Greg Taylor insists that Celtic’s new signings understand the stakes that the club is playing for.
In most environments wining eight and drawing twice out of 10 matches would be a source of pride and result in a club moving significantly upwards.
But not at Celtic. Yesterday the hoops slipped into second place in the SPFL Premiership, by the time they next play they could be five points behind with the title rapidly slipping away.
Two years ago Taylor was part of an exciting team driving towards an unexpected title that had a blend of impressive emerging talents alongside older heads, tried and tested players like Carl Starfelt, Josip Juranovic and Giorgos Giakoumakis. Players that had arrived ready-made at Celtic with years of experience in the bank.
That group has dwindled down to a core of three, taking up a leadership role on the park is becoming a burden with more required and expected to come from what is currently down to a group of three.
Explaining part of his role, Taylor told the Daily Record:
When you have leaders like Callum McGregor, Joe Hart and even myself, they have to (get it). It’s not a case of the new lads, everyone needs to understand.
It’s not a case of just boys coming in and a case of boys that have been here, it’s everyone as a collective having to understand that this club demands success, it demands a way of playing. And, when you don’t hit those levels, then the supporters are rightly disappointed.
At this club, even a draw like that feels like a defeat, definitely. Any time you drop points, that is the way that it does feel.
Who is mainly to blame for Celtic's disastrous season?
Chairman- The decline started with his appointment
Manager- Not the same guy, weak and more powerless
Recruitment- you can't get over four disastrous transfer windows
That is exactly how it felt on Saturday, as the second half slipped away and the inevitable happened with a stoppage time equaliser.
With an unofficial club policy of signing players 24 or under it is hard to see how things will change in terms of finding leaders, in May Joe Hart will be out of contract.
Celtic have now dropped 10 points from the start of December, to lift this season’s title they may have to win all 12 of their remaining matches.
What’s the common denominators about the said leaders – They are Scottish !
Yet Sonny Lawwell foisted a million foreign lightweight wee snowflakes (Abada being the perfect snowflake example) that are made of glass, have language issues, and need an age to ‘settle in’ which half never do in a lifetime in Scotland of ‘trying to’ –
What a shit show from top to bottom…
More Scottish, Irish, English and Welsh players that ‘get’ Celtic please –
But that’d be too simple to foist on Brendan wouldn’t it – who incidentally is ‘happy with what he’s got’ to ‘make better’
Ha Ha Fcukin Ha – I’ll crack the jokes please !
Shhhhh, whisper it, Joe Hart is English.
You need a 4th option in your poll for all of above!
The Lawwel’s are massons.
Oh! Did I just say that out loud ?