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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Gutenberg it hasn’t been one bad transfers window. It’s a pattern.
In a turbulent period , you often get new names appearing on the blog. Some times the old familiar names are best ,whether you agree with their views or not.
Jobo I listened to the Etims podcast and they absolutely slaughtered Paul and Hsrry Brady. Sadly i would agree with their analysis. Hh
I think we will win tomorrow by 2 congruent goals to nil.
Gerry, You are a good ghuy, never fear.
I believe we are the better team and we should win but we will have to bring our A game.
Norrie M – just got the same message. 17 posts yet none mention the weather! Well, that was what I planned to say but couldn’t post. Another day perhaps.
I hope all you clowns that have been so negative and pee heeeingvwith each other tonight are straight on the site tomorrow apologising to each and everyone of us who have been man enough to stand up for our club through thick and thin. But do you know something you will be no where to be seen as you all all cowards to the core
Neg 10.41pm
I love CQN have met many good people from this place, had my stag doo at CQN 10, I read P67s articles but fur me P67 is just a Celtic fan and o disagree with my family & friends in a daily basis about Celtic…. Psul67 isn’t the be all and end all but I treat his article the same as your or any other post I read …. Surely all about opinions, again, I like your posts but sometimes when the going is good you don’t post so for me that’s a negative :-)
Hail Hail
Will be watching the game tomorrow, with a 07.00am kick-off on Cape Cod. Will need a special Cape Cod breakfast prepared. Coffee to start, then a huge lobster washed down with some Chardonnay.
When in NYC I always try to get a meal at Sparks Steakhouse and sometimes visit 21 Club for the ambience, although I think its very expensive.
Citypass is a great deal.
Amitheoneandonlycelticsupporteroncapecod CSC
Neganon
Agree I think the “Hotel/Exhibition” strategy is a huge distraction……However, back to my point about Corporate Governance and a clear Management Strategy……That exciting opportunity in another company would have been hived off to a separate management team with skill in that arena(reporting to the CEO)…….not so in our PLC!!!. The Controller/Emperor.has to run everything…. ….ach am too bored now …but you get the drift….The point is if he was focussing exclusively on our core competence- FOOTBALL …..would he have made such a “horlicks” of that transfer window…..
He is 60 and it must be very tiring being the Control Obsessive of every part of our business…….
This will not end well!
Celtic champs elect I suggest you go to bed.
Gordon64
” I listened to the Etims podcast and they absolutely slaughtered Paul and Harry Brady.”
I was late in getting involved with the internet. Never thought it would catch on.
When I did finally relent, my first observation was that the internet, even the timternet, was an incredibly bitchy and back-biting arena, full of petty rivalries being avenged. For all the good that the internet does in allowing information to by-pass censorship, it has a dark side in its tendency to spread false information quickly and to promote rudeness as the first choice in social intercourse, because you have seeming anonymity.
I am not surprised that e-tims and KDS or The Huddleboard call out rival sites or sees themselves as the true voice of Celtic, but there is no such thing.
Well, apart from Peter Lawwell and Dermot Desmond obviously :-)
Corry lawwell is a one trick pony. Despite what paul67 has said he hasn’t built professionalism into every aspect of Celtic.
He needs to go. But he won’t.
Corkcelt 10.47pm
I would hope any Celtic team will perform when playing anybody especially the cheats :-)
We do reside in great Celtic times I just worry the season we don’t win the league… it won’t bother me, I might not like it but these days are special and should be enjoyed :-)
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Neganon
I know but I know we’re in a shit situation. If we were 200 miles south we’d be competing for the CL.
neganon
“Celtic champs elect I suggest you go to bed.”
Now! Now!
No flirting you two.
This is not a dating site.
Tomorrow is going to be quite unique.
The Whole place, apart from a small amount, is gonnae be Green and White.
The Support from both ends was Excellent against Suduva.
We have Winners in our team. They are gonnae fancy it the morra.
If we are good for a goal or two, I’d expect us to really go @ them.
The less Craig Gordon has the ball @ his feet the better.
If we get beat
Gutenberg it’s just an excuse to underperform.
SFTB I wasn’t suggesting I would tuck him in.
Petec sorry but we are a shambles.
And Scotland is racist.
My equation says no chance we will win tomorrow.
Brighton v Fulham on the BBC.
And we only get a few million for winning our (part of license fee) league.
I’m no Nat, this wrong.
Neganon
We’ll agree to disagree.
But tomorrow we need the support to be united and vocal.
Any win will put them in their place.
Some of Radioheads stuff is really good.
Respect to ma Dundee away game Good Lads.
High and Dry
Gordy I know you dinnae like the band, Garry I know you do,
Maximum Respect to both of you.
Neganon
I agree, Scotland is racist.
And Thanks to Hamilton Tim for getting those tickets Back in the day.
Neg
Equations are different from football
Ireland will be united, and Celtic supporters will still be at the back of the west of Scotland bus.
Real rebels dot get took to school by the plc bored.
Real rebels are naebdys mugs.
ZZZZZZZZZZZ
GFTB
You were not at CQN10 – you were at CQN11, at table next to me
Now hopefully good news ?
Celtic manager Brendan Rodgers has admitted a full inquest with the club’s powerbrokers into the travails endured during the transfer window will be required to ensure lessons are learned and a repeat avoided.
The Irishman conceded a window that should have been “straightforward” – with the bolstering of defence and midfield with four new arrivals – ended up “not ideal” and brought a final sour note as Moussa Dembele forced a £19.7 million move to Lyon in the closing hours.
Rodgers, as he says is standard, will meet with largest shareholder Dermot Desmond and chief executive Peter Lawwell over the international break for a transfer window debrief. On this occasion, though, there will be more profound failings to discuss.
Losing out to Aston Villa on top target John McGinn and the situation that developed with Dedryck Boyata’s non-appearance for European games following the club’s refusal to accept a £9m bid for him from Fulham set the tone for a grim few weeks. The furores created by these sagas may eventually have been eclipsed by a training ground argument the Celtic manager had on Friday with Dembele – in which it is alleged the Frenchman was told he would “never” play for Rodgers again because of his attitude. That led to Celtic giving up on their previous stance of refusing to sell him without a replacement, while a season-long loan deal for £13m Leicester City central defender Filip Berkovic and the recruitment of midfielder Youssouf Mulumbu proved the Scottish champions’ only incoming business in the closing days of the window.
Rodgers, pictured, who this lunchtime faces Steven Gerrard’s Rangers, confessed there were “clearly things we can improve on and get better [with]”.
“We work with what we have,” was the Celtic manager’s response when asked if the squad was stronger or weaker now than at the end of last season. Stuart Armstrong, Patrick Roberts, Erik Sviatchenko and, now, Dembele have all moved on over the summer. “It’s clear it hasn’t been an ideal window for us but we’ll review it, we’ll look at the processes and everything else around it.”
Rodgers gave a straight “yes” to being asked if he wanted “to avoid having a window like this again”.
“I felt it was a straightforward window for us, and it was two-fold: keep the players we wanted to keep, then add the quality into key areas of the field. Which I didn’t think was many. But it’s never as straightforward as it should be sometimes. We’ll review it all and try to ensure in the next one we can be better. Listen, [the meeting] is nothing new. You have to review.”
Left back again everything is an equation, everything.
NegAnon2 on 1st September 2018 11:03 pm
Petec sorry but we are a shambles.
And Scotland is racist.
My equation says no chance we will win tomorrow.
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Who knows Neg, who knows.
Remember The Almighty is in control.
SEVCO have done very well considering, LUCKILY for Celtic they have had a bad tie away.
Their Anger is manifesting when they win. @ the End the Devil gets stronger.
Bob Mortimer is a well funny dude. If we lose it the morra I hope CQN watches 11:02
NEG…
Get to the bookies, 4/1 hun monkeys.
I agree with a lot what you say, if we pump the huns tomorrow come on and be happy though..HH
Kev Your posts criticising Hamilton Tim one of the finest Celtic supporters I have had the privilege to meet smacked of pettiness. I thought you were better than that.
Nytol
Hail Hail
Cowiebhoy 11.13pm
I can assure you it was CQN 10 circa March 2015 (Friday last day of Cheltenham) festival)
I remember it well I had to give some dodgy guy I had never met a £1k in a boozer …. thankfully it was Lennybhoy so it worked out ok :-)
SARGASSOSEA on 1ST SEPTEMBER 2018 10:51 PM
Amitheoneandonlycelticsupporteroncapecod CSC
Used to be in the 80s. Relied on the Boston Globe on Sunday for results.
There has been at least one disingenuous hun on here tonight who will hopefully be crying into his sash tomorrow . You know who you are. GIRFUY. Goodnight CQN.
Gerry it was CQN 11
ACGR was also at your table
Stay Calm
Pass the Ba’
Unleash KT.
Calmac’s movement will be crucial the morra.
Tom Tom Tom Rogic go and Do it. You know you really want to.
Gftb I was at Cqn10 and im sure u werent. Hh