Bizarre Attempt At Rehabilitating Ibrox Flop Compares Him To Celtic Midfielder.

There are two absolutely toe-curling stories in the media today about our players and comparisons to those at Ibrox. As ridiculous as what you are about to read is, in fact this is the least stupid of them.

Which isn’t to say it is anything other than dumb.

It is, buried not too far beneath the surface, the latest piece since the weekend to attempt to rehabilitate the Ibrox career of Rabbi Matondo, one of the biggest wastes of money in the recent history of the game.

But he set up a goal at the weekend against a hapless St Mirren team which was already mentally crushed, and suddenly he’s a class act again.

Matthew Elder’s piece in The Scotsman is absolutely dire.

He has used David Turnbull as his anchor for an absolutely idiotic article on how Matondo and our midfielder are the two midfielders who have the “most assists per 90 minutes.”

But their player has barely featured.

If a striker played one game and scored a hat-trick his “stats” would be through the roof but nobody would be sticking him at the head of the players who had scored more goals in the campaign.

Using Turnbull as the comparison is such disingenuous bollocks.

Our player has had far more minutes on the pitch than the Ibrox flop and has proved himself over and over again. HE has goals too, and that’s something Matondo hasn’t managed.

You can already tell what the narrative they are building here is; Matondo has had a bad time of it but The Mooch has got him turned around. It’s obvious guff, and it doesn’t matter how they try to frame it.

Schalke told a momentous loss on that guy because they knew he wasn’t remotely worth what they had paid for him, and all the press could talk about was what a bargain the club was getting, as though the two things weren’t related.

Their tactics are as desperate as they are transparent.