Rather than taking advantage of automatic qualification for the group stage of the Champions League that status seems to have increased the levels of complacency throughout the club.
Norwich told BBC Scotland that they are not actively trying to sell Idah and say new manager Johannes Hoff Thorup is excited to start working with him.
Without even a token new signing the Celtic board have launched another raid on the cash of supporters as they promote a £50 Celtic TV package to watch five pre-season friendlies.It is fair to say that the Twitter announcement didn’t go down well with most of the replies commenting on…
They have to mind their own business and they will but, to those of us on the outside, it seems there’s a golden opportunity to hammer home an advantage over their biggest rivals.
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.
Rangers have shown a capacity to win ugly, an essential requirement of any team with title aspirations. They’re now displaying steel and belief rather than just talking about steel and belief. Everything goes back to Clement, a manager of action rather than a talking shop.
Since the start of April Rodgers has relied on 11 players plus Adam Idah, on Saturday at Hampden many of those players were running on empty- the all went home with winners medals.
Tomoki Iwata has shown some promise in that position but if the interest in Amartey is genuine he would appear to have the sort of quality that Rodgers has been aiming for since he returned to Celtic 11 months ago.