Source: Team_Talk
McGarvey: Hoops need to splash cash
The Hoops' legend, who played for the club between 1980 and 1985, was at Celtic Park on Sunday to see Tony Mowbray's side squander a barrowload of chances against Rangers in the 1-1 draw which kept the visitors seven points clear at the top of the SPL.[LNB]Celtic's top scorer Scott McDonald, who started as substitute amid rumours of a bust-up with manager Mowbray, came off the bench in the second half to show his team-mates the way to goal with his 79th-minute header.[LNB]However, with the visitors' first real effort on target, Lee McCulloch equalised from a Steven Davis corner two minutes later.[LNB]McGarvey said that Celtic simply have to buy a top-class striker and centre-back - even if they have to pay over the odds.[LNB]"There is no option for the Celtic board," he said. "They have to bite the bullet and spend big money.[LNB]"Celtic need a proven scorer and a proven centre-half and they are going to cost money.[LNB]"It's up to the manager to go and ask for that money and I don't mean enough for a £2million striker or defender. He needs a lot of money[LNB]"He cannot buy more squad players, there are enough of them at the club at the moment.[LNB]"Celtic will have to buy quality players who will start every week and they will cost more than one or two million pounds.[LNB]"But what is the alternative? Rangers winning the title again?[LNB]"It's not as if problems will disappear," McGarvey continued.[LNB]"They keep leaking goals at one end and they don't score enough at the other.[LNB]"I was willing to give the team the benefit of the doubt but I can't keep doing that.[LNB]"With two good signings Celtic can win the league but if they don't then they will struggle.[LNB]"And if they don't buy and fall further behind Rangers then Celtic Park will become like a ghost town, the crowds will plummet further.[LNB]"You seen the crowd against Hamilton in the previous game, the stadium was half-full.[LNB]"And there can be no excuses, they have to get players in as soon as possible.[LNB]"They have had six months to do their homework, they shouldn't be waiting until the final couple of days of the transfer window."[LNB]McGarvey, like most Celtic fans, still cannot believe Rangers escaped with a point.[LNB]And like many of those same Hoops' supporters, the former Scotland international believes Mowbray blundered by leaving McDonald on the bench at the expense of Marc-Antoine Fortune and Georgios Samaras.[LNB]"I don't think I have ever seen a more one-sided Old Firm game, especially in the first half," he said[LNB]"It was unbelievable how Celtic could dominate a game like that and not win.[LNB]"Rangers were awful, they didn't deserve to take anything from the game.[LNB]"I couldn't believe this was a team who had scored 23 goals in their last five games.[LNB]"They didn't have a shot on goal or even a cross into the box in the first half.[LNB]"But there is no point in playing well and not winning games.[LNB]"Not playing McDonald from the start was a mistake. He is the most natural goalscorer at the club and he showed that when he came on.[LNB]"Celtic can get rid of Samaras and Fortune, they are not natural scorers, but McDonald must stay.[LNB]"He cannot be allowed to leave the club."[LNB][LNB]
