After beating the reserve side of FCSB, Nadim Bajrami believes that he is playing for a great club!
With that sort of message the Daily Record is off and running to cheer up their dwindling band of readers who’ve been left punch drunk by the events of the last six months.
Introduced to A Proper Football Manager on the brink of securing a Quadruple, in Dublin of all places, the bears have been left despairing at the prospect of Celtic being crowned as The World’s Most Successful Club before Christmas.
Defeats this month from Lyon and Kilmarnock has destroyed any lingering credibility for Phil Clement but beating FCSB 4-0 provided a brief break from reality that was too good for the Record to pass up.
It is quite a leap from Sunday afternoon away to Kilmarnock where the third best team in Scotland were outplayed by a team assembled without a transfer fee being paid but in this day and age bears need to be thrown some crumbs of hope now and then.
Bajrami has quickly been sucked into the Ibrox messaging system, at other clubs last night’s result would have been followed by stressing that it is only one match and a lot of work is required to steady the ship. But not at Ibrox, oh no.
Since arriving from Sassuolo for £3m on Transfer Deadline Day the Albanian midfielder has watched his side lose to Celtic, Lyon and Kilmarnock over a programme of nine matches.
By any standards it is a poor run, with an away match against a team six points better off coming up it would be sensible for everyone inside Ibrox to keep quiet until they are returning from Aberdeen with three points in the bag with the gap narrowed down to manageable levels.
But not in the land of the bears where every victory is treated as a Mission Statement that they are back, wherever that might be.
Bajrami told the Daily Record:
We knew that Bucharest were a good team. So we tried to press them, we pressed them well. And in front of the goal we showed our quality and we scored a lot of goals. This was important for us.
We knew our quality, even the quality of the coach. We are all behind him and on Thursday we showed again that we are a great club with young players and old players, with mixed players.
And we have to keep going like this. I think this has to be the standard. But we have to think game by game because we have a lot of games now and everyone has to be ready, every player.
We have to play every game higher and higher and to try to win every game. These things about pressure are always the newspapers who write them because when you lose, everyone speaks bad about you.
The criticism from newspapers was mild to the comments on social media with even the on-message fan media sites forced into criticism
Bajrami has been spared from the abuse but that only lasts a few months as Mohamed Diomanse can confirm. Previously Todd Cantwell and Nicky Raskin were pronounced as Scotland’s best midfielders while Callum McGregor counted his trebles.
Sunday’s match against St Mirren means little, the hype is underway already for Wednesday’s match at Aberdeen.
Jimmy Thelin and his squad will play it low key leaving their opponents and cheerleaders to start calling the odds and praising the brilliant Belgian- until the next defeat which will trigger the inevitable search for a new manager and the promise of jam tomorrow with Clement joining Giovanni van Bronckhorst and Micky Beale as victims of Scotland’s most successful club.
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by Charlienic
Previously Todd Cantwell and Nicky Raskin were pronounced as Scotland’s best midfielders while Callum McGregor counted his trebles.
Excellent.