God love Packie Bonner, spend “£20m to £30m to bring those quality players the fans are desperate for”.
There are two opposing world views: one where people call for unaffordable money [those figures would be]to be spent because fans of a football club are “desperate”, the other where people want football clubs to spend what they can afford.
The latter group remember football’s crash-and-liquidate days – and learned the lessons. The former also remember the crash-and-liquidate days, but they are impervious to lessons.
We can debate what the size of an affordable spend is, but a couple of parameters have to be observed:
If it increases the cost base to such an extent that a reversal on the field would plunge the club into financial disarray, it’s unaffordable.
Players need to be appropriate for the environment – with neighbouring clubs earning £100m each season from TV deals, only players of a certain profile will play for a club with a considerably smaller wage bill (and turnover).
We live in a time when Scots Steven Naismith went for £8.5m (1 goal in 9 starts) and Ross McCormack went for £11m. These are common values for this calibre of player. We all want Celtic to improve, but that will not be achieved by spending unsuitable or unaffordable money. Packie, think back to Valentine’s Day 2012 and add a dose of perspective.
Get better at scouting, get fitter, improve the coaching – and spend everything you can afford, not any more. That’s the model for Celtic.
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Bobby Carroll RIP
I just read a great Celt had passed on, I didn’t know he had, Bobby Carroll , great player, first Celt to score in a European game I think, well first goal I mean.
RIP Bobby
TD67
Anyone know how many games he attended before Celtic employed him?
The football world is full of people who join a club that “they’ve supported all their days”
I think Robbie Keane said the same about Celtic.
And Liverpool.
Sorry to hear about wee Bobby Carroll…RIP
Think I’ll sit out in the sun for a bit, it’s lovely out, HH
Sorry to burst anyone’s bubble but I don’t believe that any submission re Res 12 has been made by Celtic as yet.
Anyone know how many games he attended before Celtic employed him?
Who? PL?
BMCUW…I have spoken to PL on numerous occasions and he is a genuine Celtic man…however, he is our CEO and that puts him in the firing line…
Sorry to burst anyone’s bubble but I don’t believe that any submission re Res 12 has been made by Celtic as yet.
Actually the tweet doesent look to clever I have to agree.?
HRVATSKI JIM on 11TH MAY 2016 12:03 PM
Thanks for that , mate.
Bobby was a legend for me and my mates at a time of severe drought.
R.I.P. Bobby Carroll
Bmcw
He’s prob. Seen about the same or more than, Rod, Billy Connely, Jim Kerr, Liam Gallagher, and so on and so on, run your point by me again please, I’m missing something right?
In his latest interview, PL had a perect opportunity to rally the support with his vision of the future. That opportunity was missed. Instead, and more to the point he was mildly goading his detractors and managed to snare a few of us in the attempt!
Why?
There is no doubt in my mind he is a Celtic fan, like the rest of us has his own perspective on what can and cannot be be achieved.
Today PL reminds us about how much we don’t know… However, he does! Get it!!
Covey talks about ‘The Speed of Trust’: my own take has always been to focus on ‘intention’ then make my mind up about ‘capability’.
PL is just another ‘bhoy who’s intentions are good…’ you all know the rest.
Some Convey:
“The first job of a leader—at work or at home—is to inspire trust. It’s to bring out the best in people by entrusting them with meaningful stewardships, and to create an environment in which high-trust interaction inspires creativity and possibility.”
“Trust is equal parts character and competence… You can look at any leadership failure, and it’s always a failure of one or the other.”
“Above all, success in business requires two things: a winning competitive strategy, and superb organizational execution. Distrust is the enemy of both. I submit that while high trust won’t necessarily rescue a poor strategy, low trust will almost always derail a good one. ”
“The best time to plant a tree is twenty years ago. The second best time is today.”
― Stephen M.R. Covey, The SPEED of Trust: The One Thing that Changes Everything
MisunderstoodCSC
Bobby Carroll RIP..
. Late 50s -Memories of walking from Queens Cross to Celtic Park ( and back ) with my old man . A money thing . Celtic team of the late 50s was not a great team . Support regularly gave them pelters.
Bobby Carroll RIP
HH!!
Bmcw
I’ve never met you nor do I know you but I have no doubt that you are Celtic supporter, i’ve met Peter Lawwell several times and I have no doubt in my mind that he too is a Celtic supporter so I honestly do not get where you’re going with that one is it a moral high ground thing? That your a better man than him? You may be for all I know, so I’ll go with the devil I know, with respect.
There are other, creative ways to run a business, if the desire, and the people in charge have the necessary skill and courage to do so ….
https://medium.com/newco/kickstarters-mission-is-non-negotiable-41520e7a5931#.w96m46qmi
On that note… PL’s interview was something of a disappointment. He seems completely divorced from the feelings of most Celtic fans I know. It comes across as either he doesn’t get it, or just doesn’t care … I have to think he is too smart for it to be the former, so sadly it seems it is the latter.
BROGAN ROGAN TREVINO AND HOGAN SUPPORTS OSCAR KNOX, MACKENZIE FURNISS AND ANYONE ELSE WHO FIGHTS NEUROBLASTOMA on 11TH MAY 2016 12:09 PM
Sorry, my fault. Should have waited for those that genuinely know.
new article posted.
SOT…Mike Jackson, Alec Byrne, John Colrain, John Divers…yes, it was a really hard time to be a young Tim…but we were mostly patient and it all came right in the end…
BMCUW & TD67
PL was very much a Celtic supporter 35 years ago, when he would travel on my supporters bus to away games. Liam Gallagher is never a Celtic supporter, unlike his older, wiser, more intelligent brother Noel. :)
TONYDONNELLY67 on 11TH MAY 2016 11:50 AM
Aye sure Tony Donnelly! ‘… every individual is allowed his/her opinion’. Aye right! The only thing is, as soon as they express it and it runs contrary to yours,mthey become Huns or dafties.
TDCMAD
Thing is some don’t express it, they post it as fact, like you just did, IMO.
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Er……. eh????????
tonydonnelly67 on 11th May 2016 11:34 am
Peter Lawwell is the Paul McStay of CEOs he’s here for life, and for that I thank him.
have you seen a film called Elizabeth starring KATE BLANCHETTE.there is a scene where the POPE pats a wee altar boy on the head. a wee bit of propaganda for the KAFFLIK haters.the director was SAM MENDEZ.real name SAMMY from OUR FLEG country.ok you still there.propaganda.!!
fast forward a few years and CELTIC sign ROBBIE KEANE.big crowd at the park and tv crew arrives.now do they interview a guy in a pin stripe suit with a brief case or a wee guy with a BEANY HAT and one tooth .so he says ” aah fink it’s a great signin furra SELLIK.”propaganda.!!!
now when the next manager is announced there will be a big crown at the park and a tv crew. so you stand beside AULDHEID,BROGAN ROGAN ,JUNGLE JIM,MOONBEAMS PAUL67 and do an interview.who do you think they will show on the news.propaganda!!
theresnone so bli………….csc.
Bobby was a crackin player!!