Unbelievable>>Adam idah declare that he cannot play at celtic anymore due to …
Every single transfer window, Celtic is forced to make choices and compromises. Even with £60 million in the bank and a chairman who knows that’s an untenable position, that is not going to change. We are still facing those sorts of decisions.
On top of that, there are now European football financial spending limits which limit what we can do, and so even if the will was there to spend every penny of that money, we’re still facing restrictions based on what we earn because of the wages to turnover requirements.
This puts us in one Hell of a spot, especially as our board over-bloated the squad in the summer window with too many players who were sub-par at best.
The dominos don’t stop falling on that one.
And so, whatever the outcome of this season, we go into the summer knowing that we will have to compromise yet again, because we don’t have the strategic mindset, because we let problems fester these last two windows and we didn’t fix some of the obvious things that were wrong. And it means that in the summer to come other things will get missed.
This is the inevitable consequence of having this board, so limited in its thinking. The manager will need to assess what the clear priorities are, and much of it will depend on whether we can shift some of the deadwood off our books.
One of the questions we have to answer involves our loanees. Do we try to sign one or both of them? We have an agreement in place to buy Bernardo for a set fee. We do not have a right to buy for Idah. Who knows what his club would want for him?
Nevertheless, it’s a question we should be asking. He’s impressive.
He fits the manager’s style of play, which is more important to the team than many people might want to admit. I think we need a real quality striker. Idah is not of the standard we need to reach the next level and act as proper competition for Kyogo. So, we need one of those.
But I think it’s important to note that Adah Idah has easily pushed Oh to third choice, and I’d be looking to replace one with the other in Rodgers shoes. Who knows what we would get for Oh? But investing it in Idah would be an upgrade to our backup option.
