“I hope I’m wrong” – Mark Guidi casts doubt over popular Celtic player move

Celtic’s trips into the transfer markets this season have been extremely successful.

It’s not very often you can say that almost every single signing that has been recruited has been a success but on this occasion, I am more than comfortable to do so.

Cameron Carter-Vickers ✅

Carl Starfelt ✅ (contentious in some quarters but still a pass mark for me)

Liel Abada ✅

Joe Hart✅

Josip Juranovic ✅

Kyogo ✅

Daizen Maeda ✅

Reo Hatate ✅

Others like Liam Scales, Yosuke Ideguchi and Liam Shaw will all require time before a sound judgement can be made.

I hear you all cry, what about Jota?

Well of course he is a success and it seems that Celtic’s efforts to land him permanently could be hindered according to Mark Guidi.

Speaking on The Go Radio Football Show, the journalist said, “There’s two ways you can look this.  Because there will only be a handful of people that really know what’s there in black and white.

“It could well be that the the clause that that we believe Celtic have got is absolutely water tight.

“Therefore there’s no panic from Celtic. There’s no need to buy him last month and release a couple million quid of the first installment that you can have in your own account.

“Or the other part might be that what we’ve read and held isn’t accurate and there’s a bit of work needing to be done and the might be a wee bit of panic. We don’t know.

“I always love it when people say, ‘Yeah, he’s earning thirty grand a week and they paid  £6.73 million for him.’

“Nonsense. Unless you actually seen it in black and white. Show us the contract.

“If somebody could see that, then fine. But I’m always sceptical about what we take for granted.

“So I think Celtic are probably in a good position, but maybe it’s not 100% certain that they can get him for six and a half  million. I hope I’m wrong.”

So do we Mark. We all hope you are as wrong as you were about Eddie Howe.

How did that work out?