28 Aug 2025 09:19:25
So many rumours on here. I think it's very clear that Rodgers is gone. For a g head coach to come out with some of the stuff he did before the 2 biggest matches and then backtrack and failed to qualify. You have to question his motives. " My job is to coach the players that are here. "I make tge decisions on transfers" " I don't know" in relation to transfers, but hours earlier was smiling and joking about that in pre match press conference. He is a stubborn man. If he doesn't get a tune out of these players Starting against that rabble on Sunday, then for me him stating he will be here for the duration of his contract feels more like a threat. He failed us before is he failing us again whilst ensuring he isn't blamed. It's still vaguely Anges team. The team was dynamic against Falkirk without McGregor who has just become a Brendan cheerleader imo. He needs to be benched more as he looks a mere shadow. It does have shades of the covid season just luckily they are imploding and we have fans at matches thankfully. Hibs and Hearts along with Motherwell all look stronger than they/ them/ Sevco that's their pro nouns. Anyway nothing but a resounding victory will do. These 2 signings incoming won't fix things we are still well short in the attacking and Idah looks like a lost bhoy. He was an impact sub never ever a Celtic no 9. Not qualifying is inexcusable but our history is littered with failure our coefficient is laughable and not the coefficient of a big club. Hopefully we can earn some badly needed points in Europa league but I'm not convinced we will even do that. It felt for me the other night like the best part of the season was over before it began. ? So it begins. HH.
28 Aug 2025 10:14:33
Kwak. Get real. He has done a brilliant job since he has been here. I would point your finger at the board for the position we're in. Waiting till the last minute to bring new players in is the fault of the recruitment team and board.
28 Aug 2025 10:46:55
There are far more questions than answers and what I find even more frustrating is 2 days after our exit we are eventually on the brink of signing the players we have been interested in for weeks?
There is something wrong with the running and progression of our club that has seen us in this position several times before without learning lessons or having an efficient recruitment strategy.
I have to add the manager and current squad were totally responsible for the failure to qualify and the predictability of our play.
The headlines today regarding Amorin and Martin cannot distract us from getting our own house in order.
28 Aug 2025 11:27:38
Raymond it's incredible how gullible you are. A brillliant job? We are gash! The football we are playing would get football stopped! Do you know how much he spent last summer for bench warmers?
28 Aug 2025 11:53:08
God, you make the fact that we broke our transfer record last year sound like some biblical event that history will remember for millennia. With the income we generate including player sales, we should be breaking it every year. No one expects us to empty the account but at least put some of it back into the the point of being a FOOTBALL club.
28 Aug 2025 11:58:51
Some transfers don’t work regardless of cost, but that doesn’t means you take the huff and walk away with your ball. Maybe if the powers that be actually engaged with the support, and told us what the grand plan is, we wouldn’t need to argue among ourselves .
28 Aug 2025 12:06:06
Yet we were all saying engles was a great player that can only get better, and idah scored over 20 goals what's incredible is your defence of our board and you think we've had a great transfer window,
28 Aug 2025 12:28:20
For our sustained dominance over a long period, we need to acknowledge the Board and BRs contributions to that success. In the Scottish football climate, I get the Board's caution. But equally they're stuck up their own arses and refused to countenance any creativity or innovation to move our club on. Stay ahead of the new club and everything's hunky dory. A recipe for managed decline. BR is up himself so we have a what appears to be an impasse which will see us endure a turgid season even though we may win the league.
28 Aug 2025 13:07:00
I have supported BR, all through his first term, he acted in very bad faith the way he departed from us the first time . His managerial ability meant I welcomed him back for 2 nd tears .
Just as Liverpool supporters said he became an awful terrible man in his 3rd year . So much so is that I don’t trust him to try to win against the new Rangers 2012 . He certainly didn’t try to qualify for Champions League . His use of words describing Board not matching his ambitions, nor bringing in players he needed before ist leg, led to many gullible fans calling for sacking of Board instead of supporting our players and making the night unbearable for Kairat playing in front of over 50k who should have been supporting Celtic non stop all game . For the 2 nd game he didn’t pick his best team . Picking players that are obviously better coming on for last 20 odd mins to start, playing Nygren in midfield when he would have clearly been better than either of our two last 20 mins players. Starting Maeda. as striker, first time this season .
The man clearly had his own agenda.
We saw last night just how bad the h. ns are, I have no confidence that BR will want to beat them on Sunday .
It’s the man BR who has taken over from the elite manager . The man is untrustworthy, Celtic football club must in my opinion get rid of the Rodgers man ASAP . But that man would seek to get as much compensation as possible from club . I don’t want to give the man a cent, but this snide man will fight to get everything he can.
28 Aug 2025 13:40:59
Maybe Notts Forest would agree to a manager swap? I'd be up for that!
28 Aug 2025 13:48:24
Mally I don't know how many times I have to repeat myself but one more time, I haven't and nobody can say we have had a great transfer window until we see whether the signings workout or not. For example I can now say that last summers transfer window was a disaster as we have wasted silly money on gash players that our elite manager leaves on the bench because he knows he has signed dross ie Engels, Idah and Trusty. He refuses to play Bernardo instead of Mcgregor because he knows Calmac will pass the ball backwards.
How many players have came in the door since BR arrived? We have smashed our transfer record and smashed our wage ceiling. How much has our elite manager spent since he arrived? but yet it's all the boards fault? Ange would've had that tie finished in the first half at Celtic Park!
28 Aug 2025 14:10:40
Thanks Raymond I'm very real I know I just pinched me and yip feels real. Just like a other failure in Europe. I mean what has he done in Europe nothing. Gordon Strachan done better in Europe imo maybe even Lenny. So no very real he dismantled us once and feel he is gone working his ticket and playing players to prove a point instead of playing the best players for the designated match. To do the same thing over and over and expect different results. We haven't beaten our nearest rivals in last 2 years or have we I forget. Biggest budget better players I think most of the current spfl managers could won the league with pir current players. So what is he adding? Still has the guts of Anges team. Yet here we are again back here. How he handles himself over they two ties for me is unforgivable with our current team. So yes we need players bur he needs to do better with what we have. They games were easily the absolute worst I have witnessed worse than Lenny losing to Swiss outfit by miles. That real enough my man.?
28 Aug 2025 14:12:38
Kwak Kwak it's Kwaj so you know Raymind!
28 Aug 2025 14:14:31
Think the thing that worries me is the scouting department, what is going on there, from the outside looking in it seems to be a shambles. There also seems to be a breakdown between Rodgers, The board and the scouting department. As a Celtic fan I want to see progress made every year and to see a team with heart, committment and desire. What I am watching from the stands just now is just utterly depressing.
28 Aug 2025 14:21:24
I see mivoski on his way to that lot. while we are tippy toeing over getting players in. WTF is happening with our recruitment, for a board that keeps boasting about how rich we are start getting players in and pay the fees.
28 Aug 2025 15:10:48
Bhoy88 you have consistently said the board are not to blame its all on Rodgers but won't admit if we had brought in better players before the qualifier we would have had a better chance that's on the board, and oh we've made 7 signings with only 2 featuring but that's Rodgers fault as well, last season has gone but you keep banging on about trusty idah abd engles being gash but last season they were OK we've played about 4 games this season but you've wrote them off already, ange signed a few duds as well we going to slaughter him as well.
28 Aug 2025 16:00:06
Well yes Mally obviously if BR had signed better players then we would be a better team and stand a better chance of winning games but the point is he didn't hense why we are gash and playing gash football. But because the majority of his signings haven't worked out it's the boards fault because they haven't backed him?
28 Aug 2025 18:07:49
We cannot sign quality players if the man who insists he has final say is the same man who has repeated that “Idah is his type of striker “
Chasaboy u say we can’t keep y talking about last summer’s window,
We can expect the 3/ 4 expensive players to be ist team regulars, even more so with the self stated great developer and coach of young talent .
Has he developed Trusty, Bernardo, Engels Idah and Mc Cowan . Not a first team player among them.