Managers often have the task of focussing players’ attention on the next game, instead of an important subsequent game a few days later, but Brendan Rodgers has an additional task in this respect right now.
You only need to speak to a fellow Celtic fan this week to understand what’s on all of our minds. Two games over the next four days will make a significant impression on the season, but there is no certainty what the squad will look like when the second match takes place. The closure of the transfer window in a little over 48 hours will loom just as large as Sunday’s league encounter with Newco.
This is where the manager earns his wages. While tomorrow’s game against Suduva should present a straightforward challenge, you and I remember another Scottish team, no longer with us, going out of Europe to Lithuanian opposition just months after competing in the Uefa Cup Final.
Get them ready to run through walls for you, Brendan.
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TIM MALONE WILL TELL on 29TH AUGUST 2018 7:41 PM
This all smacks of bad planning.
Or perfect planning for corporate freeloaders who use the emotional pull of Celtic supporters to fill their bulging pockets.
No wonder they loved supporters singing I just can’t get enough..
GORBALSTAM
Thanks, I love the emotional Celtic posts as well, they tend to drift off during the window and get replaced by fanatacism ( but not in a nice way ) Celtic fantasists and it is a fantasy game become irrational.
Believe you me somebody will post that Celtic have no choice other than to accept Gazillions for Dembele
and before you know it somebody probably ( from Ireland ) they’re Celtic crazy, will say ‘ I’d drive him to the airport masell for £22.5M ‘
Hamstrings CSC
This thread seemed to have started off with criticism that the story of Moussa going to Lyon was fake news designed to make PL look good by holding on to him but not signing anyone.
The same posters making that accusation have seamlessly morphed into saying “How dare PL sell Moussa when we need him!” without a single acknowledgement of what they had got wrong originally.
Now, I hope Moussa stays, despite his injury record, but I am not holding my breath. These players intend to be at Celtic for as short a time as possible. They do not see Celtic as the peak of their career. Not even Kieran Tierney, who is truly Celtic daft, would seriously advance that notion..
Any promising player we attract will want to move on because they can earn bigger bucks than they ever will with us AND they can earn more caps for countries like France if they are perceived as playing in a “bigger” environment.
We are fans.
We are delusional about Celtic.
But, if you can see through the delusion for a second, you might notice what an insignificant club we are in the eyes of UEFA, Big Leagues and the TV stations which increasingly drive our sport.
You can see that as a depressing prospect or as a scenario devoid of hope but we are where we are and that is a pretty similar place to where celtic has been for all but 8 years (66 to 74) of my Celtic supporting life.
If my support had been conditional on Celtic doing well in Europe or winning everything I would have been gone before the 80s set in and I would have given up football altogether by the 90s.
But I didn’t and neither did you.
We all hope to get back to being relevant at a European level but it ain’t happening anytime soon.
In political terms, we are an “elder statesman” club, once relevant but now, sadly, long past it. We are slow and overweight and inept. Mind you, we can still slowly swing a big clubbing fist and an inattentive opponent can get a nasty blow, maybe even a knockout one.
But, we will still be odds on to lose the next fight.
Whether Moussa goes or does not go tonight or tomorrow, he will go. And so will N’tcham and Boyata and, possibly Edouard in the next few windows.
And so would you, if you were good enough, to have a tilt at a bigger club.
Victor Wanyama, does not regret his move to Southampton, which earned him a move to Spurs where he occasionally gets a game. He is not champing at the bit to get back to Celtic and lose more than half his wages. Neither are Virgil Van Dijk or Fraser Forster. Stuart Armstrong has no regrets and John McGinn will have his few regrets quickly mitigated by his wages, regular appearances for Villa and more Scotland caps because he is in a big league. Hell, even Teemu Pukki is happy to be at Norwich, scoring and earning bigger bucks. He wont be back in Scotland, Finland or Scandinavia anytime soon.
I understand the concern we have that this has been a terrible window, so far, for player recruitment. Departures, however inevitable, will add salt to those recruitment wounds. The few late buys and loans we will get, despite the repeated assurances we are getting no-one, will still not satisfy anyone because they will not be proven performers for us.
And , if you want to deny our economic circumstances and put all the blame for this in PL’s hands- don’t let me stop you- he is paid way too much anyway so he should be able to put up with flak.
Just don’t expect me to buy into the fantasy that, if it wasn’t for that pesky Peter Lawwell, we’d be, to paraphrase an earlier poster, quite clearly, strengthened enough to guarantee qualification. That “Almost Certain” promise that should set alarm bells ringing.
I’ll still be there tomorrow night to see my team play and I’ll be cheering on from the sofa on Sunday.
GLORIOUS BALANCE,
Has that been your name on here for all those years?
Ron Bacardi on 29th August 2018 8:06 pm
Well of course they couldn’t. Doesn’t mean to say that the present incumbents are doing sterling work though.
The fans sit and mock Chris Graham and Co for being board apologists but our fans are just as bad defending our imposters.
The fans that defend this nonsense are doing more harm than good.
Ron Bacardi
1. I cant repair my car. But that doesn’t mean that I dont know when it is not running properly.
2. Not sure that our Board can properly run the Club either. They let 10 titles and 40 million quid disappear on their watch. They appear to have done a shady deal to keep the zombies going, turned over info to the police, and have managed to piss off a large section of what are, otherwise, some of the most (frustratingly sometimes) faithful fans in the world.
If we were playing Dundee on Sunday, might have been less of a blow…..it it’s true
Bet there are plenty CEO’s who could though!
MWD
Rumour PL is holding out for £30m & wont budge say sources close to Lyon President
i forgot about the VVD money for the full year accounts.
back to £30m in the bank
James
A bluenose neighbour of me asked a question when I met him getting in fae work earlier. “You are cash rich, what are Celtic Board doing wi your money?”
I feebly replied, “Huvnae a clue.” Felt he was smirking for first time in 6 years
EXCATH
Lesser spotted Jamesie bids?
Thought of you, when I read on here the other day that ‘ He’d have to turn it on for Sunday ‘
Ron it depends if you are running a football club or a pseudo bank. Which one is it?
RON BACARDI on 29TH AUGUST 2018 8:06 PM
Doubt that the many board/ management naysayers could run the total enterprise that is Glasgow Celtic.
That’s a patently ridiculous statement.
You or i for that matter have no idea of the business acumen of posters.
But i would guess that they would make more effort to put the team before excessive profit.
NEG
Paul’s got a life, its us that has to read your stuff ?
@ GLASSTWOTHIRDSFULL on 29TH AUGUST 2018 7:54 PM
Or we do what we have done multiple times, including this window and sell the player and don’t replace him.
We already have £30m in the bank. Did that help us against AEK? Selling Moussa only makes sense if he is replaced otherwise we are just weakening our team.
DD
You should have told him that ‘our CEO has a heated driveway. All the good CEO’s have one. I bet yours doesn’t have a heated driveway. ‘
that would have sorted him…
:)
I honestly didn’t think the board could go stoop any lower and do this especially with 2 days to go.
Total disgrace and yet fans are still backing the board.
Gullibillies within our suppprt.
When you lose the title don’t dare f**ing moan you were warned.
If we get £22.5m for Dembele it’s obviously crazy money, for us.
But Dembele is a top player in a decent length contract.
We apparently rejected £9m for Boyata who can and probably will walk for nothing in a year. I’ll let that sink in.
Who would win between selling Moussa for £30m
and
investing a bit in the squad, backing the manager, qualifying for CL, having Moussa till January before bagging £30 million for him and £30 to £40 million from CL?
Shortdymbbonussighted.
MWD
Board a plane at Stansted Airport and everything is fine. Land in Belfast, go to hotel, phone wife, go to gym, shower, go to bar, sit down with pint, open Celtic Twitter – “Muthafudgas!”
“Excuse me, may I have another Guinness please?”
If anyone would like a pitchfork please let me know as I’m ordering a job lot. Ta.
It is just oh so sad and mind numbingly bemusing how once again Celtic have totally fecked up yet another transfer window.
Stronger each window they said- ??? in which parallel universe would that be then? Perhaps in some multiverse another Glasgow Celtic FC have just signed a top quality CH along with a much sought after DM as well as retaining the the services of their top striker.
GLASSTWOTHIRDSFULL on 29TH AUGUST 2018 7:54 PM
Ron Bacardi on 29th August 2018 7:20 pm
Could all the board haters tell us how they would run the enterprise that is Glasgow Celtic.
firstly tickets would read
CELTIC 1888 V SEVC0 5088 2012.
first time they sing FENIAN BLOOD take players off the pitch and claim the points.THAT IS THE RULE I THINK.
take SFA to court over the CHAMPIONS LEAGUE money we were cheated out of.that means no scottish team of any description could play anywhere outside SCOTLAND.drag it out for several years.no world cup or european cup qualifiers.
thisgameiseasy csc.
SFTB I got it wrong. I honestly didn’t think even lawwell and co would sell dembele given the mess they have made.
But what the hell do I know. They clearly are laughing at our stupidity. They hold us in utter contempt (as does paul67).
They didn’t need to sell dembele he had a few years to go. You just say he is not for sale. Don’t give me all the guff about an unhappy player. It’s inntheir interests to perform well.
This is just greed.
We aren’t even a football club anymore.
If I was Brendan I would walk. His future career is now threatened by lawwell. It’s not in his interest to stay.
BSR 7.59pm
I have posted a perfectly civil and factual comment. If you can direct me to a lead article on CQN criticising Mr Lawwell and/or the plc board any time over the last 13 years, or even one which questions the “strategy”, I will gladly retract my comment and apologise.
While being grateful to the host for the opportunity to read and post the blog, I would also point out that hits from people like myself also contribute to the advertising revenue generated by this website.
That does not grant me or anyone else licence to be rude or abusive on this blog. There is nothing in my post at 7.55pm that can be construed as such. I certainly haven’t used these pages to call a fellow Celtic fan a bedwetter for example.
The blog is held out as being an antidote to lazy journalism. As such you wouldn’t be expect any topic to off limits and it to be a space where a plurality of views concerning the running and performance of Celtic FC are shared and discussed.
Bhoys Bhoys IF Dembele has gone and I will wait until Celtic announce it he would not go if he did not want to go.Now if we try to hold on to the player but he wants to move one it will not encourage any other budding youngsters to sign for Celtic. Sometimes the player holds the majority of control as is the case with Dembele if we get a record fee for the player it will have been good business and we should wish the player all the best for the future. H.H.
There was always a likelihood that Moussa would go on this window if our valuation of him was met and it was a team he wanted to go to. The recruitment team (incl manager) would have been aware of this and would have a list of replacements ready to hand to the money men to go sign in the event he left. That’s how a well run club operates, isn’t it?
Yeah Bournes what sort of life is that? He moans about the Huns but was the first on the bbc salivating over their “return” and saying how much he missed them.
He would sell his soul for freebies (oh sorry that should be past tense).
Always good to criticise, but the critics on here of board/management should get together and take over Celtic to run the club as they see fit. Not just the football part.
I am a realist, not a board supporter.
Ron Bacardi 8.11pm
Lurked from 2005. Started posting around 2010/11. The Glorious Balance Sheet has always been my moniker since posting on here.
From memory my first posts were around the time of the sion Europa league qualifier carry-on.
Thanks for your interest.
Some of the guys running motherwelll and hubs have proven themselves far mor adept than lawwell Ron (and far cheaper). They’d overachieve compared to lawwell Parsimonious lying contempt.
MIT
He is a lovely guy. Never a hun. Just supports the wrong side. Is King their CEO??
Heated driveways no needed in Sud Afrika.
YNWA
Moussa going is not the issue. Not having the foresight to invest in what we know to be the managers priority positions and players he wanted is and it likely cost us CL group place given AEK Athens were a poor mans Aberdeen.
Moussa going is no surprise but with CL qualification and the opportunity for him to show himself off in that competition has IMO made sure he would not stay until at least January.
Still. At least we have errrmmm what’s his name to replace him in anticipation of his move.
MWD
We will beat Suduva and smash the new hunnite usurpers on Sunday then all will be well in Timland. With or without MD.
Hail Hail
PositivethinkingCSC
Rich
NEGetc,
You ought to let Brendan know
NEGANON2 on 29TH AUGUST 2018 8:01 PM
Bournes free reign by our host? What whilst he peddling lies and propaganda?
Beyond the Pale.
And not for the first time.
No one restricts your posts and I think you have a responsibility to NOT post groundless accusations.
Politeness costs nothing.
TGBS @ 8.22
Never for a second suggested you’ve posted anything otherwise, or to the contrary of what you’ve stated.
I couldn’t point you to a negative ‘board’ Paul67 thread if I tried.
My point is anybody can post the opposite until they’ve knocked themselves out, and some probably do.
HH