[Official TC Thread] Celtic 25/26 Summer transfer window: Stage: Something Stinks and it's not happylosses' sweaty baws

The minute I heard that line from Lawwell my stomach turned. * biscuit tin, loser mentality.

Pathetic.

 

Celtic have recruited seven players this summer, paying fees for Benjamin Nygren, Hayato Inamura, Shin Yamada and Callum Osmand, with Kieran Tierney and Ross Doohan arriving on frees and Jahmai Simpson-Pusey on loan.

Only Nygren and Tierney started on Wednesday, while the likes of Nicolas Kuhn and Kyogo Furuhashi who starred in the Champions League last term have been sold and not replaced, while Jota is out injured long term.

"We need to improve the squad," Rodgers said. "There's been clarity around that for a long time. Supporters see that. Hopefully between now and the end of the season, the club will get that and that will support us.

"It's not my decision in the end. I can prepare the players that are here. We are all clear on where we need to improve, and for whatever reason we haven't been able to do that.

"We're in this position, we have to accept that and not dwell on it, and try and come through it.

"There's only so many ways that I can dress up that we don't have the players here.

"It was pretty clear. You don't need to look into the future too far. You know these games are tough and you want to have players in as quick as you can to tackle thesesituations. It is what it is. I have to accept where it's at."

 

He is a fat snakey *. Slithered back after Covid.

 

Am sick tonight honestly a feel * empty. Scunnered a hoped I was wrong a was hoping the usual suspects on here would give me pelters.

 

Even if we bring some proper quality in, and I doubt we will, the damage has been done. The board have sabotaged the playing squad, poisoned the relationship with the fans and seriously pi**ed-off the manager. All before the end of August.

 

10 days for the * in charge to right their wrongs. CL or EL we need some * players in so stop counting cash and erecting fences and get recruiting FFS.

 

Same too mate. Sick as a parrot.
If we go out, our season will be wrecked before it's even started.

How did it come to this ?

 

* every one of the roasters in our support that continually attempt to justify the deliberately executed managed decline of our football club.

There’s been plenty of the “it’s not that easy, do you think we’re playing football manager?” creeps on here over the years.

Every one of you are complicit in this.

Maribor, Legia Warsaw, Ferencvaros, Malmo, Artmedia Bratislava, Cluj, AEK Athens, Midtjylland, probably Kairat Almaty.

An absolutely * shameful list of * who have brushed us aside in these CL qualifiers in recent years under the control of the decrepit old * in the boardroom.

Hundreds of millions of pounds, and huge opportunity for development * away due to * levels of mismanagement.

A complete and utter waste of potential.

In 5-10 years when Celtic are an even more of an irrelevance in European football than we are now and with no feasible way back, with smaller but better run clubs overtaking us, we’ll look back at this time as the final nail in the coffin.

We’re another Steaua Bucharest or Red Star Belgrade in the making.

Waste of potential. The first thing that I think of when I hear the name Celtic. Sad.

 

Our transfer strategy seems to be:

• Take a few cheap punts early in the window
• Look to sign successful loans to permanent deals mid window
• Hold off on the scouted expensive signings until late in the window
• Grab what's left over at the end of the window - mostly loans

When we've got CL qualifiers we end up with major holes in the squad and it comes back to bite us.

We've all heard it's difficult to sign in-demand players earlier in the window. So whats the solution? I'm thinking we need to cast the scouting net wider, approach players early in the window and let them know that if an agreement can't be made quickly, we'll be moving on to our next target. If you're not convinced about joining Celtic, we don't need you.

 

Very sad yet brilliant post

 

The same roasters will be out in force in the coming days harping on about domestic dominance as a way of defending the board.

 

95% could run the club better working a ten hour week.

I'm not exaggerating there either.

 

Its absolutely infuriating to keep paying a fortune every year to watch this * pish.

 

* joke we've got last seasons 4th and 5th choice wingers playing most of the game tonight between them. Heads need to roll in the board room