Celtic's 2025/26 Summer transfer window: Stage: Pitchforks

Great post. Exactly the kind of forward planning on anticipation that results in a club progressing while still banking profit from player trading.

Yes the Dutch league is a bit more attractive/competitive than ours but there is no reason we can’t be doing this on a similar level even slightly below.

Out of interest does anyone know if Feyenord operate a DOF style approach?

 

I reckon this will be us until the end of the window as well.


Maybe get some last minute deals 1 permanent and the rest loans.

 

To be fair there is a few on here who says it, get laugh, slagged or moaned at but it always happens.

we all want it to change, hope it changes….. but it never * does.
Utter * embarrassing once again and now the Zombies have some investment they will change their business model and catch us up.

Just like when the Bunnet came in they knuckle dragging * laughed at him saying he was going to build a new ground get a winning side and it happened.

The new Investment from them horrible * is different from rest, if we underestimate them we will hand them titles and the tide of power will
Change fast.

Once again our board are asleep at the wheel.

 

Don't forget that Paul Tisdale career purpouse is the get talent in for as little money as possible.

It is as clear as day that he was brought here to penny pinch.


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I believe they do, Club Brugge definitely do. The above also stretches three head coaches so none of this chat about it being limited to how long the manager will be there. Arne Slot, Brian Priske and Van Persie now.

 

A lot of people slagged of the huns American takeover saying they were just business types who are there just to make a quicj buck but, let's be honest, that's exactly what our shysters on the board have been doing to us for years. They honestly don't give a flying * about taking the club forward in Europe and there's also a good chance that their tight fisted approach will also * us up here in Scotland

 

We should be splashing the cash big style. We can hugely out muscle every club in this country financially and virtually guarantee CL football every season. The worry is we spent over £20 million on two players and they are crap most of the time.

 

They are obviously running the club well but what annoys me is that they take zero risks . Ajax, Club Brugge. Feyenoord etc take risks. They "overspend" sometimes with the aim to recoup the money playing in Europe.

We wait untill we are there and gamble on the actual qualification. We will never get to the next level doing this.


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We need to spend at least 15m or we will be handing the tax man a big old bag of cash if we get into champions league.

I still think we will.

 

Club video content.. fans comments all about signings. Aye. Volume is gonna ramp up on this in the next week.

 

Fair points.

 

Can't deny they run the club successfully as a business but they seem to forget (or completely ignore) the footballing side of it and, as you say, take zero risks. We all follow Celtic to watch the football and hopefully win trophies and that for us is the most important thing and not hoarding millions in the bank.

 

I just can't understand the reasoning for it at all. Surely the board or at least some of them had to swallow some pride when Rodgers came back and surely he came back with assurances. He sat at his unveiling and spoke about wanting to progress in Europe he did that and not just in terms of performance we made literal progress in the CL. Now this summer there seems to be zero appetite to kick on and try and improve again which is bizarre considering we know the cash is there. I just can't understand the logic at all.

Everytime we look to smash through the glass ceiling the board are getting double glazing in

 

Aye. It's a load of *..

There will be some cases where players wait, but we're an extremely attractive proposition in our own right. A top coach. Massive club. Winning squad. European football every year. Pay decent wages..

The reason Nygren was in quick was because we didn't mind throwing down what they were after with 6 months left. Guaranteed if he had 3 years on his deal and wanted 7 mill, he probably wouldn't be here now..

There's clearly things/people above and in recruitment that are either inept or stingy. Maybe a bit of both..

I suggested that Valente before. Some player and easily would've slotted in to our midfield. In our price range as well..

Very good post this. Shows how far behind we really are..

We should've closed the gap significantly to these clubs by now. We have the odd spells but we don't speculate to accumulate or forward plan close to what these clubs do..

 

I think the "conflict" between BR and the board comes down to Idah and Engels.

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I don’t even think we are run that well, because we could possibly be running ourselves into missing out on the CL and * forbid missing out on our own league title if we are not careful.

On one hand yes we are in a great position financially and in general, we have made some excellent transfers in and out.

…on the other hand we are so * *.

 

I agree and tbf I wouldn't trust Rodgers with tens of millions to spend either but it simply can't come into the thinking if they want him to stay for this season and potentially beyond. We've also appointed Tisdale in apparent reboot of the scouting department so it's not a great look on them either

 

If they’re upset about those signings (who are still contributing well to the team) I wonder is Rodgers allowed to be upset about the tens of millions of * he’s been given by the board that he didn’t want and have barely kicked a ball for us?

 

See as soon as the lines Lawwell put in either the interims or annual statement two years ago came out about line of sight to CL group qualification not always being there and need to keep funds incase we don’t make it in the future, then what if we end up like Everton were written and agreed to be put in the public domain, this self fulfilling prophecy of going back to being an EL club was set in motion.

Instead of viewing as the best chance to get CL football 4 seasons in a row if not 5 given our domestic dominance and the coefficient still doing ok, we were going to retreat and hold our position waiting on the big bad day to come.

There also a lie in that statement about the cash at bank stopping us needing to sell a key player. We are meant to be operating a player trading model and have sold a key player or 2 each season we were in the CL never mind the EL. I am completely fine with that as said, we are meant to be running a player trading model so need to sell but also buy players.

Essentially the easiest way to make such a future vision come true is to act like it is a certainty to happen and it eventually will. We were lucky two seasons ago that we didn’t blow the league and automatic CL football then but what has happened since is rather than assess what can be improved we have a doubling down on the cash pile.

We have even spent £20m+ on infrastructure (Barrowfield) and the accounts have barely noticed, given the levels of transfer profit and CL prize money that have come into the club.

Instead of using that cash rich position to go out and buy a right winger this summer before selling Kuhn we have sold a key player with no clear idea of who his replacement will be.

 

Think the board are doing an astonishing job at clearing the decks so we can add a core of quality additions.

Cannot wait to see who we have lined up. Key positions will have been identified months ago, along with plans B-G, so we can seamlessly transition from 1 target to the next.

I'm not overly worried about integrating these players quickly as they'll be of sufficient calibre whereby they'll just understand the game and colleagues innately. It's going to be a season to remember.