On a blog last week I wrote, “A point for Michael Nicholson and Dermot Desmond. Two years ago you appointed a manager who, every time he has spoken this month, has put you in the dock for this one [Almaty]. Brendan’s is the only voice representing the club right now and it is not flattering.
“The lack of a constructive narrative is self-defeating and leaves fans wondering: What’s going on?”
The information vacuum from Celtic, apart from Brendan Rogers’ internecine comments, is not sustainable. A week later, calls for answers have become deafening. Celtic fans are not always right in their views, but I always find them easy to speak to (don’t be fooled by a few loons online, they’re pussycats face-to-face).
Plans do not always work out, but when that’s the case, stakeholders (which in this case includes Celtic fans) are best kept informed. Isolation is not your friend.
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‘Two years ago you appointed a manager who, every time he has spoken this month, has put you in the dock for this one [Almaty.
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Erm, i would say the manager has consistently highlighted how dysfunctional a football ‘operation’ Celtic FC have in place. No matter how hard you try P67, you’re not going to change the narrative. You are only making yourself look silly with your constant attacks on the manager, and not the real villain’s of the piece.
I keep reading on here and elsewhere online that we have failed to replace Kyogo.
I am likely forgetting something to put it into context but I always assumed that spending 9M on a new CF was a replacement for Kyogo (who regressed massively under BR – didn’t fit the system?).
I actually thought at the time of Idah signing that we were actually replacing Kyogo before he left similar to AJ coming in as Juranovic wanted oot.
You don’t pay twice the price for a bench warmer after all.
Kyogo wanted away. Khun wanted away. Daizan wanted away. It was a no brainer gor idah. There is whole lot more to this story
kyogo – 12 games, 1 goal. since leaving celtic.
just sayinng like.
Lol oh dear God …
I am outta here for the rest of the day.
Oh man. Idah the replacement for Kyogo.
What was it Gordon Strachan said? I could talk about that but that’s a half eaten yogurt at the back of the fridge to take care of. Something along those lines anyway.
Let’s be clear, Nicholson is under immense pressure because of his incompetence.
Many dozens of fan organisations are now demanding answers because of his job performance- not because of something the manager said.
But again, I welcome your demands for Nicholson to front up, Paul.
It truly says a lot when you can see the need for this as well !
Disappointing about Daizen , are we been softened up for him moving to Saudis Arabia , their window shuts next week.
HH
Saint Stivs on 5th September 2025 12:51 pm
Maeda 🎙️ – I had received an offer & was telling Celtic that I wanted to take the next step.
Maeda 🎙️ – They weren’t able to make any good reinforcements, so in the end they told me I couldn’t leave.
Maeda 🎙️ – There were some things that I had agreed to personally, so I wanted to take on the challenge.
Maeda 🎙️ – I’d been talking to the club since before the end of last season & I’d always told them I wanted to take the next step but we had important games so it was difficult.
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each performance now will be picked apart as he gets the coveted escaped goat position.
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It appears Daizen chose to go public with this. Rationally, presumably he has done that to gain some kind of advantage going forward. Or is it emotional, satisfying the need to express frustration and disappointment?
As long as his attitude in games is OK I think he will be fine. Celtic fans are accustomed to his chances/goals conversion so he will only get stick if his attitude is off.
I retained some hope that the real Daizen would reappear after what was merely a dip in form. Then we read today’s revelation that his route out was blocked because a replacement ‘couldn’t’ be sourced.
I expect what we’ll see this season is a shadow of the shadow Daizen we’ve been seeing . Another chapter in the Celtic anthology of fuckuperry .
An T
Best ignore folk whose only interest is to try to get interest in their sad little enterprises.
The guy does not even go to watch Celtic. He has done nothing in life but has a view on everything wrong.
No solutions but he can sure tell you all that others are doing wrong.
These types are 10 a penny in life. Even 100 a penny.
The return of the Celtic SNAFU
Just one last point before I go and get some work done …
The “loons” include the chairman at Go Ahead Eagles, the chairman at Birmingham, the manager at Swansea, the agents of Yang and Idah and now Maeda himself and his own representatives, not to mention whichever club it was he was dealing with.
This summer has dangerously undermined our reputation, across football.
That was not the manager who did that. That was not the fans, we ungrateful bastards, who did that. Maybe the loons have the narrative because there’s no other narrative. Maybe this club is as dysfunctional in every respect as it looks.
Too much of a stretch? We’re not the ones you gotta convince.
Much of European football thinks as we do, and they’re a far bigger long term problem.
That awkward moment when David Brent logs back in 🤣
An dun
As long as his attitude in games is OK I think he will be fine. Celtic fans are accustomed to his chances/goals conversion so he will only get stick if his attitude is off.
His attitude is not ok thought. He was boiling over in both the almaty & rangers games. In both games he was close to a red card. Even raked his studs down the back of a rsngers players leg
Bada Bing (i think it was you?) … thank you for posting the link to the Maeda interview story.
Daizen wanted to leave Celtic.
Respectfully, all, let that sink in.
Two years after signing a new four year contract, he wanted to leave.
Half a season after assuming the star of the team mantle from Kyogo (who also wanted out), he wanted to leave.
For the season ahead, I have my doubts as to his ability to raise his game to recent levels.
I use recent rather than e.g. previous intentionally.
Daizen was still quite raw when he arrived.
He brought us energy immediately … which we needed.
His technique needed to improve – one awful miss away to Shakhtar springs to mind – and it did.
Ange made him a better player.
Brendan made him a better player still.
Maybe Ange was right about not getting attached to our heroes.
There’s plenty to ponder here.
How does Brendan motivate the guy?
Is this more evidence that Scottish football is, and always will be, a stepping stone, regardless how big or how special we think our club is?
Has the big fee gone? IMHO Probably.
Brendan will likely not want to sell him in January
In the summer he’ll be 28 years old with one year left on his contract.
Maybe any published recruitment and squad management strategy has to include a paragraph which states
“When they peak, punt them”.
Those who appear to find fault in everything would likely find fault with this.
Such is life.
Talk of a plan keeps coming up. We do not have a plan.
We hace relied on the lack of finance at all our competitors for a very long time and sell our best player(s) every year.
I suppose that is a plan but hardly worthy of mention.
The problem with saying sell a player if they don’t want to be hear is that we can see they’re not replaced. Factually.
Buckle in for a really poor season because this has all the makings of a horrible one.
We are powder puff as a side, lack leaders, have injury issues with key players and a total lack of quality in the last third.
We will struggle in many games. If we win the league it will be an achievement like BR’s first season (2nd time around) after what was an even worse summer window.
Loons, loons and malcontents
Not sure which I’d rather be, probably the original
Full disclosure – Im a Brendan Fan
Welcomed him back with open arms
Would love him to sign a new contract
If our Board have an issue with Brendan – whatever that may be – then sack him
But they do not have the decision making skills (or guts) to do that
They are prepared to let him rot by not supporting him until his contract runs out
All to the detriment of the football team
Regardless your preference Brendan or the Board to keep the status quo is pathetic
My other gripe regarding a Company with a £125m turnover and £70m cash reserves
As a Plc it is perfectly normal to communicate with your Shareholders and customers (supporters)
By ignoring them you are displaying, arrogance at best ignorance at worst
The Saga continues
The situation only gets worse
67ECW
Loon, a Scots word for boy, still used regularly in North East of Scotland. Loons, Scots for Bhoys.
Good luck attracting young talent when it’s public knowledge we block career defining moves for our players…
P67 talking to yourself again. Really weird you attack all and sundry apart from the repeat offenders.
In case you haven’t noticed you are ridiculed everywhere across Timdom and even this site which had slavish devotion has changed big time. Many posters providing factual balance but you keep coming with your anti Rodgers agenda when Rome is burning. At what point do you chuck — when you can’t defend the indefensible ?
Have a great weekend.
Ps Nicholson will be sacked just like Mark Lawwell and you can do zilch about it.
“James Forrest on 5th September 2025 12:59 pm
Lol oh dear God …”
I guess I am forgetting some context then but still none the wiser.
Still if my post has caused you to log off then it wasn’t a total waste of time even if I am none the wiser, more chance of some reasoned discourse at least.
A pleasure as always JF.
Turkish window is still open , we’d be better circling the wagons , let Daizen go to Turkey or Saudia and just get a committed warm body from the free agents pool.
This makes the inexplicable timing in the transfer market even worse , if that’s possible.
HH
‘ Those who appear to find fault in everything would likely find fault with this.’
And Brendan Rodgers will face the firing squad for that decision , no doubt and he’ll certainly be the only one to face up to it
Failure to Communicate CSC
there is that great scene in the godfather were santino goes radge and that.
If a bank asked you to give it your money but refused to tell what they would do with it, would you still give it?
AN DÚN on 5TH SEPTEMBER 2025 1:13 PM
Good luck attracting young talent when it’s public knowledge we block career defining moves for our players…
For once we agree. A manager who blocks the development of young players and then refuses to let others to progress their own careers at the expense of his. We’re left with an unhappy ageing squad full of loans and guys with no prospect of game time
Ange had it right, be nimble, brave and dont get too attached to your heroes
Sadly looks like there is some truth about the Bobo Balde story:-
https://www.laprovence.com/article/faits-divers-justice/3012571787187214/l-ex-footballeur-bobo-balde-hospitalise-en-psychiatrie-apres-des-propos-inquietants-devant-une-ecole-a-marseille
An Dún on 5th September 2025 1:13 pm
“Good luck attracting young talent when it’s public knowledge we block career defining moves for our players…”
Happens all the time. The injury to Jota has likely hurt his chances but all players will know that if they sign for x years they are there for x unless it suits the player and club. He could always sign a new contract with a but out clause set at an agreeable price then he can go in Jan / next summer.
We’re more likely hampered in attracting young talent due to standard of league and lack of opportunities for a lot of talent due to disconnect between recruitment and manager atm.
Maeda peaked to a level last year that he might never hit again. He should have been sold but of course our shambolic signing ‘strategy’🤣, prevented it. Nicholson must go. The manager is offski and we can only hope he can get the team performing again before we’re stuck in a COVID rut.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cgr9r4qr0ppo
All part of the plan.
Any presidents do more than two terms?
Yeah
Who?
Franklin Roosevelt
How did he pull that off?
The threat of war
Ah. Got it.
Like the famous Parkhead shorts – “ his days were numbered “
‘Loon’ . An aquatic bird . Also known as the ‘Great Northern Diver’.
And here was I ,thinking that was Bojan Miovski ……
vale bhoy on 5th September 2025 1:19 pm
“If a bank asked you to give it your money but refused to tell what they would do with it, would you still give it?”
No but if choose to buy something such as a season ticket to my local cinema I do so knowing I’ll see some movies over the next 12 months but not necessarily know how many let alone how good they will be.
Such is life.
James Forrest on 5th September 2025 12:42 pm
Big Jimmy:
Which part of this are you not quite grasping?
We didn’t replace Kyogo. We didn’r replace Kuhn. We barely got a replacement – if we’re calling him that – for Idah over the line before the deadline expired for European registration.
And you wonder why the manager blocked the sale of another key player?
Is that a joke?
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NAW…NO Joke James !
I certainly GRASP the concept of several players in recent months of being unhappy at Celtic.
My point is that if ANY Player is UNHAPPY at Celtic, then there NO POINT in trying to keep them, no matter who they are ?
You forget that recently and in the past, I totally BLAME the Board for MUCH of what has went wrong at Celtic and NOT Brendan Rodgers.
For some reason KYOGO wasn’t happy at Celtic and it was reflected in some of his performances just before he left…likewise KHUN who went badly OFF FORM for months before leaving…Now we appear to be seeing the SAME PATTERN with MAEDA this season…so far.
What part of this ” PATTERN” do YOU NOT SEE ?
If we could SACK the BOARD I would be very happy…but sadly that aint gonna happen anytime soon ?
I do NOT think that Brendan is GUILTY of much, IF anything….Unlike some of those Board members.
celtic40me on 5th September 2025 1:21 pm
I’m not so sure the manager has blocking powers . He may wish he had ,but the Idah situation seems to contradict that .
Did you get your e-ticketing email?
Damn it, missed the Champions League but sill in time for the Europa Packages
SNAFU CSC
“I am outta here for the rest of the day”.
Would have been happier if you’d said “I am outta here for………………ever”.