Celtic’s Alleged Striker Targets Are Ridiculous. This Club Better Start Getting Real.

Two stories linking us with strikers today, and what are the common denominators? Both are under 23 and neither of them scores a lot of goals.

These guys are punts.

And what’s worse is that they would be expensive punts. If we’re going to pay high seven figure fees for people (not that I believe for a minute we are) they need to be a lot better than these guys are.

This is simple, and so I’ll keep it simple; our title challenge hinges on what we do in this window. If we go into the Asian Cup month without a quality striker who has a history of putting the ball in the back of the net, we’re done. We won’t win this league.

The people “running things” at Celtic claim to have been thinking about this problem for a while; well that stands to reason, since some of us have been writing about it for nearly a year.

If they don’t have a clear idea already who they want in January they’re a joke. If their plan consists of signing some project player and placing our season on his shoulders then that makes the summer window look like a top performance. That should be enough to get people fired.

If we have to pay a premium for such a player, then we’re going to need to bite the bullet and do so. This is the price they pay for screwing up the summer, when bringing in some project as a backup to Kyogo and Oh and giving the guy time to settle would have been feasible.

To bring such a player in now would be disastrous and scandalous in equal measure.

A Polish youth player with five goals in seventeen games in Austria? Really?

A Danish 21 year old with the exact same scoring record, at Bronby?

This is the calibre of footballer we’re hanging the season on?

These are the guys we’ve ear-marked to carry our entire club through a period when our entire front line will be unavailable? Incredible, if true. The implications of it are terrifying.

I know people still want to big up the strategy.

I know people still want to defend it as the only way our club can operate, but the need for a quality, proven goal-scorer to finally replace Giakoumakis has been obvious for over a year.

The need to have him in place prior to the Asian Cup has been written about and discussed and dissected for almost as long and that we’re even going into January with this still undone, when that competition kicks off that month, is indefensible in and of itself.

But if we screw this up, there will be no end of recriminations and the finger of blame can only point to one person; the chairman’s blue eyed boy.

Neither of them could survive that.