Celtic Fans Should Not Concern Themselves With Rocco Vata’s Next Career Move.

There are two ways of looking at the continuing saga of Rocco Vata.

One is to live in hope, hope that he is the player a lot of people think he is and that he signs a new deal with Celtic and stays and gives us many years of valuable service in the Hoops.

The other is to realise that if just one of those things isn’t in line with hope that this is just a waste of everyone’s time.

If Vata isn’t the player we hope for, then we’re going to be in five years where we are with Mikey Johnston right now, with a guy out on loan somewhere telling the world he never got a chance and nobody believed in him, when we all know that neither of those things is true.

On the other hand, Rocco Vata could be the best player in the world. But if he doesn’t want to sign a new deal with this club then whatever level his talent is capable of reaching, it is lost to us already.

We have offered him a deal. At least once.

At least one negotiation has stalled.

I don’t think anyone at Celtic realistically expects him to sign a deal at this point, unless we offer him something way beyond what his talent and experience justifies, which we won’t.

Rocco Vata is going to leave Celtic at the end of his current deal barring a dramatic change in his own thinking, and I don’t think there will be one.

His own dad doesn’t think he’s ready for a move elsewhere. Vata disagrees with him. He’s got his own plans. If he follows them, he’ll go and there’s nothing anybody can do about it. From all the evidence before us, that’s the decision he’s made.

At that point he’s then betting on the next element of this; is he as good as he thinks he is? To be honest with you, the minute he leaves Celtic Park I really will cease to care.

He won’t be the first or last player to depart this club, having given it nothing substantial, who thinks he’s somehow made it as a footballer already and is prepared for that “next step.”

He’s not going to commit his future to Celtic. He would have done it already if he was.

That he obviously does have a high opinion of his own skill-set is evidenced in his being willing to wait until his contract expires before he even talks to other clubs; he could have left already for the first halfway decent offer he liked the look of.

I have no doubt that he’ll land on his feet.

Whether he makes it is up to him.

But it won’t be at Celtic Park, and to be blunt, it already feels like a waste of energy worrying about losing a player who hasn’t given us anything yet.