DAILY RECORD GOES FULL CONSPIRACY THEORY WITH LATEST CELTIC HIT PIECE
- BY LIAM CARRIGAN
- Jul 30
- 2 min read
We live in a very paranoid world at the moment. It’s a world full of people with challenges to face, and struggles they can’t overcome. At the one time when introspection is needed most, many have abandoned the very notion.
Such a world is well-suited to the professional grievance peddlers at The Daily Record, ever ready to tell their readership that “whatever your problem is, it’s definitely Celtic’s fault.”
Daily Record Actually Tries to Blame Celtic for Rangers Inability to Sign a Player
Today’s headline reads: “Oliver Antman to Rangers Transfer Hampered by Celtic”.
The entire premise for this, seems to hinge on the fact that Celtic and Rangers have shown interest in two players at the same club. Celtic offered far less than what Go Ahead Eagles want for their star winger Jakob Breum.
So, unless there’s a massive increase in the offer, this player won’t be going to Celtic.
From Go Ahead Eagles point of view, both Breum and Antman are considered of similar value to the team. However, their pragmatic CEO Jan Wilem Van Dop conceded that “one of them will likely move this summer”.
With the potential for fan revolt if both players were allowed to leave, it’s a simple choice, either Breum goes or Antman does. The fee Van Dop wants for either player is said to be around 5 million pounds.
So, why won’t Rangers “just pay the damn money” as so many, myself included have said about Celtic since this saga began?
My guess, and I stress it is a guess at this point, is that Rangers have no intention of paying 5 million for any player this summer (they already blew close to 5 mil with their mandatory purchase of the treatment table VIP that is Oscar Cortes).
What we have here is an exceptionally clumsy attempt at media spin by the Daily Record. An attempt to “get ahead of the story” as it were.
The Antman deal will most likely fall through, if indeed any formal offer is ever made, and today’s little bit of editorial grandstanding gives Rangers an easy out.
After all, why face up to your own failures in life when you can just blame it all on the “Unseen Fenian Hand”?
This entire mess of a story from the Daily Record falls flat due to one simple fact. They assume that Go Ahead Eagles are as petty, petulant and childish when it comes to doing business as they are.
Rangers might do business with Go Ahead Eagles or they may not. Celtic will have no impact on that whatsoever. I know that, you know that, and the Daily Record knows that.
The sad reality is though, a headline like “Celtic hamper Rangers Deal” will always grab more attention than “Rangers are shopping in the bargain bin and desperately need a distraction, which The Daily Record, as their ever-loyal servants are only too happy provide.”
All supporters deserve far better from their national newspapers.
