Chris Sutton has questioned Celtic’s head of recruitment Lee Congerton after the club’s failure to add a central defender to their squad this summer, pointing to Chelsea talent Fikayo Tomori as someone who would have fitted the bill.
The former Bhoy has been worried about Celtic’s lack of options in the centre of defence since towards the end of the transfer window and believes it got exposed against Paris Saint-Germain in midweek.
He believes Celtic needed to show more ambition in the transfer market and address the issue at centre half by getting in a player to add more options for Brendan Rodgers.
He feels Huddersfield new boy Mathias Jorgensen and Chelsea youngster Tomori, now on loan at Hull, were both available and are better than any central defenders Celtic have available at the moment.
Sutton questioned the role Congerton has been playing as he feels he clearly failed to address an issue at centre half for Celtic in the summer.
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The former Bhoy said on BT Sport: “They missed a trick.
“You have loads on social media saying what difference a £10m centre half would have made against PSG.
“I’ll tell you what difference he would have made – you have to strive and try and reach the top and you can’t just give up.
“Let me tell you there was Jorgensen who signed for Huddersfield for £2.5m in the summer and he was available.
“You have the young lad at Chelsea, [Fikayo] Tomori – he’s better than anything Celtic have got at the moment.
“So there are two centre halves I have named.
“What is Lee Congerton [doing]? What is his role at the club?”
Celtic will be looking to get back to winning ways when they host Ross County at Paradise later today.
