I think much of what he says is correct, but bloggers, or any writers in fact who have a mass audience, can often amplify and exacerbate certain situations to make it feel hopeless. Look, I can't understand why the fuck we have to sell before we buy, if indeed we do (this is another problem with the mass media these days: there's barely any means to actually ascertain 'truth', beyond actual empirical events i.e. someone actually signing or someone stating something clearly without spin masquerading as opinion), but I can kind of understand Brendan's reasoning.
I don't agree with it, but I understand it within the context of the financial model imposed upon the club by Mr Lawwell and, we can only assume, Mr Desmond.
While I like James Forrest's writings and check his blog at least once a day when I can, I am also acutely aware that there is a certain culture among bloggers to be the King Monkey. And, though James generally isn't guilty of this (though some of the people he rather blindly follows are), this leads people to getting involved in a kind of arms race of negativity or indeed false positivity.
I never trust bloggers or indeed mainstream journalists who rely *solely* on 'unnamed sources'. We've been told by a certain blogger, who constantly claims to have predicted everything in known history and loves nothing more than a bit of self-congratulation (James Forrest, in contrast, usually admits when he's wrong), all this stuff about Sevco and all this stuff about us and none of it is ever true. When a certain claim is made and it later turns out to be false or it doesn't happen, the blogger in question just moves on and writes it out of history. Never addresses it and then censors those who ask questions.
Don't get me wrong, it's normal and necessary for writers to have unnamed sources, but when *all* your sources are unnamed, my bullshit sensors start tingling.
In other words, my own view is simply to wait until the end of January before fully getting depressed, hahaha. If we end up in January only with the kind of signings we've made so far and no right back, it's time not simply to be pessimistic, but I think Celtic fans in our totality have to get active and make it known that we're not happy with the direction our club is being taken.
I think Pat Bonner said recently that Rodgers and Lawwell would never be forgiven if we lose the league and, while I don't think we will lose the league even if we don't have a great January, we have to take action for the future. Because, regardless of what some people claim about Sevco, they're getting money from somewhere and they are clearly determined to stop us.