SamTeàrlachH
Well-known member
Well, it's finally happened, things have got so low that I'm now thinking Andy Walker might not be 100% off the mark here. It actually crossed my mind when I first saw Celtic's formation on Tuesday night. The claim is that one of the incentives in Celtic playing, nay prioritising, Olivier Ntcham in the CL was basically to entice teams to bid for him. They were using it as a shop window for him. On a normal day, I'd just mutter expletives about how much of a cockhawk Andy Walker is, but these are not normal times. The decision to sacrifice our best midfielder, namely Callum McGregor, and shunt him out to left-back in a crucial game to make way for Olivier Ntcham was simply unfathomable.
Then Lenny tried to explain it. And he failed spectacularly. His explanation makes no sense. He claimed he wanted to fit as many 'technicians' as possible into our midfield, yet he sacrificed our BEST technician to pair Ntcham with Scott Brown. It doesn't make any rational or reasonable sense. Either Lenny just got it drastically wrong or there's another factor at play here - that factor could be that the club, realising that Ntcham's stock had somewhat slumped over the past year, wanted to showcase his talents to potential suitors. Obviously this can never be proven, but if it was, it would constitute gross negligence and incompetence and malfeasance on the part of Peter Lawwell, the Celtic board and, most sad of all, Neil Lennon. It could be nonsense, of course. But anything is possible with our club it seems.
Here's the story:
https://www.hitc.com/en-gb/2019/08/...non-only-played-celtic-ace-oliver-ntcham-aga/
Then Lenny tried to explain it. And he failed spectacularly. His explanation makes no sense. He claimed he wanted to fit as many 'technicians' as possible into our midfield, yet he sacrificed our BEST technician to pair Ntcham with Scott Brown. It doesn't make any rational or reasonable sense. Either Lenny just got it drastically wrong or there's another factor at play here - that factor could be that the club, realising that Ntcham's stock had somewhat slumped over the past year, wanted to showcase his talents to potential suitors. Obviously this can never be proven, but if it was, it would constitute gross negligence and incompetence and malfeasance on the part of Peter Lawwell, the Celtic board and, most sad of all, Neil Lennon. It could be nonsense, of course. But anything is possible with our club it seems.
Here's the story:
https://www.hitc.com/en-gb/2019/08/...non-only-played-celtic-ace-oliver-ntcham-aga/