Brendan Rodgers wants to lift the apparent age bar on Celtic’s transfer model.
Since returning to the club six players have been signed with 23-year-old Maik Nawrocki the oldest of the new recruits.
First time around 27-year-old Scott Sinclair worked wonders on the squad where only Scott Brown and Mikael Lustig carried experience.
Beyond Callum McGregor and Joe Hart there is a real lack of experience of the UK game in the Celtic squad, in cup ties you sometimes need something extra to dig you out of a defeat.
A lot of frustrations came to the boil after today’s defeat at Kilmarnock with just 11 days to go until the transfer window closes for business.
Recruitment chief Mark Lawwell has put a transfer model in place, on today’s evidence it is lacking in one significant area as Rodgers admitted to the Daily Record:
We want good players, whatever age they are. We need quality, that’s for sure. Hopefully between now and the end of the window we can improve the squad.
Clearly the model of the club is to bring the players in at a younger age and develop them and improve them. But we are not against bringing in someone at 26 or 27 if they can improve the squad.
It does seem slightly too late to be flagging up the need for players four and five years older than this summers arrivals.
With a trip to Ibrox and the Champions League starting next month time is against Rodgers and his planned new arrivals.
Getting confused now.
If BR was brought back to make progress in Europe,
then, by default, the CFC recruitment model would need to be tweaked?
Yes, the majority of transfres-in would still be younger for resale purposes,
but a few ‘older’ players would also be recuited,
i.e. not ‘project players’ but experienced players at/near their peak age of c.27,
and these players would cost a good bit more than usual.
BR must have covered this very clearly when negotiating with CFC, you would think?
Has something changed…?
We’ll soon see the boards intentions, either to kick on or make sure we don’t get too far ahead of their friends at the bigot dome.
A tough time with injuries at the moment but obvious upgrades to the team are necessary.
If Rodgers isn’t backed he should walk away.
The next 11 days will be huge in shaping our season.
“Too Late”
is right!
So, why did Rodgers agree to take the job then if he didn’t feel that there was quality there. Did he
“Sleepwalk”
himself into the job then?
Why would he take the job if he didn’t think that he could succeed in the position?
Was it because Lawwell smiled at him, perhaps? He smiled at Lennon as well in the shower perhaps, when he recruited him!?
Sounds like Brendan hasn’t a say in transfers which is worrying
THE usual question always arrive why is liewell involved the selection of players whilst Ange was there he was nowhere to be seen but now his mark is all over the place, i know with Ange it took a little while for his system to show i hope it is the same with BR but i do not know if this will happen going from treble winners to nothing is a grim possibility but a reality
This decline began the moment Lawwell walked back in the door last season. There was an immediate abd palpable change in the mood of the club and fans from that point on. He might be good at delivering share dividends but he is a toxic presence at CP, he is harming the club and needs to be shown the door right now before things get any worse, Mr. Desmond.
You obviously love the guy but you also apparently love Brendan so you’re going to have to choose between backing a man who can delivery the glory you so love to bask in the reflected light of, or a man who will do naught but sow division and disharmony whilst derailing our season but might add a few more unnecessary coins your already grossly swollen piggy bank.0 if you truly love the club, if it’s more than just an ego-stroking plaything to you, then you know who has to go, and go now.