Some Celtic fans are fuming at the club’s transfer policy and want them to come up with better recruitment in the upcoming January transfer window.
The Hoops have already been linked with multiple winter transfer signings, as Neil Lennon’s men look to bolster the side for a crucial second-half of the campaign.
The latest one to be linked to the Hoops is Stoke City striker Tyrese Campbell. The club has also drawn links with Carlisle United defender Jarred Branthwaite. Not just that, but they are also looking at the possibility of signing Slovan Bratislava striker Andraz Sporar.
Celtic fans: Are you happy with the transfer policy?
There will always be failures!
We need to do better
Despite that, some Celtic fans aren’t happy with some of the signings their club has made. They’re also not happy with how those signings have been treated this season.
Quite worrying the amount of money Celtic have splaffed in January transfer windows on players that have made zero impact on 1st team…
Bayo – £2.1m
Shved – £1.75m
Kouassi – £3m
Hendry – £1.5mThe guts of £9m – what a waste.
— Emrod (@Emrod_lives) December 16, 2019
Need to do better January business . Prob the last 1 was eddy or Roberts
— Joseph (@josephduffy81) December 16, 2019
Is it not just that price point? Yeah we’ve signed a couple of people at that level who have turned good but it’s a disproportionate amount of guff regardless of Jan or summer window? You buy cheap you buy twice!
— Fraser Hopper (@HopperFraser) December 17, 2019
Kouassi is actually a good player.. Bayo hasn’t had enough time on the pitch. Shved hasn’t even had game time yet in Scotland and that’s shocking
— DC (@DC94__) December 16, 2019
Shved hasn’t had an opportunity yet.Hendry we know all about.Kouassi bad injury and Bayo?Very very raw.
— Fr Hiroshima Twinkie (@Redbhoy1888) December 16, 2019
Agree but you never get 100% of signings working out. Top three of them still got a decent chance of coming good too imo. In same time we’ve brought in Frimpong, Elhamed, Jullien and Edouard who all look like proper players so think we’ve done ok in the market overall.
— Jmm1888 (@Jamesmac1888) December 16, 2019
This past summer, Celtic made a total of 11 signings. They shelled out as much as £11.83million on these signings, whilst earning a total of £24.3million from player sales.
Their most expensive signing of the summer was defender Christopher Jullien from Toulouse. As per Transfermarkt, the Frenchman arrived for a fee of £7million. Left-back Boli Bolingoli also arrived in the summer for a fee of around £3million.
The club also let go of as many as seven players on permanent deals. This includes Marvin Compper and Cristian Gamboa. Defender Dedryck Boyata also left for Bundesliga club Hertha Berlin on a free transfer. Michael Lustig, who was a fans’ favourite at Parkhead, also departed to join Genk.
What do we think?
It is fair to say that some transfers haven’t worked out for the Hoops over the years. That includes Eboue Kouassi and Marian Shved. But every club has a fair share of transfers that don’t go as planned and that is a very natural aspect of the game today.
But Celtic have also got many transfers right. That includes Odsonne Edouard, Jullien and many more. They deserve credit for that.