There is very little sign of transfer activity in this transfer window, in two weeks time Celtic fly to the USA where they have a demanding schedule of matches against DC United, Manchester City and Chelsea over seven days.
Signing three or four players at fees of £10m is viable with Celtic’s vast resources but it should be possible to identify players in the £6-8m price range that can make an instant first team impact.
Those sort of incidents don’t do much for morale, as Lawwell worked on the Balance Sheet towards a pay day of £3.5m of salary and bonus the squad suffered and the manager became disillusioned.
Nicholson has watched Robertson and Beaton perform on a regular basis, their performances are predictable, at Tynecastle they combined to cost Celtic three points resulting in Brendan Rodgers serving his first ever touchline ban.
The SFA didn’t give Beaton the Willie Collum treatment, he was put in charge of the April Glasgow Derby with several curious issues coming to the fore.
“Like many other clubs, we will continue to press for the highest standards in relation to the VAR process in Scottish football.”
His keyboard spat out over 1,100 words saying virtually nothing, offering no analysis and as expected absolutely nothing about the poison that was pouring out the four stands at Ibrox from Ally McCoist’s 48,000 fellow fans.
Keith Jackson has been warning his army of readers aganst the dangers of whorey old conspiracy theories!
With social media accounts highlighting the issues that make John Beaton completely conflicted when it comes to refereeing either Glasgow club Keith Jackson has turned to Stuart Dougal to comfort him…
Obviously you need evidence in terms to show that, so it was just a case of an off the record football chat with some of the guys that turned up.
For describing it as incompetent Brendan Rodgers got a one match touchline ban, bearing in mind Beaton’s background most Celtic fans would have used another description for his decision making from Tynecastle.