Chris Sutton watched Celtic hand back the Scottish Cup and called on his old club to replay the tactics of 2016.
Five years ago the hoops lost a Scottish Cup semi-final on penalties, a few days later Ronny Deila announced that he was stepping down at the end of the season with a massive overhaul anticipated.
Celtic too many players who don’t seem to want to be there. Missed big chances though. Massive overhaul required… Dominic McKay in tomorrow he needs to get to work fast… Responded in 2016 with Brendan Rodgers…
— Chris Sutton (@chris_sutton73) April 18, 2021
A month later 10,000 fans were inside Celtic Park welcoming Brendan Rodgers- none of them could have guessed at the domestic domination that was about to unfold.
An Invincible Treble was first to be marked up, a 69 match unbeaten run helped towards an unprecedented repeat Treble triumph.
Unfortunately the framework laid down by the former Liverpool boss vanished almost as quickly as they had been established.
A clear out of players is expected this summer, there is no case for retaining at huge wages the players on loan, no-one can over-estimate the scale of the rebuild required.
Officially Dom McKay starts work tomorrow, from July 1 he’ll be flying solo as CEO. If he was looking for a challenge he has just signed in to the biggest overhaul that Celtic have required this century.
For a refence point he could do worse than give Sutton a phone call.