While you, me, the manager and captain can agree we need to strengthen in January, the mood in the camp will not be entirely positive until several frustrated players move on. There is a lot of work to do here, especially in central defence.
Nat Phillips is not getting much love these days. This is unfortunate, as his has only been a small piece of a dysfunctional few weeks and he is by no means the reason we are floundering. Still, form was never good enough to see his stay in Glasgow extended. He is one of several central defenders who must be moping around Lennoxtown at the moment. Yuki Kobayashi surely has his agent busy looking for a return ticket to Japan – can you imagine the mood in the Japanese camp with so a few frustrated comrades?
The situation with Gustaf Lagerbielke and Maik Nawrocki is less straightforward. Gus earned a full international cap for Sweden this autumn and had his day in the sun six days ago. His five Celtic starts saw the loss of only two goals. Four of those games were away from home and one was at Ibrox. The 23-year-old must be wondering what’s going on.
Maik (22) was Celtic’s most expensive summer signing at €5m. He has made a total three appearances in a Celtic shirt, all in August, and has not been seen since returning from injury. I know his old club Legia Warsaw are on the lookout for a central defender next month and Maik might be wondering what he’s doing in Glasgow.
The need to clear out the dressing room, free up wages and (most importantly) create an atmosphere of positivity is clear, but I don’t like when we churn through promising talent without providing proper development opportunities. Regrets, we have a few.
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Hail hail
Silverado?
” I don’t like when we churn through promising talent without providing proper development opportunities.”
Perhaps what the manager has seen on the training ground and fleeting games on field, doesn’t merit their inclusion in the game squad 🤔
Promising talent is all well and good but only in addition to actual talent. Too much promising talent makes little difference in the here and now as seems to be the case. Let’s hope lessons have been learnt.
We also need to allow the fan groups back in this week. If we kick off against Livi and CP remains quiet, then it could again descend into audible groans as we strap ourselves in for a frustrating afternoon. Let’s get the noise up, the atmosphere improved and give the players a platform.
We’ve enough enemies without going to war against ourselves. The board will undoubtedly fear increased protests but they need to stop harming the team and get CP up for a season defining two weeks.
Obviously the manager does not see them as “promising talent”.
Paul67
Is it possible in the near future that you could do a post of the structure of our scouting network,and the number of scouts ,and where they are based .
Also establish who discovered Kwon ,Yang ,Kobayashi ,Bernardo ,Bernabei.Tillio,Palma ,Oh .
What role in highlighting players have the players agents played .
For many years our recruitment has been unreliable ,to say the least .
TT
We need performers at centre forward and centre half, and a wizard pushed from the same mould as Lubo or Naka.
We can make do and mend with the rest.
UPLIKEABIRD @10.20
Rubbish man, so now you are a body language expert, clown.
O’Reilly is one of the very few real talents we have. Sure , he’ll be off, but at a time that suits Celtic. As for snidey grins, ffs, is the guy not allowed to smile !!!!
KINGLuBO
Are you saying P67, that our problems mostly stem from a coupla grumpy pro’s who are not getting a game?
Re the Jap camp, we didn’t see Daizen and Kyogo miss a beat when Ideguchi was sidelined or shipped out – so why would Yuki’s plight be affecting them ?
And far from moping, BR indicated Nat’s attitude and personality have been exemplary all the while.
Re big Gus – has he done a Gamboa and somehow rubbed Rodgers up the wrong way ?
If Maik goes back to Legia, we’ll be diluting his value from the 5mill allegedly paid.
As for ‘churn through promising talent without providing proper development opportunities…’ why did we sign so many couldabeens to cool their heels when that could create ructions??
Finally… 72mill banked and we need to ‘free up wages’ before improving a mentally fragile squad!! Where’s Lenny’s team shrink when you need him ?
Prestonpans Bhoys
12.08
What other logical reason can there be for Brendan to not pick those players ?
Unless they have bad attitudes .
Which I very much doubt .
TT
hearing from a good source brendan gives kyogo a real hard time on the training ground
Maybe that would be the source of discontentment that our japanese contingent harbour??
And also the drop in form
Clunks
If that’s the case, Why is the obvious question
KINGLuBO
Test
QUADROPHENIAN
“Jap” camp?
Come on mate, we’re better than that.
Heard this heard that..
Aye ?
OOOT
“PRESTONPANS BHOYS on 19TH DECEMBER 2023 12:08 PM
Perhaps what the manager has seen on the training ground and fleeting games on field, doesn’t merit their inclusion in the game squad 🤔”
Not privvy to the training ground but the fact that Kwon made the last squad and Lager did not after his showing against Feyenoord I still cannot fathom no matter what either are doing in training.
CLUNKS on 19TH DECEMBER 2023 12:16 PM
“hearing from a good source brendan gives kyogo a real hard time on the training ground”
What constitutes a “hard time” – vocal instructions on how to play in his system? I didn’t even think Brendan did much on the training ground – I thought Chris Davies ran most of it in his first spell.
QB
Assuming the majority, if not all were identified and scouted under the Ange era,
BR coning in unexpectedly will regret going with targets that wermt his. HAs he underestimated?
Anyway, his reputation is now on the line. If he is overtaken by this Sevco side, he will loose his job. No ther focus other than BR for me, he now as to prove why he is an “Elite manager,”
GEEBEE
Just a casual, informal abbreviation with absolutely zero malice in me: Scots camp. Pommie camp…. yada.
But that’s all you could comment on in my post. Bravo!
FUXACHE CSC
Windae hingin bettys quick nooz!!!
I can exkloosively reveal nuhhin.
Above all the dust n shrapnel of our digital kroo.i think we will still win this league.
Stop shitin yourselves,you are Celtic men n woman.
Work to do,but when has that not been the case Celts.Brendan get on with it.
There is a prize trophy to be won
HH
P67 joining Brendan, in driving a coach and horses ,through Mark Lawwell’s laughable attempts at ‘recruitment ‘,what was his previous experience at scouting players? He made the tea at the Man City Training Academy, nowhere near any influence at the top end of Pep’s team,so why is he at Celtic, in a vital position? I think we probably know…..
“While you, me, the manager and captain can agree we need to strengthen in January”
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Well of course we could have strengthened in July, then we wouldn’t be in such a panic now! And we might even have European football to look forward to.
Of course in July we didn’t know if our old firm partners would be in the Champions League…..
Last January……Oh and Johnson
what about the 20mil Mark Lawwell has already blow, would anybody trust this chancer ?
i have received an EMAIL from CELTIC FC this morning wishing me a Happy Birthday.
In the Email there is also a brief VIDEO with CALMAC and JOE HART and Two of the Ghirls team wishing me a happy birthday…
How did Celtic KNOW when my birthday was ?
I am not a share holder…and I havent been a season book holder for several years due to ill health ?
I must ask Inspector Clouseau to investigate this ?
LOL
HH
One day someone will explain what qualifies Mark Lawwell to be head of recruitment.
I won’t hold my breath.
QUADROPHENIAN
Not comparable to Scot or Pom.
Closer to P*ki or Ch*nk but carry on.
The irony is:
Our recruitment team is a Project who are buying Projects
Can we please have a coupe of proper established footballers
67ECW
Paul 67,
It is indeed baffling
We either trust our manager or we do not.
I trust our manager. For now.
HH.
Any sign of a Burke, Bayo, Shved, Weah, Toljan?
GEEBEE
What irks is they folk who automatically presume or jump to the worst in something they see online.
Ever-vigilant to perceive and take offence when none intended or given.
It’s a simple abbreviation and I know my heart way better than you ever can. I checked and still zero malice in me. No malice to you either.
But inferring I’m somehow racist is right out of order.
How about kicking Lawell out the door (we may need an excavator bucket to shift him, but i’m sure this can be arranged) and letting the GB in?
Lawell has cost the club a lot more money than the GB ever could in fines.
Maybe the manager likes quick players in his defence!!!
IMO brendan is not the same brendan we had the first time
His time aat leicester has jaded him
After his first couple of games he was no where near as charming and assured in his press conferences and after match interviews
Also he no longer has chris davies behind him to strategise and analyse, which is a huge loss
P67’s continuing none too subtle whispering campaign against the manager fills me with alarm. Given he is Lawwell’s orifice. A house divided etc.
If there is a fundamental confusion of roles and responsibilities regarding recruitment that’s on those appointing the manager. A big boy did it and ran away is a pitiable defence. A bit like the team’s atm.
All P67’s increasingly desperate attempts to frame Rodgers for the developing car crash tells me is that the club leadership is riven and rudderless. And all that’s left is to play the misdirection blame game. And pocket those bonuses.
Buckle up Board members, there will be a reckoning for your failures. The Board supporting suckers on this platform aren’t representative of the wider fan base. They can see right through incompetent, unaccountable fat cats ripping the you know what out of them whilst keeping their noses deep in the Old Firm trough.
They also see that Ange was just a lucky interregnum between the 10 season and now. Rodgers is not the common denominator 👍
PETERLATCHFORDSBELLY on 19TH DECEMBER 2023 1:49 PM
“P67’s continuing none too subtle whispering campaign against the manager fills me with alarm. Given he is Lawwell’s orifice. A house divided etc.”
It’s a wonder P67 managed to post any articles when PL was not at the club. In your mind did PL take time out of his day each day to write blogs for P67 despite not being part of the club anymore?! :]
QB
Quadbhoy
I applaud your naïveté 👏👏👏👏
We need better wingers .
Maeda and Abada won’t solve the lack of quality crosses coming into the box .
TT
StMirren on the 2nd of Jan is also a very difficult fixture .
TT