Kenny Miller Doesn’t Have A Clue What Celtic Wants, Or Needs, In The January Window.

It’s always fun when people with no connection to Celtic Park and nary a friend inside the building think that they have some inside track or special knowledge about what we want or what we need. Kenny Miller might once have been a player at our club but we know it’s not his first love.

He’s an Ibrox media apologist.

So, any claim he makes to understanding us cannot be taken seriously.

He thinks that Hart will remain the club number one past that window, with business only being done on that front in the summer. I have no idea whether that will happen or not, but he certainly doesn’t know what our plans are, and his rationale is senseless nonsense.

He says clubs can never buy real quality in January.

We’ve disproved that in recent years. It was the signings of Hatate, O’Riley and Maeda which turned Ange Postecoglou’s title challenging title into a title winning one.

He says that players who are available in that window either cost a lot of money or they are going cheap because they aren’t playing. None of those guys was languishing on the bench when we signed them, and all of them were available for modest sums.

In addition to that, there are a lot of leagues which only allow 25 players over the age of 21 to be registered in a first team squad. Some of those clubs have very decent players who they can’t register and can’t move on. Just because they aren’t playing every week doesn’t make them poor quality players.

A new manager might come into a club and change the playing system, and that will automatically put some players out of the side who under a different boss with a different system would be regular starters. That’s how it works.

What Miller is trying to say – and doing it pretty badly – is that Celtic will find it difficult to significantly enhance the squad in that window.

You wait though; he will never apply the same logic to Ibrox’s signing targets or their strategy. He has spoken more than once about January and how Clement will “strengthen” without ever bringing these issues up.

So what special powers does Clement have which Celtic – with more money to spend, by far, if that’s what it comes down to – do not? What skill-set does the Ibrox club possess which Celtic currently lacks, with years of finding quality players behind us?

These people never really write what they believe.

They write what they want to believe. They never write that which is true, but that which they wish was. They are transparent, and Miller is especially poor at this stuff.

He’s not the sharpest tool in the box, even if he is on TV more than Jeremy Hunt at the moment, and just as unwelcome.