For reasons best known to himself Tom English decided to tweet about Celtic being frugal as he hung on to a report from the Daily Record.
The chief sports writer at BBC Scotland was at his most imaginative because the word frugal wasn’t used at any stage by Ange Postecoglou. If English wants to check on that he can look at the report from the media conference by his British Broadcasting Corporation colleague Nick McPheat.
Sitting in on the same media conference McPheat highlighted the need to move a bit quicker and more precisely. Frugal didn’t come into it.
Since the transfer window opened Celtic have sold Vakoun Bayo and spent the best part of £8m on Liel Abada and Kyogo Furuhashi, another £4m seems to be ear-marked for Carl Starfelt.
Celtic do spend money, how wisely they use it is the issue for most fans. For English the chance to be creative and have a pop at Celtic by using a term that occurred only in his imagination was too good to miss.
On the BBC website he hasn’t made any comment about today’s Celtic media conference.
Dermot Desmond doesn’t like it when journalist(s) suggest the club had been frugal or indecisive in the transfer market. Ange might be getting a phone call… https://t.co/npl6GcaM0G
— Tom English (@TEnglishSport) July 19, 2021
He didn’t say frugal, no. He said it hasn’t been quick or specific enough.
— 5too5h (@StyoorT) July 19, 2021
Or he will maybe have listened to what Ange said, rather than take notice of click bait.
— LombardiaNumeroQuattro (@Lothianno4) July 19, 2021
Sure thing tom ?????
— Glasgow Born Islander (@Super6Legend1) July 19, 2021
Not sure frugal is right Tom. £12.5m on 3 players so far but agree Celtic seem to take an age to get things done. So maybe he is digging out the speed at which they do the dea but certainly not the money being spentl
— Alan McDonald (@Allymac35) July 19, 2021
Celtic being frugal is a myth. Literally spent countless millions badly is another argument though
— Murffy (@Murrpphhy) July 19, 2021
What we should do Tom is run up annual losses of over £100M then issue £40M in worthless shares to keep the lights on during Covid. Then we could charge journalists £25K not talk about it. Muppet.
— Tom Bombadil (@TomBomb01487642) July 19, 2021