Before this Europa League group got underway the trips to Istanbul and Amsterdam looked daunting. Those games produced two credible draws, but things went wildly wrong elsewhere.
Our goal last night was a peach. Dedryck Boyata split the Fenerbahce defence to open up space for Mikael Lustig to cross for Kris Commons, who peeled off his marker to create the space to head home. Unfortunately only one point was collected as we lost another Keystone Cops goal.
Craig Gordon seems to be struck by a lack of conviction this season. His was not the only failing at our repeated corner kick fiascos but letting a ball trickle through his legs as he appeared caught in two minds is indicative of a player who is doubting himself.
You know Kris Commons scores and creates huge goals for Celtic, we’ve discussed it often enough here. Despite his veteran status and apparent ill-fitting to our system he remains by far our most effective player.
For Ronny, it didn’t go wrong in Europe this season against Fenerbahce or Ajax (I’m absolving him of blame for Efe’s error or a last minute breakaway goal at Celtic Park), it went wrong home and away to Molde and Malmo. We appeared to underestimate both. Did the manager have something to prove against fellow Norwegian managers?
Celtic dominated possession stats in all four games against Molde and Malmo but the Scandinavians exploited the acres of space which simply didn’t exist in our games against Ajax, Fenerbahce or Qarabag, for that matter. Ajax, Fenerbahce and Qarabag got the respect they deserved, not so Molde and Malmo.
The failure is, of course, more complicated than that. Jozo missed the bulk of the campaign, while Dedryck is only just beginning to look like a footballer (lovely pass for the goal last night). Scott Allan looks promising, but we’ve not seen enough of him either due to injury.
Curiously, Ronny’s big 2015 No. 1 striker target, Nadir, looks less like a Ronny Deila player than anyone we’ve bought in years. Knowing we were interested in him, I watched his performances against Celtic last season, and made the same observation at the time.
What happens if your keeper’s form falls off a cliff, one of your new defenders doesn’t settle quickly, two other new players miss months through injury, and your new striker doesn’t morph into a different player? You finish bottom of the Europa League group.
Celtic must now consider their strategy for January. Successive transfer windows have left us weaker, not stronger. Identify the reasons, remediate and we can build on the away performances which bookended this Europa League campaign.
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PEAT OF ISLAY on 12TH DECEMBER 2015 8:39 PM
Okay, having heard this straight from the horse’s mouth: Larsson wants to come to Celtic as Manager.
Then what are we waiting for?
Hopefully because right at this time the King of Kings is a rookie manager.
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Latchford
You would need too run those names
quonno on 12th December 2015 8:41 pm
And that is what Celtic do. In fact , they excel at it.
Even Henrik could not turn Çiftçi into a striker
Love
GERRYFAETHEBRIG on 12TH DECEMBER 2015 8:20 PM
See for the Peter Lawell dislikers ….. Who is your replacement ?
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I’ll take his job for six months and retire:)
JJHS
I am forced to disagree. Willie Garner was from the past ;))
The Spirit of Arthur Lee on 12th December 2015 8:44 pm
Good point. Who decided that Ciftci was a must have at CP? Let me guess, Ronny our trailblazing manager.
Peat of Islay, we have a manager and what has Larson done to convince you that he has what it takes to be a top manager? Serious question
Latchford
Run your names by DD
Sipsini
I would take the job as well
Quonno
BDO have not appealed, they have asked for the right to appeal, there will be no appeal, they are playing to the crowd, so they can say “it wasn’t our fault”
In the first place ye all know that Peat of Islay heard nothing from the Horse’s mouth so why engage in a futile debate.
Ma pals a Big Shot ( shoat?),…………… in The Big Smoke……….
…………..telephone number salary………..chain a tannin’ salons,………a” security” company an aboot five pubs – Minted!
He’d take the job ( joab?)……..in a heartbeat……
turn ‘at place aroon BIG style, so he wid.
Oh Aye….CSC
Perhaps the current CEO of Malmo would be a suitable replacement for Peter Lawwell.
CORKCELT
So Peat of Islay is not Doctor Dolittle then
Love
TSOAL
Chortle :)))
corkcelt, you are of course correct.
LATCHFORD on 12TH DECEMBER 2015 7:45 PM
Pedro bleeding Celtic dry
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CURrKY1W4AAixKJ.jpg
incredible amount of renumaration for a £50 – £70 million enterprise.
there wont be a CEO in ant other similar plc paid anything like that.
Peat
C’mon
Stick to making Ardbeg what it is good for :)))
HH
Furst hing he’d dae wid be tae get Kean in pronto………
an’ en git the backroom bhoys fired up in THAT Brazen.
Place wid be bonkers wi’mad tims everywhere mhan.
“You,” he told Peter Lawwell, “are chief executive of Celtic Football Club,
“I am the chief executive of Bobo Balde.”
Bobo Balde
Cork 0850
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p037bp9w He is asked the question and he answers yes of course.
eddieinkirkmichael on 12th December 2015 8:49 pm
Because he is the epitome of professionalism. He is intelligent and thinks through things before makes decisions. He does not get caught up in any parochial nonsense. Most of all he has football intelligence, that rarity, found only in a few in the game. We should get him before anyone else does.
Paul67 et al
I am sure we had this conversation less than a couple of months back, my reaction to which being that never, in October of a season, had I ever looked forward to the following season. Same goes for December. Fact is Martin, Gordon and Lenny would have qualified from our EL group, and quite possibly for the CL, because by and large they had better players. The “Champions” route there, opens up an opportunity to qualify, but it also in effect rubber stamped the cartel that the Champions League has long been. Favoured nations seeded to avoid playing each other, and those same nation’s clubs avoiding playing each other until the latter stages of the tournament itself. It may well be a great tournament at times, but it is a skewed one, PSV the first Dutch club to progress in eight seasons unless I am mistaken. As for the January window, well as anyone on here can tell you, Celtic could do with an experienced CB, an experienced midfielder and an additional goalscoring forward. In other words not the scattergun approach of recent tears. Not an impossible task surely? Off to the Bridge, to watch it that is!
Gerryfaethebrig,
DD knows one off them….even arranging a table swap for his Irish golfing buddies for a CL night at 67 restaurant.
DD knows Lawwell shafted him regarding his fellow Cork man Keane to put his puppet in place. Lawwell suspects RD being sacked may signal the end of his tenure as well. Hence the strong support at the AGM.
It is in Celtics interest that PL and RD go together. PL screwed up with Mowbray and Delia and his profileratiin of failed projects has diminished the clubs playing base substantially.
Why are Armstrong, McKay Stevens, Ciftci at the club. I would rather give youth like Tierney a chance and there are one or two others.
Celtic will not regain its swagger until the gruesome twosome disappear.
Latchford
The average CEO in a FTSE 100 company took home £4.3 m in 2014. And this figure is still rising.
Yes four million three hundred thousand. But of course you already knew that.
Why would the two guys you know take a massive pay cut ?
HH.
To The Ronny brigade on CQN….IF we dont win the league…Ronnys gone….Simple..IF the hun reincarnation get promoted and at This Time next Year they are , say 8pts in Front of us..RONNYS gone..If We are out of Europe before Dec 2016..RONNYS gone…..Lots of ifs and Ronnys Gone in There..Saw His Last Couple of Interviews After The Fener game…IMO..Ronnys Gone…High Pressing Game..Dont Start Me…….Ronny. ..NEVER GONNA HAPPEN..
TGM
Naka’s two free kicks against Man U and his swerving effort against the deid mob, are 3 of my most celebrated ever Celtic goals. Magician.
Ernie Lynch
Good evening, without even naming the CEO of Malmo what credentials does he bring to the table ? The CEO’s job isn’t a two leg football affair, and obviously you know that, am sure if the CEO of Malmo was that highly rated Mr Desmond would be more aware than me or you……especially since out of the 3 of us Dermott might be the only one who actually knows who the CEO of Malmo is, which puts us at a disadvantage from the start
New “balls”…….PLease!
BGX on 12th December 2015 9:02 pm
To use a golfing analogy.
Ronny polishes the clubs, moves the bag around the room, inspects the trolley….. but never gets practicing on the individual clubs.
Until he knows his players and works on each one, we can talk about high pressing games, long ball game, diamond formations until the cows come home.
Ronny is at best a mediocre football analyst.
Aye, our trailblazer of a coach decided that Ciftci was our number one target so much that he disny play him.
Dearie Me
DD
Loved the wee man.
Bumped into him in town one day, with his interpreter in tow.
I told the interpreter to tell Naka he was a total genius.
Naka flashed me a grin:)
HH
Rod on with Rosery beads…tellys going out the windows down Paisley road :)
Lawwell overpaid for underachieving… Great job
GreenPinata,
One of them has just stepped out having made circa £13M in last 2 years. One is a COO rather than CEO — but also highly critical of Lawwell and the damage he is doing to the club.
One thing is for sure the downsizing under Lawwell will soon reach the point that Europa League qualification will seem like the promised land.
Look what Lawwell has done in terms of damage as he has taken £8.6M from the club ; I posted the year by year numbers earlier.
Next season will see max 30k season tickets and another CL failure which means the club have missed out on approx £70-£89M revenue over 3 seasons of Lawwells mismanagemt. He must be sacked for gross incompetence.
Sips
Will the zombies vote for reggie and Billy
TGM
My gaffer (a sevco fan) is buying his 13 year old grandson (Celtic season ticket holder) the Celtic kit with Nakamura printed on the top, for Christmas. The young bhoy’s favourite ever player.
Gerryfaethebrig on 12th December 2015 9:04 pm
You’re absolutely correct.
Celtic football club is owned and controlled by one individual.
The fact that the individual not only doesn’t attend games, but also can’t even be arsed to turn up for the AGM, is of course all for the best in the best of all possible worlds.
Peat of Islay…We Havnt Improved…Simple..IT Aint Gonna Happen…i Like the Guy…But it Aint Gonna Happen..Why Didnt We Attack Fener..We had NOTHING to Lose..My Guess…Ronny Didnt Want Another Defeat on His CV…They Were Poor…We had a Chance to Attack a Nervous Team..We Didnt do it…Ffs start with Forrest GMS wide…Have a Go…But he Didnt…Showed me he Was Looking After His Job..simple..
DD
Ha Ha…love that.
You know it makes sense:)
HH