Celtic Park Exit Reveals The Ever-Lowering Loyalty Gamers Really feel In the direction of Golf equipment.

Earlier on I wrote about Ange needing to be tied down on a long run deal.

A part of the difficulty right here, a part of what may seem to some as a sudden bout of pointless anxiousness is as a result of we’ve been given a lesson, as if we would have liked one, on the way in which loyalty has develop into a uncommon commodity within the recreation.

We’ve been handed it by our personal gamers.

At present Juranovic signed for Union Berlin.

Giakoumakis is anticipated to maneuver quickly.

Giakoumakis and Juranovic gave us simply 18 months.

This continues a pattern which has develop into depressingly acquainted.

No footballer needs to be leaving a membership after 18 months. These guys come right here and signal long-term contracts. Is it an excessive amount of to ask that we make a few of them not less than fake that they take that severely, and honour them?

Our membership has a coverage of letting gamers transfer on in the event that they wish to which is laudable and sensible and but one which manages to make us look weak and silly at precisely the identical time. Weak as a result of we give these gamers extra energy than we’d like, and silly as a result of it generates the impression that we don’t require loyalty when folks signal for us.

However let’s not fake that it’s not laudable and sensible as nicely, as a result of there are nice younger gamers who in any other case may by no means come to Scotland who may be satisfied to signal for us as a result of they know that the membership can flip them into main skills and that this will likely be to the betterment of their careers.

We aren’t within the enterprise of holding hostages; gamers admire that, and it makes Celtic appear to be a membership that cares about them and their futures.

Nonetheless, when somebody is available in with discuss what a terrific transfer it’s after which begins making noises about wanting away a yr later it leaves a nasty style in your mouth and there is part of me that thinks it’s higher simply to get these guys out the door moderately than have their attitudes toxify the remainder of the membership.

However this isn’t a bacterium which may be stored at bay by rigorous scrubbing of the door handles.

That is an airborne virus, able to infecting anybody.

And it’s virulent due to that huge, bloated, cash soaked league south of the border, and though Juranovic and Giakoumakis aren’t headed there it’s the money that’s driving their selections, and we might be silly to not acknowledge it.

So the query “what value loyalty?” has a quite simple reply.

Greater than we will afford, which implies that relating to Celtic we shouldn’t rely on it.

That makes these handful of gamers who do give us greater than a short “hi there and farewell” particular ones, value all the pieces we throw at them, value all of the adulation they get.