One of the positive aspects of the collective world view of the Celtic support is an inherent antipathy towards authority.
As ever, the ACSOM crew articulate the mood perfectly.
Good to see Alan Morrison back in action too.
For the avoidance of doubt, this is a far healthier state of mind than the deference of the Ibrox klanbase.
So another week has passed, and Brendan Rodgers is still waiting on reinforcements for his forward line.
The Celtic support knows that this is unacceptable from a club with tens of millions in the bank.
Moreover, in this presser, the manager seemed very close to saying that the situation was not of his choosing.
Usually, when a player already at a club signs a new contract, it is welcomed as good news.
If anything, Johnny Kenny extending his stay at Celtic seemed to antagonise an already impatient support.
Not the lad’s fault, of course.
Other factors may also be contributing to the Celtic board’s lack of transfer activity.
However, it is lost in the noise level.
For example, I was informed this week that one of the players awaiting whether or not Celtic make it to the Champions League is Michel-Ange Balikwisha, currently at Royal Antwerp.
The irony is that without significant additions to the squad, the financial prize of participating in UEFA’s top club tournament could be in jeopardy.
Submitting derisory offers for players that have been expensively scouted makes no long-term business sense, and the fans know it.
The fact remains that the Grey Brigade in the Parkhead boardroom know that they have a captive customer base.
If the match tomorrow were at Celtic Park, the occupants of the directors’ box would almost certainly be on the receiving end of some pointed observations about their collective performance.
Of course, the leading player in this psychodrama is more likely to be found on a Caribbean golf course reserved for the global elite.
Playing Dissociation Lowball makes no sense, Dermot.
Absolutely none at all.
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The Grey Brigade, love it Phil.
They are so out of touch, the Board must be changed and soon.
Not my coinage, but highly appropriate.
Did we get money from Frimpong’s transfer to Liverpool? Let’s face it we need a competitive Sevco for SPL TV money but we don’t want them to qualify for the CL and then share the cash with us.
Paddy power is paying out already on Celtic winning the league!!! 😂🍀💚🍀
While the situation is nowhere near as dire as the early 90s, we are faced with Celtic being hamstrung in a state of suspended animation by an analogue board in a digital age. The men in charge of Celtic are probably (I’m being magnanimous) well meaning but they are simply too out of touch and lack the talent required to operate a modern football club.
What sense does it make to have so much money in the bank. If there was £70m in the bank, it has last £2.3 million due to inflation in the past year. The you add the money we had to pay in tax for post such a large profit. It doesn’t make sense. They could have bought a player for £4m before the 30th of June, would have been on last seasons accounts , would have reduced the profit and dropped the tax bill. Instead the clowns in the board room want to horde money for no apparent reason.
Does anyone know why the club want to keep such a large amount of money in the bank?
Celtic will sign more players however have signed 2 strikers and a right winger this season however the manager has preferred Nygren in a central role. Celtic with the backing of Brendan Rodgers have signed Johnny Kenny on a new 4 year deal. Jota is only injured and will be back one fit.
BR did sign Palma, Tilio, Yang and even though I dont mind him supporters very critical of Idah. Supporters also critical of Engels and Trusty. Then there’s Nawrocki, Lagerbielke, Holm, Kwon and a loan of Phillips all of which not good or the manager didnt rate.
He has been backed and maybe not as much so far this season but there is still 3 weeks of the transfer window remaining
If BR has stated his intent to leave at end of contract due to lack of growth and ambition in the transfer market last season and this; we once again have a hiatus where the board are not agreeing to spend on players BR wants in; when a new manager may not want them come June 2026.
Wasn’t Desmond Jnr given the reins a couple of years ago?
We’ve done quite well over the past few years in the area of recruitment and we all know that the real quality players delay decisions until the interested club gets into the CL or not
Absolutley fed up with the transfer window an lack of any real signings season ticket holder since 98 never going to stop going an supporting the team but the tory board ? No for me
If ever their was evidence that we needed strikers wingers and attacking midfielder were the games against “that lot”. The board don’t react until their put in corner – last season that was the case and it’s that that worries me as they still haven’t mobilised their cheque book and they still think we’ll accept no action. BR surely doesn’t want the heat from supporters associated with all this unrest and I think he’ll see it as a way out and ultimately it will cost us
Dermott Desmond is happy sitting in the back row and allowing the clown brigade in the boardroom to take the abuse which is exactly what they all deserve. Not one supporter with an ounce of common sense believes for one minute that the decisions are being made outside the remitt of Peter Lawwell. Not a single person believes that every decision isn’t run past him first. Everything that is happening has his fingerprints all over it. As a wise man once told me there’s no point buying alsations and barking yourself. They’re a disgrace and this was proven when the opportunity to put their foot on the throat of the brethren brigade when they went out of business on that fine St Valentine’s day in 2012. HH
Surely the big unanswered question is why the board seem so passive to signing players when they are sitting on a ton of cash? Why do they seem to want to hoard this money, because I doubt it’s for the interest they are earning on it.
Celtic board are so far out of their depth. They are still operating in analogue while the rest of the football world is digital. They pat themselves on the back as a well run club, however lest be honest they only look competant because of the shambles across the city. If Sevco do ever get their house in order then watch how fragile our ‘well run club’ becomes. We have an elite manager, elite fans known throughout the world handcuffed to an inferior board made up of lackeys with a sense of entitlement. If our major shareholder cared anything about the club he would get the finger out instead of playing Happy Gilmore on his jollys. We need new thinking, a new board with people that have a vision and understand the fans….not just look down their noses at them.