The board

There needs to be total agreement across all of the fans re what type of protests we can organise fir the best effect. Would it be to much to ask supporters clubs and fans forums etc to ask their members for suitable suggestions that would have the greatest impact as, if protests are just a few fans with banners or parts of the stadium just chanting sack the board then it won't have any affect on those tory *

 

The graphic for replying to Celtic if anyone needs/wants.

 

So after that cluster * the other night, the clubs response to try and salvage some PR kudos is to double down on rumours of 3 players we have been linked with for 3-13months already?

Shows them for what they are. useless *.

 

Not mine...found on FB

But still haha

 

You have to wonder what the thinking is. Genuinely have to wonder. They love love love going to the shareholders with profit at the end of the year. So that's one aspect. The other is that they are so insular that they really believe domestic success is all that is required. Another is that they have no fresh ideas. Old, male, pale and stale. The last is that Brendan is gone at the end of the season and they know it. They have no intention of backing him. They know he won't leave because he looks to have genuinely come back to make up with the fans. So they feel they can get away with it.

 

Rodgers leaving shouldn’t have any bearing on strengthening the team though, any forward thinking team that is: which obviously we aren’t snd haven’t been for a long time.

 

You do have to wonder. I'm not normally one for conspiracy theories but it's impossible to find a good reason why the people in charge of the club would deliberately weaken both our starting 11 and our squad overall. Especially with a CL qualifier to navigate. I genuinely can't think of another team that would do something like this.

 

I never thought id ever say it because boy was he contentious in so many ways for joining the club when he did.

But miss the days of John Reid being chairman

 

Do what any good asset strippers do get the maximum amount in with the lowest acceptable output they can get away with.

It’s not even just the playing squad… the stadium is much closer to the standard of grounds in the 70’s and 80’s than it is compared to newer stadia, the ground around the stadium save for the Celtic way is an eye sore it should be paved the full way around, we’ve using cheap tarp to cover the stadium exterior than looking for a more permanent solution, we don’t operate digital tickets or have a ticket exchange platform and even though it’s relatively minor but we lined the pockets of a now ex but at the time current rangers chairmen’s for use of his coach company fleet instead of investing in our branded coach.

Everything and I mean everything this club does is on the cheap.

 

I genuinely think it is simply a case of well paid people having an extremely comfortable gig that really requires very little of them. They are happy avoiding making any decsions that risks that comfy position. The business is funded by the fans regardless of what the board do and by champions league money that until this season was automatic. I dont think there is anything deeper than that

 

The weird part is though that they always make signings in the end.

I think the last 7 years transfer windows we average signing almost 4 players in the last 3/4 days of the summer window per year.

It's like they've got ADHD and can't be bothered doing something they don't NEED to do until they get to the very end then need to do it so they do it but they do this every year without fail.

 

Better than today, but also part of the long term problem of managed decline.


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I dont think they are prepared to allow the club to have a non profitable year. It impacts the entire club strategy for spending.

I think they would rather take the gamble on not qualifying for CL, budget accordingly and we dont get there spend less overall. As opposed to taking the risk of spending in advance and potentially not qualifying.

The reserves may as well not be there as they wont be dipped into. You can only assume that they consider the size of the cash reserves as a metric of success. More money bank = indication of better run club

 

But the last 2 years say we qualified automatically yet we still waited until the last 2 weeks of the summer windows to sign Idah, Bernardo, Trusty, Valle, Engels, McCowan, Lagerbielke, Phillips, Bernardo and Palma.

With 7 of these 10 guys joining right at the end of the window, about half on deadline day.

Basically it never matters whats going on off or on the park.

We always make 50% of our summer signings after say the 25th of August and we do it every year going back near a decade.

Could even say we do about 35% of our summer business from the 30th of August onwards. Consistently year in year out.

 

Yep I think it it all comes down to thinking with finances front and centre.

Last season for example they had the automatic CL entry but they didnt get the MOR deal completed until the last week of the window. I think thats why we left our own business so late as the board were waiting until that deal was finalised before making further spending decision.

This year we sold Kuhn early but didnt have the automatic CL entry. So again, board sit on things until they know exactly how much they can expect in.

It like every season the existing money we have in reserve is disregarded and the board treat the season like we are starting it with 0 in the bank and the aim is to make a profit for the year. Everything else must conform to fit that strategy even it makes no sense from a football perspective.

The only times we have gone into loss for a season recently is around Covid where we lost the title.

Its actually ok to look to make a profit annually but the extent to which that seems to be the absolute priority and the board are totally unprepared to even risk a loss for a season has really undermined the football team and alienating the fans and manager.

 

Shutting down stories of conflict between Brendan and the board members




And when you were after the match on Wednesday, there were a lot of questions directed towards you that you'd been unable to answer at that point. In terms of the situation you find yourself in, how much, if any, has this situation impacted your long-term aspect of this football club?

"Not at all. I think that I'm still in the same position. I need to one, earn the right to be here. Of course, I want what's best for Celtic. And I want us to be really successful in this short to long period. But people try and look to find that conflict between me and the board or me and whoever. It really isn't the case.

"The board here at the football club have over many years managed the financial side of the game and run the club to an impeccable level. My job here as the football manager is to really drive and demand and for us to live in a cycle where we can, okay, we understand that we will lose some players, but it doesn't have this massive impact that it seems to sometimes do and that we can just lose big players and then bring in other ones. That is the cycle I want us to be in. But there's certainly no conflict.

"Everyone at this club from the board to myself, we want the very, very best for Celtic. And for me, longer term, I don't think so much as a manager. We had the chances over the summer, but I said now the season starts, I only want to think of the football. I didn't want to think of the contract. Just think of the football. And that will come away later on if it does."

 

Just listened to 4 tims and a podcast there. All of them are absolutely spot on.

 

I smell *

 

Change yer knickers then

 

If that's the owner, the board and the manager doing their best then the whole fecking lot of them should be sacked.