The Mooch Is Lying To The Media And They Know It. No Celtic Boss Could Survive That.

The Mooch has claimed that no Ibrox player has a contract offer in front of him. Doesn’t this contradict his comments from just days ago? He says that Morelos and he will “talk” before the season ends. He seems very nonchalant about the crisis that is roaring towards his club at high speed. Is he for real? It’s incredibly hard to see how he can be.

This guy is lying. To everyone. Nearly all the time. More than anything, I think he’s even lying to himself. What I know is that if any Celtic manager had his track record of verifiable contradictions and falsehoods in front of the media that they would be crucifying him instead of publishing every word he says and taking it as gospel.

He didn’t “clarify” the contract situation, as some of the hacks have suggested. He muddied the waters. He will talk to the players later in the season? Maybe he’s not noticed that the season is almost over. Maybe he’s not aware that their agents can be out there right now talking to clubs and tying their futures up elsewhere.

How is this guy and that club of his getting away with that in the eyes of the media? If you believe what these people write these are assets worth tens of millions of pounds. No manager in his shoes should be cavalier about that, but the media is giving this guy a free ride.

Let’s put it this way; if the club doesn’t know what these guys are doing in the summer then the club is grossly negligent, all involved from the chairman down. He’s telling us that there aren’t even offers on the table? Think about that for a second. What was it that Goldson signed last summer? A contract. Which had been on the table for months.

He’s telling us that he’s not sanctioned any offers for any of these players? Then he’s not sleeping at the wheel as much as he’s got behind it pissed and with his foot down. That would be regarded as gross misconduct at any other club. Exactly what is he “waiting” for before he opens these talks? He says it’s to make decisions on them.

Kent plays every week and he says he wants him to stay. But he’s not actually sat down and talked about it with him yet? What happens if he sits Kent down one day and says “right, let’s talk about what it will take to keep you here” only to find out that Kent signed a pre-contract deal with Brighton or some other club like that the day before?

Who would you blame for that if you were an Ibrox fan? This is his version of events. This is what he’s telling the media. If a Celtic manager was so blasé about the prospect of top players leaving for free he would be raked over the coals.

When Ange took over the decisions on Edouard, Ajer and Christie had been made. We were only waiting for the acceptable offers to come in. That man took the job knowing those guys were off, and he factored that into his planning. “Right, well that’s a centre back and a striker we’re looking for.” And we paid big for Kyogo and Starfelt.

He can’t sell any of these guys now, but he can’t plan for the summer either until he knows which way the wind is blowing. Either he doesn’t have that information – which would be staggering – or he’s lying to the media and to the fans.

He has to be. I know we’re not dealing with a Mensa member here, but for a manager to have so many critical players approaching the end of their contracts, players he’s said he wants to keep, and not to even have discussed their next moves … that’s incomprehensible.

That would be far and away the stupidest act from any boss at that club since Pedro starting raving about vampires, and in fact it would be above and beyond that.

Because we’re talking about a series of decisions worth millions of pounds and with profound consequences for their club. Nobody, not even someone who inhabits the parallel universe in which this guy seems to spend at least some of his time, could be so reckless.

No Celtic manager would ever be permitted to be.

Our board would be all over this, our fans would be all over it … and you better believe that the media would be too.