Time for Celtic to cash in on no summer madness?
I don’t really buy into that as they have still being spending a fair amount of cash. Nikica Jelavic for £4million suggest that they are not as poverty striken as they would like us to think.
Continuing on the theme of cash, I’ve been reading about how this new owner of Rangers doesn’t seem to be worth as much as some would like us to believe. I have to admit that any negative stories relating to Rangers is a good thing for me.
Lets face it, most folk will enjoy seeing our rivals with a smaller squad with key players in their last year with no sign of a new contract – Steven Davis and Madjid Bougherra being the main two that I am thinking of with the possibility of Davie Weir retiring.
On top of that, they are going to be four players down as El Hadji Diouf has gone back to wherever it was they found him (Blackburn Rovers was it?), Kyle Bartley (the Arsenal guy) is back at Arsenal with Vladimir Weiss and Richie Foster also returned to their clubs.
At this stage, I think Rangers have about 13 first team players with a few young guys thrown in there for good measure.
Given all of the above, I think it’s safe to say that Celtic should be ahead of Rangers but we are not and why not?
Who do we blame for not being miles ahead?
Is it anyone’s fault? Or do we simply just accept that some things don’t work and have to be corrected and move on?
I, for one, was quite optimistic when Tony Mowbray took over. From being at Hibs and West Brom and with the type of football they played it all looked good. Of course, there will be some who will say from the start that they didn’t think he was the correct choice. My dad was one of the ones who thought Mowbray was a bad idea from the start (bloody know it all !!!!!).
The reason I am making that point is that I can forgive the board for giving Mowbray the job when I, and some others, also agreed that it was a good appointment.
At the start of last season did anyone really have much hope for what Neil Lennon was going to do? After Ross County, I have to admit that I had my doubts the he was the right man for the job.
How a season can change things though. For next year, with Lennon in charge, I seriously think that we can take the title back.
Up at Inverness near the end of last season, my opinion is that the team ‘bottled’ it as Inverness certainly didn’t beat us because they had the more able players. I will give credit where it is due and they deserved that win but I will also say that under Lennon we tend not to make the same mistakes over and over again.
Can we take everything from last season and put it together to make sure we can learn from it for next season? I’d like to think so and I also have to say that I am expecting big things from our team next year.
As always, I welcome comments so please do leave me your thoughts on what I’m saying above.
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