Lose one game at home, then you lose another! I can't imagine that Celtic are playing with the same intensity as they did before the title was mathematicall secure, but to lose two league games at home in a row is quite poor by their standards. Could Rangers make it three this weekend!? Celtic Enter Rivaldo Chase Celtic manager Martin O'Neill has declared an interest in signing Brazilian World Cup winner Rivaldo. And Bolton boss Sam Allardyce says he believes his attempt to entice the player to the Reebok Stadium is dead. "Like anything else we'd prefer to keep these things quiet - we have been linked with so many players," said O'Neill on Friday. "But the truth is when somebody like Rivaldo becomes available you have got to be interested. Perhaps this is more about the agents talking than anything else during the last couple of weeks. One of the things which is appealing to me is getting in short-term players," continued O'Neill, who will lose the services of Henrik Larsson in the summer. "Bolton have done very well in getting some top-class players to the football club. We have got to be looking at that type of player. I wouldn't want to be giving any bookmakers odds and it might be a move of great difficulty - but he is a class player that we would be looking to buy."
Allardyce's patience with the 1999 World and European Player of the Year seems to have run out. "We've had no word from him and I think it's dead in the water at the moment," he told his club's official website on Friday. "It's not 100% finished but looks very, very doubtful from our point of view."
1 and a half weeks surely has to be enough time to make up your mind on a move. I think Rivaldo is treating Bolton quite badly if he hasn't said a word to them about it yet. |