Celtic boss Martin O’Neill is already hard at work at the club as he looks to pick up the pieces of this season.
O’Neill took in his first Celtic training session where he, Shaun Maloney, Mark Fotheringham and Stephen McManus put the players through the wringer.
The session was intense and heavy and, to be honest, very impressive as the Celtic coaches hammered the players with positivity and hard work.
After that, O’Neill took his first Celtic press conference where he updated fans on his situation at the club and also the players’.
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Shaun Maloney loving the intensity of the Celtic players!
But it was what happened after that presser that journalist Michael Gannon revealed that will delight the Celtic supporters.
Martin’s O’Neill’s ‘prominent’ Celtic transfer meeting
Gannon shared how Celtic plan to tackle the transfer window as O’Neill promptly left his press conference to head into a meeting inside Lennoxtown.
Gannon told Hotline Live, “They needed a striker in the door four days ago. They need a couple of wide men, a centre-half, a right-back, well they’ve got a right-back now I suppose.
“But there’s still work to be done, so it’s going to be done in a fast-forward.
“In fact, he left us at about three o’clock and he was going straight in a meeting over transfers with Maloney and a few other members of the staff at Lennoxtown.
“So that’s how prominent this is for Celtic. First thing on the agenda.”
What Martin O’Neill said about Celtic’s transfers
O’Neill was crystal clear on what he said was needed for this Celtic team in the transfer window as he laid out how he planned to tackle January.
The Celtic manager said, “We definitely need to supplement the squad, no questions about that.
“Shaun has been working in the background in certain things, getting to know some players. Eventually, I’d like to be sitting here saying ‘all these players are my choice’.
“I don’t have a great deal of time. Before, I’d be able to run the rule over players. Here, I will rely on Shaun, Mark and Stephen for the opinion on players, but eventually it will be down to me.
“If they don’t do well, I will blame Shaun!
“I didn’t know anything about the lad who joined from Bournemouth. That’s up to him to prove himself now.
“He hasn’t played much football. I’ll reiterate, we need the players in and as quickly as possible.”
With O’Neill getting to work straight away, Celtic fans will be hoping that additions to the team will not be too far away.
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