The despondency among Celtic fans is reflected in the Twitter reaction to a report that Luis Palma is a ยฃ3.5m transfer target.
With a week to go until the transfer window closes fans have long given up on the club taking a significant step forward in terms of bringing in players ready to make an instant impact on the Starting XI.
Palma may well turn out to be better than Jota but at ยฃ3.5m from the Greek league he has a lot of ground to make up on the former Benfica prospect.
Whether right sided or left the arrival of a winger will always create throwbacks to January 2019 when Brendan Rodgers commented on having a million wingers when he was asked about Marian Shved.
This time around there doesn’t seem to be any doubt about who is driving recruitment- in 2023 it is a different Lawwell that is making the decisions with Rodgers flagging up the involvement of Mark at every opportunity.
A decade in the shadows at Manchester City with an undefined role appears to be the qualification for a senior role at Celtic as Head of First Team Scouting and Recruitment.
His surname causes alarm among many Celtic fans, even if Mark is nothing like his Dad, is competent, modest and hard working without an ego in need of regular massage he will be viewed suspiciously by hoops supporters.
The days of raising the bar in terms of signing targets and getting business done early in the window appear to be over with a more familiar template emerging.
Over the next month Celtic will visit Ibrox and return to the Champions League. As everyone knows it is a results driven business with verdicts quickly delivered on Palma and Lawwell Jr no matter how unfair that might appear.
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Celtic have made a bid of ยฃ3.5M for Honduran winger Luis Palma.
The 23 year old left-winger directly contributed to 20+ goals for Aris Saloniki in Greece last season.
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โ Everything Celtic (@aboutceltic) August 23, 2023
20+g/a is not bad for a project player
โ aidan (@jotaonthewings) August 23, 2023
Buy Jota for 7m, sell for 20m, replace for 3.5m.
The Lawwell Model
โ Bipolar Bhoy (@bipolarBhoy) August 23, 2023
Project galore
And another winger
โ Velocity (@chivs76188754) August 23, 2023
Palma > Podence
โ Jimbard (@themaninthebarm) August 23, 2023
Eintracht Frankfurt is open to receive bids for Rafael Santos Borrรฉ and Ajax for Jorge Sรกnchez, those are the kind of players we should be looking into
โ Hydralisk (@chuche7787) August 23, 2023
Ahhh yeah 100% one of those quality signings that we had to wait until the last week of August to sign because he was weighing up his options. Weโve been sitting on our hands and weโre now running around. Not the worst but replacing ยฃ6m Jota with a guy for ยฃ3.5 – not encouraging.
โ GKWLNC (@gkwlnc) August 24, 2023
So in other words, we donโt want to pay the extra couple of million for Podence ๐
โ AbadaBing (@AbadaBhoy) August 23, 2023
A transfer rumour ๐ฅน pic.twitter.com/OIQde8F9Np
โ Kaiden (@kaid3n88) August 23, 2023
Another cheap project
ยฃ2-4M seems to be our sweet spot ๐ฎโ๐จ
โ mmabhoy (@mmabhoy1888) August 23, 2023
Cheape punt scatter gun approach
โ Danny B (@frankieboy1887) August 24, 2023
3 or 4 signings to come๐ฅน pic.twitter.com/swLta7uWvK
โ Jay (@Jaycfc1888) August 23, 2023
For anyone wondering, here is a playlist of 22 videos of Luis Palma for Aris and Honduras. Enjoy! ๐ซถ๐ผhttps://t.co/ySsXOoQyuS
โ HondurasFรบtbolTV ๐บ (@HNFutbolTV) August 23, 2023
Palma, Maeda, Tillio, Yang, Abada, Haksabanovic, Forrest, Johnston.
8 lads for 2 spots.
Unless there is a serious clean out due next week, would we not be better looking for a striker, left back and goalkeeper?โ Niall Collins (@Colliniho) August 23, 2023
