SENTINELCELTS

Morning,all.

Celtic chose to celebrate the first anniversary of AP’s tenure as manager yesterday by announcing the official signing of Cameron Carter-Vickers,aka CCV. Or CV,as they rather cleverly termed him in a “CV update”. I know,hardly a work of genius,but I’m a sucker for wordplay…

Just to remind you all,CCV joined us as we were at a low ebb. The summer window,2021,was drawing to a close with us having only nine points from six games played. We had lost all three away games,and despite the fact that we could call ourselves unfortunate in two of them,the facts are the facts.

Did we look any better than in the previous season? Well,performance-wise yes,but results wise was a big fat no. That’s not to say that CCV was a panic “buy” but there was little on his ,erm,CV to suggest that we had our defensive rock all lined up to star for us,and to put some steel into that defence. It is all too easy to forget about our early season horror shows when we look at the rest of the season with such fondness,but signing a player who had spent the last four years out on loan to SIX lower division clubs,and who had played little over 100 games for those clubs,wasn’t the type of thing to make us think that the glory days were just around the corner. Especially as he was almost 24yo and still hadn’t made the breakthrough. 

Still,we consoled ourselves with the likelihood that he would be an improvement on what we had. For,as those three away games had shown us,what we had wasn’t exactly filling us with confidence. It didn’t take us long to realise that we had a winner on our hands,someone who was going to grasp by the throat this chance at the big time,someone who wasn’t likely to pass this up.

Someone,in fact,who would turn around our goals lost per game from .83 in the first six to .53 in the next 32. Someone indeed who would lay his body on the line time and again to protect his goal as we went those remaining 32 games of the season unbeaten-even chipping in with some very important goals as well.

I am delighted at his signing,just as I was with the official confirmation that Daizen Maeda was joining on a permanent basis. I hope,as we all do,that they stick around for a good few years,successful years with us as they strike terror into opponents all over the pitch. And with the transfer window in Scotland officially opening yesterday,we can probably look forward to a few more happy days,hopefully beginning with the confirmation of Jota on a permanent basis. 

All this early business has all the hallmarks of a well run club,one which is working to a plan laid out in advance,rather than the hastily contrived deals flung together in the last few hours of an eighty day window,as we have become all too familiar with over the last how many years. It’s the future,I tell ye!

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Above article by BMCUWP