Celtic Fans Entitled To Snigger As The Mooch Raids English Football’s Bargain Bin.

If the Ibrox fans were not entertaining and amusing themselves with the notion that Ange Postecoglou might be leaving for London, what would they have to be happy about right now? Don’t you think it tells you everything about them that they are more interested in sniggering at us than focussing on the mess of their own club?

If we were the club facing a rebuild and going about it in such a slapdash fashion I would not be wasting time looking across the city. If Ange goes, Celtic will replace him. The new boss will inherit a winning team needing tweaking, but with plenty of money for the task.

Ibrox is trying to do a full-scale reconstruction with 85% off coupons.

The club has lost some key players – lost them, as opposed to “allowing them to leave” which is the perverse spin one hack put on the departures of Morelos and Kent recently, although the club could not have kept these guys had they put them in leg irons – and the departures are not at an end yet. Glen Kamara might be next to go; indeed, they are dying to punt him. They were using their media acolytes to try and punt that clownish centre back Davies yesterday.

They think they will get £4 million for him. That’s a loss. Chortle. How desperate must they be for money to be offering him and Kamara for cash like that?

But if they don’t manage to sell someone, how much can the manager realistically get to spend? Not much at all. We’ve spent many months saying it. The writing is now on the wall crystal clear. They are skint.

Their first two signings are freebies. They are going to complete the signing of Butland, who has found himself unwanted by clubs in England. That will be three players brought in; the “rebuild” is well underway.

They will have spent no money. Zero.

Do you think their fans are starting to see it yet?

The outlines of their summer?

A summer in which they were promised the rebuild to end them all? English lower league rejects? That’s the plan? To sign only the players the manager “knows”?

Because that worked for Celtic?

Do they think we built our team for free? Their manager doesn’t, he has spent ages telling us that we have outspent them.

He knows we didn’t build this team on the cheap.

f they think they’ll compete with us on this basis they are barmy. Even in the event Ange goes, his replacement will have plenty to spend and a first team squad which is far and away the best in the country. That gap will not be bridged with freebies.

All too soon this lot are going to have the smiles wiped from their faces.

I always love these little moments, because I know what follows them.

Tears. Delicious Sevco tears.

Happy Cup Final day, friends and comrades!