One for Soro: Time for Neil Lennon to Trust Others

Over the last few years, they have arguably been no better player for Celtic than captain Scott Brown.

Leading us to nine in a row and possibly an unprecedented Quadtreble-treble next month, he is possibly even up there with one of the best Celtic captains in recent modern history winning trophy after trophy.

This season though, the 35-year old has come under a lot of criticism after his performances in the side. Now, to be fair no one has really been great at all this campaign so far but a lot of supporters have been left questioning why, despite his form and age, Brown has played 23 of the 25 games this season.

For a player in the position of Brown’s that surely cannot be sustainable for much longer and at some point, he is going to need to take several breaks from the side. So is it time that Neil Lennon introduces a more unseen name?

That name is Ismaila Soro.

Soro was signed under Lennon, last January for a supposed fee in the region of £2 million. Despite that reasonably high transfer fee, the Ivorian hasn’t really seen much action at all struggling to get in ahead of Brown and making rare substitute appearances.

Although, it has been very little, from what fans have seen from his showings off the bench and during pre-season a lot have fans have actually been pretty impressed with him. He looks like he could slot into the midfield well, tidying up and keeping things moving.

Now, I know we haven’t seen him too much so it will be hard to judge whether he is this sort of player but why not give him the chance to show this.

Surely a game like Sunday’s is a game we can give Soro a chance, with Brown playing three games in the last week. And anyway, it’s not as if we have been great in that area in recent weeks.

Maybe he won’t be the answer but it is becoming ever more frustrating to see him being given just five-minute cameos. Why not give him that shot to impress, whilst also giving 35-year old Scott Brown a rest. We also have an extremely busy December period, this has to be a point where we see some rotation in the side.