“It doesn’t change anything,” Sutton challenges Lawwell’s excuses.

Chris Sutton, like many Celtic fans, is perplexed and frustrated by Peter Lawwell’s statement in relation to Celtic’s interim report.

It appears that the Celtic Board is concerned about the lack of activity during the January transfer window, but no solutions have been proposed.

The need for quality arrivals was exacerbated by the disastrous summer activities, which saw 10 players arrive while Jota, Aaron Mooy, and Carl Starfelt left the club.

None of the newcomers improved the Starting XI; Luis Palma has been the only regular starter, but his goal and assist totals have dropped noticeably over the last two months, with the exception of two assists in the Scottish Cup victory over Motherwell.

There appeared to be no change in the way the January window was handled; in the summer, a replacement for Joe Hart will be required, and Matt O’Riley is likely to attract offers that Celtic will find difficult to turn down. Celta Vigo paid £4 million for Starfelt, a current international and regular on a treble-winning team.

Sutton told the Daily Record:

Peter Lawwell didn’t have anywhere to go with Celtic’s interim report. He knew it, everyone knew it, he basically admitted as much and a fair few of his comments didn’t cut it for me.

I’ll be honest, I’m not sure there were enough satisfactory answers in there to key questions. Mainly, the disappointment of failing to further add to the squad. Collective responsibility was taken, but it doesn’t change anything and the big question is why were these mistakes made?

Who is to blame? If funds were available, there’s a culpability somewhere and, although they’ll never actually say, that’s the point and it leaves Celtic wide open to criticism and speculation.

Identified targets were unavailable. Well identify more or some alternatives. Because, quite simply, are you telling me there wasn’t a single left-back out there available as better cover to Greg Taylor than Alexandro Bernabei? Come on.

Also, I’m not entirely sure what transfer activity being at its lowest in England for 10 years has to do with Celtic. Regardless of happenings in England, given Brendan Rodgers talked about needing to be braver in the market, would they have spent big to buy from the Premier League down south anyway?

Who is primarily to blame for Celtic’s disastrous season?

Less activity in England should provide Celtic with less competition to sign players, while Ange Postecoglou’s advance work made the ‘January is a difficult market’ claim look foolish, with deals for Daizen Maeda, Reo Hatate, and Yosuke Ideguchi completed and announced on December 31, 2021.

Two of those three signings, along with Matt O’Riley, were key to Celtic’s title success that season, which earned them a place in the Champions League group stage. At this point, it’s difficult to imagine Nicolas Kuhn and Adam Idah making the same impact.

For the full Interim Report, CLICK HERE.

In other news, “It is not lost. Far from it” Chris Sutton says Celtic cannot afford to make any more mistakes.

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