Possibly doing part of your job properly after five years of trying having banked around £4 million in wages is not to be celebrated.
You don’t need to be a cynic to think that Baur and Hassan were only signed with the virtual guarantee of the Engels fee arriving. It’s the Celtic/Nicholson Way.
Our job is to try and keep them, try and do our best to keep them. If that’s not possible, naturally we’ll have to try and get replacements in. To replace those players would be a difficult task.
The Recruitment team worked under Paul Tisdale for 15 months. Head of Football Operations is one of many unfilled senior posts at Celtic. It shows.
A Columbian in Azerbaijan and a Dane playing in the Arctic Circle are happy to come to Glasgow. They might not know the nitty gritty but there are worst places to play football.
O’Neill Version 1 from 2000 to 2005 would have been kicking up all sorts over watching a squad being taken apart with no sign of replacements coming in.
On all known form Celtic will spend some of the money raised from the sale of players. The £70-90m in the bank won’t be touched.
In the last few years Celtic have squandered millions through Mark Lawwell, Paul Tisdale, Wilfried Nancy and others.
Jamie McGrath wasn’t sent off for a dangerous kick at the head of Arne Engels. Yang Hun-jun wasn’t awarded a penalty, Walsh did award a penalty with no evidence against Liam Scales. VAR was selective on the decisions to over rule. No Celtic fan will be surprised by these patterns.
There’s obviously negativity around Arne and some of these guys, but for a manager, we’ve put a really good player in, we took a really good player out. And then I can change it and it’s great for the squad. So his attitude is great.