Let’s get the badge kisser-thing sorted once and for all. We have seen enough of them come and go not to be taken in. You can set your watch by them. I don’t believe in a hierarchy of Celtic players, or supporters, based on proclaimed affinity. You are at Celtic because you want to be here, fan or player, and that’s enough.
Kieran Tierney has been a highly paid and respected professional for four years. He mixed with others of the same ilk, as well as some who know they are out of their depth at Celtic. The latter cherish the term of their Celtic contract, the former all wonder what level they will be able to reach in the game. All of them. To the best of my knowledge, no Celtic player has rejected circa £75k per week to remain here.
I don’t know what his medical advice has been, but if you read about chronic osteitis pubis, you get an insight into where an athlete’s head may be when he has a persistent injury that is not responding as hoped.
“Osteitis pubis is a painful degenerative condition of the pubic symphysis, surrounding soft tissues and tendons…. It is currently considered as one of the most debilitating pain syndromes for athletes. Although the condition is considered self-limiting, it often requires stoppage of sporting activities for several months, representing a significant problem especially for elite athletes.”
Kieran got this move coming off the worst season of his professional career. We will see if things improve, or go downhill, this season. Consider what advice his agent would have given him right now. None of this forms part of the public discourse, instead we got a clumsy social media comment about being out with his pals while Celtic are playing a crucial qualifier.
If we are serious about making progress as a football club, we need to take our player trading onto another level. That means everyone has a price and we should be ready with replacement options whenever a value offer arrives.
If you think selling your top player for £25m is a bad day at the office, imagine your challengers selling a single player for that sum, and how transformational this kind of money is. Trading is as much a part of success in the elite game as tactics and fitness. There are no sacred cows, because eventually, the most sublime talents perish.
We should always be ready to make a deal. See how it is done in Portugal. Or look at Ajax, who were going nowhere, then discovered how to trade, sold €72m of talent in 2016-17, €73m in 2017-18 and reached the Champions League semi-final in 2018-19.
Multi-treble winning Brendan Rodgers is not a talent spotter. He added Scott Sinclair (whom he had worked with) and Moussa Dembele (a John Park recommendation) to Ronny Deila’s squad. If we are going to spend significant sums of money this summer, better to have Neil Lennon with his hand on the tiller.
It felt like a bad day when Brendan left, but now I am sure it was for the best. There is no telling the damage Brendan and Lee would do with this kind of money. Kieran was great, the best left back in decades, and yes, he should have stayed for 10, but I’m already feeling pretty neutral about him leaving.
At Celtic, we love our history more than any others do, but football is all about tomorrow. Time to get busy writing the next chapter.
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TLT
Bean counting comes before Celtic supporting in the world of the accountant.
CEO/ Director of Fitba world.
DD 12.11am
Unhappy Celtic fans should save their unhappiness for when we don’t collect trophies ….
Question every single board movement but don’t take joy when you can score a point
As I have just done :-)
Mon the Unhappy Hoops 🍀🍀🍀🍀
GFTB
I knew Eric Riley pretty well about 20 odd years ago. Never a Celtic supporter, unless he had a Saint Paul type conversion. More a rolled up trouser and apron type with Ibrox leanings.
The perennial whingers.
For me , its just the misery guts in the pub.
You just avoid the eye.
Hoping they won`t catch yours.
:-)
DD 12.31am
He is now …
Not sure about the mason stuff, wouldn’t be surprised but I can assure you he loves the Celtic …
Open to all ??
Surely a lot passes in 20yrs … am just going on the present …
G-thang…
I don’t and I’m pretty sure not many do, or have the inclination to.
It’s ALL about the Bass, 3 Trebles.
It’s ALL about the BASS 3 Trebles.
C’Mon Lenny and the Bhoys.
GFTB
Hope you are correct.
I love a convert who has seen the light.
Moussa, Kieran and Brendan have gone.
Come on CELTIC.
DD 12.31am
His best man…in fact they were best men at each other’s weddings many moons ago (is) my nieces father in law, and is still a season ticket holder at Sports Direct stadium … am pretty sure Eric R has had more fun out of the original Huns liquidation than us
You can take that to the bank :-)
Lenny was led by Martin to the Broomloan Road Stand.
Lenny is the Man Now.
Don’t think there is any unhappy Celtic fans ! Maybe concerned or worried! Ano ! We we have won 3 trebles in a row ! But !! Do any of us think we will spend even 25/0 per cent of the KT money! Suppose we will soon know!
DD 12.42pm
99.9% of my posts are nonsense
My brother cannot speak highly of ER and he knew he didn’t support Celtic to start with …
Again not many things am sure of bit that’s on the button :-)
Celtic tomorrow …. canny wait 🍀
They are a decent team now. They were last Season under Gerrard.
Need a Wanyama type in midfield – a Brick wall of a player.
3 points for Celtic today at Fir Park should be what we all wish for. Will not be easy, but we have the talent in our team to do it.
Forza Celtica
Weebawbabitty
Right player , right position , right price , right deal .
Absence of any one of the above criteria.
Don`t buy.
And don`t rush.
Just like the rest of us in making expensive purchases.
PETEC on 10TH AUGUST 2019 12:08 AM
“F every Big Government.
Where are the checks and balances that keep the EU in check? NONE!!!
The Elite want the UK in the EU, thats obvious. ;))”
So all the exclusively educated private school monied toffs like your beloved Johnson, Rees-Mogg and Farage aren’t the “elite”?? If not their monied parents should take Eton and Dulwich College to court as they paid mega bucks so that their children would be the “elite” and not actually doing some hard physical graft with the plebs, which shock horror, they never have! And nope, writing a litany of lies about the EU for the Telegraph (dear olf Boris) or being a city trader (dear old Nige) doesn’t count as hard physical graft!
And as for “checks and balances in the EU”, there are more there than in UK parliament where the ruling Tory party are currently propped up by the DUP being bribed £1billion+ to buy their votes to support them. Not quite what the ancient Greeks had in mind when they cooked up Democracy. And as for the House of Lords….
Still, if you get your Brexit odds are we’ll be compensated by an independent Scotland and a united Ireland, and all in the EU too!! And, dare I say it, immigrants too, lots and lots of them, to do the jobs we won’t do or aren’t skilled enough to do, you know, jobs like doctors and dentists and bus drivers and hospital cleaners and fruit pickers… same as it ever was same as it ever was…. which is good news as Jesus loved the widow, the orphan and the immigrant – after all he was one himself in Egypt for a bit – and so should you!
19 And you are to love those who are foreigners, for you yourselves were foreigners in Egypt. (Deuteronomy 10:19)
weebawbabitty
Love ye
Magical
Petec 12.47am
We are better ….
Worry about Celtic and nobody else
And I think under Neil we will get even better
Through A Green Glass Brightly,
AIAE
Stand By Me – Ben E King
https://youtu.be/hwZNL7QVJjE
Bobby McFerrin – Don’t Worry Be Happy
https://youtu.be/d-diB65scQU
DD , 3 points tomorrow 😁and hopefully max points until last day of transfer window! Big Petes dream! No need to spend ! Get to champions league proper! Maybe just maybe spend 5 million!!
Bankofceltic.com
GFTB
I don’t think any of your posts are nonsense.
Others may disagree with them, but they make sense to me. Don’t down yourself G.
Mon the Celtic
Pixies – Hey (Live in studio 1988)
https://youtu.be/OdZGvMEeNLw
GFTB,
Callum is absolutely Dynamite in the Midfield, you were right that Brendan would try to get him.
He needs to be given more responsibility, Broonie is Genius but come on Lenny, let others Flourish.
Petec ! Snap amigo 😁, Macjay ! Thanks for the response my friend! However we seem to we waiting on the right deal right time senario every year! But we always seem to just!! Miss out on our targets!!
THEORIGINALSADIESBHOY on 9TH AUGUST 2019 9:10 PM
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So you only expect us to win tomorrow . IF we play to our capabilities . And like many other celtic fans I will more than cheer up ,if we bring in the much needed quality . BUT like past transfer windows that’s not guaranteed is it .
Weebawb
You just described the bean counter’s wet dream. What happens next? Thrashed 7-0 and 5-0 by the pot 1 and pot 2 teams in the CL group. Shite mate, same old story. Same as it ever was, wi this mob of accountants who are our custodians. Sad.
The Huddle
Magical. Pixies Hey. Truly wonderful live band.
KT quoted Gerry Cinnamon at his Arsenal press conference. London Calling for Gerry noo.
JIMTIM! Well said my friend! The only thing guaranteed is the spend will minus!! But as we are always told wait till the end of the transfer window! 😂😂GNGB
MACJAY ONE FOR NEAL LENNON:
Right player, right position, right price, right deal. But you forgot right ‘time’. Transfer deadline for CL playoffs is in 6 days. 50 million in the bank and we are waiting to see if we punt Miller or Hendry. Absolutely farcical. If we get punted by Slavia on August 28, then the Newco 4 days later, will we be all saying , “But, but, we won the treble treble….”?
Delaney dunkey
Peter Lawwell came to Celtic at a time when our wages matched EPL wages but our income was not of a sufficient level to stop us spiraling into debt. He was known as a cost cutting CEO , built up his reputation at Scottish coal where he was well rewarded for being part of the massive reduction of that industry to the detriment of many except to the plan for a heated driveway
He done his job well But instead of building a football department he thought he could do that It got to the point in 2008/9 that our debt was gone. Great work. Income up great work
But eye came off the ball ad he forgot we were a football team 1st
We had cash in the bank But PL saw that as a plus side. Most important thing to him was keeping costs low and cash in the bank
Never in PL professional career had he forwarded planned to improve a business. Only cost cutting
Our manger pleaded for investment. We got a Irish boy called flood. The rest is history
The original rangers won the title and kept themselves solvent for another 3 years and we lost out about 50m in income
In any other business the CEO have walked
But not Pl became untouchable
Add this to his shambolic appointment of RD which lead to a stand being closed
I really thought that the appointment of BR changed all that Rodgers despised him and his attempts to be involved with everything. It was noticeable that BR kept John Kennedy ( always knows as PL man ) away from the inner circle even Kept JK away from Dubai trips
But BR , who was never a Celtic fan , sneaked out the back door
Then PL returned with a vengeance
He has more of a grip now than he has ever had. To the point that our football club is unable to plan forward as we have little or no strategy to improve / invest in our team as Peter Lawwell is and never has been a forested thinking CEO. Now more then ever. We need a director of football incharge of our large cash surplus Some figures at about 60m now , and look to bring in some quality to our side
The batterd bunnet post summed it up yesterday. No point all that money sitting in the bank unless we have a plan
Plan for Peter lawell is that cash is a massive buffer for him to continue to receive his bonus
As someone put it. Peter lawell would sell the pitch from under NL feet if it could guarantee his bonus
weebawbabitty,
G’night
philvis jibber jabber was out of this World.
WEEBAWBABITTY on 10TH AUGUST 2019 1:04 AM
Petec ! Snap amigo 😁, Macjay ! Thanks for the response my friend! However we seem to we waiting on the right deal right time senario every year! But we always seem to just!! Miss out on our targets!!
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I know.
I`m not in the loop of knowing the players we wish to sign.
But , I trust that those who do, know exactly what they are doing .
Our fairly recent experiences in the transfer market suggest that my trust has not been misplaced .
Twenty years or so ago , we were in the debtors court .
The cold winds of recession are blowing.
Ca` canny.
Am hinging on for a bit.
Been working doon in England.
And Loving being back Home.
Dock of the Bay
DD , exactly m8 , aw the money in the bank , never to be spent! Wits the point! Well suppose we kinda know the point,
Balancesheetfc! But remember we have done the treble treble! Excellent stuff by the way! But c,mon show some ambition
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