Ibrox Will Not Catch Celtic Playing Football Manager With Monopoly Money.

As an interesting wee follow on to my article of this morning, the one entitled Ruthless Peepul, I thought it would be amusing to check out the forums over the way and see what they were discussing in relation to Wilson’s departure.

You never know when you’ll get some pearl of wisdom. It’s rare. Much less so is finding something so brain-numbingly hilarious that you can’t stop laughing.

There is a flavour of that in relation to who they might replace him with; one name is being mentioned above others, a guy called Paul Mitchell. He was at Spurs when the club interviewed him back in 2017 about the possibility of taking on the director of football role. He, of course, was smart enough to turn it down.

But he’s out of work now, and this – they think – presents them with an open goal. They are just dumb enough to believe that this is feasible. One of their websites has suggested that he’s a good candidate based on his previous transfer market successes.

And what are the successes that it lists? That he signed Dele Ali back in 2015 for £5 million. That he was there when they brought in Heung-min Son for £22 million. And that he was also instrumental in the signing of Toby Alderweireld for £11.4 million.

I read that and almost laughed myself to a hernia.

This is exactly what I talked about in the previous piece; you need to be able to spend huge sums of money on what’s effectively a transfer punt. Dele Ali was 18 when they spent that kind of cash on him.

It’s doubtful that Ibrox can afford to take a chance on spending that kind of cash on a player even if they reckon he’s the finished article … they certainly won’t spend it on hope. And not to make the connection between spending £11 million and £22 million and finding genuine quality on your hands is kind of mind-boggling.

Apart from anything else, he was, as Wilson was at Southampton, working at a club with an enormous budget to spend on scouting and analytics. What will the budget for those things be at Ibrox, especially in another cost cutting year?

Not only are these cretins playing Football Manager but they’re doing it with Monopoly money! They inhabit a complete fantasy world!

As I said in the last piece, Celtic has made big money on footballers – big money in Scottish football terms. But it’s also cost us big money to bring these guys in to begin with, and that’s the part of the equation they never seem able to wrap their heads around.

Abada, Kyogo, Starfelt, Carter Vickers, Juranovic, Johnston, Jota … none of them were cheap. None of them were within the budgets of any other club in the country … including theirs.

What is it going to take for these Peepul to realise that?