Defiant Lennon, Pusillanimous Ntcham, Marseille €5m Bargain Hunt: Scott Bain,”You can understand the anger from the fans”

NEIL LENNON spoke to the Mainstream Media today and said that he’s going nowhere. Peter Lawwell’s decision to announce his retirement last week has no bearing or relevance on the delusional Celtic manager or this players who make up the Celtic squad, draw down large salaries and frequently embarrass the Hoops.

“Why would it be my intention to go? Peter’s decision has nothing to do with my position at all, or my coaches or any of the players. So I don’t understand the context of the question at all,” Lennon said.

We’ll let the Lennon stuff sink in a little before coming back to it this afternoon.

The @CelticFC boss N. Lennon has no plans to follow CEO P. Lawwell out in the summer. “Why would it be my intention to go? Peter’s decision has nothing to do with my position at all, or my coaches or any of the players. So I don’t understand the context of the question at all.”

— @Kheredine (@Kheredine2018) February 1, 2021

As each day passes I’m losing more and more respect for both Neil Lennon and a @CelticFC board paralysed by fear and inaction. HH pic.twitter.com/9t0Ho1a6Kq

— Celtic Gossip (@CelticGossip) February 1, 2021

Meanwhile Marseille today took full advantage of the situation in ‘Paradise’ by spending the morning haggling down the option to buy price on Olivier Pusillanimous Ntcham.

UPDATE: We understand Marseille’s offer for Celtic midfielder Olivier Ntcham is a loan, with an option to buy for £4.5m.#DeadlineDay https://t.co/wgHz9Tys8T

— Anthony Joseph (@AnthonyRJoseph) February 1, 2021

And Scott Bain, recently given the gloves by Lennon after Barkas and Hazard took their turns under the bus, was the Celtic player wheeled out to tell us stuff about trying hard, all being together and the need for a run of wins. You’ve heard it all before of course.

“Since I’ve been here, every match has come with tremendous pressure regardless of which title we’re playing for,” Bain told the official Celtic website. “Pressure is the norm here at Celtic. We’ve not been performing well enough on the pitch or up the standard we’ve set in recent years, we’ve not produced those levels from the last couple of years and it’s caught up with us a bit.

“I don’t know if I feel the pressure building personally, but we want to take it every game as we go – even if that means we start scraping wins. We want to put a run of wins together and hopefully get a run of games,” Bain added.

“It’s the old cliché, but we want to play one game at a time. It’s more a case of we’re not performing well as a team. I wouldn’t say we’re not responding to the manager. Nothing has changed off the field, it’s more that we’re not performing on it.

“Maybe there are players who are lacking a bit of confidence. That can come from not performing on the pitch and being out of the team. I think that can come from within and I think it can be dangerous to look to other people for recognition in what kind of player they are.

“Of course you can understand the anger from the fans. The fans have gotten used to a high level of success and for it to drop off the way it has, there’s nothing we can say to make it better, but if we can keep working hard, hopefully, we can make it up in one way. We’re feeling it as well.

“All we can do it try to put a run together and we need to keep going forward for each game as it comes. Our goal is to finish is high in the league as possible. We want to finish first, and we’ll keep going until that is no longer possible.”

🎙️ Scott Bain spoke to the media today ahead of our trip to Rugby Park.

Watch his full media conference on YouTube ⬇️#CelticFC 🍀

— Celtic Football Club (@CelticFC) February 1, 2021