PAT NEVIN WEIGHS IN ON CELTIC BOARD DEBACLE
- BY LIAM CARRIGAN
- 46 minutes ago
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He’s not always a popular figure amongst the Celtic support, but Pat Nevin always has plenty to say when asked about matters concerning Scottish football.
Speaking to Betway this week, the former Scotland international and one-time Celtic target didn’t mince his words when talking about Celtic’s “slow” transfer window or the impact of it.
Nevin said of Celtic’s summer transfer window: “In a word, slow. I think Brendan Rodgers would be the first to tell you that as well.”
Pat Nevin Believes Tierney is a Great Buy, but Remains Unconvinced Elsewhere
Whilst he had praise for one of Celtic’s summer acquisitions, indeed our most valuable, elsewhere was a different story. He added: “Kieran Tierney is a great buy, but that’s not where we’re looking with Celtic. It’s further up the pitch where the issues are.
Speaking of Celtic’s further activity this summer, the Scotland legend added: “Celtic lost Nicolas Kuhn, Kyogo went in January, and Jota is injured, so you’re looking at it as most of the creativity has left.
“Daizen Maeda is a good player for Celtic, but if you’re talking pure creativity, then it’s mostly gone. Adam Idah leaving as well. Now he wasn’t doing brilliantly, I would say he was doing ok, nothing special, but that was a lot to lose.
I have to say I agree with Nevin on this. Adam Idah had his flaws, no doubt about that, but he was a player with great potential, but in a team and a formation that couldn’t, naturally, create the kind of chances he would put away.
Nevin elaborated further: “You have to look at what has been brought in and when it was brought in. First of all, if you were going to bring players in, you had to do it to get you into the Champions League. It wasn’t done; the business was far too late.”
I think we can all agree on that one, even the Celtic board in their, most likely AI generated, statement on Saturday acknowledged “Timing is crucial.”
We left it far too late. Now we are around 40 million pounds down as a result.
Going further, Nevin delivered a damning verdict on Scottish teams in Europe, that, while no doubt flavored by the ingrained arrogance and misplaced notions of superiority that come from covering the EPL, is hard to argue with.
He concluded: “If we’re going to be honest about it, I was covering the Champions League playoffs for the BBC on the highlights programme.
“As a Scottish player trying to explain Scottish football to an English person, and then you have Celtic drawing 0-0 Kairat from Kazakhstan over two games and extra-time.
“Then Rangers are getting beaten 9-1 by Club Brugge on aggregate, so it was utter torture to watch. I have to be honest; it was awful for both teams.
“In reality, whatever the pain was for Celtic and Rangers on the night, they’ve probably dodged a bullet.
“Yeah, they might have had some money to strengthen, but they might have got a hammering from some teams in the Champions League if they both played to that standard in the playoffs.”
We might not like it, but in all honesty can we really argue with anything Nevin says here?