They're not having to sign young prospects just to sit on the bench any more though.
They can buy EVERY young prospect and just loan them out to patsies like us.
The fact that we are complisit in this is sickening.
Send Christie back now and say " no thank you"
Otherwise it's the end for AFC challenging for anything.
And he could well be their "1 in 4" but he might not. If you look at our hit rate, we canna pay a fraction of 1.3 mil for a "hit" player, far less a miss.
We can afford to miss on, say, Zola and Storey if we get MacLean, Logan and Shinnie.
60% hit rate when shopping at our level is.....just about OK.
If raselickbyrawaybutbigman can, when shopping bargain basement (by their standards), can call a 20% hit rate a success.
If he does the business for us, I couldn't give a toss. It's the reality of where we are financially. I reckon we could have signed Christie on a permanent basis had we been in a position to offer him similar money to what he's on at Celtic. But we can't.
Our inability to challenge Celtic has f*** all to do with us signing a Celtic player on loan. Inter and AC Milan have been loaning players to each other for years.
We were so bad for so long that fans are more likely to accept this in order to keep it going. In an ideal world, we wouldn't have to cheer on Tims, rapists etc but finishing second is more important