Sutton covers Scottish football for Sky Sports and the Daily Record, within the space of nine months at Ibrox Cantwell has lost four times to Celtic. In both cup competitions at Hampden and in the SPFL at Ibrox and Celtic Park. It seems that the Ibrox ace is sensative to…
The dressing room that Chris Sutton shared with Henrik Larsson, Bobo Balde, Alan Thompson and Johan Mjallby was brimming with characters, social media outbursts would have been ‘dealt with’ internally but those days are long past.
Sutton expected to watch Celtic kick on over the summer months, in the Daily Record he shared his shock at the position his old club is in with six days left in the window
What it might do though, is give them a kick up the backside to bring in, not just development players, but those who are ready to go into the first team and take Celtic up another level.
Sutton is fairly new to Celtic failing to build from a position of strength, while there is a Lawwell presence anywhere near the club doing the absolute minimum will always be the mantra.
More is surely needed if Celtic are to enter the autumn in a position of strength. Maybe one, certainly two impact signings would transform the landscape
The excitement they had for the new season has disappeared and the grumblings are audible. That heaps pressure on Beale, even if a new Sky Sports colleague of mine can’t see it.
Celtic aren’t short of midfield options but until last Saturday most fans would have started with Callum McGregor and Hatate plus AN Other as their midfield trio.
The Israeli internationalist won’t be 22 until the start of October but the early signs are that he’ll be a starter under Rodgers with Maeda perhaps having a change of role, there could be two main strikers used with the attacking options open to Rodgers.
He played Edouard and Christie at Ibrox just days before they were sold to Crystal Palace and Bournemouth. After seven matches in charge of Celtic Postecoglou had picked up 10 points, the pressure was on.