CELTIC will not be playing Champions League football for the third season running after a desperate and shocking night at Celtic Park.
The group stages and all the riches it brings for the club are now gone for another season. When that happens, there’s a big balancing of the books.
Nobody can sit here tonight and believe Celtic will not cash in on one of their biggest assets in the next month or so before the transfer deadline.
Celtic sold Kieran Tierney last season, Moussa Dembele the season before, it’s a bitter pill to swallow but out of necessity more than anything, the club will now have to seriously look at bids for star players.
With Edouard our biggest sellable asset, you have to imagine Celtic’s resolve will now be tested by clubs who can offer the player big money.
The Europa League is a distraction from what we want to do domestically and does not yield the sort of money that we can pass at big offers. If Celtic have a chance to break their transfer record fee set by Kieran Tierney at £25m last term, then this season could become an absolute slog. £30m for our star man, will the club turn it down?
