Quote Wirral Saint="Wirral Saint"As DD has already said, the midfield needs a bloody good shake up. Nakamura we should hang on to but the rest are liabilities ATM.'"
The Celtic fans (and the manager's) obsession with an increasingly ineffectual Neil Lennon is holding the club back. I still maintain it's a sympathy vote based upon the amount of sectarian abuse he gets from elsewhere.
The job Lennon does is simply not required in a side that should be dominating games. He is the kind of player you need when you are on the back foot and you are trying to break down the opposition's play. Celtic should rarely be in this situation in the SPL. They should be playing midfielders that ask questions of the opposition, not the other way round.
Strangely, this season's Celtic side has been the worst they have had in almost a decade for me. They continually get outplayed by inferior opposition and have scraped through almost every game by playing well below par, thanks to individual moments from the likes of Nakamura's set pieces and McGeady's trickery. If Rangers had been even remotely decent this year, the league would have had a different outcome.
Playing a left footer on the right wing and a right footer on the left wing, alongside two holding midfielders, and with rubbish like Miller and Beattie up front, is something that cannot continue next year. Celtic are stumbling over the finish line, and they will get there, but there needs to be a big shake up for it to continue, and there most certainly is a change of tactics required, where the team go and attack the opposition, run at them down the wings, try to pass forward and take the man on, rather than this shuffle sideways and hope to thrive off a few free kicks and throw-ins nonsense.
This season has been packed with warning signs and there are far too many players in the first team pool (Lennon, Beattie, Caldwell, Miller, Telfer, Jarosik etc) who should not be at a club the size of Celtic.
