12 Jul 2025 22:22:18
Reading Rodgers remarks today. yeah there's stuff happening behind the scenes and you know we're making moves. Hrs the manager Nd sounds like he's no idea what's happening.
13 Jul 2025 00:09:09
In fairness Gerry I think B R can at the most name the players he wants in certain positions. The Board are not likely to report back to him on any of these players until he has something concrete to tell him . Either positive , player is on his way for medical or negative, player is doing a medical elsewhere for a fee and terms we have no interest in matching .
BR is very busy at this time of year and he hasn’t time for the minute details of every contract and he rightly leaves that in hands of Board.
13 Jul 2025 07:05:00
The worry for me is a still think we need 3 mb 4 top quality first team players, winger, cf and most importantly a decent CB.
13 Jul 2025 07:39:01
Don't get that he couldn't be any clearer, every window he says the same thing, he wants quality and the squad needs help, I would think brendan gas the last say on who comes in and who doesn't, he's far too experienced to have players forced upon him imo.
13 Jul 2025 08:21:37
@Gerrymcgin3 we are on same page
Our Board and Nicholson in particular are notoriously slow in getting deals done, the perception not just by myself is he is weak and easily influenced by others around him
Also with Brendan he should be more pro active and keep chasing Board until players are brought in
Look what big Ange achieved he literally contacted players he wanted himself and then made Board sign them.
{Ed007's Note - So Ange Postecoglou illegaly tapped up players then "made" the Celtic board sign them yet Dermot Desmond's close personal friend Brenan Rodgers can't "make" the Celtic board do anything?
Being on the same page as McGinn is never a good luck, he'll be pished typing that - what's your excuse? ?
13 Jul 2025 09:43:10
Too many on here constantly looking for negative guff, brendan is an experienced manager not some novice who accepts whatever he's told can't believe fans think that, he will ask for players whether the board get them is not on him,
13 Jul 2025 10:07:36
Where does the weak comments come from about MN. He is/ was Head of Legal at a legal firm. You don't get to that position and do that job by being weak.
The people who say this are using him to blame for us not having signed 5 first team players in the first week of window.
I have absolutely no doubt we are chasing players but understand we are not the only club chasing the same players, or that those players want to come to us or the SPFL or that clubs players and agents are buying their time to assess their options.
MN is 1 of many CEOs and their recruitment teams looking at the same players, who make offers for players based on their assessment of their current worth, potential and future worth.
Ange had a soecialist knowledge of that league and players, he identified players who fitted his style of play in a league few clubs were really looking at.
The price of the players made it easy for us to do deals quickly as those clubs got prices they found acceptable.
In Europe it's different as there are many more teams looking and players have many more options.
We just need patience and ignore all the media headlines trying to tell us our board are slow at doing deals, or we missed out on this player or that player and that our boards slow action has already made our Managers mind up not to sign an extension.
13 Jul 2025 12:45:38
I agree with this view Maedainparadise.
Disappointing that it’s not just the main stream journalists stirring trouble.
The article attacking the board this morning on the Celtic Blog is absolutely appalling and these guys call themselves Celtic fans.
The time to judge is when the window shuts.
13 Jul 2025 16:41:13
Most of the celtic related sites are getting as bad as the MSM with their click bait rubbish!
14 Jul 2025 13:08:21
Steff52 definitely the Celtic blogs and Social media have become lazy and copy lies and half truths from SMSM, doesn’t matter if they are true positive stories but even better lies anti Celtic propaganda which Celtic blogs can add more negativity.