Adam Idah gets his goal for Celtic in the Cup Semi, and shuts down critics like Keevins in the process

Yesterday morning, Hugh Keevins went all out on Adam Idah.

He had the audacity to claim that Adam Idah was in danger of becoming the most overpriced player in Celtic’s history.

A highly exaggerated claim, if ever there was one.

As usual, I called Keevins out on his garbage in my Sunday article.

But not only did I call him out, I went one better and predicted Idah would score in yesterday’s game against St. Johnstone.

Which is exactly what the big Irishman did.

For the 63 minutes Idah was on the pitch, he had a decent game, and he got the goal he needed.

Especially after the amount of criticism levelled at him because he went on a night out.

He now has 15 goals for the season.

With five games and a cup final remaining, there’s no reason why he couldn’t score another 5 goals before the season concludes.

That would leave him with a return of 20 goals for the season.

I’m pretty sure that Adam Idah has probably set himself that target before the season finishes.

If he manages to achieve that, for anyone to say that he has been a flop is patently ridiculous.

Let alone the most overpriced player in Celtic’s history.

I believe the best is yet to come from Adam Idah.

And apparently, so too, does our manager.

He rates him, and he wouldn’t have insisted on the club buying him if he didn’t.

Keevins stated that Idah has tested Rodgers’ capabilities when it comes to making him a better player.

Something Rodgers has always stated he has the ability to do.

However, Keevins was snide in his remarks about Rodgers’ player development abilities:

One of Rodgers’ boasts, and a justifiable one, is that he makes players better than they were before they came under his management.

Idah has set him a test of his own capabilities. And Rodgers has had enough upset to contend with in that regard over recent days.

Rodgers didn’t speak of any upset with regard to Idah, that’s clearly a figment of Keevins’ imagination.

But once again, I’m going to disprove Keevins’ comments about Adam Idah testing Rodger’s capabilities.

What Keevins choses to ignore, is that by virtue of the fact Adam Idah is experiencing his most prolific season to date as a striker, then Brendan Rodgers actually has proven he has made him a better player.

The Irish striker is on target to finish this season with his highest goals tally since he entered professional football.

So, he has shown an incremental improvement as a striker since joining Celtic.

Which in turn would indicate that under Rodgers, the trend will continue in an upward motion.

This is why I believe we will see a better, more rounded, striker in Adam Idah next season.

He was not a striker who was renowned for scoring a lot of goals before he came to Celtic.

In fact he had only scored 17 in total during his five years as a striker at Norwich.

He has scored 24 in 16 months at Celtic.

Which proves conclusively that Brendan Rodgers has improved as a player since he came to Celtic.

And he will continue to do so.

The stats don’t lie.

Then again, Keevins doesn’t bother himself with trivialities like that.

That would involve research, and doing some actual journalism.

A concept he abandoned a long time ago.

And it shows.