Celtic Cannot Be So Stupid As To Needlessly Let Another First Team Player Go Can They?

Liel Abada will leave Celtic this week, or early next week, and there’s nothing more to be said about that until that deal is done. Frankly, I am tired of that subject and I will be happy to do one more piece on him and then forget all about the whole saga.

We can’t change what’s happened there. His decision not to play for us – and that’s what this is, and I’m not going to accept being lied to on that or pretending that I believe otherwise – has already cost us another first team player from the Ange Postecoglou team.

There’s nobody at Celtic to blame for that, and although I think we should have waited for the summer I can well understand why people inside the club might just want him out the building.

But the story today about Bernabei leaving shortly makes no sense whatsoever and in fact would be akin to another jaw-dropping act of self-harm. I cannot conceive of any circumstances where someone could sell this as a good idea.

We badly needed a left-back in the January window and as everyone knows we didn’t get one. That was bad enough. Greg Taylor has just recovered from an injury and we’ve seen how poor the options are at present, in terms of having to play Ralston in his position at one point.

To weaken us further here, with nine league games left, every one of them a must-win, is absolute lunacy. Who in God’s name is making decisions like this?

What are we doing, folks? Where is the sense or the logic here?

Who is going to take responsibility if Taylor ends up injured and we have absolutely no cover in a critical position on the pitch? Bernabei doesn’t have a long-term future at Celtic and we all know that damned well, but selling him now is an act of absolute lunacy, weakening further a squad which already looks drastically short in so many positions.

This is absolutely indefensible.

Another act which seems to be in service of the balance sheet and nothing more.

What a disgrace. The people running this club have lost the plot, and the manager is a pure fool for sanctioning this, if in fact he’s had any say in it at all.