Callum McGregor is confident that with the right backing in the transfer market, the club can look forward to an exciting future under manager Brendan Rodgers.
Despite having not yet signed any outfield players this summer, McGregor remains optimistic about the team’s prospects as they prepare for their season opener against Kilmarnock.
Bernardo could be a Celtic player by the time kick-off comes on Sunday, completing his medical on Tuesday night.
The club has added two goalkeepers, Kasper Schmeichel and Viljami Sinisalo, but the outfield options remain unchanged, as things stand.
McGregor has talked about the importance of not just adding players for the sake of it, but ensuring that any new signings enhance the team’s quality, basically echoing Brendan Rodgers’ comments.
As quoted by The Glasgow Times, he said: “It’s a new season and a new challenge. If we can get what the manager is talking about in terms of the squad depth, it puts us in a really good place. The key thing is we continue to work as hard as we can.
“There’s no point in bringing in quality and then you go off the boil, in terms of being a team that wants to work and be aggressive. If we can combine those two things, it can be an exciting year.
“That’s the one thing we are always asking the club to bring us quality players so that the squad is as strong as it possibly can be. That means the competition goes up, the training levels go up and that is how you are successful.
“Every squad up and down the country is saying the same thing. You can go out and get loads and loads of players but the only thing that helps you is the players that get on the pitch and who have the quality to come in and help us.
“We have to have a little bit of patience and trust the guys that are in those positions to do the job. That is why they are in those positions at the club. Patience is the hardest thing for anybody in football. Everybody wants everything at the drop of a hat and sometimes you have to bide your time and be patient and trust the process. That is where we are as a club at the minute and the players know there are quality players to come in.”
It’s unforgivable that Celtic are going into the season with, as it stands, no outfield acquisition. They’re effectively weaker than they were last season with Idah and Bernardo no longer at the club.
