As Celtic fans, we all need to put up with a whole load of nonsense written about our players and our club.
If it’s not a narrative about the team, it’s manufactured controversy about Brendan Rodgers to try and stir the pot. The Jane Lewis debacle is a case and point for that one.
More often though, the media try and stir up nonsense and unsettle our players with made-up transfer rumours and last week they tried their best to unsettle Kyogo Furuhashi.
The mainstream media (and more disappointingly so did certain Celtic bloggers) couldn’t wait to earn their clicks by writing a story about Urawa Reds looking to sign Kyogo Furuhashi this summer.
The basis of the story? A random Japan-based X account who claims to be a journalist tweeted out that Urawa where looking to buy the Celtic striker:
The Scottish media couldn’t wait to publish a story about it and rather than do a bit of investigative work to try and establish the credibility of the source, so did certain so-called Celtic blogs. You know who you are.
Well now, here is Born Celtic putting the rumour away along with the help of A Celtic State of Mind‘s, Liam Carrigan.
Kyogo Celtic exit to Urawa Reds is ‘total nonsense’
Carrigan is a great speaker on the show and has given great insight into Celtic’s Japanese signings when Ange Postecoglou was the manager.
So if I was going to listen to anyone about any Celtic rumour from Japan, he would be the man.
Carrigan said (A Celtic State of Mind), “Generally clubs in Japan don’t sign from each other during the regular season which runs from about March until November.
“But if a European team comes in for a player they let them go. You know Kyogo signed for Celtic midseason from Vissel Kobe.
“But the thing is, you can sign players out of Japan, pretty much any time they don’t have a transfer window as such.
“But, and this is the point I’m getting to, the whole thing with Kyogo and this rumour linking him to Urawa Reds.
“I just want to put that to bed right now. It is utter nonsense. Urawa Reds do not spend that kind of money, the kind of money that they would need to get Kyogo, on one player.
“I mean they have before but they don’t generally do that. If they’re going to sign a player from a foreign league, It’s usually a Brazilian or some sort of big name, a foreign name.
“But also their fans are quite Rangers like in their political outlook shall we say. They’re not particularly happy about signing players from abroad at all.
“That includes Japanese players who played abroad strangely enough. They don’t tend to sign out with the J League very often for a multitude of reasons.
“I don’t think Kyogo would be interested in going back to the L League anyway. But even if he was, Urawa Reds would be the last team he would go to.
“And just for the record, their fans or a shower of fascist filth as well.”
So if anyone had bothered to do their homework then surely they would have known this? Of course not. And why bother doing that when a couple of thousand clicks pays for ten minutes of typing out a Celtic-bad story?