Ex Celtic star ‘concerned’ about recruitment compared to Rangers as he spots recurring Hoops target theme

Former Celtic striker Cillian Sheridan would love his outdated aspect to broaden their horizons within the switch market, particularly whereas Rangers are signing gamers ‘every week’.

The ex Republic of Ireland worldwide is sick of seeing Celtic linked with the identical faces each window and reckons this stems from the membership not appointing a Head of Recruitment. Colombian striker Camilo Duran stays the solitary Celtic signing this season as not for the primary time, supporters develop an increasing number of annoyed with the board’s switch market passivity.

On the opposite aspect of town, there’s been a revolving door of incomings and outgoings to date as Rangers’ summer season rebuild underneath new boss Derek McInnes takes form. The Govan aspect enlisted Serbian midfielder Vanja Dragojevic yesterday as their seventh signing of the window.

Speaking on Celtic and Rangers’ switch motion on BBC Sounds’ Scottish Football Podcast, Sheridan mentioned: “I think you’d have to be concerned from a Celtic point of view. I think any Celtic fan would be. I think Martin O’Neill is as well. Especially at a time when you’re watching and seeing Rangers sign players nearly every week. It hasn’t been a good window so far, which you’re kind of saying every year now, every six months you’re talking about how they haven’t had a good window.”

Last season, Celtic had been criticised for failing to substitute the likes of Kyogo Furuhashi and Adam Idah, particularly as they failed to qualify for the Champions League after dropping to Kazakhstan minnows Kairat Almaty. As Hoops striker Daizen Maeda is about for a transfer to Ipswich Town, the membership are actually tasked with changing him earlier than the upcoming marketing campaign.

A possible substitute candidate for Meada is highly-rated Bodo Glimt ahead Kasper Hogh, who Celtic have reportedly entered talks with. The membership additionally made a proper switch enquiry for the Dane in January. Sheridan reckons that too usually, Celtic are reverting again to concentrating on gamers they’ve monitored in earlier home windows and would love to see this variation by means of a restructuring behind the scenes.

He continued: “One thing I’ve noticed is that the players we’ve been linked with; the likes of Kasper Hogh and Camilo Duran who’s already signed. I feel like they’re players that they’ve been looking at before and it kind of all goes back to the fact there’s no one in the position of head of recruitment. This guy’s meant to be in charge of finding players and doing signings. It’s as if they’re saying ‘we’re not really bringing anyone in so let’s go back to who we were looking at before.’ I just think the biggest problem at the minute seems to be just the structure.”

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