“When you say nothing at all,” that just about sums up my thoughts on Peter Lawwell’s statement. He has shown himself to be a team player, in that he is continuing the trend of underwhelming performances by those who are paid a very high wage by Celtic Football Club. It also describes my response too, because there are lots of excellent posts out there from passionate, not self entitled, fans. Also, there is no point. We are where we are and nothing is going to change at the moment. My feelings can be summed up as follows…brick wall, let me introduce you to my head.
There are two interpretations available to try and understand Mr Lawwell’s rationale. The best is that he is supremely confident we have the resources in-house to turn things around before disaster strikes again. For the moment, I can accept this because he is closer to things at Celtic Park. I wouldn’t describe this as blind faith, more a weariness and a need to move on.
The worst interpretation is that he is buying time in the hope that things improve. I sincerely hope not because we are way past that point. Being dumped out of the Europa League and the League Cup is evidence of that. I note that the statement was silent on both these disasters. This is the nightmare scenario and we could be seeing our old friends deja and vu again as early as Sunday. Forget Milan, even if we win, lose or draw, it will change nothing.
Anyway, enough of that. I watched the Liverpool v Ajax game last night. It was great to see Andy Robertson perform well again in the Champions League and thoughts of what might have been with him soon surfaced. Although Ajax are obviously not one of my favourite teams, look how far they have progressed since dumping us out of the Europa League at Celtic Park (bit of a bad habit developing here) in 2015. They were very unlucky not to be in the final of the Champions League last season and subsequently sold all their “star” players. They went on to rebuild the team and are still competitive in the Champions League.
"It's not a big secret. It's just giving young players a chance."
Ajax CEO Edwin van der Sar explains just how the Amsterdam club's footballing philosophy works ✨✨
Four minutes of fascinating insight 🙌
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— Football on BT Sport (@btsportfootball) December 1, 2020
How refreshing to see young players comfortable on the ball, not scared to take on opponents and with a desire to compete and get forward. Isn’t it a shame we don’t have any such home grown talent or can’t hold onto them, or appear incapable of spotting and buying them.
We are all trying to deal the current situation at the club but has anyone at the club got an eye to the future? Answers on a postcard to Mr Lawwell please. Hopefully, he will not stick them in the drawer with all those unread CVs.
Chris Wotherspoon
