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It’s not Leyton orient it’s Lorient
😂
That rangers penalty against the dons is obscene. That it went to VAR & the Pen stood is just bonkers.
MAOLMUIRE O MUIRGHEASA
Decent effort mate but don’t think your’e off the hook 👍
How long are we going to get played here?
Looks like the Falkirk game is the only SPL midweek match so all the more important for us to get the three points and keep close to league leaders Hearts, who look like they may well hit a decent points total before the SPL break. Might not be easy, but we’ve beat Falkirk twice already this season, win and we can forget the SPL for a couple of weeks or so. Old adage I know but one game at a time and all that….
Hertz are playing St Mirren.
https://spfl.co.uk/league/premiership/fixtures
From jobo
*SENTINEL CELTS PLAYER OF THE YEAR 2025-26*
*RESULTS FROM GAME #34 CELTIC 4 DUNDEE UNITED 0 (YANG, ENGELS, NYGREN, MAEDA)*
Good evening, friends.
As I said after last week’s game I’m giving the actual match reports a miss for a wee while so it’s all about a few stats and the voting numbers.
Celtic have now played 34 games, and have won 17, drawn 6 and lost 10. We have scored 57 goals and conceded 37. We remain 2nd in the league, 3 points behind Sevco and 6 behind Hearts. We have played 1 game less than both of them.
As for the voting numbers, I’m delighted to see a big increase on recent weeks so it’s a really huge thank you to the 104 who voted. This will generate another charity donation of £3.80.
The total votes cast for each player are as follows, with my own nominations asterisked.
Schmeichel: 0
Araujo: 11
Trusty: 1
Scales*: 41
Tierney: 29
McGregor: 17
Engels*: 63
Hatate: 0
Yang*: 97
Maeda: 0
Tounekti: 51
Donovan: 0
Nygren: 2
McCowan: 0
Kenny: 0
Forrest: 0
Unused substitutes: Bernardo, Murray, Ralston, Sinisalo
And so, the POINTS earned by each player for the game against Dundee United are as follows –
25 points: Yang
22 points: Engels
19 points: Tounekti
16 points: Scales
14 points: Tierney
12 points: McGregor
11 points: Araujo
10 points: Nygren
9 points: Trusty
5 points each: Donovan, Forrest, Hatate, Kenny, McCowan, Maeda and Schmeichel
1 point each: Bernardo, Murray, Ralston, Sinisalo
The cumulative points achieved after 34 games played are now –
466: McGregor
462: Scales
405: Tierney
364: Engels
327: Hatate
319: Maeda
318: Trusty
298: Nygren
288: Yang
268: Tounekti
249: Schmeichel
246: McCowan
240: Forrest
224: Donovan
188: Iheanacho
176: Ralston
161: Kenny
158: Carter-Vickers and Saracchi
125: Bernardo
88: Murray
74: Yamada
70: Balikwisha
60: Johnston
54: Sinisalo
40: Osmand
23: Inamura
20: Araujo
19: Idah
14: Simpson-Pusey
6: Doohan
1: Hale and Isiguso
0: All the other players who’ve not yet made a matchday squad!
Celtic are now back on the road again with 4 games away from Celtic Park, in 3 different competitions. The first of these is on Wednesday night when we visit in form, 6th place Falkirk. The league game is live on Premier Sports 1.
Hail Hail!
the blogger
Ah, the SPL re determined to keep Hearts out there in front. They could be on 50 points. All the more reason for us to win at Falkirk!
Soon be Day 12 of no strikers in,and the lackeys say who would replace the incompetent parasitels …..ye ok….oh my aching sides
We are looking at duds on loan with a valid passport, fk me
Scottish refs affiliated with a certain team shouldn’t be allowed to referee games involving that team.
I think we as fans need to start applying pressure to our club to raise concerns with the SFA.
https://x.com/davethewisertim/status/2010441207445594147?s=46
Since the Huns hierarchy complained & wanted a meeting with the SFA there’s been some dodgy decisions going their way in their favour.
And these mugs, these Old Firm Retention subscribers, they’ll say that I’m a badass for NOT contributing to the PLC bonuses. lol
Just give CalMac the player/manager/keys till the end of the season and promote auld MON to Sporting Director so that he can sit his auld cauld ass on the heated seats up next to the wonderful board who gave Rodgers a load of money and then found out that he did not know how to use that money to better, Celtic, as opposed to bettering, Rodgers look at me am a…. Pep/Clone/Grifter/Fae/The/Wan/Horse/League/In/Anti/Women/Scotland
What a time to be alive!
PS, What if auld MON has taken his Covid Vaccines and has a weakened immune system as a result of that, and Celtic have him standing on a freezing touchline, or worse, sitting in a freezing dugout, breathing in all of the ‘real’ viruses that are being sprayed out of Aeroplanes 24/7 from the skies above.
Shhhhhhhh.
Are there any people employed at Celtic who don’t subscribe to BBC/The/Guardian/bs/narratives? ffs!
PS, No Vaccine has ever been tested which could compare favorably with God’s given Immune System, but the Media shills don’t want you to know that. ffs!
THAT is why Children are given 70+ vaccines before they even start school making them vulnerable to every sneeze from someone next to them as the Children’s God Given Immune System’s are destroyed before their first day at school. ffs!
Anyway….
HH
oot.
Not paying attention.
Ironic
https://x.com/johnnybain7/status/2010417945013543082?s=46
Dickinson
Lodge Prince of Wales Renfrew, I think it’s time to start getting organised to apply pressure to our club to get this cheat away from refereeing his beloved club & to demand referees who support certain teams are not allowed to referee those games 👍
Stephen Welsh 😂😂😂
We as fans need to find a way to remove this board.
How worried is Nicholson about Motherwell catching us that he’s recalling Stephen Welsh…?
It’s actually a smart move as he’s a good player if injury prone. And of course he’s free!
I just feel for the lad if he’s going to go from playing every week to sitting in the stands. Hope he sees decent game time and gets a league medal as a reward.
Glad to hear we’re connected with a forward. Not hugely excited by his pedigree but slim pickings in January. Hopefully Ineacho back soon too… and he stays fit.
Just logged in so pardon me if you’ve discussed it already. Has anyone heard that Trusty has done his hamstring and that we are recalling Stevie Welsh because of it after saying last week that he was to stay at Motherwell?
Dickinson,of the sly wink and smile ,when he was 4th official and we got gubbed at Killie.
As Frank Ifield sang” I Remember You,Ya Bassa.”
Right,stop fekin about.Maswanhise from Motherwell,perfect for us.
Won’t get better from this Board,this window.
Talking about Lorient, I think their Ultras are called Lorient Bhoys or something similar.
The signs are not looking good on the recruitment front.
The potential list in the public domain is a downgrade on our usual projects. It’s clear the £80M will not be used to strengthen the Team.
It’s also clear Tisdale (who reported to Nicholson) does not have a sufficient pipeline of suitable players. He has been at the club for 18 months and has covered 2 windows both spectacular failures.
Why did Nicholson not review his work and detail of players ; why was Rodgers surprised by 2 Japanese signings. Why are managers finding out too late in the process the targets names.
Amateurish from Nicholson not reviewing the work of a direct report especially one who is failing. To make matters worse the “CEO” then allows him to recruit Nancy and gives a glowing recommendation on the next Pep.
Nicholson’s position is untenable — we need the CEO replacement the club are supposedly working on done asap.
It’s also important to note he is silent on MON’s request for a truce with fans to help Team.He has zero people skills and just ignores by hiding in his office and turning his phone off.
He knows he is a failure and responsible for the mess —
If he had any integrity he would resign and apologise to the Celtic support.
Don’t you know this is a difficult window for Celtic?
Other clubs have secret ways of getting a players in, I believe it’s called planning and preparation. Also it’s a difficult window to replace diddies on the board, we’ll do it next year.
Anyone have a survey to complete?
Aware the lad we are considering is from the French team and not Leyton Orient however the arrogance of some on here is quite something to behold and borders on ignorance.
We signed Matt ORiley from the lower reaches of Div 1. Rangers current CH could not even get a game for Peterborough in that league in 4 seasons there. Yet he scored in their past 2 games and 2 clean sheets.
We have signed many others from similar levels and lower and they have gone on to do great things for us.
Re the agent involved. We have signed a few who didn’t make it from him but not lost much cash and both Nir B and Abada gave us good return on the park and in value.
Timmy 7
Which other clubs have signed lots of players this window better than the one we have signed so far ?
sutton1888@11.43pm
Good link there re two decisions, the first where the referee favoured one team and the second where the same referee favoured the er same team. Your other link @ 11.57pm gave us the real explanation. The Scottish Referees Association @ the highest level (top 32) is nothing less than a masonic cabal.
On the first link found the post by ‘Christopher McEleny’ hilarious, in the sense that he sees the decision making as “poor”. Poor guy. Disingenous does not even begin to cover his comment, or level of awareness.
Time, not so much for referees to declare which Scottish club they support, more rather which Masonic Lodge they belong to. We already know the answer in Dickinson’s case.
Which other club has not signed a striker for over a year though they don’t have one?
Which other club does not have adequate replacements for injured players?
Which other club has fallen from top of the tree to also rans without at least trying to arrest the situation?
Which other club chased a trophy winning manager for a non experienced chancer?
The L above list is endless….
With JSP’s loan deal ended it makes perfect sense to recall Welsh as cover.
We’re back to where we were in the summer facing a pivotal CL play off. Players need bedded in and minutes in the legs prior to the big game, in this case, Tynecastle.
If this Board do to Martin what they did to Brendan and give him very little to strengthen the team then Nicholson should be chased this window.
Waiting till the last day could see us 9 points behind and effectively out of the running. Signing a striker, a day or two before Tynecastle, limits their effectiveness because they’ll most likely need more time to get know the playing patterns.
We should have had someone signed on the 1st. This needs to get done, now, Michael Nicholson.
Would rather we brought Nawrocki back.
31003@7.59
Didn’t former Celtic manager Brendan Rodgers not sign Kelechi Iheanacho, a player he knew well, as an attacking forward, and as a replacement for another attacking forward who he agreed could be transferred despite scoring around 30 goals for Celtic in a season and a half? One for one was it?
celtic mac
yes BR, tisdale and the board did that
and looks the board might repeat the mistake of not getting a CF in again
how many times ? how many transfer windows ?
CELTIC MAC on 12TH JANUARY 2026 8:25 AM
What other club operates with one only (injured) striker?..,
Good morning to you all on this fine and sunny 12th January with a high today of 16 degrees.
Might as well relax, our Modus operandi is to leave it until the last day of the window before getting a couple of uninspiring loan deals through the door. If you accept that as the most likely scenario (as it is one we are accustomed to) then anything else will be a bonus.
Luckily we have no crown jewels left to sell or they’d already be gone.
spikeysauldmhan
Looks like the attempt to bring back Kyogo fell through Friday, as I suspected it would. Got a goal for Brum at the weekend. Think he was the only party not party to the “deal”. Not good, surprised Martin went down that road, or Celtic for that matter. But there were those on here in favour of it. Still think we have goals in the team, moreso if we knew where Kelechi’s fitness is at, but if we add more by way of bringing someone in, or getting some from say Tounekti or Kenny, all the better for the second half of the season. Could be wrong but some of those balls we put across the box at the weekend would have suited Adam Idah…..
31003
Have ah got to answer all the questions…?
By masel?
This is a thoughtful and balanced article, much of it attributed quotes from Dr Dan Plumley, a senior lecturer in sport business management at Sheffield Hallam University.
Why Celtic can’t ‘attack the transfer market hard’ in January window
Before his voice was drowned out by the boos and jeers of the more partisan shareholders who were in attendance at the Celtic AGM at Parkhead back in November, Ross Desmond attempted to defend how the Scottish champions conduct their business.
Before then chairman Peter Lawwell was forced to abandon the meeting in the Kerrydale Suite due to the disorder, the son of major shareholder and non-executive director Dermot endeavoured to explain why navigating the transfer market has become so complex for the Glasgow club.
“The board respects financial reality,” said the Irishman. “We act prudently, not recklessly. Those who accuse the club of hoarding cash or being in it for the money display a deep misunderstanding of financial responsibility.
“Those who talk about the club not having kicked on in Europe since 2003 ignore the enormous change in the management landscape of football in that period. It has created a gap which keeps growing.
“Of course, clubs can still punch above their financial weight and we should aspire to do that. But if you swing and miss, you risk the very stability of the club and that would be profoundly irresponsible.”
With a desperately disappointing summer transfer window and a humiliating Champions League play-off defeat to Kazakh minnows Kairat still fresh in the memories of those in the room, his words were ignored.
For the rabble rousers, there was no excuse for a club which had been unlucky to lose to Bayern Munich in the knockout stage play-off of Europe’s premier club competition last season going into such important double header with a winger up front and a playmaker out wide, suffering a penalty shootout defeat as a result and once again missing out on an lucrative pay day.
Especially with their last set of financial results back in June showing they had cash reserves of £77.3m. Why hadn’t some of that money been spent bringing in quality replacements for Kyogo Furuhashi and Nicolas Kuhn?
But did Desmond Jnr make some valid points which were lost amid all of the acrimony? Do Celtic face greater difficulties strengthening their squad than at any other period in their history because of how dramatically football has changed at the highest level in the past 20 years? Could speculating to accumulate in the transfer windows backfire on them spectacularly further down the line? Are they wise to be frugal?
Dr Dan Plumley, a senior lecturer in sport business management at Sheffield Hallam University and an expert in football finance, has seen how clubs from lesser nations with vastly inferior domestic broadcasting deals can overcome the considerable challenges they face in the modern game with dynamic structures, smart recruitment and innovative strategies. More of which later.
However, he also understands why the former European Cup winners have to consider more, far, far more, than how much a potential signing will cost. He believes they will, even though they have fallen behind in the Scottish title race and desperately need to bring in reinforcements, have very good reason to tread warily during the January transfer window.
“UEFA have now introduced the squad cost ratio, which has replaced financial fair play, to promote sustainability” he said. “A club’s squad is not allowed to cost more than 70 per cent of their turnover. But that cost covers player and manager wages and all amortisation of transfer fees and agent fees.
“Everything that goes into the transfer market goes towards your squad cost and is matched against revenue. It does put Celtic in a bit of a sticky spot. They can’t overstretch because they can’t fall foul of UEFA’s regulations.
“For the record, they are not even close to doing that. But they still can’t push the envelope too far because if they do then they start to run up against UEFA’s regulations. When they then qualify for Europe, which they always do, there will be fines and sanctions incoming if they break them.
“I wouldn’t say the squad cost ratio is more prohibitive than financial fair play. There are similarities. It is sort of an extension of the soft wages to turnover ratio rules that UEFA had before but never really monitored. I think they’re a slight improvement on what’s been before. There are regulations around overall losses and what clubs can lose in a three year rolling period.
“There’s a lot of clubs on UEFA’s radar at the minute. We’ve seen Aston Villa, Chelsea, Lyon and Barcelona all get fined eight figure sums. So Celtic are juggling with that as well. It is really important. It is tricky for them because the fans will always want more. But they have to be mindful of what they do. They aren’t able to attack a transfer market really hard.”
Celtic have done exactly that in the not-too-distant past. Perhaps not to the same extent as their counterparts down south. Still, they parted with significant sums at the start of the 2022/23 campaign. Alexandro Bernabei (£3.75m), Cameron Carter-Vickers (£6m) and Jota (£6.4m) did not come cheap.
The following season, after Brendan Rodgers had replaced Ange Postecoglou as manager, around £20m was spent bringing on board the likes of Odin Thiago Holm, Maik Nawrocki, Gustaf Lagerbielke, Luis Palma, Yang Hyun-jun and Kuhn.
The purse strings were well and truly loosened last term. Paul Bernardo (£3.4m), Adam Idah (£8.5m), Auston Trusty (£6m), Arne Engels (£11m) and Jota (£9m) all came in along with several others in an unprecedented £40m spending spree.
But Celtic were guaranteed Champions League football in each of those seasons due to the Scottish coefficient. This summer that was not the case. There was clearly an unwillingness in the boardroom to potentially overstretch their resources before the play-off in case, as has been the case on numerous occasions in the past, they came up short.
“Celtic have a £143m turnover,” said Dr Plumley. “All squad costs have to be within 70 per cent of that. Their total wage bill in their last accounts was £75m and the player wage bill alone was estimated to be over £50m. So on those headline numbers, they don’t have a huge amount of wiggle room.
“Yes, the cash figure is healthy for sure and that’s a good thing. But it’s really not as easy as them saying, ‘Right, let’s go out and spend that money on players’. The £77m that is in the bank has to do other things as well. That is also only the amount they have when the accounts are published. It will not remain the same during the course of the financial year.”
Celtic spent £13m bringing in 12 new players during the summer. But they received far more than they parted with from the sale of Kuhn to Como and Idah to Swansea City as well as others for nominal fees. They turned a sizeable profit from their trading.
The members of their worldwide support were, with a place in the expanded Champions League league phase to be secured, far from impressed with what Desmond Snr once described as their “Mr Micawber Economics”. After all, they made a cool £39.7m from their involvement in that competition in the 2024/25 campaign.
Their many critics asked what the point of having a small fortune sitting gathering dust in a bank vault was if the side on the park wasn’t good enough to realise their ambitions? Dr Plumley, though, can appreciate why their besieged hierarchy have been reluctant to dip into those funds.
“Don’t get me wrong, Celtic are a club that will always be able to go into the transfer market when they want to,” he said. “But it’s still not an easy market for them. They can’t just go out and grab lots of high quality players.
“What will certainly shift the dial for Celtic and Rangers is getting into the Champions League league phase. They can have a good run in the Europa League, but the participation money is nowhere near as high as the Champions League.
“But there’s a lot of risk involved in that given the Scottish coefficient and the fact they’ve now got to go through the qualifiers. How much do they gamble in the transfer market? Do they spend money on players before they’ve got there? Or do they hedge their bets a little bit and look to try and bring in fewer players for less money? Remember, they might not qualify if they do. That then has a major impact on their squad cost ratio.”
He added, “Even if they do decide to spend money, it won’t take them much closer to the established European elite. The big clubs will always win out. Even if Celtic are one of the 36 teams which get into that competition, they’re up against it from the start.
“The game has shifted. There is wider commercialisation, overseas pre-season tours, tie-ups with other brands and partners around the world. Multi-club ownership has played a huge part in the change. Clubs look to drive recruitment models through multi-club ownership and who they partner up with.
“In five years’ time the same clubs will have won most of the European competitions. The show will go on and on as well because many of the broadcast deals are fixed. The Premier League is fixed until 2029 and the Champions League rights are next up in 2027.”
So why, then, have Bodo/Glimt managed to reach the Conference League quarter-finals, the Europa League semi-finals and the Champions League league phase in the past five years?
The four-time Norwegian champions had a turnover of just €30m last season. How have a club which is situated in the Arctic Circle managed to overcome their obvious disadvantages? Are there not lessons for Celtic to learn from “Gleam”?
“It’s definitely important that the clubs which are not in that established European elite look to ways of doing things differently,” said Dr Plumley.
“A lot of clubs today are asking, ‘Who are we as a club? What club do we want to be?’ Internally at boardroom level anyway. I am not sure that message often gets out publicly. It’s tricky, isn’t it? Fans want to win every game they play.
“There’s certainly merit in the models that some of the clubs which are not in that upper bracket are using. Bodo/Glimt would be a very good example. They have shown you can have relative success taking a different approach. They are great for football. What they have done in Europe has been fantastic.”
He continued, “When it comes to recruitment, clubs have questions they must ask themselves. Where do they bring players in from? What kind of profile do they look at? Is it younger players with good sell on value who will come to develop and put themselves in the shop window before being offloaded for profit?
“When it comes to squad cost ratio, you are allowed to use all your revenue in the calculation. But you can also use what is effectively adjusted net spend across the year. If clubs sell more players than they buy they get the net position there. It can boost the number.
“I’m not saying it’s easy and lots of clubs in lots of different countries are doing the same thing now. But there are absolutely ways you can do things. There are still challenges within that to get the players that you want. But there are certainly viable strategies.”
Dr Plumley feels that William Hill Premiership leaders Hearts – where Brighton owner Tony Bloom, whose Jamestown Analytics firm has unearthed some outstanding players, now owns a 29 per cent stake and – are a perfect example of how a club can punch above its weight with some real outside-of-the-box thinking.
“The wider European landscape obviously affects Celtic and Rangers and puts them on the back foot,” he said. “But within the Scottish football landscape it is really tough for the others to compete with them most of the time.
“But last year Hearts had a turnover of £25m, Rangers have a turnover of £89m and Celtic have a turnover of £143m. If Hearts go on and win the Premiership this season they will show what can be achieved at any level of the game.”
Source The Herald
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