Igamane is off to Everton after scoring against Celtic, according to Pat Nevin, via a gambling website...go figure

03/21/2025 10:18 AM

When an Ibrox striker scores a goal, not just any goal, but a goal against Celtic, cue multiple clubs lining up from the EPL to snatch him away from the doldrums of the Scottish Premiership.

It’s always the same.

Tell me something, where’s the queue for Daizen Maeda?

The man who now has 27 goals in all competitions this season?

I know right?

This only ever seems to happen to Ibrox players.

What the hell is it that Celtic players are doing wrong?

I can’t figure it out for the life of me.

In the Record this afternoon, Mark Pirie is telling us how Pat Nevin has “warned” Everton over signing the rising Ibrox star.

One wonders what kind of “warnings” Pat Nevin is issuing?

One also wonders whether David Moyes will sit up and pay heed to said “warnings”?

Now, I’m not sure how seriously David Moyes takes Pat Nevin’s warnings, but I doubt his opinions mean much to the Everton manager.

Especially when they’re coming from a gambling website.

Gambling websites now seem to be to the go to sites for the intrepid stenographers of the Daily Record.

With Craig Swan seeking out the opinions of John Barnes on Brendan Rodgers on gambling website Pokerscout.

This time, Mark Pirie has found Pat Nevin’s opinion on Casino Hawks, which over the years has had it’s finger on the pulse when it comes to exclusives regarding transfers to the EPL.

Not.

Apparently, anyway, Everton are leading the chase for Igamane.

According to Nevin.

Along with half the other clubs in the EPL as well.

Even Ange Postecoglou wants him, we’re told.

What a joy it must be to be a scoring forward at the Ibrox side!

It means all these big EPL clubs will be “eyeing” you.

Nobody gives a toss if you’re a free scoring 30 goals+ striker at Celtic though, that doesn’t matter.

You HAVE to be playing for the Ibrox side to have all these big clubs chasing after you.

That’s just the way it is.

And gambling websites are the best sources for these kinds of exclusives.

Which National titles will use to produce articles that tell us the “real story”.

Here’s Paddy Nevin’s real story on Hamza Igamane:

Hamza Igamane's numbers are alright, if you look through all his career, his numbers are good.

It’s a big call for Everton, David Moyes and the Everton group will look very closely at that because the jump’s gigantic.

It’s a big enough jump for a midfielder, it’s a big jump for a defender, a fullback. The jump for a centre forward or an attacker? It’s just off the scale.

You need to go there and break into a team that’s going to have established players, which Everton to some degree have.

But I think there’s others that Everton will be looking at. They are slightly hamstrung by finance, but they’re going to the new stadium, which will make a massive difference next season at Bramley Dock.

Ah well, that’s Everton well and truly f****d then, because we all know that Igamane is now worth £100 million.

They’d be better off looking at those others they’d be looking at and stuff.

Now, the next bit of commentary is kind of baffling from Nevin.

Because Mark Pirie led us to believe that Everton were leading the race for megastar Igamane.

But Paddy Nevin, whether unwittingly or unintentionally, has completely contradicted Pirie’s narrative.

Twice.

You should be paying attention, Mark.

Firstly he reckons Everton wouldn’t be able to afford him because they’re slightly hamstrung by finance.

Secondly, what Nevin says certainly doesn’t fit in with the narrative that Everton are leading the race to sign the ex-combative soldier:

So would he be an interesting one for a squad player? That might be tempting for Everton, because you look at the numbers, they’re there. They’re all right.

But it’s totally different. You have a look at how many players come over from German football. We rate the Bundesliga and they’ve got great scoring numbers like Timo Werner.

They come over here and you go, what happened to him? And that’s what the Premier League clubs think.

Would he be an interesting one for a squad player?

That might be tempting for Everton?

His numbers are alright?

Does that really look like the language of somebody who is warning David Moyes that he should be buying Hamza Igamane?

Which in turn has them leading the race for his services?

It’s all very vague.

Which leads you to believe that Mark Pirie has jumped to a conclusion here, which suits his own narrative and nobody else’s.

Certainly not Paddy Nevin’s anyway.

His final comments certainly do not sound like someone who is convinced Igamane would make it at Everton:

That’s what Everton need to consider, whether this next step is something he’s capable of.

But he’s young, he’s certainly an actual goalscorer. It would be interesting, but I don’t think he’d be straight into the Everton first team.

Wow, Everton need to consider if he’s even capable of making the step to the EPL?

Now, all of this is just Nevin’s opinion.

He isn’t an authority on what’s going on at Everton, and he certainly doesn’t know anything when it comes to whether David Moyes has any interest in the Ibrox striker.

He’s given his opinion.

And it certainly isn’t an opinion where he’s warning David Moyes that he needs to sign Igamane.

In fact, it’s quite the opposite.

Pirie is just making it up as he goes along, and he’s actually too blind to see that Nevin’s whole commentary contradicts the premise of his article.

That Everton are somehow leading some race involving half the EPL to sign Igamane.

I mean, does Pirie even realise how stupid this article actually is.

He goes to a gambling site for his source.

Copies his comments.

Then turns it into a story about a raft of EPL clubs clamouring for Igamane’s signing, with Everton at the head of the queue.

Without even realising that the comments he’s using contradict his whole story.

Why am I not even shocked?

This is why you never see stories about Celtic players like this.

Because it’s all complete bullshit.

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