Celtic dreamed of winning a tenth consecutive league title this season, but the campaign has turned into a disaster.
The Bhoys have lost to the Rangers twice last season and are 21 points behind their bitter rivals in the race for the Scottish Premiership title, and many have already given up hope of winning the league.
Add in that Celtic were kicked out of the Champions League playoffs by Ferencvaros and then suffered a disastrous Europa League group stage campaign.
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Neil Lennon is somewhat fortunate to be holding on to his job, and pandemic-related problems are now causing chaos in Parkhead.
Lennon’s former Celtic teammate John Hartson has now offered his opinion on Ten10 Podcasts and has criticized a number of decisions made last summer.
Hartson can’t understand why Celtic decided to bring in Albian Ajeti after a lousy year at West Ham; The Swiss forward has scored five goals in 13 league games, but Celtic surely expected more than 510 minutes from him.
The Welshman cannot understand why Ivan Toney was not hired in his place, highlighting that Toney is simply a scandalous form for Brentford, believing he would have been a much better signing than Ajeti.
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Hartson added that he does not understand that Gavin Strachan contributes to Lennon’s coaching staff, and criticized the signing of Vasilis Barkas given that he has already been fired by young Conor Hazard.
“It has been so disappointing. The players just haven’t been in it and I don’t think the recruiting has been great, ”Hartson said. “You can review the players and name them one by one, asking if they are good enough. I think Ajeti played four games for West Ham in 16 months and we paid £ 5 million for him. What happened to the Toney boy in Brentford? He has 15 goals in 15 games, so I don’t know why we didn’t get it. At least we would get someone who is already proven.
“Barkas, the goalkeeper, has already been eliminated by Conor Hazard. I could talk about the staff. What does Gavin Strachan do? What does John Kennedy do? Are they helping Neil? Doesn’t Neil need to bring his own person, someone he trusts and someone he wants to work with? Or is the board deciding who it works with? We don’t know half of these things. It has been very frustrating, ”he added.
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