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.
Nygren’s pace, power and technique was crucial to Celtic’s win against Aberdeen on Sunday as the Swede scored his first goal and set up Reo Hatate for the second.
Despite falling for the spin and hype over Micky Beale and Phil Clement only to end up looking like the thick cousin of the Village Idiot the former Scotland striker just can’t bring himself to predict a Celtic title win.
Rodgers has already seen off Micky Beale and Phil Clement in his second tenure, if trends continue Keevins will soon be investing his emotions on Martin’s successor or explaining to the Sunday Mail’s Army of Readers why Barry Ferguson is the perfect interim manager, again.
Rodgers tentatively discussed ambitions and aspirations, Michael Nicholson opted to consolidate the Bank Balance further while the goals of Kuhn and Kyogo were removed from the managers options.
Every area of the club is occupied by former players that haven’t achieved anything elsewhere, relatives of former managers or directors and associated hangers-on that wouldn’t get near an equivalent job elsewhere.
Last year we started the season with Maeda, Kyogo and Kuhn. A year on and north of £80M in the bank, we are starting with Maeda, Idah and Yang. I’m struggling for the adjectives to describe how our forward line is disappearing in quality despite the potential resources available to…
I think it’s wild wild decision and what it means to me is apart from the fact I think it’s a massive slap in the face to the fans, I think it’s so lacking in any sort of vision or courage, it is just lacking in backing of the manager.
Meanwhile turnover is up around £150m, the bank balance is stable around £100m while everything meaningful about a football club is in decline.
Really, if you can get the deal done and you get the valuation, what you think is right, then do it, move on and look to get the replacements in.