The club is going through a difficult phase that was largely self-inflicted and commenced with Douglas Park refusing to back Steven Gerrard’s ambition
Now CEO Nicholson has to discover previously unused negotiating skills to deliver a midfielder of the quality required by Brendan Rodgers, someone that won’t look like a fish out of water when Celtic start their Champions League campaign in three weeks time.
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It seemed a fairly contrived criteria with City looking for a top quality striker that could step in as back up for the prolific Norwegian but be content at being a distant second choice with very limited playing time.
Celtic submitted a bid for Engels on Sunday evening, believed to be around £6.5m, but this is lower than Augsburg are willing to sell for, and negotiations between the clubs will have to continue to find a solution.
We had 1 window in the past 22 years where Lawwell wasn’t involved in the club. Go compare that 1 window to the 44 or 45 Lawwell has been involved in.
Last summer Brendan Rodgers spoke openly about his admiration for the defender but when it came to the crunch he moved to San Sebastian with that position unaltered by Celtic’s dubious summer recruitment.
We shouldn’t have been getting into this last week in the position we’re in.
The first month of the season has been marked by messages and warnings to Nicholson about the expectations of his manager, when Celtic publish their accounts for the year to 30 June 2024 cash in the bank could well be around £100m, just short of turnover.