Here are the highlights from the two Media Conferences held today by Celtic, ahead of the trip to Milan to play in the San Siro as Celtic look for a second successive victory on Italian soil! Of course it would be the most unlikely of victories for Celtic given the dreadful form of the team. This time last year Celtic were winning their Europa League group with victories home and away over Lazio. This time Celtic are bottom of the group with just one point and incidentally that will be expensive, costing the club another £3.5m in lost revenue compared to last year’s group stages income.
Add on top the loss of 3 x 60,000 gates which would have been sold in advance and the losses are going to mount.
#ACMCEL training for the Bhoys ⚽️🍀 pic.twitter.com/lcdggzCzVI
— Celtic Football Club (@CelticFC) December 2, 2020
The campaign to ask for refunds on last season – which were never offered to the supporters across the city – isn’t going to do Celtic Football Club any favours, although we get the point that the PLC will not like it one bit. Niall J had an article on The Celtic Star last week where the title started with “Celtic will eat itself” and we’re in danger of letting it happen.
Neil Lennon and Christopher Jullien spoke to the press today via their usual Zoom links. Maybe rotate invitations for the Fans Media so that questions that the support wants asked can be heard? If not then why not Celtic?
Anyway here’s a flavour of what the Celtic manager and the French central defender have been saying, with more to follow. Starting with Neil Lennon…
“On the scenes on Sunday, we were disappointed and hurt. I understand the frustrations of the supporters. We are not in a great run at the minute. We are in agreement, we must do better and we have to do that with results and performances.
“For 20 years, I’ve done everything in my power to bring success to the club and fans. That’s not going to change. We are working so hard to turn everything around and the players are feeling it, they need my support as well.
“It’s a difficult time because of the results and we know we are better than that. Our reaction when we go a goal down has to be better. We are confident we can turn it around and confident we can go to Italy and put in a good performance.
”“Elyounoussi won’t travel. Duffy’s having his knee assessed, he picked up a knock today so we’ll see how he is. I’ll still put a strong team out and give some players some much needed game time as well.”
🎙 Neil Lennon speaking to the media.
“On the scenes on Sunday, we were disappointed and hurt. I understand the frustrations of the supporters. We are not in a great run at the minute. We are in agreement, we must do better and we have to do that with results and performances.” pic.twitter.com/amJ2UADxFQ
— Celtic Football Club (@CelticFC) December 2, 2020
Christopher Jullien was next up to speak to the media. Remember the Celtic Fans Media are now entirely excluded from these media occasions by the club.
“We know we have to ask questions of ourselves because at the end of the day we are on the field and we’re not accepting these kind of defeats.
“We always want to win. The mentality is still the same. We are still good, working together and unified. We are working hard to get back to winning ways.
“We just keep trusting ourselves. We know we are not in a good place right now. It’s going to correct by working hard, together and finding more solutions.”
“The dressing room is unified like never before. We are strong together and the players are behind the staff, and the staff are behind us. We are going to do everything to fix the results.”
🎙 @Chri6ViF also spoke the media today.
“We know we have to ask questions of ourselves because at the end of the day we are on the field and we’re not accepting these kind of defeats.” pic.twitter.com/QfYWY3na6S
— Celtic Football Club (@CelticFC) December 2, 2020
