There is no point blaming a player you paid £6m for, for not delivering. It’s better to look at the process which brought him to the club.
In signing a player who has already had a season in the EPL, you indicate that you’ve decided not to pursue the development strategy previously in place. More evident of this exists, as you know.
Developing players is not easy, not everyone is up for it. Spending £6m on players you hope are already developed isn’t an easy route to success either.
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Bada
Well we need another left back unless we go with Adam Montgomery as cover.
6 guys i work with are booked up for the West Ham v Crystal Palace game.
Sitting together £42 each.
£99 hotel for two nights in London.
Are our league prices competitive?
HH
Maybe a silly notion, but if Valle away, then could the dream team of Taylor & KT be on? GT can do the ‘invert’ thing and KT can slot into back four when needed- add Liam who can also play left-back and we are covered ‘every which way’.
Would Celtic have to agree to Valle early release from year loan – how does a temporary transfer work in this situation? HH
Scales is far too slow on the turn to play left back any decent winger would cause serious problems if he played there.
!!BADA BING!! on 16TH JANUARY 2025 8:28 PM
Valle loan terminated, going to Como
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Mind we used to have a lookout at Bothwell Services
https://x.com/mailsport/status/1879999362488529108?s=12
He said the boy Hoddle is worth keeping an eye on
Antony for MU missed the easiest chance I have seen in a long time. Open goal and he fluffs it.
The huns will beat this Man Ure team
!!BADA BING!! on 16TH JANUARY 2025 9:27 PM
The huns will beat this Man Ure team
*no the one that I saw against liverpool
Has Bernabi been sold he is still listed as being loaned out?
Not overly troubled by our draw with Dundee to be honest.
Thinking back to last year we were throwing away a 8 pt, I think, lead with draws and defeats that actually put our title chances in doubt.
This seasons wobble has seen us pass up the chance to go 18 ahead but instead are “only” 13 it’s ahead..
Can live with the trauma to be honest.
As for Paul67 and any anti Brendan bias. Whether real or imagined I’m a firm believer in the “His blog he can write what he wants” rule. If it bothered me what he writes I wouldn’t give his site a thought or visit. If you don’t like what he says stay away and don’t be offended simples.
Wow. How did they not see that ball miles ocer the line.
Unbelievable
TONTINE TIM on 16TH JANUARY 2025 7:33 PM
THE LONG WAIT IS OVER on 16TH JANUARY 2025 7:29 PM
The next game which truly matters is next Wednesday.
*naw the next one is Saturday at the ridiculous time of hauf 5 at night, as the Big Mhan used tae say they are ALL big games for us.
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Fair point
Wow Paul – a provocative article (need to stir up some controversy to get the comments posted, right).
Telling us Auston is untrustyworthy and that Brendan Rodgers cannae develop talent !!
Let me just rip up this list I got here of Harvey Barnes, Ben Chilwell, Phil Coutinho, Moussa Dembele, Demari Gray, James Maddison, Wilf Ndidi, Raheem Sterling….
Sure, Brendan has always liked to spend on a more proven quality too, but to say he can’t do it is, as you can’t say anymore, pure gash.
Trusty is a very athletic and skilled defender; one poor show against a side w everything to prove shouldn’t condemn him ffs, esp after such a demanding run of games.
CLICKBAITQUICKNEWS CSC
We shall thrash the Ayrshire hun without the bus fare. Easy peasy.
The huns have sure got some folk on here spooked ,if they think they’ll turn over Man Ure.
Glen D- more a comment on how bad Man Ure are…..
BADA
Yes I get that, but I think it’s giving Sevco too much credit . I do believe some posters are panicking unnecessarily on the back of the Ibrox game and a few flat performances from us . 13 points and 30 more goals is a mountain that the huns can’t climb .
Glen D- not here mate,very tough schedule December January, need to rotate the squad, with that comes patchy performances, need to get them to peak v YB
BADA
I agree . The schedule is punishing and is bound to affect performances. A good performance v Killie is so important for confidence going into the YB game . Two positive results in these games and a couple of good quality signings will change the mood completely .
Man U,
A bit ropey tonight,but the manager has to see what he has actually playing.3 or 4 you won’t see at the weekend played tonight.The boy at RB,Yoro,the paid £ 60 million for him,torn apart,really badly.To say this Hun defence will not concede at Old Trafford is fantasy football.
Up to the 80thminute utd wete absolute crap.
Even the hùns would have beaten them. Different team for the last 15 min.
There are broadly three development models:
1) The Ajax model – bring players in young (16-18) and, along with Academy players, blood them into the first team. Our Academy is rotten and we rarely bring through any u-18s we bring in from elsewhere so that’s not us. Ajer and Tierney are the exceptions that prove the rule.
2) The Salzburg model – Find hidden gems others have overlooked in the 18-21 range. blood them in your first team (possibly supplemented by loans to a partner team who play the same style). That’s roughly the approach we took in Rodger’s first window and didn’t work out. It’s also the approach we took with the likes of Balde, Bayo, or any number of “projects” who have come and gone without troubling the starting 11 or bench over the years.
3) The Brighton model – Bring in players who are good enough for your first team, make them better and give them a platform.
This is the development approach that works for us – Forster, Frimpong, VVD, Wanyama, MOR, Jota, Eddy, Dembele, Abada all fit this profile.
GKs and Valle apart, most of our signings in 2024 met this latter model – Kuhn, Idah, Bernardo, and Engels. McCowan was a home grown squad player and Trusty is a player who is older but will probably go for a decent amount – likely to an MLS team.
The big difference is that players who are good enough for the first 11 tend not to cost £2-3m due to football inflation. In the current market, £20-25m gets you Kuhn, Idah, Bernardo and Engels especially when you are not offering £40k+ per week.
The development strategy is continuing. Idah’s disappointed but I’d expect over the next 2-3 years we’ll bring in more than £25m when we sell Kuhn, Bernardo and Engels. Which is the point – get good service and sell on at a profit at the right time. As opposed to spending £20-25m on Nawrocki, Lagerbeilke, Holm, Kwon, Yang, Palma, and Tillio then hoping for the best!
Think I would be talking to my lawyer on this one if true:
“Tony Docherty has revealed that Aaron Donnelly has been fined and is receiving pelters from his team-mates after his low-key goal celebration against Celtic.”
RC on 16th January 2025 11:56 am
AN TEARMANN on 15TH JANUARY 2025 11:18 PM
imo not any better than OH .
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Oh does not play for Celtic.
Sold! When he was here he was in idahs shadow
Idahs form put him in the shade in the run in last year when we won our title.
Still awaiting word of when your support weaned
Last min pen versus hibs?
3-3 equalizer vs huns
His double when winning title vs Killie
His goal to complete double vs huns
Stop flipfloppin your support,good times and bad,faithful thro and thro remember!
Time to support him RC
HH
c a s t o r e still putting out 💩 quality and more clubs ditching them cowboys 🤠
https://www.footyheadlines.com/2025/01/almeria-and-fc-twente-to-part-ways-with-castore-amid-quality-and-delivery-concerns.html?gny7f=lnbz8
Spidey 101
As always good to see your input on these pages.
I think we are missing the elephant in the room when we are talking of the differing types of ‘models’ our club could implement as laid out in the essay.
The elephant is there is no secondary stucture in place in Scotland since it was deemed not viable by Sir Hunner of Pence.
We can chop and change to the different models as outlined by you,but if there is not an opponent to play we can have all the models but if we have no worthwhile opponent/2nd league structure
My possible solution
Ringfence the payment made to Celtics league opponents from UEFA,(forget its title) but use that in the spfl to ensure all playing in it have a reserve payment
A small % could be made,say 5% of Celtics CL income,5% of EL and Econf payments too,
Done so only as ringfenced for a reserve league.
It can only be used by clubs for that pursuit,budgets could even be pre done.
We have to do something
Presently as i said before we are trying to make cream without milk.
With the growth eng championship,div1 and 2 and also the likes of willo flood as an agency can easily cherrypick scotlands best youngsters and offer money they just dont get in scotland.
We severely need a plan
HH
Celtic seem to be targeting improvement in areas of the team that most would agree needs it. That is always good to see.
Teams exploit the left hand side of celtic’s defence because it is limited by the players skillsets and the teams shape. i reckon we go 4-2-3-1 if kt comes in. No disrespect to Taylor who has been good for us in the main,but Kt is simply a better fit and better player. I would expect an improvement in terms of our defensive and offensive output on the left hand side if kt comes in.
A quality winger/ dribbler on the left wing is much needed because as much as I love diazan he is often weak against the low block. Horses for courses and all that
Spidey101
A good reasoned post.
Made me think of SFTB.
MAY HE RIP.
TT
Stepbhoy
We may benefit from seeing Daizen in his natural CF position.
TT
AN TEARMANN
Sir Hunner of Pence.
Quality.
TT
Scottish football is under the cloud of the English Premier league and by extension the English football leagues. We share a national broadcasters with said league and sky etc… but we don’t get equal/ proportionate payments based on popultion size etc whilst the English Premier league is pushed on us and our kids which in turn disadvantaged Scottish football further. It is a national scandalous.
As far as Scottish football goes, it does not help itself. Accepting a pittance for television, radio, media deals whilst countries of similiar size and wealth with less spectators like Norway and Denmark get much more luxurious deals.
Our top flight is made up of 2 massive clubs, several reasonably large city club and lots of small town clubs. To make that competitive we need a league of 16/ 18 teams (1 home and 1 away game) not 12 teams where teams play each other 4 times a season (top and bottom 6). Any ambitious club outside the two massive clubs should be pushing for change, but hibs, hearts, aberdeen, dundee united and dundee appear content to take the easy money rather than trying to mount a challenge and get supprters throught the gate because money might be lost on the t.v deal although I would think not and perhaps it would help improve the television deal due to improved engagement and competitive nature of league.
We relegate one team a year, so there is little to no change in the league. In an ideal world we would have 2 teams auto relegated and another 2 teams from the top flight going into a relegation play off. I would also make last european spot go to a play off to add some drama.
Teams don’t wanna take risks of throwing younger players into games because the risk of dropping out of the league is to great. A larger league could help with promotion of young players.
The lower league teams refuse to allow b teams to progress up the league pyramid (to championship level) despite clear benefits it has for the national game even though it has proven successful in other country’s.
Also think uefa need to address the compensation package teams receive when kids decide to move the clubs that developed them to richer clubs/ leagues to make sure. 5% of future transfer fees (split) between teams who developed the players from age 12 to 23 years old is ridiculous and the fact that your % cut increases from 16 to 23 years old as laughable.
TinyTim on 17th January 2025 1:10 am
Stepbhoy
We may benefit from seeing Daizen in his natural CF position
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Don’t disagree, lots of the issues he faces out wide and that can drive yoy nuts are not of his making,
Spidey101
Reasoned post but to be fair I think it’s a stretch to say we knew Frimpong Abada and MOR were certainties to work in our first team. Likewise the money we paid was far less than you suggest.
None of the above had played any top level football pre Celtic indeed Frimpong hadn’t paid hardly any football. It is always a risk for anyone from the background those you mention coming to a massive club like ours with no experience of that kind of environment.
Pity re Valle
Not likely Barcelona will be seeing us as a development platform for anyone anytime soon.
Greenpinata on 16th January 2025 8:26 pm
Saint Stivs on 16th January 2025 8:04 pm
at the start of the season, many a monica posted they wanted to be competative in europe, win the league again, but would be ok to sacrafice cups and performances for european progress
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Me for one.
Perfect opportunity for game time for Daniel Cummings , Viljami Sinsalo, Maik Nawrocki , Adam Montgomery and starts for Johnny Kenny and Anthony Ralston.
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I know and respect that you have been consistent on this issue and I’m sure that there are others who would advocate we take this pragmatic stance with a view to getting more game time for youngsters and fringe players.
I also have a leaning towards prioritising the league and the CL – however, considering the furore that has recently sprung up on all the sites that I have skipped through, where management and players are being criticised heavily for two defeats and a handful of less than glittering performances over a season when we sit thirteen points clear in the league, league cup in the bag and upcoming home ties to further us in the Scottish Cup(possible treble again) and the CL – how do you think these people and the fanbase in general would respond to repeated cup setbacks with weakened selections? I don’t think they would appreciate the ‘big picture’; they certainly don’t at the moment under a much more favourable set of circumstances. I would also add that losing regularly can be habit-forming and could easily spread to competitions we want/need to win – you know the old football adage “you can’t turn it off and on at will”
The theory of what you say is correct and is widely practiced in England, but up here with our biggest rival waiting to hoover-up everything we don’t – would it/could it fly? HH
Good morning all.
Bada,
In my experience figuring out how to get back from the stadium is the important part.
We got a taxi there full of the joys but coming out we couldnt get a taxi for ages.
We started walking part of the way and came to the sports centre, that someone mentioned, and eventually got a cab from there but by that time we had almost sobered up…