Celtic Players Are Advised To Leave. Ibrox Players Are Always Advised To Stay.

Last week, I wrote about the utter insanity of Ibrox’s contract talks strategy and The Mooch’s blithe insistence that no actual conversations had taken place or were taking place. In his latest interview he’s said that this week – international break week – is the one in which he intends to sit down with the players and have this out.

Separate reports today gush with optimism about the prospect of keeping Morelos and Kent. Those reports weren’t even written by Celtic fans; we’re the only people who should be excited at that particular idea.

There is no scenario which it’s not in some way a drag on their club. As I said the other day if they go they need replacing, and if they stay they’re keeping together a team which has proven itself incapable of sustained success.

The whole way they’ve gone about this has been nonsensical, but they’ve been aided and abetted in this by a media which has never once encouraged these players to seek opportunities elsewhere. You notice that? Where are all the stories telling these guys to get out of their comfort zone, that it’s in their best interests to move, that they need to test themselves?

Why is the opposition in Scotland too poor for the likes of Abada to grow against, whereas Kent and Morelos are encouraged to sign new deals and stay?

Do they lack ambition if they sign their new deals or will it be spun as them “buying in” to what The Mooch is trying to do? No prizes for guessing, especially as that’s the spin already being put on it.

You could not mark the necks of some in our media with a blow-torch. The double-standard is obvious. They’ve not put anyone at Ibrox under the least pressure over these deals, not the directors, not the manager, not the players and not even the agents. Celtic players and their agents would be getting it tight all the way here.

Anything to avoid upsetting that club, which is why today’s media is full of stories about how Abada will leave Celtic in the summer, and that’s being spun as a disaster from which we’ll net four times what we paid for him at a minimum … yet at Ibrox they are being spoon-fed stories about how they will keep both of their “superstars” although these guys can go for free to any club which wants to open talks with them.

Even a blind man could see how biased and ridiculous that is.