Celtic Statement

We're one of the most financially stable clubs in europe, laughable to bring up uefa's ffp/sustainability rules as if we're anywhere near needing to worry about falling foul of them.

 

Really like Hamish on Celtic am... Seems a decent guy

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Peter has his wee group of media pals


Funny how the sun had that puff pish on Friday

 

Michael Stewarts comments in the latter part of the BBC article are good.

The board have made themselves look stupid. Complete clowns.

 

I would tend to agree.. just can't comprehend why they have done this to themselves.. surely they understand that the vast majority of logical Celtic supporters don't expect them to be throwing money around. Nobody expects players out of our financial reach. The majority just want a competitive squad of players with potential. Why hire Rodgers if he isn't compatible with the overall workings of the club.

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The clubs staff are responsible for signing players, being lazy or incompetent all summer is the cause for the lack of the needed replacements! leaving the manager and team weaker than previous seasons and causing us to be defeated by the weakest team yet to knock us out of the champions league costing the club £40 million pounds and the chance to play against the best sides in Europe and showcasing the club to the world and potential advertisers.

This a sackable offence anywhere else I'd say

 

Said it on the kairat thread two weeks ago.. any other business losing 40+ million of income due to such incompetence would see people moving on..

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After the article from Stephen McGowan that I posted earlier







Michael Gannon has posted his article in the record


It used to be known at Statement O’Clock during some of the wackier of the Rangers banter years.



The then Ibrox chiefs would stick out some bonkers release late on Friday nights that would have fans choking on their carry-outs.



Now it’s Celtic’s turn to hit the send button during the witching hours.


Saturday evening’s 1000-word AI-inspiredopus was a cracker.





Under-siege Parkhead bosses gave it the green light during Casualty on BBC 1 – which seemed pretty apt given the response was like one of those chaotic episodes of the long running drama where a helicopter crashes into an old folk’s home or something.

The entire thing felt more like a scene from Blackadder Goes Forth though, with Stephen Fry’s General Sir Anthony Cecil Hogmanay Melchett pacing in his office, preparing the latest suicide mission



Take this down, Darling…’

Yeah, Celtic fans wanted answers but this wasn’t it. They wanted clarity of the club’s ambitions but it wasn’t that either.

It was more like one of Baldrick’s cunning plans, involving a pair of Y-fronts on the head and a couple of pencils up the nose.




It could have been all so straight forward. A cosy chat with Michael Nicholson and the club media, admitting mistakes were made in the window but it was all with Celtic’s best interests at heart and they’d make sure to be more prepared to take on the mighty Kairat and co next time.

Hands up and let’s all be friends again.

It probably wouldn’t have washed – but it wouldn’t have launched a jerry can of petrol into an already smouldering bin fire.


Going on the offensive has only offended and further angered an already fuming support.

And all of this was on top of a reported ‘club insider’ pointing the finger at Brendan Rodgersfor the window shambles and accusing the boss of ‘engineering an exit’.

Quite why Rodgers would need to engineer anything is a mystery. He’s got nine months left on his contract and then he’s gone. If the club think he’s at the madam they can pay him up at any time.


Rodgers is way beyond needing to play any tricks in public.

But that was Saturday morning. It’s the nighttime public address that’s left everyone in a state of shock.




Gerald Ratner would have thought twice about this one. Even the not-so subtle Rangers jibe was cheap and irrelevant.

There was almost too much to break down in this avalanche of excuses and contradictions.

Chucking the big bad boys at UEFA into the mix was bold, saying the big wigs have Celtic’s hands tied over financial stability regulations.



At no point in the past has this ever been mentioned, so it does seem strange to lob it in now, and plenty of smart folk have already took an mallet to the notion.

Weirdly, the rules apply to every single club in Europe and plenty of them seem to be able to sign players.

It does seem unlikely Celtic are anywhere close to the limit anyway. It wasn’t a worry when a £8m striker was slipping through their fingers on deadline day. It wasn’t a problem when going for a £5m player in July and then signing him for, erm, £5m in August


It doesn’t seem an issue when player wages are stuck at 2001 levels yet executive salaries have shot through the roof. Strange.

Of it could be guff. Who knows?

Some of the other stuff didn’t add up either. Selling clubs or targeted players want to wait to the end of the window to make more money, apparently.






So why would Celtic wait if they knew it would cost them more? Tis a mystery.

It’s also the media’s fault, of course. The big bad mainstream media who have ‘commoditised’ the transfer window.

Now that was a funny one. A club who would flog the soggy t-bag out of your mug, who punt players for fortunes every summer and expect fans to stump up for tickets, strips and everything else accusing others of trying to make a buck.


But it’s the mainstream media punting misinformation about signings that has inflamed the fans, apparently.

Yeah, those naughty Dutch hacks made the Go Ahead Eagles board laugh Celtic out of town. It was sneaky Slovakian journos who got Bratislava to reveal they’d been low-balled.

And those Belgians having the cheek to tell people a striker had knocked the Hoops back for a better offer.




Sure, there is a lot of nonsense over the summer. It’s called the silly season for a reason.

But they could end a lot of it by killing non stories stone dead with a phone call.

Unfortunately the drawbridge has more often than not been pulled up in recent years when it comes to this stuff.


Celtic are a closed shop and it allows all kinds of narratives to fly around, particularly online.



It sounds like the Parkhead board simply can’t comprehend where all this fan fury has come from.

 

Theoretically a complete boycott would work. But for a club the size of ours and the worldwide support we have it would be impossible to arrange as there’s always going to be fans internationally or domestically who never get the chance to go to a game. That then have the ability to when someone else drops out.

also to add into that. Does anyone have the maths/numbers to what would actually be more financially profitable to the board? 50,000 season ticket holders taking the EL package or 50,000 general sale tickets for fans not usually able to get one. (Which will 100% happen regardless of group planned boycotts).

Genuinely believe a protest before, during and after would make more of an impact. Similar to the Dortmund fake money onto the pitch. Can’t remember who but the tennis balls one. Anything to delay a game. Or anything that brings bad press to the club and board. That’s what will truly impact them

 

You know what I’ve just realised too. In the statement the board have attacked the mainstream media too so not only now do we ALL hate them. But the media are now all gonna stick the knife in aswell
Absolute cinema from the board

 

That maybe why they are sitting with that large cash reserve.

Imagine if we were being run like most clubs with a reasonable but lot smaller cash reserve like £20 or £30m and we * up the chance to double that by our negligence in preparing for the games, they'd would be accountability required by shareholders in the stock market, leading to a sacking of a high ranking employee board member.

But does this large bank balance save the board from accountability ? I think so

 

They’ve essentially accused the media of leaking information about transfers


Yet this insider has told Rodger Hannah something off the record

 

They’ve also completely missed the point and have attempted to spin it into an issue with raw spending.

Most fans personally couldn’t give two * about the amount of money spent. It’s the complete lack of preparedness and the unprofessional way that we go about our business that is the primary issue, that’s only compounded by the fact that we have £100+ million in the bank.

Our academy is a disgrace and hasn’t produced a player of note since Tierney. Those who do have promise (e.g. Doak) leave because the development pathway is so poor. When we make changes we almost always appoint former players, because jobs for the bhoys.

We take an age to get transfer business done. In the case of Balikwisha over a year. We routinely ignore the requests of other clubs and are called out in the press by them for our incompetence. We make players promises and fail to honour them due to lack of preparedness.

Our scouting system isn’t fit for purpose, especially when compared to your Brightons, Sazburgs and Brugge’s. The latter two operate in a similar market to us but manage to sign and sell players, with even greater turnover.

Our stadium hasn’t seen a penny of investment for years with the exception of the dugouts and some hospitality areas. It’s a crumbling mess - half the toilets don’t work, it’s caked in bird *, the exterior hasn’t seen a coat of paint in over a decade. They promised a hotel and museum, but the project is apparently dead. How much longer does the stadium realistically have before serious structural problems start to emerge?

They are slowly sleepwalking towards disaster, but instead of acknowledging any of this they’d rather gaslight the fans and turn it into a single issue around spend and FFP.

I’m stunned by it. * them.

 

‘Last year they announced a scheme to sell virtual, digital plots of the Parkhead pitch to punters for £29.99 a year’

They..what?

 

Late to the party here but that is a riot of a statement.

They should take that down.

I never thought I would feel this disconnected from the club. It’s like they’re trying to be disliked.

 

You raise a good point R.E the stadium. That could have been the boards quickest out. Say they’ve got plans to upgrade/re-develop and that’s why they need to hoard money. We’d have been angry but could have seemed somewhat believable.

idiots couldn’t even think of that excuse

 

Statement is making news everywhere as a total PR disaster for the board now.

Good. Keep the pressure on them.

 

Meeting between the board and Association hasn’t gone well for the board I’m hearing. Vote of no confidence has been passed on apparently.