Chris Sutton calls latest claim about Celtic ‘laughable’

There is no denying that Celtic’s start to the season has not been great. In fact, it has probably been more disappointing than fans would have expected before the campaign. At the moment, the Hoops find themselves sitting at sixth in the Premiership table after the first eight games of the league campaign and at the bottom of their Europa League group after a couple of games in the competition.

Thus, it is safe to say that Celtic need to improve and quickly. At the start of the season, it was almost unthinkable for the Hoops to finish lower than second in the Scottish Premiership table. But now, there are some suggestions that that could possibly happen.

After all, both Hearts and Hibernian have made great starts to their respective seasons. As a result, some people are predicting that Celtic could end up finishing fourth.

Chris Sutton does not believe that that will be the case though. In his column in the Daily Record, regarding the suggestion that Celtic could finish the season in fourth, he wrote:

"We all know second is last in Glasgow but it’s absolute nonsense for anyone to suggest Celtic are going to finish fourth in the Premiership this season.It’s laughable, in fact.I know Celtic are sitting in mid table right now but we’re seven games in for heaven’s sake. I think most sensible folk would see they are in the early stages of a rebuild, there have been some damaging but expected setbacks, but there are signs of progress and better times ahead.I’m not saying Celtic will win the league this year. I’m not even saying Ange Postecoglou has to win the league this year."

He wrote about the suggestion that Hearts and Hibernian could finish above Celtic:

"As for Heart and Hibs finishing above Celtic come May. Do me a favour.They’ve got off to good starts but we’ve seen it before and they struggle to maintain it over nine months."

Celtic will need to improve drastically moving forward

The expectation is that this Celtic team will improve over the course of the season and eventually move up the Premiership table.

One has to remember that these are still very early days when it comes to Ange Postecoglou being the manager of the club and this was always expected to be a transitional season. There have been many glimpses though that the Hoops could be heading towards an exciting future.

Of course, the club finishing fourth in the season is improbable but it is not impossible. Anything is possible in football. One has to feel though that if most of the players can remain fit throughout the course of the season and they are able to make more signings in January, then the Hoops should be fine by the end of the campaign.