The summer transfer window was the opportunity to show that lessons have been learned, instead it has confirmed that the virus of complacency has set in deep across the club.
Work began in 2023 and was expected to be completed in November 2024 to provide a brand new training base for the Academy, Ladies Team and Celtic B squad.
In this day and age of communications people can work remotely but with the start of the SPFL a week away and a Champions League qualifier three matches away Tisdale should be on the job 24/7.
However, if you want to progress, then, as I said, you need to bring in quality and that’s something that we hopefully can do.
Last season’s Champions League campaign should have put the club in a position of strength, one to kick on from and become an attractive place for players to go. Instead they look vulnerable, happy to cash in while the going is good, preparing for the inevitable rainy day.
When you’ve just scored four goals, that always seems to be OK, but we lost an important player in January in Kyogo, who scored a lot of goals, and we’ve lost Nicolas Kuhn, a lot of goals again, and even Matt O’Riley last summer.
Rodgers is clearly being a bit cute. He will have had the final say on the deal but it looks like he’s agreed to take a look at a low risk cheap arrival while also creating a bit of distance if he doesn’t quite work out.
I think there’s work going on behind the scenes. It’s clear we need to improve the squad. A lot of work is going on behind the scenes, there are loads of names floating about.
Nicholson and the recruitment team have had plenty of notice that Kuhn was leaving, just as they had in January when Kyogo left for Rennes without any genuine attempt at signing a replacement.
Fortunately for Nicholson his bosses think that he is doing a fantastic job, the people that appointed a low profile Sports Lawyer as CEO, a job requiring a very different skillset.