Steven Gerrard went on the 11th hour, of the 11th day, of the 11th month. It is as though he was trolling those who yesterday were his comrades. No matter what we think of the other lot, you or I would have more taste than to do that to them. He could have waited another hour.
To Celtic fans, he will forever be the man who clung on after a curtailed season and then stopped 10-in-a-row, but we will lament today, as Gerrard leaves Glasgow. He was a walking UB40 manager, one League Cup semi-final defeat away from being able to sing, “I am the one in 10…. a statistic, a reminder”, of nine failed campaigns.
For months, I wrote here that I wanted him to stay. Celtic’s complete collapse last season made the league a non-event. Gerrard oversaw another year of massive and unsustainable overspend, and coasted to the title. Despite this, his squad was unmarketable, planning was all about consumption today, to hell with tomorrow.
The main reason I wanted him to stay, however, turns out to be false. Gerrard’s current contract was signed after it became public knowledge that Brendan Rodgers had a £9m release clause in his Celtic contract. Surely, I assumed, those sharp minds at Ibrox would tie Gerrard down on nothing less than the same terms. Newco need £9m more than they need a manager who can only win when there is no opposition.
However, Villa will pay £4.5m compensation to deprive Newco of their management team. Lots of things in football are out of your control, but the figure required to adequately compensate a club to allow their manager to break his contract? Someone slipped up here, and on this occasion, it was not Gerrard.
£4.5m will keep the lights on for another three weeks, if they don’t need to pay compensation for the next guy. Anyone in a job is likely to cost as much, if not more. Now comes the work of attracting a quality candidate to a club in the 10th year of living beyond its means. Some sort of miracle worker, would be ideal.
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Bye! por cierto
SAINT STIVS on 11TH NOVEMBER 2021 12:04 PM
I know its unfashionable, but thems should not go for a “name” like for like to Gerrard, an untried poster boy, its too risky, they really need someone who takes over distressed clubs and steadys the good ship dignity with an experienced head and wins things.
like this guy.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FD5_5U2X0AEyB2P?format=jpg&name=900×900
Sorry Paul67 ,it was 10.00 ,did you forget to put your clock back HH
One trophy in nine against Brendan Rodgers and Lenny. Villa relegated by Easter.
His replacement will be cheap and without compensation. Need to look at the unemployed list😱
Prestonpans Bhoy, think you meant unemployable. 😂
BIG GEORGES FAN CLUB – HAIL, HAIL, WEE OSCAR on 11TH NOVEMBER 2021 11:44 AM
TURKEYBHOY mentioned the Maeda video, and I see a few of you bhoys have watched it.
For any others who haven’t, and ease of reference – and amid the SG hilarity – I’ve re-posted it here. I’d recommend you all have a look at this boy – looks like a cracker – Daizen Maeda (5’8” for all you height-enthusiasts).
As I mentioned last night, he would be amazing in this Celtic team. Honestly – please have a look – it’s impossible not to be excited at the prospect of seeing him in the Hoops.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRJJgxt2Bcc
(Unless, of course, all of your attention is spent on drooling over GG – and I don’t mean the impending new Greek Ghod that is Γιώργος Γιακουμάκης).
HH
BGFC
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As good as the fella looks , I have to say did they introduce a new rule in Japan that the goalkeepers are not allowed to use their hands ?
11% win rate too
Mmmm. Remember when Souness went to Newcastle? He bought duds for a lot of money. Will we see Villa paying for Kent, Aribo and Tavernier? £30m? Is this what Robertson meant by being in profit soon? Can’t sell on the open market? Get a plant with bank account access…
Well I for one am glad more to see the back of his backroom team than him.
Check the league table – they are top no matter how they achieve it
Lets hope for a vacuum and a bit of instability at Mordor that we can exploit.
The debt is the biggest obstacle to them getting a replacement,unless its someone really desperate to get back working.We are on the up,and will get better.They are in a rut,and will only get worse.Managers looking for a job are not stupid.We heard John Dal Thomasson about them.A bit of checking is all it takes.
I wouldn’t be so quick to dance on his grave,the Establishment and the referees are already in sync with the CL money at stake this season, they will close ranks even more now.
Calhun Davidson
does anyone really believe they got £4.5 million in compensation ? I dont.
CHAIRBHOY on 11TH NOVEMBER 2021 9:54 AM
MCPHAIL BHOY @ 9:07 AM,
You don’t like the term?
Not too found of it myself, truth be told.
However a lot of folk went to a whole heap of trouble to resurrect the old firm when Rangers died.
My preference is we forget about new Rangers and forge a lone path to make Celtic the best we can be, a top twenty European side.
However we seem to be stuck with the Five Way Agreement and the Old Firm Business model at the moment, so there you have it.
I think of it as our toxic underbelly or darkside, of course you must view it as you wish and use what linguistics you feel are appropriate.
Hail Hail
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From previous thread, agreed
Gerrard to Villa and Rodgers to Leicester, once again it reveals the absolute fantasy of football fans to believe that their clubs are so entrenched into the hearts of their managers and players. Nothing could be further from the truth, nothing. Sure, they are committed to doing their very best whilst in employment, but to assume that they have an emotional attachment to the teams they work for is way off the mark. It is all about the money with these people! It is only the supporters who have this emotional attachment, no one else, no one! por cierto.
Frank de Boer and GVB and both out of work, as is McInnes who they fancied before.
clutch of managers sacked in England recently but they will be happy of the rest
The lack of funds is an interesting one. Rodgers came to us and spent very little over his 3 years (relative to the Lennon spend). The deal must have been that he got the money and he was to work his magic on a talented but underachieving (a bit harsh) squad.
If it is all about transfer kitty, why did Rodgers take the job? Probably liked the club/job more than people give him credit for after he left
DUMBHOY on 11TH NOVEMBER 2021 12:17 PM
Mmmm. Remember when Souness went to Newcastle? He bought duds for a lot of money. Will we see Villa paying for Kent, Aribo and Tavernier? £30m? Is this what Robertson meant by being in profit soon? Can’t sell on the open market? Get a plant with bank account access…
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Do Aston Villa not have a Director of Football? There’s no way a club trying to stay in the Premiership would waste a fiver on any of them never mind tens of millions! Fantasy football league stuff
Oldfirmquicknews again. Really, who cares about It’s-Definitely-Not-Rangers?
Absolutely no relevance to Celtic, or at least it wouldn’t have if there were quality people running the club who had a vision beyond the old firm.
St Stivs,
Goalkeepers hands are usually redundant when a goal is scored against them.
If not,its usually called a save.
Glad to be of assistance old chap.
they are taking it well on ranjurs meeja.
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theiving scouse **** seen peddaling into birmingham on the saint etienne bike while drinking holy water from the loving cup.
Load of nonsense about Rangers players going to Villa.They need to survive.Gerrard has already forgot about them.Anyway,which player,\s would be good enough for the EPL.
GLASSTWOTHIRDSFULL on 11TH NOVEMBER 2021 12:28 PM
Oldfirmquicknews again. Really, who cares about It’s-Definitely-Not-Rangers?
Absolutely no relevance to Celtic, or at least it wouldn’t have if there were quality people running the club who had a vision beyond the old firm.
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Our nearest rivals lose their manager and it looks like this backroom team and it’s none of our business? I respectfully disagree. Whether they were founded 150 years ago (they weren’t!) or in reality 2012, they are the top of the league, current league champions and the only team (currently) who can stop Celtic winning the league. It is our business
TURKEYBHOY on 11TH NOVEMBER 2021 12:28 PM
St Stivs,
Goalkeepers hands are usually redundant when a goal is scored against them.
If not,its usually called a save.
Glad to be of assistance old chap.
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i was meaning the actual lack of attempts to save the shots, have a look at them again, oh and the piss poor defending.
once a ranger, always a ranger, well apart from today.
https://content.invisioncic.com/Mrangmedia/monthly_2021_11/C7D30C04-DB1A-4F7A-98CE-F82BDC863BE6.thumb.jpeg.fe0bb77880423d71631cdee918fc2678.jpeg
I think we have to give Slippy and his team last year a bit more credit than that we were awful. 102 points is a massive haul . Even if we had won 2 games against them, we still lose the league by 13 points. A few points possibly gleaned by ‘honest mistakes’ but we had a few lucky points too. Allied to the excellent play in the Europe, that is why he got the move.
Kent is the only player Slippy would take. Ex Liverpool and has the pace to survive in EPL
Watching Villa’s porous defence really does prove that Tyrone mings.
I think Goldson offers more maturity than some of wot they have there and rumours are he’s unsettled.
Goldson, Kent (as a kind of chavvy Grealish) are two who might embellish their squad.
Now time for Ange to earn his corn and put boots to throats. HH
Thoughts with JHB on this sad day for all the zombie bears :-O
There is also the intergrity question.
Exiting team knew they’d get decisions from diving and protected when fouling and clearly instruct the team to do such.
Many managers do not set their team out to do that, so, if the go for a modern footballing type coach they’d have to corrupt them to their mordor ways.
Suggests, then, they have to go for an uberhun to take advantage of the refs, in particular, this season.
Some managers/coaches point blank do not accept diving and cheating.
SS- £4.5 million in the eyes of the hun hordes and the SMSM, about 1 million for any creditors hawking about.
I think he done a very good job for Sevco.
To get a squad of players who, in my opinion, wouldn’t (and won’t ever) fetch £10m COMBINED in the transfer market to a clear 2nd for 2 years and then 1st in the league is good going.
He come up against…
Forster
Tierney
Ajer
Brown
Edouard etc… Real players with pedigree who will be a sought after by richer teams.
My point being, Sevco game him hasbeens, free transfers and players from clubs who were so desperate
to get Hagi, Roofe, Kent and the guy from Hull off their wage bill, that they’ll accept monthly HP payments.
I think he’ll do well in England.
Even the dumbest of the sevs will realise in January that no one is interested in any of their players- certainly no clubs that pay wages more than Sevco.
Delighted that the odious Steven Gerrard is leaving the new club, a nothing manager on the brink of exit but for Covid.
A ‘big’ name in England his playing reputation spread via SKY and BBC’s questionable coverage, when in fact very few ‘legendary’ players make great managers ( Neville, Lampard, OGS, Bruce, to name a few ) Much more harmful than his exit, is the psychological harm to his squad, all manacled to their contracts, with not one viable offer made in his time at the Penniless Arcade. More harmful than that, is he’s taking the kitchen sink in football terms, and backroom staff can’t be replaced overnight, never mind hit the ground running.
All that’s left in the kitty are the massacres in George Square.
Paul67 et al
You are obviously not as close to the Rangers Board as you are to the Celtic one.
The Aston Villa CEO called Jim White at TalkSport at ten this morning, kinda put the kaibosh on your own rather tasteless allusion. Did get the day and the month right to be fair. As for not rating the squad over at Ayebrokes, do I hear the sound of His Master Voice here? I do believe I do. A warning, early doors, not to build up our own expectations as regarding strengthening our own squad after the turn of the year. Thankfully Ange does not see it that way, and I am pretty sure the Celtic support, see it his way.
In Ange We Trust
The Hun blueprint for winning football matches won’t fly in England but I guess Gerard and his gang understand that …. So I don’t believe there will be an exodus of players to Villa.
Hopefully it will just piss off the Hun players , as Gerard got them playing a game which few teams want to replicate , hence they are stuck at Ipox ….
The spine of their team will be gone soon …. Shagger , Goldson and Davis …. Fatty likely to have a strop and get shown the door ….
This must be viewed as an opportunity to get our house in order.
Bolster the entire footballing operation. Give Ange the support he deserves.
Do not leave him covering so many aspects.
Spend wisely in January.
Watch sevco disappear in the rear view mirror.
Coneybhoy –
Last season stats for der doppelgangers was only bettered in history by Brendan Celtic.
as time passes and i reflect more on that season I am convinced they cheated, the benefited from refereeing , they went unpunished often, record breaking penalities for, none against, no sending offs, no fans helped them.
the covid champions, 1 in a row.
How many Celtic players did Rogers ‘poach’ for Leicester?
I’m hoping for McInnes – Celtic done him over umpteen times when he was at Aberdeen. The trend would continue.