Ange Postecoglou has pleaded with Dom McKay to bring in the players to allow him to rebuild Celtic.
Sixteen days ago the new manager and CEO faced the media to share their exciting plans to modernise the club.
So far the transfer window has resembled the shambles of 2020 which repeated the errors of 2019 and 2018 with Celtic starting the season on the backfoot after being knocked out of the Champions League by unseeded opponents.
Poor preparations were largely to blame for the defeats to AEK Athens, Cluj and Ferencvaros.
McKay came in to shadow Peter Lawwell in mid-April, although it is still early days it seems that the new CEO is repeating the errors of his highly remunerated predecessor.
Lawwell left Celtic in a very bad way but so far there hasn’t been any signs of renewal unless Osaze Urhoghide is your idea of a transfer revolution.
Over the last 12 months for a variety of reasons Celtic have lost Craig Gordon, Jonny Hayes, Jozo Simunovic, Hatem Abd Elhamed, Patryk Klimala, Jeremie Frimpong, Vakoun Bayo and Jack Hendry. David Turnbull, Albian Ajeti and Vasilis Barkas have joined the club with three on-loan signings regularly in the first XI last season.
With Odsonne Edouard, Ryan Christie and Kris Ajer expected to leave before the end of August Postecoglou has very little scope to experiment with as he tries to find the blend that can make Celtic competitive domestically and respected in Europe with the first qualifier just over a week away.
After watching his side beat Charlton 2-1 Postecoglou told the Daily Record:
We are trying to get some players in and hopefully get some deals done. We need some players to come in because we lost a fair few from last year.
It is not an easy process at the moment, but we are pushing hard and hopefully we will get some in the next few days. We need players in a number of positions, it’s not just one. Even looking at those who have gone from last season, purely on numbers, we need players.
Postecoglou’s words are very clear. McKay has been inside Celtic for three months, clearly the club doesn’t have anyone capable of concluding transfer business to the calibre required by the manager.
That weakness should have been identified long before now in order to give the manager a fighting chance as he moves to work in a new continent.
With over 46,000 Season Tickets sold McKay and the Board of Directors may soon be facing an awful lot of questions.