25 Aug 2015 22:07:30
Failed, failed and failed again, 3 words that spring to mind with our manager.Failure to get CL last year, failure to win treble, and failure to get CL again.
Before anyone gets on their high horse and blames the board for not spending, well what did Malmo cost? Its not the spending its buying the right players.
Also at this point last year if we were promised Maribor and Malmo to qualify we would have bitten the hand off for that even before we spent a penny. Nope its all down to 1 man and that's RD. His naivity is unbelievable. He thinks we are a forward thinking team. We had 1 shot on target. Lo and behold we need 2 goals with 30 mins to go and he waits 20 mins to put another striker on. Oh I sorry RD you did put VVD up with 3 mins to go as well lol.
This forward thinking manager doesn't know how to organise a team defensively. We lose 2 goals from set pieces and we looked all over the place. Jeez they even created chances from throw ins lol.
He has now cost the club 40m this can't go on. His remit when he started must have been to get us CL football.
With VVD a certainty to go now, where is the next 10m coming from. None of his signings will go for much, he hasn't even signed a player worth 2m never mind 10m.
To add insult to injury the Malmo manager was right we don't look fit enough. That's got to be RDs biggest insult since all he has harped on about is fitness and diet etc. Has he inmproved any players? Forrest maybe if he can stay fit otherwise no.
Oops sorry he has managed to make Berget a better player, pity it wasn't for us tho.
The player he signed 1st and was terrible and hardly played, not only managed to score 2 goals against us but was easily the best player over 2 legs. And the fittest.
25 Aug 2015 22:22:57
Rayman , our manager must take a good look at how the team performed . Our midfield was none existing . We needed a third man because Makmo were running through us , as if they were a good team . Virgil our defensive colossus showed in the two Malmo games he can't defend . Nobody with the strength or ability to hold the ball up.
We shouldn't need to spend freely to Qualify for Champions League .
25 Aug 2015 22:28:53
Who appointed RD? That's right it was Lawell and co. I'm not his biggest fan but he has grew on me now the sheer fact that Lawell and co brought him in when nobody had heard of the guy, you'd think they'd back him with a bit of quality signings. If Lawell ( with all due respect) thinks that signing 3 ex Dundee utd players, an 19 year old from Manchester United reserves and boyata who's not really done much in the last few years is going to cut it he's sadly mistaken. For years now our big players have been moved on for big money and been replaced by mediocre players at best. It's just not good enough for a club the size of Celtic. Time the board got they're finger out or we'll be going through this same scenario year in year out!
25 Aug 2015 22:44:51
Soz Gaz I don't understand he mentality of when Lennon was manager all the bad signings were his fault but now RD is in charge its the boards fault mate. Someone needs to exlain that 1 to me.
25 Aug 2015 23:26:18
Im with rayman
25 Aug 2015 23:31:59
Rayman, Lenny moved on because he was fed up selling his best players and buying cheap alternatives that weren't up to scratch. RD was brought in by Lawell and co as a cheap option and he was also someone who was prepared to work the way Lenny ended up refusing to. I'll give u an example of the board, we buy ki for a couple of million, hooper a couple of million, Forster a couple of million, wanyama £800,000 or so, kelvin Wilson on a free, joe ledley on a free, Adam Mathews on a free. We sell ki for £7.5million, hooper for £5.5 million, Forster for £10 million,wanyama for £ 10 or 12 million , kelvin Wilson for £2.5 million, joe ledley for around £2 million, Adam Mathews for around £1.5 million. We're on the verge of losing VVD for £10 million. I just think the board could be doing a bit more to support a manager THEY appointed.
25 Aug 2015 23:55:07
Your right Gaz lenny was unhappy with that. But I think most managers can work with that as long as the next gem is found. Lenny during his tenure found them, but RD has not. That's the difference. Where is the next Wanyama,Ki etc. I don't see them do you.
26 Aug 2015 01:13:58
Dont understand what you mean Gaz,all those players you mention were bought cheap or the cheaper side of cheap,were you complaining when they were bought?,there is an existing mentality in groups of supporters that all a manager has to do is buy a £6 million player and sit back ,job done.When Ronnie started here he played LG out on the wing,way out of position,and maybe I'm wrong ,but Berget seemed to play a different role for Malmo than he did at Celtic,the manager has a lot to do with it,look what happenned when Neil took over at the canaries,he transformed them with more or less the same group of players
26 Aug 2015 06:17:20
So what are u saying then aindoh? It's all RDs fault? Nothing to do with the players on the park? Nothing to do with the lack of backing from the board at a European level? Not once have I said spend £6 million on a player nor do I expect Lawell to sanction such a deal but what I think every Celtic fan IS entitled to expect is a better quality of player. Now since hooper, Forster, wanyama, ki, ledley, and the rest that left for decent money, since they've left we've continued to watch sub standard replacements come in time and again and your not telling me that to replace say the likes of emilio, ambrose, scepovic etc with a better quality than they have will cost us mega millions? I don't know if it's the scouting system that's failing us know as we don't seem to be bringing through these gems anymore. Once big Virgil does the off for £10 million or so, I don't see any player there that's valued anywhere near that figure