This Celtic squad would have been eaten alive in the Champions League, it would have made for brutal viewing, the Europa League will be slightly more forgiving but all eight opponents will be ambitious and sense demoralised opponents where the manager is working his notice.
I think we all, every player, every coach, manager, wants to work at the highest level of club football, and for us that is the Champions League.
Is Martin working his ticket for a pay off and a return to the sympathetic media circuit down south where some still view him as a visionary?
If they don’t realise they’re about to find out we are two defeats away from the Americans and Patrick Stewart and that leadership group finding out exactly what the fans want because the fans do not want Russell Martin.
It is very obvious that Martin has no friends across the Scottish media, he has an arrogance and contempt whenever he is put in front of the cameras and microphones that has switched off a naturally sympathetic audience.
After the late, late show of summer 2024 it seems that Nicholson is wanting to repeat that white knuckle ride with the added jeopardy of Celtic being involved in a Champions League Play Off.
I think our patience was important and the crowd were terrific today, because you can come in at halftime and it’d be, you know, a little bit of anxiety. But I think the crowd could see what the players were trying to do and the players that were out there.
Absolutely no chance. We’ve done that one before. It didn’t go down well. I said from the first day and there’s no hidden messages and there’s no this and that. I said I’ll be here for three years, I’m here for three years.
It seems very clear that Celtic are being forced into the tightest of corners in the transfer window, one that is self inflicted with most of the problems encountered last summer being repeated.
Often in situations like that a club would be sparked into some token action, leaking news of transfer activity to a favoured source knowing that it will quickly go viral.