Neil Lennon is sick to death of the moaners who’ve been out again after he signed Efe Ambrose on an emergency loan.
The same type of people were up in arms when Hibs signed Kris Commons on an emergency loan.
Strangely when one club spent over a decade keeping contracts secret from the SFA and SPL there was little criticism since ‘it was for the good of the Scottish game’.
When the SPL and SFA saw that Ronald de Boer, Tore Andre Flo, Stefan Klos, Alex Rae, Steven Thompson were registered with pitiful contracts no one made the slightest enquiry as to how Rangers (IL) were able to attract players on much smaller salaries than were being paid across the city by Celtic.
#RRFC Raith don’t have a goalie so put Ryan Stevenson in goal. Had they known the day before they could have got Efe Ambrose #integrity
— Stewart Weir (@sweirz) February 28, 2017
As a player Lennon was up against a loaded dice in every game that he played for Celtic.
As a manager he had to overcome the EBT fuelled juggernaut from Ibrox, delivering the 2011/12 title against a club that stopped paying Her Majesty in September because they were knocked out of the Champions League qualifiers.
Why a club that owed Her Majesty £2.8m in taxes from more than a decade earlier is a mystery that the SFA seem reluctant to answer.
Despite that long silence and not a SINGLE sanction applied for serial rule breaking it seems that they’ve been crawling out of the woodwork to snipe at the legitimate and fully declared signing of Ambrose.
Lennon told Deadline News: “I know some people will moan, I know that! I could moan about other clubs spending too much money, going into debt, administration and stuff like that, but I don’t.
“I could moan about clubs going out and buying nine players in the January transfer window, but I don’t. We could have done that, but we might have stretched ourselves.
“This club runs the way we think is the right way, we knew the emergency window was an option. If it was taken away, then we wouldn’t use it. But it is there to be used, we’ve used it.
“We haven’t broken a single rule or law. If people are unhappy about it, then they can write to the SFA and ask them to scrap the rule. It’s an advantage to anyone that wants to use it – so shut up, just shut up.”
Ambrose will make his Hibs debut away to St Mirren tonight, Hibs have never kept secret contracts from the SFA, SPL or SPFL and are upto date with payments to HMRC.
The Edinburgh club don’t live off crisis loans provided by directors and can play in UEFA competitions without falling foul of Financial Fair Play regulations.
