Direction of travel, splurging cash

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The positivity around Celtic at the moment is in stark contrast to how things were as we homed in on our fifth consecutive title only a few weeks ago. In football, is seems, where you are or where you’ve been is not important, it’s the direction of travel.

If you’re moving forward, like lower-league Hearts were a year ago, fans flock to support. If you’re regressing, even from lofty heights, you’re on your own.  A friend recently joked, “Why don’t we just liquidate and bring the same directors back in a newco?”  That works for some.

Celtic need this injection of positivity right now, the specifics of which we’ve not seen since May 2000, when we knew we were appointing a manager of real talent. It will cost more money in several areas, of course, but keep one point in mind, talk of £15m on this or that is almost certainly not going to transpire into the splurge you might think. Celtic regularly spend close to this.

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  1. Celtic FC News ‏@Celtic1888News 19m19 minutes ago

     

     

    Portland Timbers 6ft 4 target man Fanendo Adi is set to join Celtic after the clubs agreed a deal worth £2.4M.

  2. The Battered Bunnet on

    The heated slabs are being installed at the request of the frozen slobs who attend the gazebo.

  3. Defensive midfield options…

     

     

    Ivan Mocinic – is this the trial guy we had last year?

     

    Youssuf Mulumbu – injured and relegated with Norwich

     

     

    worthapuntCSC?

  4. Gary67,

     

     

    Sssssshhh! Don’t tell MacJay1; if we are making signings then he might think we still have a manager and that it’s Ronny!

     

     

    What a world we live in today!

  5. !!BADA BING!! on 20TH MAY 2016 3:36 PM

     

    G67-29 soccergoals in 63 games for The Timbers

     

     

    Doesn’t fit the John Park striker profile.

  6. BADA BING!! on 20TH MAY 2016 3:39 PM

     

    Cole and Scepovic have left the building

     

     

    Hopefully along with Ciftci, Stokes and Richards

  7. And I was thinking our new manager would be ‘Arry Rednapp, oh well.

     

     

    Great appointment, very professional and certainly a statement of intent from our board.

     

     

    Welcome BR to the Mighty Celtic

     

     

    Hail Hail

     

     

    KINGLuBO

  8. JUDE2005 IS NEIL LENNON \O/ on 20TH MAY 2016 2:52 PM

     

    JUst drove past C P and thers a big marquee getting ercted!!! mmmmmm????

     

     

    That’s so that the guys from the Celtic trust can have a meeting their, and stand outside it pizzing in.

  9. timaloy29 sleeps on the heated driveway on

    I see a couple of huns on twitter are suggesting that Paul67 and Auldheid paid theoffshoregame to tell “lies” about “Rangers”

     

     

    Try and discredit them at every turn eh? Not surprised. Looking forward to the evidence.

  10. !!Bada Bing!! on 20th May 2016 3:19 pm

     

     

    That’s why Hibs won’t be allowed to win the cup.

     

     

    *what a decrepit oul bunch, tae think they still rule the country

  11. Dontbrattbakkinanger on

    Fanendo Adi is 1.934857349857349853745893745m tall [approx].

     

     

    Growing up in Lagos his hero was hoopslegend Efe Ambrose, who would often take the younger players aside and enthral them with tales of his exploits in the green and white.

  12. Dontbrattbakkinanger on

    Next season is shapin’ up to be an existential struggle between The Splurge and the ole Warchest.

  13. Will the £2.4m be deducted from Brendan’s war chest?

     

     

    Before he even gets here?

     

     

    Shocking if so!!

     

     

    Smiley face, cam doon.

  14. tonydonnelly67 on 20th May 2016 2:28 pm

     

     

     

    SYDNEYTIM SAYS SACK LAWELL NOW on 20TH MAY 2016 11:04 AM

     

     

    You obviously never saw the :)) after that post? It’s called a smiley face as in joke post, but then you being a drama queen wtf, take it easy ya nutcase, cam doon, you had a crack at me, with NO smiley face, and that was ok? Hehehe, away Yi go ya bam pot

     

     

    *last time he smiled Tony he had hives.

  15. HELLO EVERYONE

     

    1ST time posting on site

     

    The comments are pure brilliant.the

     

    Articles fantastic.

     

    Lookin forward tae puttin in ma tuppenceworth .