The largest part of our rebuilding exercise in the summer will be along the back line. The departures of Jeremie Frimpong and Hatem Elhamed leave a requirement for two right backs, while Diego Laxalt’s loan will not be renewed.
Christopher Jullien will miss the start of the campaign and with no signs of Kristoffer Ajer extending his deal beyond next year I expect him to leave in the summer. Shane Duffy will return to Brighton, leaving Stephen Welsh as the only recognised central defender ready to start the campaign.
We need two right backs and one left back, the latter to compete with Greg Taylor, and at least two central defenders. Recruiting all these players in time for the qualifiers is a huge undertaking. We could do worse than to put extending the deal for Jonjoe Kenny high on the new manager’s agenda.
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Why are some getting their knickers n a twist over player recruitment the board haven’t let us down before.
They’ll come up trumps as usual 👍 🙏
Marspapa
It’s the way ye tell ’em…🙄😉😊
I’ll throw in Cameron Carter-Vickers as a possible target
He is out of contract at Spurs in the summer and has been
doing the rounds on loan. Centre Back might be worth a look if no fee involved.
https://twitter.com/dodgyfoo/status/1367062313765855235?s=12
Stupid huns
BOURNESOUPRECIPE on 3RD MARCH 2021 3:52 PM
Dolly Parton’s Curtains
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Not quite what I expected ..but still strangely alluring :O)
SETTING FREE THE BEARS FOR RES. 12 & OSCAR KNOX on 3RD MARCH 2021 2:44 PM
Slightly reductionist to say “Barca and Man City have one….” – pretty much everyone on the continent has one and even clubs such as Huddersfield have one. So when you ask me to find you a club that has one and is successful, I could point to pretty much every successful team. Better still, find me a successful club that DOESN’T have one.
Manchester United don’t have one and have been hugely criticized by their support and people within the game for poor recruitment and failing to get decent signings over the line (remind you of anyone?).
Also, a lot will depend on what type of manager we go for. I wasn’t in any way criticizing Clarke or McCarthy who are both fine managers but I want someone who’s going to bring back some credibility in Europe as well as put us on the front foot domestically. I’m sure both of these would be okay to work under the current structure with an accountant signing players but if we are serious about attracting anything like the names mentioned on here, this is not a set-up they’d be used to.
The “jumping in the Clyde” analogy doesn’t work. Unless you’re telling me that Manchester City, Everton, Bayern, Chelsea, Real Madrid, Juventus, Ajax, Porto…..(do I need to go on?) are running their club in a footballing equivalent of jumping in the Clyde.
FRIESDORFER on 3RD MARCH 2021 4:34 PM
Marspapa
It’s the way ye tell ’em…🙄😉😊
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If Aberdour goes ahead will you be making an appearance with the usual suspects.
Ps , have you heard from aul Davie.
SETTING FREE THE BEARS FOR RES. 12 & OSCAR KNOX on 3RD MARCH 2021 2:44 PM
Also, I’d have thought that the utter s***show that is our recruitment the last few years is evidence enough that the current set-up doesn’t work and needs to change. I may be wrong but surely you don’t think we should be continuing to run as things are.
Neil Lennon’s signings
Christopher Jullien – £7m
Albian Ajeti – £5m
Vasilis Barkas – £4.
Patryk Klimala – £3.5m
Boli Bolingoli – £3m
Greg Taylor – £2m
Ismaila Soro – £2m
David Turnbull – £2m
Hatem Abd Elhamed – £1m
Luca Connell – £350k
Jeremie Frimpong – £340k
Loans;
El Younoussi
Shane Duffy
Diego Laxalt
Johnjoe Kenny
You decide CSC
BOURNESOUPRECIPE on 3RD MARCH 2021 5:00 PM
Other than Frimpong (due to the fact we got a huge profit on him) and accepting that the jury is out on Soro and Turnbull, there isn’t one signing there that makes me think “Wow, what a shred signing. What a gem we’ve unearthed”.
Kennedy 5/6 with skybet to be in charge for 10 games. Already been in charge for 1 another 7 league games left, 2 Scottish Cup ties and the bet is up.
!!BADA BING!! on 3RD MARCH 2021 5:06 PM
Exactly. No coincidence that his odds were slashed just as it was confirmed the cup was going ahead.
Nothing to read into here other than he’s favourite to be here until the end of the season – which we knew anyway.
Gary Cahill Another Duffy if you ask me ,I think as a priority and all of us Celtic Supporters should put the pressure on Desmond to get the finger out and appoint a Manager who has a good track record on tactics fitness and most of all a good motivator,no Benitez or Howe or lambert or Clarke or the 2. Oneils,and definitely not Kennedy.
bournesouprecipe on 3rd March 2021 5:00 pm
Wow, quite a history of abject failure , the loans in particular.
So far only value on that list is Taylor, Frimpong and Turnbull with some hope still for Soro if he gets some games.
Hazard, new contract. Has shown nothing to earn it.
Who is authorising this.
Gary Cahill is definitely not another Duffy
Did Hazard not save the deciding penalty in the Scottish Cup final that gave us a record of 4 in a row and delivered a quadruple treble ?
so he has done something.
Geebee
I agreed with Neil Lennon on many things and one of them was that ‘certain players’ let him down. The list reads like a who’s who, of I let my manager downs. Over four Neil Lennon windows including the last, and taking into account loan signings, the report card is must do better.
Frimpong was a bite your hand off transfer, and I’ve still no idea why Leverkusen jumped from our £340k to £11M
Timmy7
See above plus a huge question mark now over Julien? Neil’s most expensive signing.
Celtic supporters aren’t using the word rebuild for nothing. IMO
Conor Hazard’s extension is spot on – he’s only 22 ( still young for a keeper) and the deal is for 2 years. His wages won’t be high. Hopefully he’ll develop under Stevie Wood.
SAINT STIVS on 3RD MARCH 2021 5:25 PM
He also made the howlers that took it to penalties. Not for me.
But the question is, who authorised it when we’ll probably have a different management team in place in a couple of months?
Gary Cahill has been and continues to be a far better player than Duffy. Not saying I particularly want an aging big-earner from the EPL but he’d be the best defender in Scotland if he did.
Have we ever produced our own keeper from the youth ranks – apart from David Marshall, who didn’t stay.
GEEBEE1978 on 3RD MARCH 2021 5:38 PM
The world doesn’t stop turning because our manager has gone and our CEO is leaving in the summer. He isn’t gone yet and there’s still a football club to run
*ducks for cover*
Geebee
“So when you ask me to find you a club that has one and is successful, I could point to pretty much every successful team.”
I didn’t ask that.
Quite specifically, I asked whether teams with a DoF do better than those equivalent clubs without. The only example you gave was Man U , which does not lend a lot of weight to the argument. They are lying second in the Premiership currently. Yes, they will get criticism for having a DoF but so will the teams that do have a DoF. Having a DoF did not prevent Huddersfield fro being relegated with a go-ahead modern , progressive, data analysing, creative, holistic, forward thinking super duper Vorsprung Durch Technik coach from Germany.
I am not opposed to thinking about the idea. I just want more evidence that it works and isn’t just another layer of management. We replace a two-way fight and tension between CEO and manager with a 3-way contest between CEO, DoF and manager. Any mediation is easier with 2 warring parties than with 3.
I am also seeing the term Sporting Director being applied by certain clubs. I am not sure if this is always different to a DoF role or not. When I tyed in “Who is Arsenal’s DoF?”- the answer came back as Josh Kroenke, son of the majority shareholder (who appears on paper to be merely a Board Director) but Arsenal already have a CEO and a new Sporting Director, Richard Garlick, and I would not push Arsenal forward as an example of a club with a unified coherent vision of itself this season.
In this article
https://trainingground.guru/articles/what-makes-an-effective-sporting-director
it suggests that 15 EPL clubs in 2019/20 season ahd a Sporting Director (all named). This included 6 of the top 10 but not the clubs who finished 3rd, 4th , 9th and 10th. It included 2 of the 3 relegated clubs so evidence is not compelling of its efficacy, just that it is fashionable. The article tries to portray the position as a “bridge” between CEO and coach, between the executive functions and the football functions. It suggests that it helped Norwich to avoid sacking Daniel Fake after a slip in form, but it ignores the many clubs on the DoF list who did sack their manager during this season.
It’s all very confusing
CELTIC40ME on 3RD MARCH 2021 5:42 PM
That’s very true and I could understand it if it were a few months ago – but we’re probably eight weeks away from a new management team coming in who may or may not fancy these players.
Also, I wasn’t being funny – it was a genuine question – who’s making the footballing decisions?
Daniel Farke is a fine upstanding coach and definitely not a Fake.
I see in the last 16 CL Women’s ties tonight that Barcelona Feminino will be playing Fortuna Hjørring Women.
I think the German Ladies sound like good pros :-)
Brendan Rodgers bought 33 players at Liverpool for £296,550,000 ( yes million ) and supporters wonder why he may have been at loggerheads with the Celtic board.
AnyCelticBoard CSC
All about opinions Bhoys, 22 is not young for a player these days,sure GKs mature late 20s,but IMO Hazard has zero presence, and exudes no confidence to the team, I sincerely hope I’m wrong.
SETTING FREE THE BEARS FOR RES. 12 & OSCAR KNOX on 3RD MARCH 2021 5:44 PM
Firstly, I think you’re being harsh on Huddersfield – a club that has spent most of its recent history in the third tier to even get into the EPL and stay there for a year on their budget was a minor miracle….but we’re digressing.
Comparing clubs that do with clubs that don’t is virtually impossible when pretty much every club does. You even said yourself that 15/20 in England have them and England is a country where the pendulum is swinging in that direction. Manchester United are one of the ones that don’t and I think they’re a great example – biggest net spenders in world football since Ferguson left and have won an FA Cup and a Europa League and look no closer to winning the league.
I think the point is here is that the old “tracksuit manager” style of management is gone. Someone who picked the team, scouted players, signed them, dealt with the chairman regarding transfer fees, dealt with agents, wages etc. Over the years, each one of these roles have now become specialist roles as the game has developed. This is more than simply “fashion” as the game is far more analytical now and I don’t see a return to the old-style of manager any time soon – if ever.
As I’ve said before, most of the names being touted on this blog would have worked under one and it wouldn’t be an alien concept.
Somebody on here asked, “What strong manager would work like that?” Well, Mourinho, Benitez, Ancelotti, Conte and Tuchel could all be considered “strong” managers and they worked with/under Marina Granovskaia at Chelsea.
A lot depends on what kind of club you want Celtic to be. Go back to the pre-Sevco days where us and our rivals go in cycles of swapping titles while getting gubbed by clubs in Europe with far smaller budgets.
Or do we look to become the dominant force domestically (while acknowledging that we can’t win every year) and become a solid, respectable team in Europe?
Frame the debate how you like – fashion, ahead of/ behind the curve…etc etc. It’s the way the game has gone. We go with it or we carry on as is and look forward to more Duffys and Ajetis this summer and repeat the same old debates. This is an opportunity for a reset.
wtf happened this season?
I thought Kenny looked pretty decent when he arrived. I fear I can already see some signs of his play levelling down to our level.
It’s almost an entire new squad we’ll bees come the summer. With a very few exceptions, the only ones who’ll want to stay are the ones we should be getting to leave. And vice versa!
HH jg
GEEBEE1978 on 3RD MARCH 2021 5:45 PM
I don’t know but I would have thought Stevie Woods would have had a big say in whether he was offered a contract. I don’t think that offering a 22 year old third choice keeper a new deal is a particularly big decision or one that’ll have a big effect on the squad
PL is still there doing his job, operating within the same structure as before. Guessing, but I’d imagine it will be business as usual when it comes to making decisions like this.
Setting Free the Bears
That’s Danish, not German. But still naughty of you.
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BOURNESOUPRECIPE on 3RD MARCH 2021 5:50 PM / SETTING FREE THE BEARS FOR RES. 12 & OSCAR KNOX on 3RD MARCH 2021 5:44 PM
Spot on about Rodgers’ spending at Liverpool. His recruitment was highly dubious and the Liverpool owners took a different approach afterward. They appointed a sporting director and Klopp has said that he makes the signing decisions. Liverpool’s recruitment has been out of this world in the last few years.
https://www.thisisanfield.com/2021/01/jurgen-klopp-clarifies-liverpool-transfer-spending-somebody-else-makes-decisions/
Bournesouprecipe
Petrescu’s record as a manager does not suggest a strong sense of loyalty. The same is true of Maresca’s record as a player (he’s another one being touted that I think we should steer well clear of).
GEEBEE
St Brendan is a legend on Merseyside but not in a good way.
79Caps
True, but its the Celtic we’re dealing with here.
I’ve always liked him since his 4 -1 at iBrokes against a heavily unsportingly advantaged Rainjurz. Some of those CL nights just live long in my memory.