Exaggeration can be a weapon. Used well, it doesn’t distort reality so much as sharpen it—especially when the aim is to rattle Ibrox and its supporters. And rattling them has been easy lately. Their own fans are now doing half the work.
Word across their forums—soon to be confirmed, if whispers are right—is that Cyriel Dessers is on his way out. The reported fee, about £4 million, is almost certainly inflated by the press.
Whatever the number, it leaves their manager with a tighter budget to replace a striker who, for all the ridicule he gets, scores regularly.
Critics claim he vanishes in big matches, yet anyone who watched his goal at Old Trafford—or some of his key Europa League strikes—knows that’s not entirely fair.
He’s been blamed for wider team failings, but his record shows he can finish. Losing your top scorer is never strengthening, no matter the spin.
This sale smells of something bigger: the beginning of a sell-off. Reports already suggest Raskin and Diomande are being quietly shopped around. Selling midfielders bloated in value will be harder, but goalscorers always find buyers.
It wouldn’t be shocking if Celtic spend more on one signing this summer than they do on rebuilding their squad.
Dessers’ departure is only the first move. And if they follow it by replacing him with someone like Lawrence Shankland, Celtic fans will be smiling.
Because sometimes you don’t need to sabotage a rival—you just let them do it to themselves.