Celtic’s decision to furlough under 18 players during the same month they sent the first team on an all-expenses trip to Dubai to train can’t be seen as anything other than shambolic.
The club have taken so much heat for the trip for various reasons but now we’re seeing young players being sent home from training and told to sit in their homes and receive government furlough while the club bankrolled the Dubai jaunt.
It shows you how much Peter Lawwell sees this as a business. Any football club using furlough when they’re buying players and/or spending needless money elsewhere should NOT be using the scheme funded by us, the taxpayer.
It puts Celtic in an even worse position. The bhoys are in desperate need of a few new faces and it looks like we can’t afford to bring anyone into the club. However, if we do bring in players this month, even on-loan it will reflect terribly on the Celtic hierarchy.
Another poor decision from our club, but at this point, nothing surprises us.
Well I don’t know why it does. The team across the city have been spending year on year and not making any profit in fact they have run at a lose for the last 8 year at least. Arsenal paid lots of staff off then went out and spent multi million on players. Or maybe this is just open season on Celtic.
So we have now sunk so low that we are using the behaviour of Sevco as a yardstick?
This furlough decision will rightly invite ridicule from the rest of Scottish football especially from lower down the pyramid where clubs are struggling just to survive.
Probably the final nail in the coffin for any prospect of additional financial support for professional football in Scotland from government who can use Celtic as an example of football squandering its own money then looking for taxpayers money to bail them out