When the players arrived at Lennoxtown for training yesterday morning, Brendan Rodgers had no intention of allowing Moussa Dembele to leave the club. Such was the player’s behaviour over the following two hours, the manager’s view changed to “Get him out of here.”
Yet again, the days ahead of an important game were clouded by distraction, but this time it took the form of insubordination against the manager. Brendan’s view changed from not wanting to be left with only two strikers, to insisting the player was shipped out of the club.
One photographer, there for the press conference ahead of tomorrow’s game, told the manager, “I’ve been doing this for 30 years and never seen behaviour like that.”
You and I have seen many come and go over the years, so losing one is nothing new. Receiving £20m also breaks a barrier in what we can ask for our players in the future, but the manner which this came about is a source of regret. Moussa is a great player, one who delivered for us when it mattered most. His goals and swagger were a joy to watch. Now, the memory of his achievements have been violated by his behaviour. Having a go at the manager on Twitter, where he talked about being lied to (utter rubbish) and ‘Liked’ a comment from Chris Sutton saying he was targeting Brendan, all while playing to “Bhoys and Ghirls” is deplorable. I’ll get over it and applaud politely when you do the Paradise Windfall 15 years from now, but we’re not buying it, Moussa.
Lots to say on the transfer window, but I’ll pick up on it more next week. We have a game tomorrow against an outfit who think they can win the league. This is a day for Brendan and Scott Brown, Dedryck, Kieran, Callum, Tom and the others to do what they do so often against Newco. It’s a day for you and me to lift the team and paint Glasgow green and white.
Last month was traumatic, but it was also cathartic. We are a united club with a bit of an edge right now. Do your thing, Celtic. Spank this lot one more time.
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Neg you do make good valid points
But sometimes just sometimes you should compliment and support our team
HH
D. :)
frannyb67, lets meet halfway coltswood, used to show you ghuys how to play football there is the pitches still there.hh.
Neganon
I think unfortunately we will never be in a position to build. We attract players on a promise so how can you mould a team when we’re viewed by promising foreigners as a “passing through” club?
Lyon, a club with much fewer supporters than us, can offer Dembele significantly more wages due to TV revenue etc.
I’d love to build a team to compete at CL level but it’s never going to happen.
GERRYFAETHEBRIG on 1ST SEPTEMBER 2018 10:01 PM
Nope, he won’t
have to disagree, just going back to the hearts game , wouldn’t want to see ML get serious injury.
Norrie 10.02pm
Am a realist … I know they liquidated and I actually understand the term “liquidation” but if you honestly think we are facing a 6 yr old club tomorrow you are deluded
It’s still the same followers whatever they follow … this 6 yr old club might be factual but it’s nonsense … it’s as daft as the Huns kidding on they are the same club ….
Bigpacky 1
Think pitches are away now HH
Norrie Totally agree amigo. Our Clubs failure to call out the continuity myth was always going to come back and bite us one day. Hopefully not tomorrow. Hh
Neg2
You beat me to it, you actually think Celtic are regressing. Open your eyes pal, your about the same age as me, look at the club today.
Drive up the new Clyde Gateway Road. Or next time you fly in to the city, look at the stadium. If it’s not sights that hammer it home ? Think of our Double Treble ? Compare the club to our peers it’s hard to argue we have progressed enormously when the rest of Scottish football has regressed ?
David Of course I will be cheering them on tomorrow (no doubt shouting and swearing at the tv). I can’t help it. It’s like breathing.
I don’t think we will win.
We are utterly divided and I know from personal experience that disunited teams fail. They don’t trust one another. And that’s why I hate paul67s false unity cry. It’s disingenuous, disgusting and typical corporate bullshit. We are not united.
Do I want us to get beat? Well what do you think? It makes me feel sick when they even score against us.
FRANNYB67, GFTB, THE ORIGINALSADIESBHOY, LENNYBHOY ,lets show these glesca ghuys who are the best tims.hh.
GUTENBERG on 1ST SEPTEMBER 2018 10:08 PM
Depressing ,but I have to agree with you. Perhaps the Atlantic league idea (or similar) might come about. My grandchildren might see Celtic restored to their rightful place.
GFTB perhaps my problem is that I don’t think in the now. I think in the future and what’s next. I can see the shit round the corner.mceltic will always fail whilst the people in charge are in charge. They do not want football success. They think only in numbers. They also hate the support. That’s well known amongst those who touch the board. They think we are scum as does paul67.
This Tweet from Olli is a strange one.
Surely he will be amongst his team mates at their overnight bolt hole when it was sent, and if so, surely his team mates would be looking to give him a boot in his proverbials if it was unprofessional?
Still one park at Coltswood
And am afraid Neg we aren’t divided
In your dreams :-)
CQN is a wee tiny percent of the Celtic support infiltrated by probably more huns than tims :-)
Macjay
Good to see you back on the blog.
From memory you live in Sydney. My daughter and her pals are heading to Cheers tomorrow to watch the game. If you’re there let me know and she will buy you a pint.
Neganon…
Let me be very clear I am a huge admirer of our Boards Financial Competence over the last 5 years or so….we have a remarkable Balance Sheet!…..However, I am not a fan of the lack of Strategic Competence over a similar period…..I have no idea what our Boards game plan is other than Sell any Assets.. ….and certainly recently to apparently undermine the Managers game plan to create a Legacy!
Am hopeful our Manager has had reassurances that there will be a rebalance in the next Transfer Window……tho my instinct is the CEO is building The Balance Sheet and EBITDA to secure his bonus!
The old adage ” Power corrupts…..and Absolute Power Corrupts Absolutely” is “alive and kicking” at CP…
over to you Neg!!
Tomorrow we will be united on and off the park. We are Celtic. Hh
BCW I think we have all failed when it came to the cheating. Sorry I also include the res12 guys but they did the most to tackle it. You say I cannot argue with the happenings at Celtic. Your wrong – damn right I can. The club is a mess. Sure there is money in the bank but there is no direction at Celtic.
GFTB I know a shot board when I see one. Believe me they are shit.
Went to the Sheffield United v Aston Villa game this afternoon,
Best player on the park, in my opinion, until he was injured was Fleck, How he is not in the Scotland squad cant understand.
Grealish some nice touches but Fleck more effective.
McGinn, who was substituted, did not impress. Take over from Brown, not on todays performance.
No better than McGregor, Bitton etc..
. Hope we don’t play Rogic tomorrow, gives the ball away often,wont tackle. Play Sinclair seems to be coming back to form.
Neg 10.15pm
Apart from the P67 part I probably agree, I don’t like any board I just like the manager & the players (the ones that want to play fir Crktuc :-) am a pretty simple guy … Celtic winning is magic but my Celtic don’t need to win :-)
Maybe Arsenal will come back in for big Pete , as was rumoured a while back. There is more chance of Dermot shaving off his ‘tache or giving up golf than paying off his CEO
GFTB
Thanks for the lesson
Or was it the admittance they are 6 years old ? ???
I pay for my season ticket and I will decide if I go or Not, and accept a myth or Not
Neg 2
Worry about today tomorrow will take care of itself
Leigh Griffiths man of the match :-)
Neg thanks for clearing that up.
I think we will win, and I agree with you about the other shit.
But I think the team and support can be united in the defeat of Der Hun.
D. :)
David I post plenty when we win but it just doesn’t get noticed. It’s lazy journalism to suggest otherwise but you know what I couldn’t give a damn.
Gutenberg you have been conditioned to accept we will never get any better. It’s crap. We should be much much better than we are. Sure we need to sell every now and again but we should build to peak and rebuild. We just build to sell.
FAI head John Delaney has been tipped to succeed Peter Lawell as Celtic’s CEO within the next couple of years. That’s what I heard recently anyway. Apparently Celtic shareholder Denis O’Brien thinks very highly of him.
BCW it’s all superficial nonsense. Football clubs aren’t built on walkways. They are built on history and heroes. You are comparing Celtic with the rest of Scottish football? That’s not what we should be compared with. If we hadn’t won the 7 titles it would be a disgrace. If we let the Huns win it’s a disgrace. It’s not a victory. It’s the bare minimum we should be doing.m
Norrie 10.25pm
Don’t think I am having a dig, I totally understand your viewpoint and from my own work background the “Phoenixism” makes our business laws a total joke … my point is there are more Celtic fans that want an entity fae Govan to play (and beat) my young nephews grew up with the Bank of Scotland cheats beating us all the time so in their mind (also season ticket holders) they don’t want to beat a new Klub … again I respect your view but I think it’s blinkered and in the minority
How can any Celt complain about cheating, mibbery, etc, on one hand….
And then, queue up for £49 tickets, that effectively rubber stamp Sevco FC, as the same club as, Rangers FC, which sends out the message that, Celtic supporters have moved on, turned the other cheek, forgave 25 years of Murray Mibbery ?
Put it another way……
Who would win between, the sleekitly complicit Celtic PLC board, or, the sleekitly complicit Scottish Establishment ?
Or, who would win between, a gullibilly Tim, or, a gullibilly Hun ?
Chocolate Rodgers hah ;
I’m sure he’s been called worse than that.
Neganon2’s flag fly’s high, proud and rebellious on thee oul Jungle roof √
HH
Zzzzzzzzzzzzz
Good evening friends. See this new Celtic sentinel site thingy. Is it one of our fellow CQNrs who is behind it?
DownforSam
Good to see you posting ?
In my opinion, Dennis O’Brien would have a far greater hands on role if he was our major shareholder, unfortunately my understanding he only holds the 4% he bought from Martin O’Neil ???
Night before a big game and the blog dominated by attention seeking pricks..
Jobo
Not letting me post
Stating something – dot ? Breach
I see last post was at 4.30
Neganon
If you knew me you’d know that I couldn’t be conditioned for anything, especially failure.
Doesn’t stop me dreaming tho’.
I wouldn’t want to pay some fud gazillions in the hope of what?
We’ve had a bad transfer window, but we’ve still got far too much for them over a season and hopefully that’ll be proven tomorrow.
GFTB CQN peddles an optimistic view on Celtic. It’s far worse away from CQN. And I am worried about tomorrow.
Corry. Celtic are a football club. The goal should be improvements on the Park. But it isn’t. So why are the board hoarding money? Well,one reason could be the hotel/museum. Trying to get a structural advantage over rivals. But there are a few problems with that. What income will it generate and would it become a white elephant? The board are clearly unsure because they have planning permission but haven’t committed. In any case is it right to pay for that out of income and depress the on field performance. If it is the strategy they should tell us?
I don’t think they have any. Long term goal. In fact I think their strategy is to encourage scottish competition and revive the old firm stuff. That’s short sighted,
Athletic and wrong for every morale reaso you can think of.
Pogmathonyahun aka Laird of the Smiles on 1st September 2018 9:04 pm
Possibility Olli won’t play tomorrow I’m hearing he’s nursing a pair of sore baws delivered by Brendan’s boot for his stupid tweet earlier.?
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I have no idea what is really going on.
All I will say is. Thank the Almighty that we have Brendan in charge the morra. He has been undermined so much over the Summer and that is way out of order.
It has always annoyed me that the team is leaked so easily from almost the Rafael Van Der Vaart of his tenure.
A lot of people really can’t afford to get into debt to Support Celtic. So Many do.
Brendan will have the Bhoys who really want it in the TEAM the morra.
I’d take a 1-0 right here and right now.
Corkcelt 10.37pm
Gutted, I know my first ever post you then flounced hope I am not one of those attention seeking people :-)
Are you confident for tomorrow or do you fear the worst ?
Am always confident when we beat them 5-1 Lubo’s debut I was gutted as I had a tenner on 5-0 :-)
Cqn is just one face of the support so for those of you that think everything is fine and we’re all tickety boo with our illustrious and how wonderful have a peak at the other boards
We are united in one respect that we’ll spank the new huns
Amongst the angst in Neganons posts is the premise, I believe, is that we’re not the best we can be, and to disagree with that is just blind folly