Ex Celtic star 'concerned' about recruitment compared to Rangers as he spots recurring Hoops target theme

Former Celtic striker Cillian Sheridan would like his old side to broaden their horizons in the transfer market, especially while Rangers are signing players ‘every week’.

The ex Republic of Ireland international is sick of seeing Celtic linked with the same faces every window and reckons this stems from the club not appointing a Head of Recruitment. Colombian striker Camilo Duran remains the solitary Celtic signing this season as not for the first time, supporters grow more and more frustrated with the board’s transfer market passivity.

On the other side of the city, there’s been a revolving door of incomings and outgoings thus far as Rangers’ summer rebuild under new boss Derek McInnes takes shape. The Govan side enlisted Serbian midfielder Vanja Dragojevic yesterday as their seventh signing of the window.

Sheridan compares Old Firm recruitment

Speaking on Celtic and Rangers’ transfer movement on BBC Sounds’ Scottish Football Podcast, Sheridan said: “I think you'd have to be concerned from a Celtic point of view. I think any Celtic fan would be. I think Martin O'Neill is as well. Especially at a time when you're watching and seeing Rangers sign players nearly every week. It hasn't been a good window so far, which you're kind of saying every year now, every six months you're talking about how they haven't had a good window.”

Last season, Celtic were criticised for failing to replace the likes of Kyogo Furuhashi and Adam Idah, especially as they failed to qualify for the Champions League after losing to Kazakhstan minnows Kairat Almaty. As Hoops striker Daizen Maeda is set for a move to Ipswich Town, the club are now tasked with replacing him before the upcoming campaign.

Celtic transfer targets resurface

A potential replacement candidate for Meada is highly-rated Bodo Glimt forward Kasper Hogh, who Celtic have reportedly entered talks with. The club also made a formal transfer enquiry for the Dane in January. Sheridan reckons that too often, Celtic are reverting back to targeting players they’ve monitored in previous windows and would like to see this change through a restructuring behind the scenes.

He continued: “One thing I've noticed is that the players we’ve been linked with; the likes of Kasper Hogh and Camilo Duran who’s already signed. I feel like they're players that they've been looking at before and it kind of all goes back to the fact there's no one in the position of head of recruitment. This guy's meant to be in charge of finding players and doing signings. It’s as if they’re saying ‘we're not really bringing anyone in so let's go back to who we were looking at before.’ I just think the biggest problem at the minute seems to be just the structure.”

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