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67 European Cup Winners on 9th August 2018 11:38 am
100% agree
The odds are definitely against us, but isn’t that what a great managers and teams do, defy the odds?
I’m hoping we don’t chuck it at the first sign of things going wrong. All of us that is
Davido
It was only because mini informed me last. If HT that she was attending the match did I know it was Saturday ??
Mark McGhee has arrived at Celtic Park,
In discussion with Lawwell as I type this
We are saved …Thank God
In a well run, transfer market savvy, club, a limited (good but not great) player like Dedryck Boyata would be on his way to Fulham today for around £10m. Great deal for someone in the last year of his contract and no intention of signing an extension.
As it is out inability to sign players that the manager wants, when he wants them, and a general lack of focus on our defence over many years, has left us in a position where the manager is basically daring the CEO to sell him and many are hanging our CL future this season on him. A player has played in 0 out of 17 CL qualifying ties under BR.
The board get rightly praised for the many good things they do (except by the usual suspects on here) but they have created a bit of a mess at the moment and for the second successive season the feelgood factor of a previous season travel has disappeared before the summer holidays have ended.
Time to sort it out.
What does the Head of Recruitment do??
Hang on, all is not lost, we’re signing an 18 year old Canadian from Auxerre!!
Gary67
To be fair, Brendan Rodgers has had 4 and a half transfer markets to identify a long term solution at centre back, and has thus far failed. He had two centre backs brought in back in January and neither of them are the solution. The issue is not one dimensional.
Yes, the board need to pull their finger out and back the manager, but the manager needs to recruit better in the defensive areas.
Well done, our Board.
You have managed to piss off our most successful manager since Jock Stein.
Bravo.
new article posted.
WHAT IS THE STARS on 9TH AUGUST 2018 11:51 AM
Mark McGhee has arrived at Celtic Park,
In discussion with Lawwell as I type this
We are saved …Thank God
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£49 £49 mugs every Celtic supporter is a mug
The 49ers Jungle was brilliant I loved the smell of pish YEEZ are mugs noo £49
BIG Malrk McGhee is our £49 saviour £49 £49 £49
HH
D. :)
Davidopoulos
Have you considered thats who we ended up with because player recruitment couldnt get over the line with his actual targets?
Gary 67 and ECW 67 put it better than i could.
In summary, despite what they do well, the PLC board are the ones stifling our progression. They want the Champions League for the kudos, BR and most of us (GM apart) want to be in it to compete as best we can
67 European Cup Winners on 9th August 2018 11:38 am
‘The bridge Peter refused to cross was £700k (Villa paid £2.7m Celtic offered £2m)’
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What about the wages?
Were both offers the same?
I’d love to be a fly on the wall when BR and NFL have their post match chat over a cup of tea after the Hibs game.
Go tell the Spartim
Yes, have you ever considered the opposite, or is your conjecture better than mine?
Is he originally from Clydebank?
Gary 67.
I said last night that the Boyatta situation should have been sorted out.Who is to blame?You think the Board.I dont,for the simple reason,that Celtic would never let him run down his contract.There is still a way to go in our transfer market.He still might go.I think,think,that BR told the Board he needed him for the qualifiers.If that is the case,why did we start last night with Ajer and Hendry.If BR and his mega training staff cannot get a guy fit to play after 10 days training,after a couple of weeks off,something is not right.
Boyatta and Simunovic should have started last night.It was our most important game ever,in terms of money.I am not going with this ,not ready stuff.The team came back from their break,trained a week before playing games in Austria.Not doing the two boys he played any favours either.If that goal knocks us out,it will haunt Ajer for a long time.
PHILBHOY on 9TH AUGUST 2018 11:44 AM
Well I am sure somebody does PL and he is not sharing !! – but with all stories (in this case the McGinn story) there are certain facts 1) Celtic wanted McGinn we offered £2m for him 2) Villa paid £2.7m 3) PL gambled that Petrie would give in to £2m or that McGinn would run his contract 4) We lost McGinn for £700k 5) BR is not happy with our transfer situation
Now you put all that together and you get to a point where Celtic lost a player pissed off our manager for £700k
Now if I am missing something please share – as I say it’s just IMHO
67ECW
Ernie,
Lenny stated that Celtic had matched the Villa offer.Is that what you are saying,or not.
Still raging about last night. Firstly, we generally played very well, particularly in the first half. The real reason we had a disappointing result, in my humble opinion, had less to do with the players on the field, and more with our lack of activity off it.
Paul 67, whose opinions I generally respect, is of the opinion that the Greeks were complacent in their approach to the tie and that fitness levels would be telling late in the tie.
Let’s leave that for the moment and look at the mighty Juventus. Like us, they are league winners seven times in a row. Feeling the hot breath of a resurgent Napoli on their necks, what did they do this summer? They identified weaknesses in their squad, offloaded ten players, including the retiring Buffon and aging Lichsteiner. They then brought in 10, (yes 10!) players, including Bonucci, Emre Can, Douglas Costa, and, just for emphasis, a certain Cristiano Ronaldo. Not exactly sitting on their laurels, are they?
In our case, we observe Sevco, who scored more goals than we did in the league last season, replace their entire back 5 with McGregor, Flanagan, Goldson, Katic and Barisic (signed in 4 days), That appears to be a considerable improvement on last season’s duds, so I will be very pleasantly surprised if we beat them 4-0 or 5-0 this season. Arfield, Koulibaly and the ex-Roma striker I will not comment on, as I know almost nothing about them.
So, faced with our rivals proactively addressing their issues to narrow the gap between us, what have we done to change personnel weakness on the field?
Back to the Greeks for a moment. They also won their league, But they signed players to upgrade their team BEFORE the Champions League qualifying stage.
I know which team has been complacent here. And it’s not AEK.