BACKTRACKING! Football Scotland reporter quickly corrects his ‘working hard’ Celtic transfer claim

After the backlash to his tweet that Celtic were ‘working hard’ to sign a left-back before the transfer window closes Mark Hendry has quickly corrected his tweet.

According to the Football Scotland reporter the club has been working really, really, really hard all year round to sign a left-back as highlighted by the failures to sign Owen Beck or Tiago Araujo.

Between the lines, or tweets, it looks like Hendry has been quickly contacted by a panicked Celtic insider who didn’t like the way that his original tweet was going down on the internet.

After highlighting the ‘working hard’ aspect the story put out by Video Celts was viewed 8,000 times between 9pm last night and 8am this morning.

With many Celtic fans feeling anywhere between concerned, frustrated and angry at the lack of transfer activity, especially in relation to the left-back and striker position the club appears to be growing sensitive to reactions.

The announcement of an extended contract for Cameron Carter-Vickers is very welcome but doing that in the final week of the transfer window suggests that there is unlikely to be much in the way of incoming activity.

Someone obviously thought that getting the message out that the club was ‘working hard’ would be well received, once again the hierarchy are completely out of tune with the support and classically failing to read the room.