I’m beginning to think that the club don’t actually care about the Celtic supporters and have little interest in investing in Brendan’s squad…
Just over three weeks of the transfer window remain and incredibly we are still weaker as a squad than last season.
That sorry situation could quickly worsen with the sale of Matt O’Riley imminent, and despite a record transfer fee pending it won’t do us supporters or indeed Brendan Rodgers any good as the board are very unlikely to reinvest it, if history is anything to go by.
Even without a bumper transfer fee, we were still in an extremely healthy financial position, with the added bonus of Champions League money to come. What have we done with those riches? Kasper Schmeichel on a free, Valjami Sinisalo for £1 million and a haggled down cut price deal for Paulo Bernardo.
Oh has even left the club for a tidy £4.5m fee (adding to the £8m received for selling Abada) and we still haven’t replaced Korean striker despite Kyogo currently being our only option up front. Where is the enthusiasm to get things done? Granted we don’t have a head of recruitment (yet another example of the club’s attitude to recruitment) but surely Brendan has a list of targets he would like to see at the club?
Talking of Brendan, surely he must feel as frustrated as the rest of us when it comes to the club’s inability to get new faces to the club? His recent words at media conferences have suggested, to me at least, that he is.
The club have shown that they care not a jot about the supporters, that is very clear. We’ve renewed our season tickets and bought our merchandise, yet they still treat us like mugs. Although we only have ourselves to blame for the blind faith we continue to adopt when it comes to Celtic football club.
Maybe I’m wrong and the club will pull a couple of top drawer signings out of the hat, or maybe not. If they do I will gladly eat my words, but it’s all looking frustratingly bleak at the moment.
Three weeks to sort it out Celtic, and you could start by reaching an agreement with Norwich for Adam Idah.
Just an Ordinary Bhoy
We take great joy in the zombies raging about their own board and the lies they’re forced to swallow.
I’m thinking our board treats us with even more contempt when they pretty much beg for the ST monies promising to back the manager when they had no such intentions.
The only thing I can think of the reason why they are hoarding the money is a take over bid could be on the horizon.
Good or bad idea?
Doesn’t fill me with confidence if we are taken over or not
Spot on jas our board are a disgrace its now time for a change at paradise and get p.lawwell and the rest of the RATS out they’re ony thinking about there bonuses the RATS and its fuck the fans eh.
The only memories to cling to in order to conjure some hope of transfer strategy redemption is that we have landed some pretty late transfer window talent in the past. But that was during periods of time when we actually seemed to have a strategy, and we spent some money.
It really is something, that in a week we give out a message about profits being more than expected, adding to Smaug’s pile, AND we are preparing to sell our most creative player that we are pleading with the Board to spend money.
“’Talking of Brendan, surely he must feel as frustrated as the rest of us when it comes to the club’s inability to get new faces to the club? His recent words at media conferences have suggested, to me at least, that he is.”
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Look, I know this is a widely held view amongst the support and your just voicing the same view as them but………… how can you have Brendan “surely” being frustrated and then having to “suggest” the meaning from what you see and hear. So many fans assume that Brendan thinks and acts the same as them when his actual words state a consistently different view. He has been saying he wants quality and we could have got players in early if we weren’t too bothered about their quality. He said he understands how it works at a club like Celtic and people interpret that as meaning “at a penny-pinching low ball outfit” but clearly it doesn’t mean that or he’d been off to pastures new again. He has said “in an ideal world” I’d prefer to get my quality in earlier but he knows Ideal Worlds don’t exist. He is frustrated about the realities of our transfer system but he understands why it is so and there is no Soap Opera war between fits men and suits, like so many imagine. They all want as good a team as they can get at the price they can afford. But there’s a reason we’re in for the not too hot prospect Adam Idah and not bidding for Neymar or Kane.
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“The club have shown that they care not a jot about the supporters, that is very clear. We’ve renewed our season tickets and bought our merchandise, yet they still treat us like mugs”
Mugs?? I’ve never felt like a mug in paying to support Celtic. I’ve never let the Boardroom decide my view of my club. If I genuinely felt like a mug, and I find it hard to believe that you do (even though you claimed to include “us” as the pronoun used. If you genuinely felt treated as a mug, why are you still supporting? Are you happy to be a mug? No, of course , you’re not.
Disagree with Board policy as much as you like. Call out the transfer failures where they occur but understand our current place in the Football Food Chain. We are a historical big football club with a passionate, dedicated following. But we do not have access to either the finances or the regular high competitive football environment of the Big Leagues. If Andy Murray was similarly restricted to playing competitions against Scottish club tennis champions, with a once a year spell of pitting his wits against the best from Spain and Italy, he would not have reached the heights he did.
Celtic are fighting against a protected market with TV money enhanced leagues. Historically small but currently richer clubs like Brighton, Southhampton and Brentford can predate upon us for our best players. That is unfair but it is reality. If you want to put that blame at indolent “Suits” who are dragging us down- that’s your choice. But include me and a few others out of the “us”. I neither hero worship the Suits nor get too invested in blaming them for all our ills. They’re just a handy bogeyman- a safe target to vent against. They are Celtic fans for the most, with a mixture of abilities. Like our players, I’m sure we could get a few better options but…… we would still have to face the same economic circumstances we do now.
Keep criticising but keep it real.
Personally still believe that this is Rodgers window, and the decision making process is his within it imo?
Already made such decisions as waiting upon idah, when miovski has been available?
Same regarding Scott mckenna also?
So just how many and who are these so called potential targets that Rodgers has identified at this stage of the window?
Still believe Rodgers is playing the waiting game at present imo?
Course the board will get the blame regardless of the outcome?
To much of a favourite subject within our club, and will remain the case for the foreseeable also?
Yet Rodgers like every other manager has a questionable track record within the transfer market, and there jobs are on the line, if they make a total mess of the decision making process involved?
Maybe the process has changed overnight without anyone noticing?
The quality of player Rodgers is potentially looking for, possibly hasn’t the same interest in joining ourselves, as much as we would like to think at present?
Possibly players like Rodgers would prefer to keep there options open for now, which remains a dangerous game to be playing imo?
Rodgers knows only to well how to play the game within the transfer market, and will always be given the free pass from so many within our support regardless?
Yet what is anyone to do, if Rodgers isn’t prepared to give the green light on potential targets, who would be interested in joining ourselves?
Especially if they don’t match the quality demands that Rodgers is looking for?
It remains a total guessing game upon what is actually going on within the background at present, and will remain the case right up to the close of this window?
Especially regarding loan deals, which we still like to try and take the safer route upon?
Quite prepared to wait until the window shuts before making judgements upon how the 25man squad is actually finalised?
Certainly won’t deter my support towards our club, weather it’s to my liking or not?
Won’t be interested in playing the blame game either if it should prove to be unsuccessful for CL either?
Still think that we have a decent core group within our squad at present, that are currently playing at a better level than what was on show last season imo?
So won’t be buying into this weaker than the end of last season bullshit, while currently playing at a much higher level with an incomplete squad currently in operation?
Maybe we do have some that would be happy enough for kyogo to pick up an injury, to promote there agenda regarding our club?
Strange really, when Rodgers took the decision to keep kyogo on the pitch last weekend, within a game already won?
Yet Rodgers is meant to not be questioned upon his decision making, in many aspects of his job?
Rodgers is human and will make mistakes the same as every other person.
Very easy to be critical after the event, but certainly not in a position to be critical while the transfer event is still ongoing?
Got no other choice but to trust Rodgers and his decision making at present, and certainly didn’t do to bad in January?
So what’s to say that the same won’t be achieved over the next few weeks?
Especially when there was hardly much noise before kuhn and idah were actually signed, with enough moaning made at the time of there arrivals also?
Yet who got the credit for such decisions at the time, and where was the blame placed?
There will be no serious additions of quality to the squad before the window closes – I think that is now patently obvious. At best, they’ll bring in a second striker to make it look like things are going on. That would simply take the squad back to where it was in May when, thanks to the late collapse of the other lot, we managed to grab the league title back. But it will be the same humiliation in Europe again this year and Brendan, who is the spin doctor for the Board will treat us all to more blarney about how the Board really tried in a difficult market but just couldn’t get that quality within its “model”. Sick now of listening to it. Celtic in the eyes of this Board is nothing more or less than the best of a wee Scottish diddy league, a feeder club for Europe’s elite but never a challenger to that elite. They’ll sell Matt O’Riley because that’s what they do, they make themselves lots of profit.