After Kieran Tierney’s transfer to Arsenal last summer, I will never sit and vouch a player will stay or go from our club.
When it comes to second-guessing footballers and what they want – I tend to take a jaded and beaten down football fans approach to things.
Wishful thinking can always cloud what you’re head is actually saying to you.
In the case of Odsonne Edouard, I am probably at my most conflicted between what history tells me and what my heart wants.
Odsonne has been a revelation for Celtic and has truly become a top striker who has just about everything.
There’s no doubt he’ll move on, we all know that but it’s when he moves on is up for debate.
Eddy’s cool exterior means you’ll not get any signs from him one way or the other.
Ultimately, it comes down to other clubs. Like the Tierney deal, I didn’t see Celtic being in a rush to sell the defender until the £25m bid came in – then it was good night Vienna. We’d be kidding ourselves on if that might not be the case this time around.
Peter Lawwell will always take the banked money rather than gamble – keeping players at the club to try and qualify for Europe. If you don’t believe me, please see the previous two qualifying campaigns and even beyond that.
The talk of Arsenal coming back to Celtic for another one of our players has heated up in recent days. Could it be because the media are looking for things to write about and are rehashing old stories, or is there more to it?
The Express have claimed on Sunday morning Odsonne could be London bound for the right price with a figure of £30m being touted.
While that would break Celtic’s transfer record for the third season running, it fills me with trepidation our ten in a row season could be without our talisman.
No disrespect to Leigh Griffiths, but right now if Eddy was to leave, we’re looking at an over-reliance on Leigh with Bayo and Klimala behind him – it doesn’t inspire confidence.
Signing Eddy up to a new deal would 100% feel like a new signing as the old cliche goes. It would give us the room to keep the frontman for another season before he probably would be ready to leave – with a ten in a row medal!
Will Peter Lawwell gamble on ten in a row?
