The Latest “Ange Theory” Is Probably Not True, But The Celtic Board Makes It Believable.

Today, there are a few mainstream sites highlighting weekend comments from Ange Postecoglou, and the responses those comments have had from some of our own fans online. There has even been speculation about it on some of our own websites.

I don’t know that the truth is, and I wouldn’t even presume to guess. Was he talking about the Celtic board when he said that the Champions League wasn’t a “Wili Wonka golden ticket” and that the aim is not just to be there but to make progress there? He’s not at Celtic any longer and I have to be honest that I don’t care that much about what he gets up to.

Still, the comments have generated attention and that’s sparked a discussion about whether dissatisfaction at the “ambition” of the club is what led him to leave in the summer.

If we look at his comments since he left, I think it’s clear that he had no intention of staying at Celtic in the long term and that he was always going to go if a club with sufficient gravitas came along. He’s done the same thing everywhere he’s been, always looking for the next rung on the ladder.

His comments don’t seem to me to be anything other than an answer to the media’s question, an answer which some of our fans have put their own interpretation on. The issue here is not what he meant but that so many people have come to the same conclusion, and that’s where our board should be concerned whether they were directed at us or not.

Because people believe it. People find it easy to believe.

If he had intended to send that message and been just a little more specific the signal would have been picked up five-by-five by a great many in our fan-base who are ready to believe that the lack of ambition from this board made Ange’s decision easy and might yet see Rodgers chose to go in the summer whether he wins the title or not.

It makes it easy to imagine us having no option but to hire some yes-man as his replacement because no boss with real ambition would want to come and work here.

This board has a serious, serious credibility problem and it doesn’t matter how many times they assure fan groups and hand-picked little gatherings that they have got the same ambitions as we do. Fans simply do not believe them anymore.

Fans are ready to believe anything that paints them in a negative light. It is hard to see how they change that perception.

They have done this to themselves, of course. They could have backed Rodgers this summer in the way he wanted and nobody would be thinking this way.

But they have created distrust and sewn division instead with their decision making and their stupidity and these are the results of those policies and terrible choices.

Whilst certain people are at Celtic that won’t change.