said how much he enjoys playing for us. Yes, he might fancy a different challenge. He might fancy a move.

But he’s not agitating for one.

I would agree that the Ibrox game represents one of his worst performances in a Celtic strip, but all talk that we should accept the first offer we get, that he should never play for the club again, it’s all a bit over the top … is this how we’re going to react to every player who has a bad game, or are we saving it for those the media links with a move first?

Nicholas is an absolute idiot, a man who has zero information about what goes on inside Celtic, and when you think about that it’s pretty remarkable. This is a member of our 100 goals club, who played for the club twice, who came up through its youth system … and he is virtually persona non grata inside the building.

And there’s a good reason why this is the case, and all of us know full well what that reason is.

This kind of speculation, without a shred of evidence, without even the use of common sense – a bust up which kept him out of the starting eleven but not the squad and wasn’t sufficiently serious for the boss to leave him on the bench when we actually had a left back sitting there, and an expensive one at that – is precisely why he’s kept at arms length.

I have long argued that Nicholas doesn’t serve anything but the interests of Charlie Nicholas, no matter how much he might pledge his love and affection for Celtic.

Where is the interest to our club in promoting such a baseless and damaging story, one that came out of nowhere but his own stupid head? It gets Nicholas himself attention, that’s the only function it serves.