The Celtic board are coming under some serious heat after the shambolic summer transfer window.
Celtic fans have had enough and it seems a movement is now growing to demand answers, if not change, from the board.
With just one player added and Adam Idah sold from under Celtic boss Brendan Rodgers, the supporters are fuming at the lack of investment in the club and how they handled negotiations for new players.
However, as fan rage mounted on transfer deadline day, Charlie Mulgrew had a different take and it will leave Celtic supporters scratching their heads.
Charlie Mulgrew says the board can’t be criticised for how ‘Celtic operate’
Mulgrew was speaking on transfer deadline day and as fan frustration grew as the likes of Kasper Dolberg rejected Celtic and various other deals during the summer collapsed, the former Hoops defender refused to point the finger at the Celtic board.
Mulgrew told The Go Radio Football Show [43m], “No, I don’t think we can criticise the same group of people that have run such a great business model for years now, for however long, 25 years or however longer.
“They’re bringing players in for a certain price and selling them on and that’s why the club is in such a stable position.
“Now listen, I understand being a Celtic fan myself, I want to see signings come in the door. I’d love, let me just say, the first day of August, you see five, tens, and fifteen millions just getting thrown at teams.
“But the reality is, it’s not the way the game works. Obviously, Celtic are hard negotiators, maybe harder than other teams. And that’s why they’re getting a bit of stick.
“But listen, that’s the way they negotiate. It’s the way they’ve always done it. We can sit and moan about it, but it’s just the way Celtic operate.”
Charlie Mulgrew completely misses Celtic fan feeling
The majority of Celtic fans don’t want the club to spend silly amounts of money on players. They understand that those kinds of figures Mulgrew quotes are simply unsustainable.
What the former Celtic defender seems to be missing is that it’s not the amount of money spent that’s annoying supporters, it’s how the negotiators have made the club look like a laughing stock with their haggling over deals for players.
Stalling over Dolberg and even haggling over Jakob Breum had the Go Ahead Eagles hierarchy publicly mocking Celtic.
So just because the board have made Celtic the richest club in Scotland, it doesn’t mean they cannot be criticised when they get it wrong.
In fact, that is the exact reason they should be criticised because a drop in standards both on and off the field should never be ignored by the Celtic support. And it isn’t.
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