No-One Will Be “Plundering” Celtic Whatever Some Media Halfwit Hopes For.

If we ever needed a lesson in what we are up against – just in case people were forgetting what the stakes are here – Mark Hendry reminded us all today with an article whose headlines practically begs Spurs to “plunder Celtic” of all its top talents.

The media here has no shame whatsoever. None. They will attack us by every means at their disposal and we should not be shocked by anything they do anymore.

Even when in order to get that headline they had to invent the quote.

The article itself is about Stan Collymore and his analysis of the side which our former manager has inherited. He suggests that Kyogo might be “worth a punt”; that’s as far as it goes. The much more lurid wording is the invention of Hendry and his editor.

We’ve been over this ground many times before, and the question has been asked in a hundred different ways; why are the very people who should be promoting Scottish football in such a hurry to see the best talents in it depart for south of the border?

Kyogo himself has spoken about his “unfinished business” at Celtic; he wants to be here under the next manager for a crack at the Champions League. Only if Celtic gets an offer for him which is a blockbuster, no brainer that it would insane to refuse will he be allowed to go. If people are simultaneously talking about signing him to replace Harry Kane and thinking he’ll come cheap then those people need to go for a lie down in a room with padded walls.

There will be no “plundering Celtic” no matter which club or manager Hendry and his editors are “urging” do it. We’ve just lost a manager to the EPL and the idea that some of our players might follow him there virtually guarantees that we can ask – and expect – top dollar for these guys. We are not the club which is, at this time, trying to sell anyone they think they can realise a value for …. good luck with that. Clubs know they are desperate and aren’t interested.

In the meantime, nothing is going to happen with Celtic in terms of outgoings until the new boss is appointed and has time to take a look at the squad. Then we’ll see. But i have full confidence that whoever it is – and the weirder the scene, ironically, the truer this will be – will be backed fulsomely whether no-one leaves or if half a dozen of them go.

And no-one will be leaving on the cheap. Celtic are most certainly not going to get “plundered” here, whatever fantasies some of our despicable press tell themselves.