Every year we hear that January is a difficult time to do transfer business. Clubs are reluctant to allow top performers to leave midseason, but we’ve had some creative January activity over the years. Objectives for this month are clear.
We need to better prepare for our Summer Cup Finals. Trying to build a defence, or strike force, while simultaneously qualify for the Champions League is, unsurprisingly, tricky. Summer transfer windows are really two periods, the last days of the month, after European qualification has been taken care of, and earlier in the window, when limited volumes of business will take place.
We’ve done some great business early in summer months, most notably Virgil van Dijk, but instances like this are rare.
The most interesting aspect of this window will be how Ronny Deila is backed. He’s 18 months in the job now, long enough to come to an assessment of the wider scouting infrastructure he inherited. We’ve been underperforming on recruitment since January 2012. Ronny needs to buck this trend, and Celtic need to give him the necessary lateral.
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Stars
That’s what we did.
Been and gone and done the virtually impossible in Norway, that’s a footy manager or coach imo
Who would you choose ?
HH
Mind all the constraints that any coach will be under……
WITS
the problem is that when Celtic do employ a football manager they invariably quit due to meddling.
Burghbhoy
Was out for lunch today with the MacG.,from the Burgh,who passed on the news of your loss.
Your father will be remembered as a great servant to the church and the local community,.remembet the good times,I am sure there are many,you are who your are because of him.RIP.
burghbhoy
lovely post may john rip.
Exiled
The question was. ..is there one celtic supporter who can point out one example of ronny improving the team in his 18 months in charge. Bgx asked that
Can you give me one example of improvement ?
As for who I would replace him with. That’s irrelevant. If we can’t do better than Ronny god help us
A cardboard cut out of George Graham and a tape recording of rousing speeches by Winston Churchill would be an improvement.
And that’s sad
If there is one thing I’ve learned in life it’s that you stick by your decisions. If you believe in something you keep going no matter how bad it gets.
We have been going nowhere as a football club for years, our performances in Europe have been dire under both Ronny and under Neil in his last European adventure.
I’m not a fan of PL and would like to see a change at the club as I feel he’s been in his position to long and a change of CEO would be good for the club as a whole.
Appointing RD though was thinking outside the box and most of us were genuinely excited about what lay ahead. This season in Europe has been an absolute disaster though and our current form is a shambles and against Motherwell it was simply embarrassing.
For me though it’s not the tactics it’s the players and to a degree the crowd that have let us down. Does anyone seriously think RD doesn’t see what we see when the gaps appear in our defence?
I’ve said before that now that we don’t have RFC(IL) in our league some teams, such as Aberdeen, will potentially be 12 points better off a season and this will give them encouragement going forward. It’s telling that even though we are such a bad team with shit tactics and a crap manager we are still ahead in the league and in 2 cup competitions.
It takes nerve to change things and it also takes time, things don’t always go your way but if you cave in and appease the crowd the only thing you’re doing is starting again no further forward.
Ronny will win the league this year, let him change our club and give him time to do it. Rome wasn’t built in a day.
TET
I think more than a tweak….
We’ve tried cautious self preservation time for growth strategy.. Speculate to get growth on and off the pitch
Eddie
Do you honestly believe that
Or are you just refusing to admit that we( the support) were sold a lie by the club.
The lie being that this was a new direction, employing an exciting young coach with lots of great ideas about how to play the game and compete successfully at European level, etc
Truth is he was probably the cheapest option
That’s an insult to you and me and every celtic supporter.
We will win the league. We start the season as bookies favourite at ridiculous odds of 1/ 40.
It would be really hard to take if we didn’t win it.
I really am amazed at the amount of support there is for ronny.
How much of it is just blind loyalty and how much is based on analytical thought
Burghbhoy…
Just back on and read of your loss, I read back to see your post, I’m glad I did, a great post and a thoughtful dad. HH
I saw a team on Saturday who in the last 10 mins of the game were given the support from the crowd that every Celtic team should expect and they responded.
CQN is like some of those that sit around me, constantly giving players a hard time instead of giving encouragement.
I recall a poster a few days ago mentioning Martin O’Neil having a dig at the negative fans and how it hindered players, the vocal support of our team on Sat produced an unlikely result. Maybe some of you will learn from that though I doubt it.
Burghbhoy. Sorry for your loss. Lovely tribute to your dad.
Take care.HH
Burghbhoy,
Sincere condolences on your sad loss. A fine tribute. YNWA John
HH
Stars
No, that was not the question.
You decided that was the question, BGX, you can do better that that ffs.
And it’s not irrelevant, you want him gone, give an alternative, I have given two coaches I would replace him with if they do bin him.
With respect, all the RD want to change posters have offered feck all to any change other that he is pish, the more this goes on the more the hun like entitlement comes to the fore, and deny it for all you are worth mi amigo, but you know what I am saying.
We are a pish team in a pish league, wtf are you expecting ?
The suits give not a toss, the money comes first, change that and maybes we can look to the future.
HH
What is the Stars all I see and hear are so called fans offering no support on match days at Celtic Park. A manager who said he was here to change the whole way the club was run getting run out of his job after less than 2 years while we sit top of the league and still in 2 cup competitions. Fickle fans who are developing a ………….. well I think you could finish that sentence yourself
WHAT IS THE STARS on 4TH JANUARY 2016 11:24 PM
Exiled
Simple solution
Obvious since August 2014
Employ a football manager
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Voice in the wilderness.
Keep telling it.
Cults
No I recon a tweak is all that’s needed.
The policy is the right one given all the financial constraints we are working under, but the rigidity is doing us.
We need to sign a few old heads and break the wage barrier, that is what is holding us back imo.
We are screaming out for leadership on the park, we have none, off the park is another matter,on the park is where we need to focus, sort that and we are a tenth of the way there, sort the referees, we are all the way there.
HH
I find it a bit much that fans who have been complaining about Celtic downsizing, having no vision, complicity accepting the cheating status quo that has diddled celtic out of their legacy are considered fickle. Garbage.
The folk sitting in the house raging on the internet are the real support.
“We’ve done some great business early in summer months, most notably Virgil van Dijk, but instances like this are rare.”
Incredible sentence.
We are reduced to living vicariously through our has-beens in the EPL.
Burghbhoy
A fine tribute to your Dad, my sincerest condolences to you and your family.
I’ve said it every year since 2009. let me state it again in 2016. the 4 point Celtic MO.
1. EPL Fodder
2. Nice turnover
3. CL if yer lucky
4. Wunner whit the huns are daein?
hasnt changed except #3 has now become EL if yer lucky.
TET…
I was with a few friends at the game, two of which are huns, after the game their opinion was they had nothing to fear from our team on the park.
When I questioned them their response was…in two years we will win the league.
To be honest unless we get our act together, thems may be right.
Celtic GB song legend Amido Balde is set to join Angolan side Benfica Luanda.
For once I am with TD67, Celtic supporters my arse.
Yous offer feck all but negative pish, no alternatives, nada, but get him out, that is so feckin hun like, so sad, yous really need to take a long hard look at yourselfs, and it really breaks my heart to say this.
………………………..
Sleep well Timland
HH
KTF…Tho it’s looking like faith is far and wide these days, so, so so, so ,so so so sad.
Exiled
Bgx stated that he had yet to meet one celtic supporter who thinks ronny has improved the team in his 18 months in charge.
Neither have I
people go to the games and to their credit many try to get behind the team . as Eddie said that is good for the team . Obviously. ..
but back to bgx and improvement
That’s how this current episode started
Can you give me one example of improvement. ?
Please
Exiled
No need for that bullshit
Ronny will finish the season we all know that
But for the good of the club he has to be shown the door.
Do you think there will be a queue of clubs wanting him to manage them….
What is the Stars on 5th January 2016 12:12 am
Examples of decline.
Serial embarrassing European performances.
Players publicly expressing their unhappiness with coach`s decisions.
Apparently lower crowd numbers……related to team performance?……………the responsibility of the coach.
C.Q.N. angst. We KNOW there is a problem.We only disagree about the cause.
And all this during a period of reduced competition from Rangers,Hibs and Hearts (last season).
Good on the Edinburgh Tims CSC giving SKY their marching orders.
Stars
No I can’t, apart from the Griff who has screwed the head.
I have read much about players who have regressed, is that the fault of the coaches ?
Are the coaches to blame for players being pish, maybes they are, but I would find that hard to believe, players are fickle things, having been one masel I can state that with a tad of knowledge.
I believe that there is a problem in the camp, no idea what it is but it’s as plain as the nose on your face there is one.
Why would a player not want to improve, it makes no sense that they wouldn’t, and I don’t accept the pish that the coach is holding them back, that is total bollix imo, any player worth his salt wants to play as well as he can and get a move to a bigger or better or a better paid club, to deny that is feckin stupid, so what is the problem ?
The standard of the officiating in scotland towards Celtic is a major problem imo, we have to play to a different set of rules to our oppos, and when you ahve players who are at our level, their heads will drop to beat the band, can you imagine Messi being the player he is if he played for us, I very much doubt it.
I have answered your question mi amigo, now answer mine, who would you choose given the restraints he will be under,
HH
Burghbhoy and Kelvinbhoy
Thoughts and prayers with you and your families at this time.
HH
TET
RD has debatably so, brought on a few players in their development
Kieran Tierney
James Forrest
Efe Ambrose
Mikel Lustig
Tom Rogic
Calum MacGregor
To name a few, it’s been explained to the non supporting internet types on CQN many many times that, replacing the manager would solve nothing midstream.
Certainly not when we have already past a point when bangers like Roy Keane can be offered the job and can knock you back.
From what I’m watching most of our team play like the ball is a hot potato and can’t get rid of it quick enough.
As said before…throw ins is a joke, it’s find a marker time!
The players weren’t like that when they signed up…what has changed them?
The crowd? Nope…the fear factor of the dugout, maybe?
Exiled
Griffiths has been one of the few bright lights true enough
Interesting that the guru initially picked ciftci ahead of him
But let that slide
I have seen people blame the crowd the ref the players, the chairman and even Internet bampots.
Anything but the obvious. Ronny is no good
Anyone would do a better job. Anyone
Roy Keane, Michael o neil, David moyes, mick Mccarthy, the ex Hamilton manager now at Norwich, anyone at all,
Ronny will go at the end of the season, not because of me but because he is not good enough for celtic
I doubt he will ever have a serious job in football again
Let’s see next may
Goodnight
Truth will set you free
Good night to all the Celtic fans
BSR
Aye, it’s no my place to accuse, I am like TD67 in a way, I state my point, but I do offer an alternative other than nothing :-)
I am in the RD camp, it all takes time, jeez I have lived through the barren years, anything we win is a bonus, and yes, he has improved whom you mention, but it disny fit the Ronny out agenda, still no alternative offered other than he needs to go.
Feck it, had too much
HH
Burghbhoy on 4th January 2016 9:23 pm
My thoughts and Prayers are with you and your family tonight
KTF
HH
KELVINBHOY
Condolences on your loss
HH