When Celtic equalised with 20 minutes remaining against Sporting in Algarve yesterday I thought my expectations we would get a hammering was misplaced. Then Sporting obliged with three goals within seven minutes against, what by then, was very much a development Celtic side. The last thing Celtic needed yesterday was a confidence-boosting win, so result; I guess.
Camilo Duran scored on what was his Celtic debut. Goals in these games are immaterial, but forwards always like to put the ball in the net soon after arriving at a new club. It acts as a proof of concept to their new teammates and fans.
Martin O’Neill will inevitably be asked about transfers every time he meets a journalist, fan, friend or relative. His responses will be practiced to confirm processes are in place without actually exchanging any information. That will hopefully change with confirmatory comment soon, until then, there is nothing to see.
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I will tell you this
At least Lassie came home 🐶😁
Scotslaw on 15th July 2026 10:21 pm
At least Lassie came home 🐶😁
Brilliant PMSL
Sitting in Mexico City airport with a wee Mezcal, salut Argentina.
Now the universe has returned to normal, I can enjoy the World Cup final this weekend.
tuchels interview on the bbc was like a war crimes trial….
Charlie Mulgrew with Greg Taylor | From Celtic Treble to Greek Adventure | Mar Hall Golf & Spa Resort
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aAX3ztNdKVs
Let us tell them again.
It’s Called The Malvinas
TANGBHOY on 15TH JULY 2026 12:24 PM
Wilson and Nicholson cannot be held in lower regard by myself but the board generally are a pathetic excuse for men. Desmond? Just go.
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There are those that are justifiably worried that the club could be taken over by a predatory Private Equity firm, and its soul would be lost forever.
You know the sort; a money hungry outfit fleecing the support for every penny they can. They’d probably be focused on launching new strips and other merchandise at every opportunity, excluding pre-season friendlies from the season book, rejecting the notion of fan engagement, marginalizing fan driven media, and doing nothing to improve general communications. All of this while failing to invest in stadium and match day facilities improvements, neglecting the football operations infrastructure, disregarding the need for a proper scouting and recruitment function, and downsizing the first team squad in both quality and substance. They’d essentially treat the club like it was theirs – they owned it and would do with it what they damn well wanted. In fact, they would likely avoid any kind of proper and responsible governance just to ensure that they were not hampered in their broader objective of being just good enough to win domestically, most of the time, while boasting about their balance sheet. They would accomplish this while ignoring club culture and history, leaving no place for outrageous ideas or ambition, and a regressive approach to leadership where introverted dweebs (accounting and legal types) would thrive as the club largely moved forward based purely on inertia and completely absent of strategy.
Thank goodness we don’t have to suffer this type of reckless behavior!
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CHAIRBHOY on 15TH JULY 2026 12:27 PM
…. getting the Ox in was a smart move by Martin, if, as is likely, the calibre of player we lose, will not be replaced by similar quality, his presence in the squad could be key.
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Your logic is most definitely sound, but it is nonetheless, hard to accept this. How does this square with the declared objective that we exit every window stronger than we enter? (rhetorical)
We are less than 5-weeks away from our UCL play off tie, and I’ve no idea if the team we field will be better or wore than the one which lost to Kairat Almaty at this stage last year. The annual £40M UEFA roulette event is very much in the balance.
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BOURNESOUPRECIPE on 15TH JULY 2026 1:39 PM
I still hope we bring in actual quality soon, though we were saying the same thing after BR side beat the same club 2-0 last July.
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Apart from all of the other good points you make, this is a priceless reminder of where we currently stand year-over-year. We should remember too that this was when BR was still held in high regard even by the haters, and probably still believed that he was going to be supported in the transfer window. Foolish mhan.
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BURNLEY78 on 15TH JULY 2026 1:44 PM
…. Or maybe even a VC play to take 20% a year from us.
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B78, I have you down as one of the smarter characters contributing to the blog, so I’ll assume that you mean PE not VC. At that, please go ahead and read my comments above and tell me how it is you think we are better off under the control of DD.
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CELTIC DAWN on 15TH JULY 2026 2:09 PM
“Even winning for a generation is not enough for the gurus in our midst.”
Its been great, we all enjoyed it, are we to stop now? No onwards and upwards?
What about the next generation, what is the club doing to ensure we win that. Fans are playing their part ploughing in their cash, what about the club?
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Absolutely bang on. Where in the club’s mission statement does it say that “we get to hit pause and take a rest if we are winning too much”? Not planning for success, is effectively accepting the inevitability of failure.
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KINGLUBO on 15TH JULY 2026 4:06 PM
So, we are sniffing around two Egyptian players who did well at the world cup. So, I get it, no other club has noticed them, obviously. !!!!!!
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It can only be inaccurate reportage or misdirection. They were the better team against the now confirmed finalists, Argentina, and we allegedly have a jump on all of the other clubs? As you say, “Gimme a break”.
#wakeupandsmellthecloverCSC
53,000 suckullent sheeple will never be the answer to the PLC Rubik Cube Board.
Either MO’N has all of the angles covered, or this will be an old firm productions season.
What a way to live!
What a time to be alive!
Have they not suffered enough!!! 😃 😊 😀
GEDINTE: ‘… They would accomplish this while ignoring club culture and history, leaving no place for outrageous ideas or ambition.’
I dont think the bulk of fans deem or think it outrageous for us to command more respect via being resourced and ready to compete in Europe comps where we’ve been a frequent riddy to our club name.
No-one credibly thinks we’d win the Champs League by spending every penny of the suits’ alleged 80m quid stockpile.
For me, it’s not outrageous ambition to look at Midgie-land or Bodo-Gusfat_Klimt and think, why cant we do at least as well as they have – we have greater resources after all ! HH
Gene on 15th July 2026 4:29 pm
If it is Centre Parks near Longford you are visiting and meet an attractive lady staff member who answers to the name Emma, tell her Pat was asking for her. I know her from Spain where her brother has a bar.
Celtic Mac on 15th July 2026 6:29 pm
auldheid
Yes the full transfer fee has to be disclosed to UEFA and whilst this is not apaprent from the accounts UEFA require that detail for SCR calculation purposes but it is not made public.
If Duran costs £5m and has a five year contract that is amortised to £1m a year and is added each year to playing squad costs.
If he were sold in year 3 for £10M his book value is £2M (£5m – 3x£1m). The profit that is added to SCR football earnings is £8m, which is £10m selling price – £2M (The balance left of the £5m purchase price after 3 years amortisation.
Chelsea tried to get around the amount added to player squad costs by offering a player an 8 year contract but UEFA stepped in and made 5 years the maximum contract length allowed.
If our manager did say this below (as quoted in a redtop) then it raises more questions than answers:
“Maybe it’s the fact that I know the owner of the football club for some time and I genuinely believe that he will come up and help when trying to get things over the line, let me put it that way.”
So, our manager explains or hints to us that the club’s majority shareholder will make a trip to (where, Celtic Park) to help our recruitment (or legal) or negotiating execs, to get specific player deals over the line? Whey can’t the incumbent execs get things over the (imaginary) line?
WhiffyOrWhit CSC ?
PS; Even the manager readily confuses the main shareholder for the club’s owner.
RedFlag CSC
Oot!
QUADROPHENIAN on 16TH JULY 2026 2:00 AM
I dont think the bulk of fans deem or think it outrageous for us to command more respect via being resourced and ready to compete in Europe comps where we’ve been a frequent riddy to our club name.
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100% agree. I’m right there with you.
You hopefully see my description of PE ownership is in fact a parody of the current ownership (otherwise my sarcasm failed). We are conditioned to fear the reprehensible nature of a capitalist financial vehicle, such that it sucks the soul out of a club and turns it into nothing more than a force for generating dividends and ROI, with no consideration for the values and culture that exists. This is the living breathing tribal nature of the entity, so ironically, if a PE were in the market for a club like Celtic, then that is actually a large part of what they are buying.
I refuse to compare Celtic to Sevco, but they provide an interesting case study for the investment community. They spent 14-years losing an average of £10M per year, while winning 3 senior trophies, and while some of that money came from the real investors (through a Charles Green shell game), the majority of it was provided by well healed fans who were buying their way into the running of the club they love (King, Letham, Park, Taylor, the Easdales e.t.c.). There was no return on this “investment”, and most approached this as such – a passion project, and a contribution to its success/survival. They all played their part, and they dragged with them the 40,000 plus season ticket holders as well as many other fans who subscribed to being a real Rainjurz man! They milked that population for everything they could, as what they didn’t give, basically came from the directors pockets. This collectively shows the depth of commitment to the brand! It is the kind of blind loyalty that most businesses cannot buy, yet in the football world many clubs are massively backed by multi-generational fans, who give their unconditional support without flinching. Sure, they might challenge those who run the club and question their methods, but they do it because they will love that club forever, while management, players and even investors are just passing through.
I guess that at this point, I’ve seen enough of how Celtic is run today to not only mock the board and the investors, but to also realize that I fear a future with them at the helm more than I do a future with a professional investor. There is always a “careful what you wish for” warning that should accompany such statements, but if you evaluate what the current board does (which is essentially through parody what I did in that earlier post), we are arguably run so poorly that you would think the board were wholly unfamiliar with how to navigate the world of professional European football. My point being, that a good PE firm would come in to make a strong return on their investment, and it’s highly unlikely they would do so by extracting more money from the fans for the same product we have today (which is what our current board are doing). They would see the growth opportunity and know that more dramatic improvements to revenues are most reliably found through UEFA competition, ergo, this would be their priority every year. To meet their goals, which would incidentally be largely consistent with the ambition of the fans, they would have a plan and be prepared;
– competent management team in place
– solid scouting and recruitment function
– dynamic player acquisition and trading model
– analytics and data driven coaching processes
– state of the art sports science and athlete conditioning
– first class training and development facilities
– sophisticated opposition analysis and tactical profiling
Why would they do this?
Because the £40M UEFA roulette event in 34-days, is just way too important to get wrong.
The current Celtic leadership just witnessed us get beat 4-1 by a Sporting CP team that we defeated 2-0 at the same stage last year. I wonder how that maps to their plan, and if it feels aligned with the strategy to prepare our squad for this year’s version of Kairat Almaty.
#wakeupandsmellthecloverCSC
AULDHEID on 16TH JULY 2026 2:40 AM
I know that along with you and I there are several others on the blog, including our host, that enjoy some super sexy amortization talk.
You mentioned in your response to CELTICMAC the 5-year cap for amortization of transfer fees, which as you say was in response to shenanigans of Chelski.
It set me thinking about the simple exceptions as well as a more nuanced scenario.
The simple ones are easy, and relate to contract extensions and long-term injuries. With extensions, in essence the club has the option to adjust the amortization of the remaining book value of the acquisition costs to the newly revised term of the player’s contract. I would imagine that this would need to be done consistently with all such circumstances being treated with the same accounting methodology. The issue of significant long-term injuries, and the way in which that may impair the [in]tangible asset value, is effectively an acceleration. There are basically provisions which allow clubs to recognize such circumstances for accounting purposes, as a way to accelerate the amortization, and again, I’m sure that this would need to be consistent and supported by proper documentation.
I only went through the above to contemplate the possibility of a variable amortization schedule. A good example of a simple and common version of this which might exist in a different type of business, would be the way in which a fixed asset, such as a vehicle, is depreciated. Typically, both methods are acceptable, one being straight line and the other being a pre-defined variable version. So for a vehicle that cost £100k with an expected life of 10-years, it would be most simple to depreciate this at £10k per year. However, should the company want to more precisely recognize documented and supportable depreciation standards which are not straight line, then they are able to do so. For example, it might be that historical market tested data illustrates that the vehicle actually depreciates 25%/20%/15%/10%/5%/5%/5%/5%/5%/5%. This would be perfectly normal, arguably very important, to record accordingly
Just to test UEFA, I’d love to see a club propose a variable amortization schedule of player acquisition costs.
Good Morning Fholks – Grand Day To Be A Tim…
BSR @ 1:54 pm,
“Anecdotally aside from Celtic Chat, just home from Crosshouse Hospital visiting a ward where my brother in law a good Rainjurz man he was till not long ago.
He has been confined for nearly seven months, with nowhere else to go. A ‘ bed walker’ they call them, physically fit to walk, just, and in the wrong place because there’s no available ‘home care package’.
What a hospital that is, a mini city – what a cruel, cruel illness Dementia is,- ever seen it up close ? 24/7 one to one NHS nurses dealing with a progressive illness, no treatment.
Very, ‘rich’ wonderful people, dedicated to their jobs and poor patients that really don’t know whether it’s New Year or New York.
He doesn’t even know who I am spoon feeding him, but seems to recognise faces or voices , doesn’t know his sisters, his daughters, or his grandchildren and he wakens every day asking about his wife that died 17 years ago? – he thinks she’s due to visit any day.
Six beds, six men with no way back , some of them have passed over the months, but there’s always six men in line all waiting”
So sorry to hear – my thoughts and prayers with you and yours.
As you may remember, I help support people living with dementia, our residents and their relatives and friends deal with such a difficult and as you say, progressive illness.
I’m not sure the last time I came across a NHS ward around here – the challenges for those “patients”, friends and relatives and nurses must be immense.
We have a specislist environment, a “family”, it is a lot of different things but always heart breaking – the wellbeing of our “family” members is always the most important element and supporting their loved ones and them supporting their’s and us is always key.
I sincerely hope and pray your brother in law finds the right environment and support – God bless the nurses and you all…
Hail Hail
Good Morning CQN
Hope this article covers the radar
Celtic manager Martin O’Neill ‘genuinely believes’ the club’s principal shareholder, Dermot Desmond, will help get transfer deals over the line.
O’Neill says he sought no assurances from Desmond and the Parkhead hierarchy when he agreed to take the permanent managerial position last month.
In a candid discussion about transfers during Celtic’s pre-season trip to Portugal, the 74-year-old revealed that plans are in place to appoint a new head of recruitment, but that he is not worried about the current state of play regarding incomings.
“They’re looking at that [head of recruitment] at this minute,” O’Neill said. “I think obviously there’s a process. I think that they want to do that, but it’s not at the top of the list at this minute.
“I’ve got a couple of boys who are very, very good in the background anyway.
“I think that we’ve made a couple of changes. Some people have left the football club. On the recruitment side, honestly, they’re working day and night.
“I’m in constant talks with them every single day. They’re behind the scenes. Genuinely, I’m really pleased with what they’re doing.
“Mark Cooper has been doing really well for us. He’s identified players over the last 10 or 12 years for us. Some really fine players. Considering he was in South America, he identified young players even before they made the grade.”
O’Neill’s assistant, Shaun Maloney, played a key role in Celtic’s January recruitment, contacting agents and identifying potential targets. That is no longer the case.
“The recruitment [team] sends the stuff over to us, and eventually it’s our kind of say that makes the difference,” O’Neill added.
“He’s [Maloney] not [involved] in the same extent. He was doing six or seven jobs at the time. So just concentrate on this, and that’s fine.”
Celtic have already shelled out £5.5 million on Colombian forward Camilo Duran. He scored in Tuesday evening’s friendly defeat to Sporting CP.
The club have offered Kelechi Iheanacho a new deal and remain in talks to re-sign Marcelo Saracchi.
With a bloated first-team squad, Celtic will have to shift a number of fringe players this summer.
That said, O’Neill remains keen to strengthen.
He explained: “I think that you could wait forever if that was the case. The budgets, as long as I’m still within them, I’d rather get some players in and then see where we go. But every manager would say the same.”
With less than three weeks until the Scottish Premiership season begins, anxiety among the Celtic support is growing.
No longer a smattering of frustration, most fans are becoming discernibly worried about the lack of transfer activity.
“While I can’t do anything about that, what I can do is try to alleviate that by trying to get a few players in,” O’Neill said.
“We are making some sort of progress on that, as we have been for a while.
“It just takes a wee bit [of time]. Obviously, agreeing terms with the football club, agreeing terms with the players. But we have a couple of people that we think we can do.
“Historically speaking, we were quite late. So, no, I’m not perturbed at this minute.”
Although much focus remains on incomings, several of Celtic’s key players are expected to depart this summer.
Daizen Maeda once more stated his desire to play in the English Premier League earlier this week and Arne Engels isn’t short of suitors after a failed January move to Nottingham Forest.
Benjamin Nygren scored 21 goals during his first season in Glasgow. O’Neill expects interest in the Swede.
“What you don’t want to do is, you don’t want to stop some boys who are doing really well,” he said.
“You don’t want to stop them. If they offer one good enough football club for a start, then the players probably can earn a lot more money, things like that.
“But the grass is not always greener. I think you’d be well aware that in Scotland, if you’re turning down major, major offers, then I think that might not be financially feasible.”
Celtic have been quoted with interest in a host of players at this summer’s World Cup.
The tournament, played across the USA, Canada, and Mexico, finally comes to an end this weekend in New York.
“Generally speaking, I wouldn’t want to take somebody from the World Cup because you’re seeing a different player to the one that plays normal league games, either good or bad,” he continued.
“Having said this, that would be a sort of a general rule, but that doesn’t mean that I wouldn’t break.
“I did it for the Euros in 2000 when Joos Valgaeren was playing in them. And those are the games that I’d seen.
“I took him directly from that, those games, because I was out watching those matches at the time. Generally, I wouldn’t do it, but it doesn’t mean I would change again.
“I think over the years, the players now seem to keep their fitness a bit better. And some of the players that are performing in the World Cup that I wouldn’t mind taking, I’ve seen them in league games anyway. Not necessarily always live, but full games of them.”
There are still 50 days until the summer transfer window shuts in Scotland. Celtic’s squad remains in need of belated surgery, and the need for incomings will only be underlined should key men like Maeda, Engels, and Nygren depart.
But when he agreed to become Celtic’s new permanent manager last month, O’Neill did not seek any assurances from the hierarchy over transfers.
“No, never have done,” O’Neill said. “I genuinely did not. I didn’t put anything at all.
“I didn’t seek any… I just didn’t. I can’t turn around and say, ‘By the way, you need to get me 12 players, and if you only get 10, then you’ve broken the trust’.
“Maybe it’s the fact that I’ve known the owner of the football club for some time and I genuinely believe that he will come up and help when trying to get things over the line, let me put it that way.”
Desmond attended Celtic’s friendly against Shelbourne in Dublin last week.
He met O’Neill, chief executive Michael Nicholson, and interim chairman Brian Wilson for dinner in the Irish capital afterwards.
“I went to the board meetings, which were monthly. I’m talking about way, way back,” O’Neill added.
“I obviously had conversations with Dermot way back in those days, of course.
“Less frequent now, as the case may be. Or less frequent since January, since coming in.
“But I would think that they should now, looking at players and things like this here, trying to supplement the squad… yeah, I think my conversations are a wee bit more often.”
Celtic returned to Glasgow Airport from their pre-season trip to Portugal in the early hours of Wednesday morning. At least among the squad, no arrivals are currently imminent.
I’M not a huge fan of the Donovan and Murray combo, IMO both would benefit from good loans to develop and more importantly gain experience
Nawocki and Bernardo before some others
However, we trust in MO’N
Martin O’Neill says it will be ‘hard’ for Maik Nawrocki to work his way into first-team contention at Celtic, indicating four other players are ahead in the defensive pecking order.
Nawrocki arrived in 2023, signing a five-year contract, but has since made just 18 competitive appearances for the club. He spent last season out on loan at German second-tier side Hannover 96.
With new management in place, this summer has been viewed as a potential fresh start for the player. However, despite playing in friendlies against Shelbourne and Sporting CP, Nawrocki isn’t being earmarked for a prominent role in O’Neill’s plans.
The Celtic manager said, “We have Cameron Carter-Vickers back, big Dane Murray whom I’ve got a lot of time for. Then you’ve got Liam Scales and you’ve got Auston Trusty at this minute. So, at the moment, we’ve got four. It’s going to be hard for him to battle through from that there.
“He’s a really nice lad, I think himself, if he thought that there was a future here for him, I think he would like to stay and battle. But he’ll know. Funnily enough, I’m going to have a conversation just to put it out plainly that’s in front of him.
“If he fancies that challenge, I’m not in any rush to send him on his way. If he thinks ‘Well, listen, that’s going to be hard to break through,’ then that’s something else.”
O’Neill also shared that there’s a variety of transfer interest in Nawrocki this summer, which should allow the centre-back to pursue regular football elsewhere if he wishes.
He continued, “There’s teams that want to take him on loan, there’s teams that want to buy him, I believe, and that’s great. You don’t want to stop his momentum.
“I’m going to have a look at some of the matches he played while he was out on loan. That’s the best way for me to make some sort of judgment in real games.
“Really, the way his career is going now, he doesn’t want to get stalled here by sitting and being, like, third-choice centre, fourth-choice centre-half. I think he’s done really well here in the training. He’s been an impressive young man as well, and really, really well mannered.”
Nawrocki is one of several fringe players in the Celtic squad who find themselves in an uncertain situation. Michel-Ange Balikwisha and Paulo Bernardo have similarly featured in recent friendlies, while also impressing O’Neill with their work ethic, but face a battle to establish themselves as regular starters.
O’Neill said, “The same situation arises so you’ve got a chance now, pre-season, some games. Balikwisha started in the games against Shelbourne and Sporting. Every single day during that time from January right through, he never moaned about anything, got on with it, trained hard.
“The same with Paulo, trained really hard, and the same again here. There might be things around the corner, I don’t know that, but I’m not in any desperate rush to send them on their way. If they feel as if they can’t get into the side then obviously that’s an issue.”
Meanwhile, Celtic remain in the hunt for a goalkeeper to challenge Viljami Sinisalo for the number one spot after Kasper Schmeichel’s retirement. Sinisalo made 20 starts last term but the club are keen to add competition in the position despite that contribution.
O’Neill said, “I thought he did really fine for us under really trying circumstances coming in, replacing the big fellow, so he’s done fine at this minute. That was last season, it’s a new season.
“We need another goalkeeper. We’ve only got the two young lads, we’ve got Ross Doohan and we’ve got Sinisalo, so we definitely need another goalkeeper. While it’s a position that if you are like a number one and you’ve done fine, then it’s hard to shift on but you need competition for places as well. We will be definitely looking for another goalkeeper.
“I don’t want an older goalkeeper who thinks, ‘Well, I’m just going to be number two.’ I want somebody to be threatening. It has to be. Even if it wasn’t an older goalkeeper, there’s no reason why we shouldn’t be thinking of somebody younger.”
Celtic continue their pre-season preparations at home to Middlesbrough on Saturday as O’Neill looks to improve his squad ahead of the new Premiership campaign, which begins in just 18 days.
Right BHOYS N LHASSIES first of all a confession last night when engerland scored I went to bed. I thought I am not listening to sheeeerir gloating any more or him telling the audience about cheeeeetin argies.
So 6.30 I get up and I am sinking do not put tv on to get bombarded with gloating imperialists shit. Instead I put my phone on sinking again if there are plenty of messages MESSI has worked his magic.
So first thing i see is BLANTYRE TIMS short n sweet
NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA POOR JUDE. i shall stroll out today despite my ARTHRITIC knees and smile at all n sundry.
So GOD BLESS IRELAND AND ALL GOOD TIMS and the family of A LISBON LION IN BLANTYRE.
OptaJoe@OptaJoe
7 – England have been eliminated every time they have faced a top 10 ranked nation in the knockout stages of the FIFA World Cup since 1998 (7/7).
Obstacle.
Rigged draws can only take you so far before your going home
https://x.com/paddypower/status/2077499237592391725?s=20
Important News
aff oot
Looking at the comments from MoN in the posts above I’m not going to get excited that the required players are coming soon, more a case of who goes or who wants to stay, I thought he would really have known who he has in his pool of players and if they’re going to cut it at Celtic.
I’m sure DD will be looking for talent at Birkdale this week – the big question is ‘can Lowry play defensive midfield’
Auldheid
Longford? Nowhere so exotic- Penrith for us.
Good morning all.
You ghuys know I’m (usually) a happy clapper…………..but I honestly believe MON is talking shite.
He’s topped his pension up with what is possibly a seven figure sum for the next twelve months and sounds to me as if isn’t really bothered.
Transfers take time, he says! Only with us!
I cannot see any way of getting rid of the “owner” and this board, so think we are screwed.
My view is that Desmond is punishing us for peeing in his laddies cornflakes and as long as he is there we will struggle, especially in Europe.
I know we won a double last season, but Hearts collapse, 5 points from their last 7 away games, coupled with the fact that the 69ers were garbage, made the difference.
I can’t remember the last time I was so fed up with Celtic!
Away to hang out a washing!
Have a good day!
GEDINTE: I got that you were in parody mode and much of it was sharply observed.
But see here the dilemma for me… the club’s figures and fiscal position suggests (and proves for some) we’re NOT badly run – but that we’re prudently and profitably operated. Despite fans ridicule of wur ‘tight suits’.
Key to my own armchair dissatisfaction is that we are tightly run – but within a limited ambition horizon.
We’re like Morton’s Rolls or Scotmid – doing good business at hame and yet failing to penetrate overseas markets; they seem too risky or scary. (Leeds Uts, Parma and the Huns offer cases-in-point).
But with season tix sold out, there’s no shortage of Celtic fans for whom domestic bragging rights is enuff.
Still – I can’t help but wonder what could be our real potential; if Bayern game had been a springboard and not a trapdoor.
Quadrophenia
We’re a successful merchandising and marketing company who also has a football club on the side.
Would love to know who these players are who are going to take us forward in Europe but not pull us too far in front of our friends Across The City. Or do we just leave them out of the team for league games?
The Band …
Harry Kane is his name , and he won’t be bringing it hame …
We all love Martin and he is rightly regarded as a legend however we must not be blinded by the “debt” he owes the absentee landlord. His words remember.
He is being used as a human shield by Desmond but this will only last so long.
I wish Martin had bowed out after the cup final and left the used car salesmen that run our club to find a willing patsy to take us “forward”……
Craig Gordon has announced his retirement. Great goalkeeper for us, even if he supports Hearts. Thanks for your contribution to Celtic’s history.
My thanks too to Argentina. God forgive me but England’s mindset is like the deid team’s. The very notion of “it’s coming home” annoys me.
onenightinlisbon
On the other hand you could say that he’s put the pressure back on DD to come up with the goods.
lookingforapositiveCSC
Good morning CQN
A beautiful morning in the dear green place
Argentina’s standard of performance and energy – after going 1 down – surprised me last night.
I thought they looked spent after long games in the previous 3 rounds.
But they made loads of chances and were deserved winners.
All about quality I suppose.
While others
… talk a good game
… get bummed up in the media
… and their insufferable fans get publicly giddy about their team of perennial losers winning the top prize just because they want it to happen in their deluded minds ….
REAL winners take on every challenge they face and deal with it.
Of the many chances made, I recall a failed attempt at an overhead kick.
I think the Argentinian was trying to do this
https://x.com/CelticFC/status/2053584613352620394/mediaviewer
PCS
If they say it for long enough and loud enough they think it will happen – thankfully not this time