JAMIE VARDY CELTIC MOVE? NO CHANCE. MORE NONSENSE FROM THE DAILY RECORD
- BY LIAM CARRIGAN
- Jul 24
- 3 min read
Updated: Jul 31
As the reality continues to sink in for our neighbors across The Clyde that they simply cannot compete with Celtic financially, various coping mechanisms have kicked in.
And courtesy of an article in the Daily Record today, we’re being told: “It’s all Celtic’s fault that Rangers can’t get the players they deserve to sign.”
That’s the problem with supremacist ideology all over the world, isn’t it?
Whenever they don’t get everything, they believe they’re entitled to, it’s always someone else’s fault.
Forget Jamie Vardy, Celtic Don’t Need Him and Rangers Can’t Afford Him
Such is the case with former Leicester City striker Jamie Vardy. Now, Vardy was a tremendous player and a prolific goal scorer. However, at 38 his best days are behind him.
Despite this obvious fact, his reputation is such that he will still command a huge salary wherever he goes next.
Suffice to say though, it won’t be to either side of Glasgow, regardless of the Daily Record’s latest attempt at manufactured grievance.
The reality is, Celtic are operating in a totally different sphere now. The days when we would take someone like Roy Keane or Freddie Ljungberg: great players well-past their best but who could still “do a job in Scotland”, are over.
We just sold a player for 17 million, and most fans weren’t even that fussed about losing him, as his form had been inconsistent for quite some time.
Meanwhile, across the city they continue to place their hopes on an assortment of loans, free transfers and pillaging of clubs like Sheffield Wednesday currently teetering on bankruptcy.
Would Vardy score goals for either Celtic or Rangers in Scotland next season? Probably yes.
Would that return be enough to justify a 7-figure annual salary and shattering the wage structure, much to the dismay of other players at either club?
No, absolutely not.
The reality is for Jamie Vardy Celtic and Rangers probably never even crossed his mind.
Vardy will probably end up in The US or Saudi or some other league where owners’ bank balances are matched only by the size of their egos.
And good luck to him. Like I said, he was a great footballer, and I’m sure he will score goals wherever he goes. He still has the talent even if he no longer has the pace, engine or stamina.
He was never likely to go to Rangers though. In truth, the ongoing speculation linking him with a move there was as nonsensical as the “Luka Modric” story from last month.
Celtic will sign whoever the board decide we want to sign. Indeed, the board’s severe risk-averse approach is the one thing most fans would agree is holding us back.
However, we will never, in all likelihood, lose out on a player to Rangers ever again. Those days ended in 2012, as did the original Rangers.
So, no matter what the tabloids say, if Rangers manage to sign someone that was previously linked with Celtic, you know one of two things is true. Either the manager decided the player wasn’t a good fit for our team, or the board decided he wasn’t worth the money.
I guess there is also the third, extremely unlikely option: that the player in question suffers from the mental, moral and ethical impairment of actually being a Rangers supporter!
End of story. Anything the newspapers say to the contrary is either a lie or based on unreliable sources. This is the new reality in which both Celtic and Rangers now operate. The sooner our opponents across town accept that, the healthier they will be.
Unfortunately, that’s another ingrained flaw in having a misplaced idea of your own supremacy: The chronic and incurable inability to admit you are, and most likely will remain, second best.
