Peter Grant believes that Celtic fans would have accepted a failed transfer window if the board spent £30m this summer.
Celtic fan unrest with the board over the summer transfer window was a catalyst for the protests against the Parkhead hierarchy this season.
That alongside another failure to progress into the Champions League via the qualifiers and then the briefing against the manager all combined to spark fury towards the Celtic board.
However, Peter Grant reckons that at least one of those problems could have been avoided if the Celtic executives did just one thing.
Photo by Ian MacNicol/Getty ImagesWhy Peter Grant says Celtic fans would have ‘accepted’ transfer failure
The Celtic board spent barely enough money in the summer to strengthen the team despite raking in over £20m in transfer sales.
And as the fans grow increasingly weary about the lack of communication from the club, Grant reckons all that could have been solved by doing one simple thing.
Grant told The Go Radio Football Show [54m], “I think that’s what the supporters have been trying to get the answer for, and when they get shrugs on their shoulders, and that’s why it was such a big disappointment to them.
“I think it was simple questions that weren’t answered. And I said to Richard, we were talking off-air about it and saying if Celtic had signed four players in the summertime, and every one of them wasn’t a great success, nobody could have complained.
“If they said, well, we spent on four players that have not quite hit the ground running yet, the fans would have accepted that because you get some things wrong.
Cooney: “Would they?”
Grant: “Yeah, you have to, Paul. You have to. If you spent £30 million, it’s wrong. There’s nothing you can do about it. You still spent £30 million.
“You’re hoping they all hit the ground running, but they may not.”
Whilst fans will understand the crux of Grant’s argument, throwing money at the transfer window isn’t really what the Celtic support wanted.
They want a clear vision of how this board is going to take the club forward. How are they going to make the Celtic competitive in Europe again? How does the club scout their players?
Throwing money around won’t help as the 2023 summer transfer window proved. Fans want to see proper investment in the club with a plan to improve Celtic on and off the park.
As yet, they have seen nothing of that and only watched the bank balance grow. That’s why fans are frustrated, not because £30m wasn’t spent.