By:
Mark Hendry
Martin O’Neill has hinted that Celtic may not land “three or four” new signings before January’s deadline day.
Celtic are in desperate need of reinforcements in the transfer window having only brought in two new faces.
Tomas Cvancara and Julian Araujo have arrived this month but the club sit third in the Scottish Premiership.
It’s been a miserable campaign for the Hoops so far and O’Neill, in his second interim stint, knows it.
And that’s why the Irishman is so adamant the club need fresh faces to help with the title run-in.
O’Neill has not been the biggest fan of answering constant transfer window questions.
But that comes with the Celtic gig at this time in the season.
Martin O’Neill says Celtic need signings in the door
So when grilled again on needing “three or four” players to arrive, the boss was honest as usual.
“I don’t know about your numbers, but definitely we would need some people in,” he said.
Celtic, Pundit Arena understands, are still in the market for three positions.
The club are looking for a right-winger, a right-sided centre-back and a central midfield player.
Of course, it remains to be seen whether or not that amount of business can still be done with less than a week of the window still remaining.
Aurele Amenda is wanted on loan as the central defender option while Niko Sigur remains on the shortlist in the engine room.
Celts had made contact with Girona over interest in Yaser Asprilla to fill their wide man void.
However the Colombian is close to joining Galatasaray.
Crystal Palace attacker Jesurun Rak-Sakyi is one the club are keen on a loan deal for.
The transfer talk with O’Neill came after Celtic lost more ground in the Premiership title race.
Hearts lead the division by six points and held their foes to a 2-2 draw at Tynecastle on Sunday.
Celts took the lead twice through Benji Nygren and Yang respectively, either side of a Stuart Findlay leveler.
Celtic red card vs Hearts creates controversy
Claudio Braga equalised late on for the Jambos but that came after Auston Trusty was sent off.
And O’Neill was adamant VAR should never have intervened and the initial yellow card should’ve stood.
“Yeah, I do have an argument with the red card,” he said.
“The referee’s given a yellow card and is sent over to VAR to re-referee the game.
“My take on it is that, first of all, the ball is going away from the goal, so the player has to get a hold of that and control it.
“And secondly, and more importantly, is that we’ve got someone on the cover.
“So that’s what the referee saw in the first place. He was pretty close to it, and it’s not.
“So it puts you under severe pressure in the last 20-odd minutes.”
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