Tens of thousands of Celtic fans voted with their feet yesterday. They ditched the pre-season match against Middlesbrough at Celtic Park, showing exactly how fed up they are. We’re talking swathes of empty seats, a massive protest against the club’s total lack of ambition, strategy, and frankly, competence across pretty much everything, especially transfer business.
Our Club Is Lurching From Disaster to Disaster
Dude, the frustration is real, it’s building, and it’s all because of this club’s lack of urgency. Martin O’Neill, our manager, has been let down again on transfers, and it doesn’t matter what the 74-year-old says to the media to save face. We all saw what happened with Kelechi Iheanacho and Marcelo Saracchi. Those should have been the easiest deals on the planet, but somehow Michael Nicholson managed to screw it up. Quelle surprise, right? Fans are just incredibly irritated. At this point, most of us are resigned to hoping we can just be competitive domestically and maybe, *maybe* retain our title. The executive Board? They’re totally unfit for purpose. We’re just lurching from one disaster to the next. It feels like it’s only a matter of time before we’re back protesting, trying to get rid of the “grotesque narcissism” that’s taken over our club from the inside out.
“Progress” Without a Timeframe Doesn’t Cut It Anymore
After that 1-1 draw with Middlesbrough, O’Neill spoke to the media, trying to offer some crumb of comfort. He said progress has been made on potential incomings. Progress? Seriously? We’ve been waiting. He even confirmed, “There has been progress [but] no timeframe. There’s no point saying Monday if they come in on Wednesday instead.” Yeah, great, but we just got burned with Iheanacho. O’Neill even admitted, “But what you don’t want to do, as we just found out in one where we thought we had a deal with Iheanacho and it didn’t go, we actually thought it was something we’d sort out. I don’t want to say something is absolutely until it’s absolutely do.” It’s like he’s already braced for more disappointment. Remember that “cutting lesson” Sporting CP gave us a few days ago? That was a real insight into how this season could unfold in European competition. We are nowhere near the level we need to be.
The league campaign is growing ever closer on the horizon, and honestly, we are nowhere near ready for it. We need players, we need urgency, and we need this club to actually show some ambition. What are we supposed to look forward to when deals keep falling apart and fans are so disgusted they won’t even show up for pre-season? This can’t keep happening.
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