The tragedy is that McKay, Postecoglou and Trimboli only worked together for 72 days. In that time they provided the spine of five successive SPFL title. A lack of foresight, ambition and ability ensured no progress in Europe during the time since.
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.
We may never know if O’Neill was making his feelings know to the board but it shouldn’t take that, along with fan apathy and the impending loss of our talismanic striker from last season to green light an ambitious signing.
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.
Celtic’s media team hasn’t been deflected from selling merch and tickets to welcome a new signing with a social media clip.
It is going to be a big summer. Everyone, I hope and expect, has learned lessons from some things which influenced this season. Therefore, everyone is up for that challenge and the work is going on.
McGregor has been at pre-season training since Day 1 on June 26. O’Neill hasn’t got round to speaking to his captain. He did create time to hit the booze with Michael Gannon, Ryan McDonald, Gareth Law and Josh McCafferty.
What goes on in Portugal is best kept out of the public eye. Not shared on You Tube after another week of failure at every level of Celtic.
On the back of a double win the manager was nowhere to be seen. The first home match following the dramatic 3-1 win over Hearts. An iconic figure committed to a season in the dug-out. Zilch. Nada. Zero. Not even on the club website.