There’s no need to spend £26m to roll over St Johnstone, Ross County and St Mirren. Celtic could do that for a fraction of the cash. The trouble is that Brendan Rodgers wanted to take things to a new level.
The influencers had been briefed, Rodgers signings were risky and represented bad value, he should have shown faith in the job-lot of seven projects presented by Mark Lawwell a year earlier.
Adam Idah didn’t take long to provide Hugh Keevins with another custard pie for his infantile predictions, playing to the gallery of Daily Record readers.Last week’s contribution to the 1-0 win over YB Bern drew the ire of Keevins who felt that celebrating and claiming the goal was the most…
With two sendings off to his name already those season Joe Wright jumped for a free kick with one aim- to crash his elbow into the face of the Celtic striker.
That was followed by some Norwich fans booing Idah when he appeared as a substitute in the home friendly against St Pauli with the next, and possibly final stage coming on Saturday when Norwich start their Championship campaign away to Oxford.
There was no need for Johannes Thorup to mention that Idah had missed the team flight to Austria, that could easily have been kept in-house but by going public he painted a target on the striker’s back that pushed Idah closer to the exit door- sign posted Glasgow.
I’m sure Rodgers would have preferred to have him on board for the US but the good thing about Idah is they know all about him and he wouldn’t need time to settle in. Celtic can afford to wait until the deal is right and he’ll walk back into the…
The length of contract strengthens their hand in any potential negotiations, yet equally there is no doubt if Celtic or any other suitor can match Norwich’s valuation there is a deal to be done.
Thorup is bound to be asked about Idah’s 33 minute appearance, no other player had such a detailed schedule with their opening Championship match not due until August 10 away to Oxford United.
He’s shown that in fits and starts, in big moments, and he could be a key player for Norwich going forward. But it does feel like he wants to make that move, and it’s down to Thorup and Knapper to convince him of the project if they do truly want…