Soccer Football - Champions League - Group A - Liverpool v Rangers - Anfield, Liverpool, Britain - October 4, 2022 Rangers' Fashion Sakala shakes hands with Liverpool's Jordan Henderson after the match REUTERS/Phil Noble
Fashion Sakala has allowed dressing room chat to spill over into a blistering newspaper interview ahead of the Viaplay Cup Final.
On media duty on Wednesday the Ibrox striker referred to Celtic as the other mob which filled the airwaves and social media as the countdown to Hampden intensified.
After the cameras switched off Sakala sat down with the daily newspapers to share his thoughts and didn’t hold back as he talked down Sunday’s opponents and the manager that guided him to a UEFA final last season.
Over 26 SPFL matches this season Celtic have picked up nine more points than their city rivals, scored more goals and conceded less to build up a 26 goal cushion over Micky Beale’s side.
The league table doesn’t tell the real story with Sakala explaining his version to the Daily Record:
When you play against Celtic, it’s a different game. You just want to hurt them! I don’t know what’s the right word to use. We just want to see our fans happier than their fans. We just want to hurt them, to make them angry.
It’s more than a game. I don’t know what else to call it. But you’re always thinking about being better than them. That’s the attitude we are going with on Sunday.
Yes we’re better than them, so much better! But we’re nine points behind! We’ll keep fighting anyway. I think we are such a better club. A far better club. If we get that trophy on Sunday it will prove that we are a better team than them.
With that off his chest Sakala turned his thoughts to Giovanni van Bronckhorst who apparently was responsible for last season’s Celtic title success:
A year ago we won the league unbeaten so that shows we are better than them. Obviously last season we were four points on top before Gerrard left so the change in coach contributed a lot for us to be struggling.
But if Gerrard was still here I think we’d have won the league last season. And this season you can see we struggled again. It’s the same thing that happened last season.
But the way we’re playing now, it’s exactly the same as we were playing when Gerrard was here. Yes, we’re nine points behind but we’ll keep fighting to put them under pressure and recover.
With Gerrard, we were playing together and closed things down in the middle. With Gio, we were playing wide and were very easy to beat. There were big spaces.
But the way that we’re playing now – you can see how many times we’ve kept a clean sheet since the manager came in? I’m not blaming Gio.
I appreciate everything that he did and reaching the Europa League final was amazing but the way we are playing now is exactly the same as under Gerrard.
In the Europa League Final Sakala replaced Ryan Jack in the 74th minute then found himself substituted by Aaron Ramsey in the 118th minute.
Celtic will put two players up to face the media today with Callum McGregor almost certainly one of them, it is highly unlikely that they will respond to Sakala’s comments.
Just what is it with this SEX PEST get the banner out for this headbanger and HIGHLIGHT he is a SEX PEST that should keep his mouth shut.
I do hope we SCUD them this weekend with t-shirts under jersey to reveal after the win with a MASSIVE dig at that FANNY.
“Playing exactly the same as when Gerrard was here ” doesn’t he remember that the zombies were screaming for slippy to gtf then covid came along and saved him? ?
Surely Sakala must be related to Saddam Hussains mate Comical Ali with a statement like that,the shite he spoke about his country not being invaded while the American Tanks had been right behind him in the background.
Get the t-shirts done Comical Ali aka Out of Fashion Sakala.
In all seriousness, sevco should be reigning this boy in here, his comments are both, disrespectful and inflammatory, he’s a bang average player doing his best to seem relevant, fanning the flames ahead of this game does no one any favors.
Looks like wee Fashion Sakala jnr ,under GVB and the Bealy boy is out of fashion as far as first team football is concerned ! I mean you would have thought that someone with a smart mouth would be a first team regular choice ,wouldn’t you ?No ,I’m afraid this boy remains as we say …a bench warmer … Not a good look
Well he’s fairly playing to the vile gallery isn’t he!!!? The wee clenched fist after the penalty dive, the other mob stuff, now this! Tell me do the press no longer ask questions? Just print verbatim,? Vile man and a complete soup taking eejit egged on by the manager I would guess, he’s no coming out with all this himself. It’s a vile club as he will find out. God help central Glasgow should they win Sunday.
So Sakala the numpty thinks a team 9 points behind are the better team well I’ve got news for him the only thing the Huns are better at is taking all the money out of the club then begging the shareholders for more backing.
But let’s be honest for a club that died over 10 years ago they are doing ok but Big Ange is building a special team at every opportunity while the Dead are standing still. By the way winning the cup is nowhere near to being League Champions which we will be Come on the Hoops !
What can you say about a clown brought in with no respect about other professional players and teams this is what’s installed in them at that mob, he is a 2nd rate mindless clown with no finesse.
Well, at least we know how they’re going to play.
Fashion sakala what a bloody weird name .obviously this person has big mouth talks utter tripe just like his manager.facts are celtic are massive club biggest in scotland by a billion miles weathiest in scotland by millions better run dont fraud the taxman dont cheat play fair celtic rely on no one to do them favours at all .any league we win is done with honesty hard work fashion sakala needs to simply stop all the gobshite im sure celtic again will play that lot off the park again