The eye-watering number of players Celtic identified ‘months ago’ as Paul Tisdale’s hiring is questioned

Heads have to roll at Celtic after that disastrous summer transfer window, right?

The Celtic board have come under fire this week after a summer-long transfer window was summed up by a shoddy deadline day in which the club managed to sign just one player.

Granted, Kelechi Iheanacho was brought on board but, in truth, that was only because Kasper Dolberg said no to Celtic to join Ajax.

But was it because of poor planning by Brendan Rodgers and the Celtic recruitment team? It certainly wasn’t as ACSOM’s John ‘Yogi’ Hughes shares how many players the Hoops manager had identified before the summer transfer window had even opened.

People interviewed ‘better’ than Paul Tisdale at Celtic

Firstly, speaking about Paul Tisdale, it appears that he wasn’t the best candidate that interviewed for the Head of Operations role Celtic.

Big John said on A Celtic State of Mind, “I mean, you can take this to the bank. And I was talking to Phil Mac Giolla Bhain, and I read his article, and I was talking to him and saying, he was assuring me of two things.

“First of all, other people were interviewed for the Tisdale role and pretty much others interviewed better than he did, at least two right?

“He’s Brendan’s man, so that’s fine.”

Celtic ‘identified’ 30 people months before the transfer window closed

So as transfer deadline day scandalously passed Celtic by, why was the club looking so dysfunctional and a laughing stock across Europe?

Lack of planning? No real targets identified? If only it was that simple.

Big John continued, “The other thing that is absolutely cast iron and you can take it to the bank.

“They identified all the targets months ago. Months ago, and that was confirmed by someone who was in the room, right.

“Months ago. So you’re not talking about, we have failed to get two or three targets. You’ve failed to get about four or five for every position that you want.

“You’re talking nearly 30 people you have failed to get, how is that possible? How is that possible that you’ve got 30 people identified months before and on the last day and the last minute you’re scratching about, you don’t have striker, and you’ve humiliated the manager by letting the striker go.

“And the next day you humiliate him further by picking up a free that nobody wanted. And I’m embarrassed we’ve actually signed him.

“And I don’t care how good he was two years ago. There’s no chance we wanted him. In fact, we’ve embarrassed him, probably embarrassed Johnny Kenny and Shin Yamada as well.

“I mean, how good for morale is this? You let Adam Idah go. Adam Idah is mates with all the boys in dressing room, so their big pal’s away. That’s fair enough. Who’s coming in? Nobody. What does that do for morale?”

If this is correct and the planning for the transfer window was well underway, who is to blame for this transfer shambles?

The Celtic supporters know this already and action is being taken against the board as we speak as a vast number of supporters club’s and fan media sites launch a campaign for change at the club.