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Kelechi Iheanacho move yet another embarrassment for the club. It will be interesting to hear his thoughts on the situation…

23rd May 2026; Hampden Park, Scottish Cup Final, Celtic versus Dunfermline; Kelechi Iheanacho of Celtic celebrates after he rounds Aston Oxborough of Dunfermline Athletic and shoots and scores to make it 3-0 in the 73rd minute. Photo Vagelis Georgariou

It was widely believed that Kelechi Iheanacho would sign up for another spell at Celtic, but that notion was quickly dismissed earlier today when the Nigerian international put pen to paper on a three-year deal with Turkish second tier side Bursaspor.

This development is nothing more than yet another embarrassment to the club, a catastrophe for Celtic CEO Michael Nicholson and a huge disappointment for Martin O’Neill who has yet again been let down by the cartel running our football club.

Where do you start? I mean only the other day Michael Nicholson was preaching about the difficulty of attracting players due to interest from the first and second tiers of English football, he even proclaimed that our market was free agents, but the news that Kelechi Iheanacho signed for Bursaspor shows that he and his chums can’t even broker a deal for an unattached player, even more bizarrely, one that was keen to join the club!

23rd May 2026; Hampden Park, Glasgow, Scotland; Scottish Cup Final Football, Celtic versus Dunfermline; Kelechi Iheanacho of Celtic celebrates after he rounds Aston Oxborough of Dunfermline Athletic and shoots and scores to make it 3-0 in the 73rd minute

IT’S AN UTTER SHAMBLES!

That’s now just under a fortnight until the start of the new season, and once again we are in danger of starting a new campaign weaker than the previous one.

If we can’t entice a player who is keen to join us, and more importantly one who is a free agent, then what hope to we have of attracting new quality additions?

It will be interesting to hear the thoughts of the Nigerian, regarding the situation with Celtic, but I think we all know what that will be, and it won’t be complementary towards Celtic.

Iheanacho was a key catalyst in our dramatic last gasp title win, and he more than proved his ability, so by not signing him immediately in the conclusion of the season, has proven to be yet another blunder by the dithering Celtic hierarchy.

We are becoming more of a laughing stock with each passing day, and it will continue to get worse in the coming weeks with Michael Nicholson and his world class colleagues in charge and all drawing HUGE wages for being absolutely rotten at their jobs.

Martin O’Neill of Celtic FC. Sporting CP v Celtic, Pre Season Friendly, Football, Estadio Algarve, Portugal – 14 July 2026. Photo Zed Jameson IMAGO/ Shutterstock

You wonder how much Martin O’Neill will take of all of this.

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