At 11.06pm Celtic announced the signing of Kelechi Iheanacho on a one year contract, the timing suggests that the striker has been registered with UEFA for the Europa League campaign.
Celtic were linked with the former Leicester City striker in January but at the time Iheanacho opted to go on loan to Middlesbrough where he scored once in 15 matches.
Iheanacho had his contract with Sevilla cancelled by mutual consent on Monday night which removed one layer of negotiations for Michael Nicholson to complete before announcing the deal.
After losing the goals of Kyogo Furuhashi, Nicolas Kuhn and Adam Idah over the course of 2025 Brendan Rodgers made it very clear that his side was short on firepower.
Welcome Kelechi??now where is Lord Lucan Nicholson???
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The immediate task will be to get Iheanacho match fit with his last competitive outing coming on May 3 when Middlesbrough lost 2-0 away to Coventry.
Rodgers will be well aware of the the striker’s strengths and weaknesses, getting Iheanacho back to the levels he performed at for Leicester will be no easy task with Celtic having a packed fixture programme around three international breaks between now and mid November.
CLICK HERE for Iheanacho’s Soccerway profile
The Trinity Tims podcast will be back tonight at 6pm with a post Transfer Window special edition.
Let me guess – he was our No.1 target the entire time…. silent Mike rubbing salt in the open, festering, rancid wound there
The final insult. Humiliation heaped on Humiliation.
A City prospect signed by Leicester for £20m who is now not even worth £20. Poor man’s Edouard. Surprised they didn’t dig deeper and try to get former Liverpool prospect and big money Bournemouth signing Jordan Ibe’s number. Maybe he was Plan B, or he’s as far off the radar as Craig Whyte’s wealth was reported to be and untraceable.
That said, none of this is Ihenacho’s fault and he will need our support to get back on track. If we can get him back to anything like his best, then this could work out OK, even if it’s a big gamble and not what anyone wanted. Making him a target for everyone’s understandable anger will not help anyone though (except maybe the board, who will see it as welcome deflection). We are where we are. Support the team, but f@&£ the board and don’t let them off the hook for their regular transfer window clusterf@&£s. Let’s keep the anger directed where it should be and not blow the players’ confidence any more than it seems to have been blown already.
Goodbye Celtic Board you are THE WEAKEST LINK and this has been the WEAKEST WINDOW. Scrambling about in bargain bin chasing players that would rather play for Charlton than come to Parkhead. We are millionaires who only want to shop in Poundland. Where does our majority shareholder fit into all of this ??? Is he happy parading Scottish Football ‘s biggest bank balance whilst the team comes apart at the seams.
The majority shareholder is not interested. He has more important things to do in his eyes and this is not even a hobby for him, it is just an easy way of accumulating money for his selfish type of life.
There is obviously some kind of structure built into transfers, of their own design, that just does not allow the suits any leeway.
Nothing else explains this behaviour.
They simply have a line they don’t cross regardless of the consequences.
There are clubs all over the UK putting themselves into debt to buy players.
What part of “its what happens on the pitch that brings in the dough” does our suits not understand.
There is no bottom line, no dividend, no big bonuses, without a successful team on the pitch and stands full of merch buyers.
So I agree with the calls for some kind of boycott.
We don’t want Sevco style liquidation spending, but we certainly want to see spending that at the bare minimum maintains the squad, but preferably strengthens over seasons.
Instead we have suits that prefer something akin to a seal cull every 3rd season.
How can anything be built on that kind of mentality?
We will now have to sit back and watch another 2 seasons of an evolving side that may or may not turn into something that can push a Bayern to the limit, but then watch that very same side be stripped down and sold for parts like an old wrecked car.
If the suits have a plan, I’m fecked if I know what it is cos their actions look like deliberate managed decline.
Why I ask?
Does the 5WA demand that we can’t ever again leave them in our wake?
That we must stay close to keep the brand relevant?
I cannot fathom any other reason for the self harm.
Of course there’s always stupidity I suppose.
I know for a fact that what you say is indeed the case Bhoy4life. They insist that we cannot do without the Govan club and so they keep them close. This is what keeps them both at the top, but Celtic at the very top. I cannot disclose my source, but I assure you that it is true. You are very, very accurate in your assertions.
It is unhealthy for Scottish Football as other clubs get only the crumbs. We need healthy competition from other clubs like Motherwell, Hibs, St Mirren etc etc.
I am convinced that Dom McKay was sacked because he was absolutely excellent at doing his job, was a great support to Ange and was a massive threat to Lawwell, just by being so competent. It is interesting how someone like Dom McKay who is so competent and intelligent can easily make someone like Lawwell uneasy.
This Board need sacked asap. We should not allow this to continue. I am older now and waiting to see how in the coming days the way forward shapes up and which body is taking the central role, but I will commit my support in the most appropriate area. as it becomes clear. Some of my friends were involved in the Fergus takeover. I feel our Club is at great risk from the enemies within. We fans were the ones asleep at the wheel and far too trustful.
Hopefully the Celtic Trust will be involved. The location of shares need to be identified and if possible, either gather a body of shareholders together to outweigh DD who thinks he owns the club. He does NOT own the majority of shares. This may be a longer fight, but the soul of our club is at risk.
I can’t wait to see the size of the ‘ bonuses ‘ for ‘ the greys ‘ of the board in a couple of months time ? I’ve a feeling they will be equivalent to a ‘ bankers bonus ‘ payment , in numbers ? Remember them …eye watering sized bonuses for abject failure ? They also act like the Tories do politically , with an ‘ us and them ‘ aura … permanently ! The good thing is that dereliction of duty can be clocked from a mile away ..with the consequences to follow sharply and precisely ..the complete opposite of their disastrous work ethics !
Editor: We should know the salary and bonus payments for the year to 30 June 2025 in the next couple of weeks when the Annual Report is published.
95 huns read your article then voted Joe! Not bad it’s more clicks than the Daily Rangers and the Scum combined.