SENTINELCELTS

Morning, all. 

Forget about The World Cup, folks. The biggest football show on earth arrives today for a whole eleven weeks, eleven weeks of unbridled joy for Celtic fans as DD & Co get busy bringing in the players that MON and his staff require to make a major push for European and world dominance. Yep, that’s right. Today’s the grand opening of the summer transfer window. 

We already have vast amounts of money squirrelled away in a savings account, with more to be confirmed when the year end financials are signed off at the end of the month. This is known in some quarters as a warchest. At Celtic Plc, it is a rainy day fund, only to be used in the most dire of emergencies. Here’s a thought-why not use some of the stash to avoid that dire emergency instead of waiting for it to arrive and having to blow the lot?

Radical, eh? There’s some out of the box thinking for y’all, and no mistake. 

Of course, you’d have to be out of your tree to think that our club will change the habits of a lifetime just because some eejit with a keyboard thinks it makes sense. The Keynesian school of economic planning ain’t their roadmap to success. No sirree, cut costs and to hell with the quality-or the consequences. So what if spending an extra £100k might have got us the player who brought us European or even domestic success? That’s hypothetical, innit? The £100k saved is real, and that’s what matters. 

I listened to  the thoughts of Chairman Wilson the other day, and I have to admit I found him more encouraging than similar interviews over the years. He wasn’t confrontational, he held out hope for a more progressive future, and mentioned that changes in structure were on the way. I’m not entirely sure whether this was all cleared with his boss first or even if he was telling it how he’d like it to be rather than how it more likely will be. 

Time will tell, just as time will tell whether the manager will be given adequate funds to buy the players we already need as well as quality replacements for those who are probably heading out the door. But as things stand, we need all of those PLUS a Director of Football, staff for a revamped scouting and analytics department, and a clearout of Lennoxtown coaching and medical teams. Not to mention adequate contracts for Martin’s two most trusted lieutenants whose continuing unconfirmed status is a disgrace. 

I want to be pleasantly surprised this summer with signs of real activity on all of these fronts. We all do. Celtic FC cannot continue to be divided by those who want the best for the club-that’s the fans who provide every penny of its income, remember-and those who still live in the days of the £20 maximum wage-that’s the board and their lackeys who control the expenditure. The latter cannot continue to treat every penny as a prisoner, they must not continue to downgrade the quality across the board. 

Because we, the fans, can play that game too. We can also tighten the pursestrings, as was shown last season by the Not A Penny More campaign. If they refuse to spend the money, we can easily refuse to provide it. And once again we will have a division in our midst next campaign, one which will continue to grow with time. 

Celtic Plc know exactly what the manager, the players, and the fans want. They have eleven weeks to learn new tricks and provide it. 

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Above article by BMCUWP