Celtic Won A Transfer Battle With Ibrox This Week And Our Media “Missed” That.

As Ibrox tries to get its fans excited over a series of free transfers, and the Scottish press bangs the drum over “bragging rights” a minor transfer story slipped past them, but it’s an instructive one considering they’ve been following the trail of it for months.

This week, we signed the young teenage striker Filip Skorb.

He’s very much a project player, and we’re not going to see him in the first team any time soon. But he was being touted as the next big thing last month and for one very big reason … he looked to be heading to Ibrox.

There was interest in him from clubs across the UK, including some in the EPL who were looking to tie him down on a long term deal. There was some proper salivating being done about the prospect of him going to the club across the city.

Every one of our three national titles – The Sun, The Record and The Evening Times – had him in the Ibrox crosshairs. They all excitedly reported on how their club had “entered the race” against the likes of Leeds and Newcastle to sign him.

You know what’s funny?

Not one of those outlets wrote about his signing for Celtic. Instead that’s been highlighted on our own fan media sites, by the player’s former club and by the player himself on social media. The hacks haven’t bothered to cover it.

Which I find rather astonishing, considering the coverage this kid was getting just last month when the Ibrox club threw their names into the ring. You would think, to read some of it, that this kid was so good that he would be soon challenging for a first team place.

And maybe he would have been. Maybe he is.

The reason I don’t know for sure is that the four page pull-outs have been cancelled because he’s wound up at Celtic instead.

Do you think that this deal would have had the same treatment if we’d been linked to him first and he’d wound up over there?

The press would have had a field day; the media would have been filled with stories about how we had been “snubbed” and about how The Mooch had worked his magic.

There might even have been some mention of bragging rights.

Instead of all that … stone silence. Which tells me we’ve got ourselves a good one here.