Ewan Cameron is a clown. He knows nothing about Callum’s Celtic future.

Yesterday, a brief frisson of fear went through some Celtic fan sites and some Celtic supporters because of a story suggesting that Callum McGregor has already decided to leave, that there is interest from Saudi Arabia and that a move is done.

Let me be honest with you. It would not surprise me if this actually happens, because, as I’ve said before, McGregor has made his position pretty clear.

This club has to match his ambitions.

I don’t think this club will.

We have sites today trying to get excited about the idea that the Calvin Miller deal might actually have been real.

A 28-year-old former academy player who now plays for Falkirk. These same sites are trying to get excited about Motherwell and Hibs players, and I am seriously concerned that this is, in fact, our future.

These people will get the Celtic team they want.

They are just not going to want the Celtic team they get.

If that is our future, Callum McGregor will not stick around for it. Nor should he. Why should he?

A Celtic side that lowers its ambitions to that degree is not worth his time. If he has the chance to go and treble his wages somewhere else, I can’t blame the man one bit if he decides to take it.

He has the utmost respect for Rodgers, even if people at our club don’t. Even if a lot of members of our support don’t.

If that call comes, I wholly expect him to take it.

That, at least, is what I think will happen.

But here’s the crucial thing.

It hasn’t happened.

There is no sign that it is on the horizon. There is no evidence to suggest that such a call has been made.

The important word is the one I just used: if.

That is why I keep repeating it. Nothing is written in stone here. Nothing is guaranteed, but it is natural that some people might worry about this.

Although if you are worrying about this while your site is also pushing the idea that Calvin Miller is an acceptable level of player to put in the team alongside Callum McGregor, then you are part of the problem, not the solution.

I always find it important with these kinds of stories to check the source.

You have to find out if there is anything concrete in it. You go to where the story came from.

Where did this story come from?

Well, that is where the wheels fall off.

The story came from Ewan Cameron and his idiotic STV podcast. That is like saying the story came from Football Insider.

Ewan Cameron is not a real journalist. We have been over this before. Ewan Cameron is a joke. He does not take himself seriously, and the rest of Scottish football does not take him seriously either.

The idea that he has sources denied to actual working journalists is absurd. The idea that he has moles inside Celtic Park is even more absurd. Why anyone at Celtic Park would tell him anything, I do not know.

So the chances that he has any ironclad information are virtually nil.

Note that I don’t say nil. I’m not Hugh Keevins predicting the title race. There is no such thing as nil in this business.

But virtually nil seems like a safe bet.

I would put money on it. Quite a lot of money.

It used to be that people in this business shied away from making claims like that. It used to be that people in this business did not say such things unless they had them nailed down.

Why? Because it affects your credibility if you make wild claims that turn out not to be true.

But these people have no such fears. Ewan Cameron can make a wild claim like that for one reason only. He has no credibility to uphold or a reputation worth protecting. He does not care what people think of him as long as people listen to him.

All those sites did yesterday was exactly what he wanted them to do.

They gave him an advert for his show.

That is why you make a claim like that. To get attention.

But there are two kinds of attention. There is the kind he got yesterday, and there is the kind I’m giving him today, which is to say that no one should listen to a word that comes out of his mouth.

He is a blowhard and an idiot. He is one of those people who has mistaken opening his mouth and letting anything that pops into his brain fall out for having insight.

It is one of the oldest tricks in broadcasting and writing. State opinions that are ignorant and idiotic just to get a reaction. Usually, that reaction is foot-stamping fury from people who are either upset by what you say or fail to see the hook.

But this emperor has no clothes.

This guy does not have a clue.

Anyone listening to his show has too much time on their hands.

Honestly, in a world full of information and choices, I would urge them to find something better to do.

Callum McGregor may well leave Celtic during the summer. If this club continues down the road it appears to be on, that possibility becomes more real by the day.

But the idea that Ewan Cameron has some top-secret information to that end is about as dumb as Cameron himself is.

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