Celtic fans’ patience with the club’s board has hit a breaking point.
For many Hoops supporters, the club’s transfer activity has not met expectations on one occasion too many – and manager Brendan Rodgers agrees.
The Hoops boss has been honest about his thoughts on the situation, admitting that Celtic wanted the window to be better.
Rodgers has also said that he is open to staying at Celtic beyond the length of his current contract – but only under the right conditions.
This has left everyone asking one question – what will change? What happens now for Celtic’s hierarchy?
One former striker has offered a pessimistic outlook on the future, saying that the fans are unlikely to make a difference on what’s happening upstairs.
Without going overboard in his comments, Rodgers has undoubtedly put pressure on the Celtic board.
If they fail to convince him to stay, it will be public knowledge that a contract extension was not impossible.
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Speaking on the PLZ Football Podcast, Tam McManus said that the board will have to take his words on the chin, but there isn’t any chance of the fans making a difference.
He said: “He spoke that that was the reason he left the last time, he wasn’t backed in the transfer window when Leicester came in mid-season and he left – but I don’t think there was any chance of him doing it this time.
“But you would like to think that the Celtic board, ownership and recruitment team would take this on the chin, and come back and try and do things differently in the January window.
“Whether that happens remains to be seen, but it’s clear that the Celtic supporters are not happy. Will it make a blind bit of a difference? I don’t think so.”
Regardless of whether they think it will make a difference, fan action is coming, and it will be more than evident on Sunday.
What impact will Celtic fan action have?
Celtic fans have planned a protest for Sunday’s match against Kilmarnock which will see supporters not enter the stadium until the 12th minute of the game.
How many of the match-going support join in on the action remains to be seen, but it will be taken after overwhelming support in favour of protest at wide-scale fan meetings.
The 12-minute mark is to represent the fans’ role as the 12th man – all Hoops supporters know that football without fans is nothing.
Once inside the ground, the supporter statement says that they will support the players ‘vociferously.’