Celtic banter 10

12 Apr 2024 16:58:39
With Maeda and Scales out tomorrow who do you reckon will take their places Ed?

{Ed007's Note - Welsh and Palma I reckon it will be.}

12 Apr 2024 17:46:46
Both of them are massive loses.

12 Apr 2024 18:17:55
Cheers I didn't know Palma was fit.

{Ed007's Note - 👍🏻👍🏻

12 Apr 2024 20:57:32
Palma is a more attacking threat than maeda.

12 Apr 2024 21:57:14
Although maeda is a bad football player he will be missed as is vital to how we play.

13 Apr 2024 06:39:55
It's a bit mental that at such a high level his only real attributes are speed fitness and tenacity. His final ball and finishing are so far off and dint seem to be improving.

12 Apr 2024 13:09:37
This ha nothing to do with football.

Just got my first denture today and it feels weird as hell when I eat.

Was wondering does it get better the longer you have it?

12 Apr 2024 14:16:03
No 10 times worserer.

12 Apr 2024 21:57:48
This makes me sad. I better go rob some post offices and get myself an implant. 🤪.

13 Apr 2024 13:59:01
Got all of mine taken out when I was 16 due to a calcium deficiency. Weird thing was I drank more milk than a calf. All were taken out a week and two days before Christmas so guess who had a great time then.

12 Apr 2024 07:55:43
Morning All,

I hope everyone is doing well!

I just wanted to give a shout-out to my team from Bergamo, Atalanta! What a result last night against a team we supposedly had NO chance of coming close to. In the end, the supposed English giants were embarrassed at their ground!

Big shout out to my mates from Italy Lorenzo and Fab for offering me a ticket but I couldn't make due to family commitments.

Why is most of the atmosphere in these stadiums pumped out by speakers around the ground? It's ok you can leave it up to the fanatical away support to show you how to create a proper atmosphere!

Have a great weekend everyone!

12 Apr 2024 09:12:49
That will be an expensive Final in Dublin with flights and accommodation.
I hope the Italian’s make it.

12 Apr 2024 09:26:41
I follow Atalanta as well. I have a friend at work who supports Liverpool and he was very confident going into this. I tried to tell him how good Atalanta are and the way they play football but he just gave me a blank look. He’ll be thinking I’m an Italian football guru after that last night.

12 Apr 2024 09:41:10
It was a great result for Atalanta.

Atalanta are a great example of what you can achieve with limited funds if you have a good blueprint, a good team to implement it, a good succession plan and great scouting and coaching.

Celtic could learn from their model.

12 Apr 2024 11:34:05
They're a proper team with pace and physique. definitely a cl team in the making. Great defending as well.

{Ed007's Note - Just in response to Wee Joe, their model included a certain Lee Congerton as Head of Senior Recruitment & International Development before the lure of Saudi money took him over there last month.}

12 Apr 2024 12:15:39
@ed I was not aware that Lee congrrton was there.

This would suggest that he was either not a good fit for Celtic or he was not given free reign to work his magic or he has a better team helping him.

{Ed007's Note - Maybe a bit of all 3, Joe.}

12 Apr 2024 13:03:44
Abd buying inferior players on the cheap.

{Ed007's Note - It wasn't Congerton that decided who we bought.}

12 Apr 2024 13:07:56
Yeah it could be a combination of them all.

Knowing what I know about Lawwell ego, my guess is that he was not given free reign and had to work under constraints, which can be a good and bad thing.

If memory serves me right he identified Daniel castagne but Celtic would not meet the valuation.

{Ed007's Note - There's probably more than Castagne that slipped through the net on Daddy Lawwell's watch as unofficial DOF.}

12 Apr 2024 17:49:19
I reckon you are right. Hopefully he will get removed in the summer.

{Ed007's Note - I'm expecting, well more hoping I suppose lol, there will be big changes behind the scenes in the footballing department but - and I know there are some rumours he will be leaving or even retiring as he turns 65 next month - I don't think PL will be going anywhere.
If we keep him away from the footballing side of things he is still a big asset to the Club because of the clout he has in the wider footballing world.}

12 Apr 2024 19:11:48
We would need to be getting our recruitment / scouting team and their responsibilities sorted out very quickly . Not many weeks until the close season and if we don’t get everyone in position very soon, we will be playing catch up again.

13 Apr 2024 02:03:00
I take your point ed but I have had enough of him.

He has messed up too many transfer windows over the years and that has cost us several titles.

His succession planning for managers has been extremely poor and sometimes we have had to wait months for a new manager.

However, his main crime in my eyes, was signing off on the resurrection of Rangers and then pretending he does not know anything about the secret 5 way agreement. Then to top that off he refused to pursue Rangers and the SFA after they swindled us out of a champions league spot.

While he is still at the club, there won't be harmony between the fans and the board, which is not healthy for our club.

{Ed007's Note - I can't disagree with any of that, Joe but it's good for Celtic - and Scottish football - to have someone in the upper echelons of UEFA with the respect, clout & power PL has, that's why I can't see him leaving unless it's his own decision.}

13 Apr 2024 13:47:07
We are pretty certain PL has messed up transfer deals . However I would be surprised if he was responsible for as many as most of us blame him for . Celtic dealings on transfer market are mostly carried in private and we have no idea what is happening . It is relatively easy for us to put 2 and 2 together and blame PL. He could well be to blame, but if he was he had to be carrying out instructions from our largest minority share holder who wouldn’t keep him in position as long if he wasn’t doing what was required. Was there any point of removing PL to replace him by someone else doing job exactly the same.
The five way agreement, I would think had to be agreed at Board level, not by single employee. Surely something as important would need Board approval or Disapproval. I am glad he is no longer C EO, as anyone too long in a post of that signifIcance isn’t good for any club.

11 Apr 2024 20:21:17
I might be wrong but I think the Scottish Champions will now need to Qualify for the new CL groups format.

The Czech Republic team had a draw tonight which means they are LEVEL with Scotland.

I'm think the Czech's go into 10th place above us possibly because they have more points this season.

The new format gives a place to a club who didn't Automatically Qualify for the Groups but have the most Coefficient points over the last 5 years.

Sevco looked favourites to get that place if they finished second again, to Celtic this season.
But
Another Green and White Hoops team Sporting Lisbon look like ending that route for Sevco.
Sevco don't want Sporting Lisbon to win the league but the Hoops are 4 points clear and they also have a game in hand.

I'm also not sure again but I think the Scottish Champions might go straight into the playoff Qualifying round and 2nd place will have 2 Qualifying rounds next season.

Maybe Tbhoy will know better. 👍.

11 Apr 2024 20:41:26
* I meant to add if Benfica or Porto finish 2nd above Sporting, they will get that CL groups place ahead of Sevco.
( that would only matter if Celtic win the title )

11 Apr 2024 20:55:05
Very interesting Buzz, here’s wishing and praying for the best 🙏🏼.

11 Apr 2024 21:12:24
*below Sporting.

11 Apr 2024 21:28:05
I'm pretty sure Scotland are guaranteed a CL spot for league champions this season, I think it's next season that looks to be doomed.

11 Apr 2024 22:38:19
You are right buzz but I do t think it effects next season.

Hopefully all Scottish teams can help out next season and get us the automatic spot back.

12 Apr 2024 09:06:51
I’ve always thought it was next season because I remember we pipped Ukraine into an automatic space, a few years ago.
And I’m sure we Qualified automatically the following season
But it’s been reported we will lose that automatic place in the 2025/ 26 season.

12 Apr 2024 09:24:32
WeeJoe, sadly, the other teams make up numbers and do precious little els.

12 Apr 2024 10:17:04
Awe well at least that will be our yearly embarrassment in the CL over. Its Groundhog day every time. The Europa League will be more like our level. If there's no £40 million to bank while we watch our annual gubbing it's all the board's own fault so hell mend them.

12 Apr 2024 11:34:36
The rags are saying the following season.

12 Apr 2024 14:42:12
Qualifiers should not present Celtic with anything that isn’t achievable if approached in the correct manner. They may even be a benefit in getting us up to speed for the main event. Totally dependent on us not repeating the Lawelll cheapskate fuck ups of the past.

11 Apr 2024 19:51:48
Back to qualifiers season after next as Vitoria Plezn drew with Fiorentina.

12 Apr 2024 00:14:15
So Sevco have blown our automatic CL place😡.

12 Apr 2024 09:07:58
Your right Bhoy88,
Agent Sevco are to blame 👍.

12 Apr 2024 22:40:41
Those 2 poor results against the Cypriot farmers have ruined it for the rest of us.

11 Apr 2024 19:29:09
I think the sevconites need a physics lesson.

They keep slaughtering Dundee for their pitch and pointing out that tannadice don't have this issue.

While that is true it does not take I to account that tannadice is at the top of the hill and dens is at the bottom of the hill.

These numpties obviously don't realise that gravity makes all the water down the hill, which is obviously why tannadice is ok but dens isn't. 🤦.

11 Apr 2024 20:23:08
Dundee Utd have mentioned that Dens Park has had 14 postponements since a match at Tannidice was called Off.

12 Apr 2024 10:19:04
Buzz they have 2 away games at Dundee and Ross County next then the split. How many away games do they get out the 6 games?

12 Apr 2024 19:15:45
Steff 52 . They should have 5 away games out of their last 7 .
However with Sevco we can never be sure what happens with Rangers2012.

11 Apr 2024 18:53:52
Just a wee heads up for Grand national on Saturday
Betfred are paying SEVEN places.

11 Apr 2024 20:24:01
Good to see you posting again Timalloy 👍🍀
I hope your feeling better.

11 Apr 2024 16:50:10
{Ed's Note - Ed001 has posted a new player profile about, Alexander Isak

11 Apr 2024 15:49:04
Seen on a Celtic site someone saying Bernardo and idah are the "real deal" and we must sign them . now between probably will cost £12 million . I believe both would be prospect / potential type signings and won't be automatic starters . that's a lot of money that could be used elsewhere for essentialy squad players . what do you think.

11 Apr 2024 17:30:42
Drb - both are decent prospects, but would they help us progress in Europe? I suspect that we will be the whipping Bhoys again when our next European campaign starts. We require significantly better quality in most areas of the park. I fear it will be the 'same old, same old' unless we really splash out on some real talent. Buy some players that Brendan does not have to coach. Dare I say 'Oven Ready'?

11 Apr 2024 18:40:09
Both are slightly above average.
But too expensive for players that wouldn’t be automatic starters.

11 Apr 2024 18:45:02
Feel we need a bit Better than these two by quite a distance. Decent players but wouldn’t gamble more than £2 or £3m on Bernardo. Whilst I think Idah is better than Oh ( another poor signing) I feel he is limited and we need to aim higher. If we can get rid of Oh and replace him with Idah for no additional outlay worth the gamble.

11 Apr 2024 19:48:40
If this season has taught us anything, it's that The Board need to learn from the shambolic summer transfer window and bring in the quality - rather than quantity that will make us a better team.

12 Apr 2024 00:16:58
I'd definitely sign Idah, he's been a revelation! Jury's still out on Bernardo imo.

12 Apr 2024 19:20:36
If we don’t land Idah or and Bernardo, that may work out ok, but only if we sign better. It may not be easy to sign better, especially when we have no recruitment team in place in mid April.

11 Apr 2024 15:19:17
With mark Lawwell gone, what structure would you like to see implemented?

11 Apr 2024 15:55:16
I’d personally like to see a European sporting director with ties to players we are really targeting brought in.

11 Apr 2024 16:18:41
I would like to see his father and a few others gone also.

11 Apr 2024 18:52:24
In my view the problems at Celtic are a lot deeper than an individual or two.

We need to change the business model and change the culture at Celtic.

We need new leadership at Chair, CEO and throughout the board.

We need a football structure- DOF, scouting and new coaches.

We need to modernise our training facilities and player welfare.

We are not fit for purpose at the minute…. So we need a complete restructuring.

Whilst not above criticism, I don’t see Rodgers as the main problem as the players he has at his disposal haven’t been up to it.