Celtic’s chase for the loan signature of Bournemouth reject Jordan Ibe will take their tally of wingers to an eye watering TEN at the club.
Mikey Johnstone, Lewis Morgan, Johnny Hayes, Scott Sinclair, Marian Shved, James Forrest, young up and coming wide men Karamoko Dembele and Armstrong Okoflex and new buy Jonathan Ofolabi complete the line-up of a full outfield of wingers, which would appear to highlight the complete lack of direction and common sense in this season’s recruitment so far.
This would be ridiculous enough, without considering Celtic’s chronic defensive deficiencies, one signed left back who has already been considered a liability, and a seven million pounds centre half who looks very suspect physically and tactically; neither trusted for the most important game of the season so far.
Celtic lost what many people would regard as a first choice back four from last season (Tierney, Boyata, Bencovitch and Lustig) as well as understudies, Izaguerre and Gamboa. They have been replaced by three defensive signings, of which only one looks like a good acquisition at the moment.
This combined with a first choice keeper who is now regularly making significant errors, it can only be described as incredible mismanagement in terms of recruitment, even for Celtic’s low standards, that they still have not addressed these massive concerns with less than two weeks before the window shutting and the first Old Firm match.
Over in the South Side, our nearest rivals have recruited twice as many players, admittedly some only squad players, with the minimum of fuss and protracted negotiations. This is achieved without the £54 million pound transfer windfall we have experienced through the recent sale of Dembele, Tierney and the compensation paid by Leicester for Brendan Rodgers.
Are we criminally handing the impetus to Rangers due to our nonsensical transfer decisions and placing a manager who wasn’t everyone’s choice under massive pressure?
Mikey Johnstone, Lewis Morgan, Johnny Hayes, Scott Sinclair, Marian Shved, James Forrest, young up and coming wide men Karamoko Dembele and Armstrong Okoflex and new buy Jonathan Ofolabi complete the line-up of a full outfield of wingers, which would appear to highlight the complete lack of direction and common sense in this season’s recruitment so far.
This would be ridiculous enough, without considering Celtic’s chronic defensive deficiencies, one signed left back who has already been considered a liability, and a seven million pounds centre half who looks very suspect physically and tactically; neither trusted for the most important game of the season so far.
Celtic lost what many people would regard as a first choice back four from last season (Tierney, Boyata, Bencovitch and Lustig) as well as understudies, Izaguerre and Gamboa. They have been replaced by three defensive signings, of which only one looks like a good acquisition at the moment.
This combined with a first choice keeper who is now regularly making significant errors, it can only be described as incredible mismanagement in terms of recruitment, even for Celtic’s low standards, that they still have not addressed these massive concerns with less than two weeks before the window shutting and the first Old Firm match.
Over in the South Side, our nearest rivals have recruited twice as many players, admittedly some only squad players, with the minimum of fuss and protracted negotiations. This is achieved without the £54 million pound transfer windfall we have experienced through the recent sale of Dembele, Tierney and the compensation paid by Leicester for Brendan Rodgers.
Are we criminally handing the impetus to Rangers due to our nonsensical transfer decisions and placing a manager who wasn’t everyone’s choice under massive pressure?