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A fight he can’t win- Sutton’s blunt warning to Lennon

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Chris Sutton has warned Neil Lennon that he is in a fight that he can’t win. Not even after the joy of a 4-0 win over Kilmarnock.

All looked well at the club as the restored captain gave his side the lead with the twin strikers taking full advantage to deliver full points on a ground that they were held to a 1-1 draw in August.

At full-time Lennon celebrated like it meant something, the look on Scott Brown’s face told a very different story. He knew that the result was meaningless, the season was over.

Yesterday’s media conferences were light in comparison to recent weeks, last Saturday Lennon had blamed the players for letting him down in the 2-1 home defeat from St Mirren.

Sutton has watched it all unfold this season, the shapeless performances, the soul-destroying defeats as it all slipped away from the club and his former team-mate.

The former Celtic striker backed Lennon as much as he could but doesn’t deny that the tipping point has long since passed for his second spell at Celtic.

In the Daily Record, Sutton writes:

Victory at Kilmarnock in midweek was decent, but I watched last weekend’s loss to St Mirren and you can see it’s gone. No matter how much my old colleague fights, it’s a fight he can’t now win and it’s been that way for a while.

Celtic need to start moving and there needs to be confirmed thinking. You have to have hope there is a major plan behind the scenes. Maybe it’s all in hand and the grand re-design will be unleashed in the spring.

If there’s not, it’s a huge problem because, for a start, that dressing room needs ripped apart. Some of the chat after Olivier Ntcham’s move to Marseille summed it up. Neil said he was fed up. Frimpong couldn’t get out of the door fast enough. There will be others.

The delay of two years in Ntcham moving is proof the club lost direction in the market. Blinded by the prospect of history and losing millions by a failure to sell at the optimum time.

Fans need to be energised. They are toiling for hope. It’s been decided amongst the fan base that Neil is no longer the man they trust to take the team forward and Celtic need to address this fact.

Selling season-tickets is going to be hard enough in the spring after what has happened this season with not getting into games and watching some atrocious displays on their laptops.

I’m afraid to say they’ll struggle even more to shift books if Neil is still in charge when they go on sale. That’s the unfortunate truth.

Lennon was given a 12-month rolling contract in May 2019, Celtic have still to comment on the managerial review that they announced on December 7.

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