Originally published at: Celtic missing out on Ali McCann makes absolutely no sense at all
Celtic failed to secure St Johnstone midfielder Ali McCann last night, with the player instead moving to Preston. The deal only cost £1.2m [Daily Record]. And despite having scouted the player on more than one occasion last season, we’ve allowed one of Scottish football’s brightest young talents to move to England. Had this been a…
Seems a miss but unlikely to be at the McGinn level.
Given the sh** they were left the window has been managed well.
Even making all the right moves this faf up is going to take a few windows to fix.
A major success is getting rid of the players who didn’t want to be here and one that was unfortunately a misbehaviour…
All in all good so far….HH
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But even so, we still needed cover in the central midfield position before the window closed.
A chance to solve our midfield cover problem for absolute buttons. Yet it’s a chance passed up by Celtic.
@david.walton we do not have a cover problem and especially not in midfield where we are drowning in midfielders!
I was informed St Johnstone were looking for 2-3 million for him but to go for a million maybe they just did not want him to go to Celtic HH
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Yeah I thought he was priced at 3 million and Celtic baulked at that, how come he went to Preston! for 1.2million, have I missed something?
They mustn’t of wanted him to go to a league rival, clubs do that sometimes, stick an extra tax on top of the fee if he moves to a club in the same league.