Celtic FC Women’s 3-1 defeat to Glasgow City on Sunday officially ended any remaining hope that Elena Sadiku could retain the title Celtic won last season…
Fran Alonso’s 30 goal scoring frenzy
That goal difference advantage was of course inherited from Fran Alonso who left to try his luck in the United States when offered the job at Houston Dash in December 2023. So the Swedish rookie boss came in and delivered Celtic a first ever SWPL title, an admirable achievement that was then followed up by negotiating some tough fixtures in the Champions League qualifiers to reach the group stages where the 16 top teams across Europe play in four groups of four.
Celtic FC Women in the UEFA Women’s Champions League
In context Celtic FC Women had a respectable enough campaign in a group involving English Champions Chelsea, the mighty Real Madrid and FC Twente from the Netherlands, despite losing all the matches. There were no hammerings and only frustration was playing Dutch side at home in the first match as had there been a little bit of experience in the squad by the time we played them then something could have been possible.
Still heads were held high and Celtic FC picked up Champions League funds of around £400,000 while watching the pennies along the way, for example the Celtic team took the train to London to play at Stamford Bridge, rather than fly down for the game.
Hayes a very big loss, great defender and her goals must have been worth
six points at least. I didn’t think she looked too happy before she left.
something happened to cause this. She was a big fan like the rest of
her family. She was pretty much irriplaceable, get her back
Cant argue with any of this article apart from Fran Alonso being unemployed , he’s been managing in Spain for nearly a year i think , there’s lots of problems in the women’s side but sorry to say the main one is the fantasist that is Elena Sadiku , Hail hail
Took my granddaughter to the Chelsea game and the Glasgow derby in November, and have watched a few other games. Talking to some of the players’ parents, I also heard that The Ghirls were expected to take the train down for the return WCL game against Chelsea and also that the players, who train 6 days a week, have to buy their own boots, out of their own pockets, which I find incredible in a professional league with not particularly high salaries!
If Celtic want to, they easily have the financial resources to make The Ghirls as dominant a force in the Scottish women’s game as their male counterparts … but right now, it is becoming increasingly difficult to take the club’s commitment to a women’s team seriously!
Glad to hear that about Fran.
No offence but could not care less on vanity projects