The following day in Dawson's office wasn't one he liked very much, but he had to go through it because that was why he was at the helm.
He sat at his desk with the ledger open, the one that tracked the squad movement, departures column fuller than it had been at the start of the summer and slowly, he went through them.
Cousins had joined Celtics in the Scottish league a while back.
European football, probably given where Celtic tended to finish, which was not a bad landing for a player who had spent the season feeling like a footnote.
He deserved the stage.
Another one of the departures too was Chris Sze to Middlesbrough, where he would get the central role the Championship could offer him and the consistency of minutes that hadn't been available here.
"Right decision for him," Dawson muttered since he knew he would rarely use him had he stayed.
