Any time this site has posted up a transfer story over the last few weeks, we’ve been met with the same question over and over again; ‘How can we be signing players when we don’t have a manager?’.
On Friday, John Kennedy offered a response and explanation into why the club are still being linked with players and why in fact the club are still pursuing signings even though we don’t have a management team in place.
Speaking to the media and cited by SkySports, Kennedy said: “It was obviously on-going when Neil was here, we were involved in discussions in terms of where Nick Hammond (head of football operations) and his team were at, what they were looking at, what we need and there will have to be changes in the summer as there always is in terms of player pools.
“It is still an on-going process and that is the thing about the club, around the management side of it, there is structures there and departments in place that continually do the work.
“So everything is still on-going in the background so that whatever happens there is food for thought there and decisions to be made.
“Ultimately for Celtic there is a certain type of player and a certain type of coach who would take the team and play in a certain way.
“Celtic is always a team who want to have good attacking players, creative players, goal scorers, flair and attacking intent but also, any coach or manager will have their own take on that.”
Celtic have been mostly chasing young talent at the moment. Players who can come in and develop fit any new coach. To this point we’ve not really seen anything concrete from the club when it comes to signing first team players.
Liam Shaw is coming in this summer as a free agent and Wigan’s Kyle Joseph could be another one.
There have been so many youngsters leaving the setup, it’s imperative we bring in new talent.
