You and I have lived through dark days before, but even during the darkest time in the 90s, we faced Rangers with a collective degree of self-belief. The lack of faith among the support over the visit of Newco tomorrow is tangible, with good reason.
Bournemouth’s USA-born Mexico international right back Julián Araujo could bolster our options on that flank after his loan arrival. He will surely start tomorrow. The player has made only one appearance this season, an EFL cup defeat to Brentford, so we should temper any anticipation he will sail through the afternoon.
Before every game recently I talk about the very obvious lessons learned from the previous outing. We will surely not repeat the positional shambles deployed at Motherwell on Tuesday. The formations which faced Aberdeen and Livingston will suffice, possibly augmented by Araujo.
Against Hearts, St Mirren, Dundee United and Aberdeen, Celtic hit the woodwork at least as many times as they scored. The laws of mathematics suggests we are in for an avalanche when our flattering expected goals tally delivers what it promises. That’s about as much optimism as I can muster.
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Think I’ll call it Friday.
Welcome aboard Araujo!
HH!
Shoot
And it hits the back of aipple for a corner 🫣
Why are we throwing this new guy in at the deep end ?
Risky for all concerned.
PRESTONPANS BHOYS re: corner
Hopefully you have a set piece coach.
We are now an over reactive football club as opposed to proactive club.
Shambles and sack the lot now.
un-fkn believable
I dont know about coach but i have a set piece
couch , lol.
Aipple on 2nd January 2026 12:05 pm
PRESTONPANS BHOYS re: corner
Hopefully you have a set piece coach
Yip, it’s the same guy who sets up our smallest players to mark the opposition’s biggest 🙄
Welcome Julian – we’re not usually this calamitous
Paul67 – Unfortunately it’s clear that lessons aren’t being learned. But Brendan’s away so that’s the main thing.
Until the architects of the shitshow are shown the door.
The shitshow will continue.
12 appearances last season, 1 Carabao Cup appearance this season, a 5 foot 9 RB….can hardly contain my excitement…add in a dodgy hamstring and he will fit right in
Maestro we’ve been like that for 10 years.
Shambles R Us
If we literally had any other manager in the league taking us tomorrow, I’d be confident of beating a poor Rangers side.
Lyndon Dykes isn’t getting a game with Birmingham……..
At least another 3 more loanees like Araujo, please i.e. who will walk in to team in positions that clearly need addressed.
Reappoint MoN, Shaun, Fozzy et. al. until the end of the season.
Overhaul and recruit adequately qualified personnel to run the football department between now and season end.
Appoint an independent chairman to recruit new NEDs and overhaul corporate governance.
I’m sure there’s plenty more to be doing, but this would be a start. There’s no time to waste.
repeats. never let go of a winning manager.
lionsroar ta for the hearts financial stuff. interesting.
not having european games this season has affected turnover for sure but that might be recovered by attendances and hospitality.
that FoH organization. 11million donations in 2 seasons. wealthy fanbase .
Sack the board.
john Kennedy
New Year, same old Board Apologist Propanganda.
We never had £80m cash in the bank in the 90s.
We are here because the Celtic board this site blindly supports whilst it runs us into the ground has put us here.
Nepotism and arrogance everywhere to be seen.
An article full of word salad.
Gaslighting Quick News
Enabling Quick News
Despicable Desmond. The vindictive spite of the unaccountable and out of touch. They all go mad in the end…
Is that a doppelganger blogger GM?
What have Rangers got to do with anything?
The board who’d rather pay 8 figures to HMRC in Corp Tax than buy a striker of sufficient quality.
A board who out of all the managers in the world, stumbled upon WN.
Whose fault is that Paul, Brendan Rodgers or The Green Brigade?
Running out of people to blame for our predicament.
Without a doubt Huns favourites tomorrow
We are a shambles and have shown no signs of improving
My only prayer, – when we have been red hot favourites – it never works out like that
Its a one off game
But win lose or draw
This guy is not our guy
67ECW
Celtic have signed Bournemouth defender Julian Araujo on loan for the rest of the season.
The Mexican, who can operate at full-back and wing-back, becomes Wilfried Nancy’s first signing for Celtic and is likely to feature on the right side of the new manager’s preferred 3-4-3 formation.
The most recent of the 24-year-old’s 14 Bournemouth appearances came in an EFL Cup loss to Brentford in August, with Araujo sent off for a second booking.
He previously played for LA Galaxy and Las Palmas, the latter on loan from Barcelona.
“This is a top club and I can’t wait to get going and work hard with the other players to bring our fans success,” Araujo told Celtic media.
“I know the demands at a club like Celtic, and I am ready for these. I’m looking forward to the challenges ahead and I want to play my part in bringing good times and good, winning football to our supporters.
“I have met the boys already. We have some great players in the squad and we are all ready to tackle the second half of the season and do as much as we can for the fans.”
Nancy said: “We are delighted to bring Julian to Celtic. He is a really talented player with a good level of experience and we think the qualities he will bring will be really beneficial to the squad.”
Celtic’s next game is Saturday’s Scottish Premiership meeting at home to Glasgow rivals Rangers.
‘ We will surely not repeat the positional shambles deployed at Motherwell on Tuesday. ‘
I wouldn’t bet against our Walter Mitty manager coming up with a different but equally shambolic positional shambles .
Nothing he has done so far makes any sense to me or, apparently ,to the players .
Blogger GM – good points
DessyBhoy from earlier, I was at Barrowfield on Wednesday, the Dome is great and the surface is the best I have seen but it’s still freezing inside 🥶
SECTION111 on 2ND JANUARY 2026 12:25 PM
The board who’d rather pay 8 figures to HMRC in Corp Tax than buy a striker of sufficient quality.
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I think we’ve paid our last corporation tax bill for the foreseeable future.
You were shilling Nancy before anyone else was Brennan. You are part of the problem, not part of the solution.
Julian or Jullien.
Hopefully not another lesser spotted
HH.
No striker(s) or is that too much,given what we have up front.Julian to score…now that would be amazing.Three points tomorrow….feel it.HH
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Less than 3 months ago, we went to Tynecastle and started with 2 rookies in the right side of our defence.
The opposition manager targetted that vulnerability and an above average opponent (by their standards) beat us convincingly.
I wish the new guy every success at CP, but please dont repeat a similar error tomorrow by starting Araujo.
Its one thing playing a forward or midfielder, but starting a defender who has had no time to “acclimatise “, won’t know the set pieces, and will barely know his team mates names, is a disaster in the making.
I
Celtic’s players would learn more from ex-Celtic hero, STEPHEN PRESSLEY, THAN big WILF will ever learn from the game.
Maybe the Hun players will be told to lie down dead on the pitch the morra for Old Firm reasons, and trick the dim Tims into thinking that big WILF is the real deal. lol
What a time to be alive.
HH
oot.
Celtic signings under Paul Tisdale:
🇹🇳 Tounekti (£5.2M)
🇨🇩 Balikwisha (£5M)
🇯🇵 Yamada (£1.5M)
🇯🇵 Inamura (£250K)
🇸🇪 Nygren (£1.3M)
🏴 Tierney (Free)
🏴 Doohan (Free)
🇯🇪 Osmand (Free)
🇳🇬 Iheanacho (Free)
🏴 JSP (Loan)
🇺🇾 Sarrachi (Loan)
ClashCity
I wouldn’t worry too much that the new guy won’t know the set pieces. He should slot in seamlessly then
Section111 @ 12:22
“Enabled Quick News”
Bang on.