‘So weak’… Mark Wilson says there’s a ‘lazy’ player at Celtic who shouldn’t be near the first-team

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A can of worms was opened up on Saturday when Celtic dropped points to Kilmarnock, wasn’t it?

The Celtic fans made their feelings perfectly clear when the full-time whistle went at Parkhead and since then there has been a whole host of criticism aimed at the club.

But as most of the spotlight falls on the recruitment side of the club’s business, it was a signing made by Ange Postecoglou that is on the receiving end of this latest scathing assessment.

Alexandro Bernabei has been hitting the headlines over recent weeks with his semi-decent performances as he filled in for the injured Greg Taylor.

However, after coming on as a second-half substitute against Kilmarnock, the Argentine fullback did nothing to promote his case for being a started in the eyes of Mark Wilson.

In fact, Wilson believes that after his part in the Killie equaliser, Bernabei should be nowhere near the Celtic first team.

Wilson said [Superscoreboard], “No, he shouldn’t be. And I hate being harsh on players because people think it’s easy to play for Celtic and you’ve got a lot of the ball.

“Now that’s a failing on the part of recruitment, Brendan Rodgers himself not bringing someone in. But when you get given the jersey and you get put on you have got to be more resolute than Bernabei is.

“Now, I made a joke when Bernabei was coming on for Tayolr and I said, ‘Oh, you get entertainment one way or the other. There’s a bit of chaos coming on.’

“So I knew he would do something. I just didn’t know what side of the pitch it was going to be.

“I knew there was something that was going to transpire with him coming on. I mean, so weak defensively if you look at the goal.

“And do you know what I think that is? That’s lazy defending. That’s ‘I don’t want to challenge for this ball. I a feeler wee bit of pressure on me so I’m just going to hope that the ref gives a push.’

“That’s lazy defending.”

Indeed, this is not the first time Bernanbei has come under some scathing criticism at Celtic. Missing Rodgers’ first-ever team meeting at the beginning of the season certainly didn’t endear the 23-year-old to the Celtic manager.

And after his latest mistake against Kilmarnock, I would be surprised if we ever saw him in a Celtic jersey ever again.

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