The rags trying to get Liel Abada to leave Celtic

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·14 octobre 2023

The rags trying to get Liel Abada to leave Celtic

The Daily Record have stooped to a new low after running with a story claiming that Liel Abada has no option but to leave the club due to the Green Brigade’s Palestine banners at the game against Kilmarnock last weekend. They even had the audacity to say he would be booed by the Green Brigade on his return. And the likes of their sister site Football Scotland and biggest rival Scottish Sun have also got on board the bandwagon with this anti-Celtic nonsense.

Whatever your own thoughts are on the Green Brigade, and plenty of supporters have been having their say over the past week, no-one has suggested that Liel Abada would ever be booed by the fans in the North Curve or indeed any Celtic supporters. It just would not happen.

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Just when you think the Record can’t get any lower they do this. Their source? Some Israeli football pundit by the name of Avishai Sela. Who? You ask. Yes that’s a valid question, but unfortunately I can’t seem to get any information on the guy as when you google his name the only information available on him is from the article the Daily Record ran with. Funny that, eh?

Celtic v Aberdeen – Liel Abada and girlfriend Bar Rashti pose with the trophy after the cinch Premiership match at Celtic Park on Saturday May 27, 2023. Photo Andrew Milligan

While our support in general is sympathetic to the plight of the Palestinian people, they aren’t anti Israeli. Far from it. They are just against the regime of the Israeli government. We are a club open to all and don’t discriminate against anyone. We campaign for those most vulnerable in society.

Liel will never, and I can say that with the upmost confidence, be subjected to stick from Celtic supporters just because of his nationality. Nir Bitton played for Celtic for near on a decade and he was never subjected to anything like that from the Celtic support, not once. In fact he was a respected, popular player throughout his time in Glasgow and while Liel Abada has only been at the club for a few years he too is hugely popular with our support. Anyone saying differently is nothing but a trouble maker and a liar.

Liel Abada Celtic, JULY 19, 2023 – Yokohama F.Marinos and Celtic FC at Nissan Stadium in Kanagawa, Japan.

Liel has just signed a new deal and is happy here. He loves the club, and the club and supporters love him. The pundit the Record got to make these claims will have his own reason, hitting out at Celtic because of last week’s banners maybe. But he’s not the one playing football for a living. Liel Abada has just signed a lucrative new contract at Celtic and is not going to walk away from that for non-footballing reasons. If he gets the chance to sign for let’s say one of the top teams in England then of course he will want away and must of us will understand even at this stage that this will be his ambition.

Talk is cheap, the pundit got to stir up trouble for Celtic as a response to his views on last weekend’s banners from the Green Brigade. And the Daily Record was happy to oblige, and no doubt a sizeable percentage of their audience who like nothing better than a negative story about Celtic will have lapped it up. It’s anti-Celtic click-bait nonsense from a paper that specialises in that sort of stuff.

To to conclude, Liel Abada will always be popular among the Celtic support and rags like the Record on the other hand, well they shouldn’t be allowed over the door.

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