News that the sun is setting on Amido Balde’s Celtic career will be welcomed far and wide. His arrival on the back of a few YouTube clips and what now appears to have been a Portuguese marketing scam is a salutary lesson on how easy it is to expire transfer and wage budget, while incurring the even greater cost of poor recruits – Champions League failure.
We will never get them all right, but the processes Celtic went through to recruit a striker in the summers of 2012 (Lassad, Miku), 2013 (Balde, Pukki) and 2014 (Guidetti, Scepovic) are worth some urgent revision. None were able to hold down a regular place in the team.
In mitigation, it’s easier to recruit a keeper or a defender (which we’ve done very well at recently) than a striker, but there will be lessons to learn from those six signings. Quickly, I hope.
On the positive side, all of the aforementioned arrived with a degree of realism attached. I noticed this morning: “Wabara really is in the mould of Barcelona great Dani Alves”. This isn’t fun anymore. Honest football fans (many are) are being treated like simpletons.
It’s like that Steve Carell movie, Dinner for Schmucks, where Paul Rudd doesn’t have the stomach to laugh at absurdly unfortunate guests. Better they are put out of their misery than dragged through an ignominious humiliation before inevitably emptying their pockets at the alter of a Sports Direct retail contract.
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WITS,When will you give it a rest. cliftonville simply said they don’t want to talk about it.They lived through it,they are getting on with their lives now,there is nothing to be gained by constantly regurgitating the same subject.
O.G.Rafferty at 21.10.
Re.that DUP advisor and church minister accused of spying on and filming young women through a hole in the toilet wall.
A case of “we are the peep hole” by the sound of it.
It’s the start of Wimbledon… after all
MadMitch
“I really do wonder if he has acquired any French property over the years?”
Well there was Perrier-Doumbe and N’Guemo and Moyokoulo.
The H @ 22.19
Crowds down.
Playing budgets down.
Nike walking away.
Turnover down.selling club — no net player investment.
Millions written off due to a string of inexplicably bad forward buys.
No investment in the area around CP outside some CwG insisted paving.
Ronny has saved his and our bacon.
Another BTM shambles — 9th out of a shortlist of 12 is my guess — and they would have been dancing in the Streets of Sheepyville in May.
P67
Normal service resumed?
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“For the first few years, Pl did a decent job of getting Celtic\’92s financial house in order.”\
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I’m still no convinced about that.\
WGS came in on supposed austerity started but he increased the squad and spent similar money to MON on wages. CL qualification by WGS and NL have contributed to reducing any debt more than anything PL contributed.\
Has the wage bill dropped that that much ?\
What we have seen is lower quality of player which has led to lower attendance figures that is a direct result of PL’s contribution of reducing player quality. IMO of course.\
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OK, we’re back. Some issues logging in but they should clear shortly.
wits@20:48
“He is entitled to his opinion, an opinion shared by the majority of irish people”
You’ll be able to back that claim up, please direct me to your source that shows the majority of Irish people consider the IRA were just a bunch of murdering bastards, macjays opinion.
gents … having trouble logging in, so not sure if this will go through. Just, in case i dont respond to someone, no offence intended to anyone!
BMCUW
“As it is,with no competition to speak of,his policies undermine us when they should be underpinning us.”
We are back to the old circular argument again.
People can go on believing that, if we had just bought a wee £5m pound centre forward now and again, CL qualification would always be a skoosh and we would get beyond the last 16 glass ceiling and we would probably make more money by doing so.
It is an assertion that is unlikely to be ever put to the test with anyone who is gambling with their own money. Short of getting a sugar daddy, willing to risk the likely hit they will take, we will never see “speculate to accumulate” again in the SPFL. The one time it was tried by SDM, it crashed and burned. Even in richer climes, Man City have not yet emulated the Chelsea model, despite outspending them. The new elite is Barca, Real and Bayern, with PSG and Chelsea playing the Andy Murray role to their Djokovic/Nadal and Federer status.
So, it will remain a safe argument to assert because nobody with that level of recklessness is ever likely to get their hands on the purse strings to be given a chance to let loose.
And, yes, I know all about the bad buys and I still believe that, if they had been all £3 to £5m instead of £2m to £3m, we would still have had a list of duds and failures to complain about.
The list Awe Naw produced today was just the same type of exercise we used to indulge in with “They disgraced the Hoops”. And they will always be with us, because the man (or club) that never made a mistake never made anything.
And if the assertion is that we are making a higher percentage of mistakes than everyone else, well I’d like to see the workings for that assertion. As far as I can see, every club has its duds in its transfer record.
Our transfer window complaining will remain a safe sport for all the family to indulge themselves with.
Good night all
Not long now to the Fitbas back
Awe_Naw, like Lenny was a yes man?
‘Cause many of those on your list were in his tenure.
C’Mon, PL may be CEO, but he ain’t gonnae be picking out players to sign.
He has to vet them, financially, but not on a footballing level.
That is not his decision, someone says, yes, he is good enough. That ain’t PL.
JP, perhaps.
I have seen enough of Ronny now to believe he is no yes man.
Hey ho, we disagree, again:-)
Mike..,
My post @ 22:48 was to you, I very much doubt our finances would be much cop if WGS and NL failed in Europe.
Catch up with this tomorrow, laters.
Bobby Murdoch. Looks like your posts about PL were removed. Mmm
Big brother is watching
doc,
“C’Mon, PL may be CEO, but he ain’t gonnae be picking out players to sign.
He has to vet them, financially, but not on a footballing level.
That is not his decision, someone says, yes, he is good enough. That ain’t PL.
JP, perhaps.”
But the fact is you don’t know that and have as much confidence in your opinion as Awe_Naw…, but here is my fav, can you prove PL has not been making the final decisions on players worth in relation to their ability ?
sftb,
But we would make more money if we get to the last 16, I do believe that.
Are we any further forward ‘re the signing of janko , what is the hold up ?
The money has been spent – badly
I’m less bothered by the PL bonus than the number of bad players, or at least incompatible players, we sign.
Who is responsible?
I don’t think Lenny or WGS had much of a say in players bought or sold. They still managed success in Europe and makes me wonder what they could have achieved with more of a say
on signings. Spending no more money than already spent.
The finger must point at PL as the LCD
A wee glint of light this term – maybe
Time will tell
And even more beyond in fact I think its a given
With Regards To RD…Show me One Person Who Regards the C\L qualifiers with Trepidation..I Dont…Bring It..
SETTINGFREETHEBEARS
Ambition,a dirty word around Celtic Park.
SYDNEYTIM
I doubt they were censored deliberately. I trust PAUL67’s integrity and sense of fair play.
Canamalar. In any business a CEO empowers their staff to make decisions
But if the staff continually make wrong ones then it’s is the the CEO responsibilty as they are the ones who chose those staff
That’s why they get paid big bucks and that’s why CEO’s are pushed out for corporate failure
bucks stops at lawwel.
One or twice is unlucky. But this is virtually every transfer window for 5 years
Out you go Peter no more cash cow
Every team that plays the game could draw up a list of players that never made it.
Good night all
DD
Enjoy Wed night with yer two new recruits :)))))))))))))))))))))
Syd…,
That’s him got his feet under the table with the SFA and SPFL, full time and he’s looking at UEFA. Might not be too long till he’s off.
Bawbaws time
Night night n hail hail timdom
Baba O`Riley – The Who
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Canamalar. Hope it’s soon. He is stagnating out club. No forward planning only thing that is important is AGM balance sheet
Jamie T – Don’t You Find
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looks like a few posts have gone missing
Strange
Wonder if the post with the slur on Mr Stein has gone ?
PL obviously doing his hacking work before bedtime coco :O)
The crap written about Celtic on here tonight is a disgrace, if I had wrote it I would get dogs abuse. Pathetic bunch of so called tims.
Willie Nelson – Funny How Time Slips Away
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Conway Twitty – Tight Fittin Jeans
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