The thing is though. If tav had been in celtics team this season or last would they have lost the league? For me, I think they would have improved by quite a lot. He's not the reason we aren't winning the league. He has cost us a couple of goals but in my opinion a lot of the goals we lose is because our centre backs don't clear crosses that come in to their positions or even midfielders losing their men.
Everyone talks about how he doesn't cut out crosses but to be fair he stops a lot of them before they get there and the ones he doesn't shouldn't automatically be leading to goals. No right or left back anywhere is keeping people from crossing in for the whole game. I think goldson has been more culpable for goals lost and certainly his partners at centre back have. I would say the biggest downturn in his form this season has been his attacking ability and gio played a massive part in that. He ruined both tav and barasic and it is no surprise that they have improved massively since Beale has come in.
I totally get your argument mate and I don’t take any pleasure in calling out the like of Tav and Goodson. It’s my belief there is a cultural issue at our club. I can understand it as well, they had a mountain to climb to get 55.
I believe there are too many at our club now who can live with 2nd best a little too easily, staff and players.
I also support DP and the rest of the board but he needs to employ a football specialist CEO to take this club back to the top. The football operations team in its entirety needs to be reviewed and people replaced to ensure the manager, who is the right man for the job, gets the support he needs to take us back to the top.
We may win the odd cup with these long term senior players but they don’t have or no longer have that last 1% that takes you to the top and keeps you there.
We need to phase these players out, they have had their time and Beale has to be given the backing to succeed and get us back to the top.
He knows this and the cup final confirmed everything he needed to know.
There players should have been phased out in a manageable way over the past 2 seasons. The fact we haven’t moved forward since 55 now makes the required rebuild all the more difficult.
Look, I don’t know anymore than any other fan out there but I firmly believe we will win nothing with the likes of Goldson, Tav, Lunstram, McGregor, Borna, Kamara etc… at the core of this team. It’s not about individual player stats, it’s about the collective mentality of a winning team and we don’t have it.
The January signings look excellent, I think the main priority is the back 4 and the GK, that work has to start now. If we go another 2 or 3 seasons with these players we will win nothing.
As I’ve said many times recently, Mr Robertson has spent a lot of money taking us to mediocrity and 2nd place and continues to spend a lot of money keeping us there. That needs fixed first.