Celtic banter 10

02 Jul 2026 10:03:53
Lot of speculation about the Desmond’s and their motives for allowing the ongoing sh1tshow that is Celtic football club.
IMO I think they are in spite mode because of all the protests and the number of fans groups that sprang up, also if you listen to any Celtic podcasts they are always heavily criticised.


We already know what they think of us as they told us at the AGM, I think they are conducting their own NotAnotherPenny campaign to show us who’s boss.

02 Jul 2026 10:54:52
I don't think they have changed and will continue following the same ultra conservative economic strategy, which they confirmed last season. The only thing we won't see is any more 10+ million signing.

02 Jul 2026 07:39:09
{Ed's Note - MK Scouser has posted a new article entitled, A Squad Deep Dive as Iraola Takes Charge

01 Jul 2026 20:19:41
I appreciate this is no new theory, but increasingly I see all actions (and lack of) pointing towards DD selling up and moving on.
Board have looked incompetent, penny pinching and have created divides. But they have remained rigid in their posts. Why?
Money has been received through play sales in the multi millions but little other than (rubbish) chip loans/ deals have come in since?
With all respect to MON he was the cheap and easy option, as no one currently working or with any quality would take this job whilst the board carry out whatever they are doing in the background?
I say this, as to be this incompetent in running a club from such a position of dominance and success, certainly domestically is absolutely incredible to comprehend, we pass it off as incompetence, I call it too shady to be legit.

I smell a rat and it’s not Brendan!
However I could be proved wrong this week with a great summer signing…. 🙄.

01 Jul 2026 22:26:10
Nope a signing changes nothing really! All your points still resonate imo.

01 Jul 2026 23:08:05
Let me see.
The rat left, Martin stepped in and actually had us in a good position going into Festive period.

Some genius on the board (who shall remain nameless) brought in this wonder manager, Nancy (95% of supporters said, "WHO? "
He managed to lose games and points until he was dumped.

Martin stepped in, scraped win after win and we ended up with double.

The club cannot (or not tried to) find a replacement so Martin has agreed to give us another season.

I suspect he does not need the money but is following his heart here,

02 Jul 2026 06:58:03
Sorry to disappoint you but the Desmonds are going nowhere.
Celtic is a cheap plaything for a family with that wealth and he's a businessman.
Why get rid of something that's not costing you anything?
Also, he knows how much the fans can't stand him so he will hold on to his shares just to piss us off.

02 Jul 2026 09:27:07
One thin I am concerned about is lack of signings. Have a squad of about 15 players, another 10+ could leave. What is actually going on here? Are we really going into the season with Calum McGregor playImg another 55 games. Disaster.

02 Jul 2026 11:05:20
Our squad is

Sinisalo, doohan
Tierney
AJ, Donovan, ralston
Trusty, scales, CCV, Murray, Nawrocki

Callum, hatate, Nygren, mccowan, Bernardo, engels

Yang, Forrest, tounekti, balikwisha, Jota

Maeda, osmand, kenny

You could argue that we only need a left back and GK and maybe only see movement in the other positions if we offload players to make room. That is not me saying we don't need to strengthen. I am merely pointing out, how I think our board will be looking at it.

Remember, "we can't afford to swing and miss" and our potential budget this season, is far less than it was last season because of FSR and our depleted revenue.

02 Jul 2026 12:54:44
Hope i'm wrong but I can't see Jota making much of an impact, if any, this season.

02 Jul 2026 13:06:33
What did we actually spend last season? £12m odd? I get there was loan fees ect but that is abysmal. I dread to think what the wage bill for the squad was last season. This season was and should be the clean slate needed.

Loans returning, move on the wantaways and deadwood and operate with a more streamlined squad, with better quality, massively bringing the wage bill down from last season as that's a big factor in FSR.

01 Jul 2026 20:11:16
I still find it difficult to grasp the fact that this club have given more money to HMRC in capital gains tax in each of the last three years than they have ever spent on a player in the year 202 feckin 6. WTF?

01 Jul 2026 19:29:11
It’s hard to think at one stage in the last decade we had Leigh Griffiths, Edouard and Dembele as our striking options.

Now we have Johnny Kenny and Calum Osmand.

Appreciate Osmand looks a player but yet to be tested over a run of games.

Kenny just isn’t good enough imho.

01 Jul 2026 22:29:43
I think Kenny has all the attributes to be clinical. He's young has scored against them scored in Europe probably a victim of his early success. He has pace physicallity for a slender lad.

Not the finished article by any means but not to judgeed do harshly. Not his fault the state of our squad. The Irish bus sometimes blights opinion however I rate myself, great potential.

01 Jul 2026 23:40:11
Kenny missed six sitters i'm vital ganes. He tries hard but he isn't up to the level we need.

02 Jul 2026 11:08:39
When I watched Kenny at shamrock rovers, he was often on the left and coming from deep and was very effective. A similar role to what samaras used to play.

I personally don't think he is suited to number 9 role. So unless we plan on paying him on the left and using full backs to create the width, I don't see any point keeping him.

02 Jul 2026 12:54:01
He is nowhere good enough in any position for us. He just doesn't have the technique, physicality or finishing ability to be our main striker.

02 Jul 2026 19:01:45
I think I am right in saying that Kenny did his ACL when put on loan end of last season, so we won’t see him for a while, if ever again in a tic shirt.

01 Jul 2026 11:38:12
In Martin we Trust

Reports in today's press that "Celtic will bring players in IMMINENTLY"

We have to hope Martin is squeezing DD to release the funds.

01 Jul 2026 15:18:26
I hope so as Sevco have brought in a few decent players already and will push us a lot more this season.

{Ed007's Note - I suppose it depends on how you define decent - a GK that conceded 65 goals in 48 games last season is decent?}

01 Jul 2026 16:21:24
A cb on loan and a midfielder on loan.

01 Jul 2026 17:00:02
In my honest opinion and a Hate that mob and I always will but that aside a would be raging if we signed them sort of players, but what is really bugging me is over many many years managers and players go on about how important a pre season is, that started last wk and yes the players we might b after are in a pre season but we need them in OUR door.

{Ed007's Note - The majority of clubs haven't started their preseason training yet, most English teams will start next week or the week after and most continental teams is even later, it depends on when leagues start, European qualifiers etc.
Most footballers not at the World Cup are still on holiday.}

01 Jul 2026 17:54:27
DR Congo keeper is worth a bid. Valued at 350k.

01 Jul 2026 18:14:45
The left winger looks good.

01 Jul 2026 20:04:58
Mally you mentioned that they signed a cb and midfielder on loan.
Were CCV and Jota not brought in on loan? Along with a few other good players.
Ed I wasn't talking about the keeper, Dan Neil is a decent player and Godfrey was very good when he broke through at Everton.


Fair enough he hasn't played a lot over the last couple of years but he is in the same mold as CCV, we also know exactly what Shankland will give them.

{Ed007's Note - I don't, what exactly will Shankland give them?}

01 Jul 2026 21:45:53
ED come on, he will give them plenty of goals and we all know it.
He scored something like 15 league goals for Hearts last season and will easily score 20 for them this year.

In the meantime we piss about again paying something like £11m in corporation tax and launch another top (the 4th this season already I think)
We still haven't replaced our Head of Football operations after he was sacked in January as have about 3 scouts employed by the club
Iheanacho is basically begging us to sign him again and Nothing.
We can reportedly get Saracchi for £1.5m but reports saying we would prefer another loan
We will sell Engles, Nygren, Trusty, Maeda, Hatate, Bernardo and AJ and will wait until the last 2 days of our transfer as it ends 2 days after everyone else to see who we can pick up on loan.

{Ed007's Note - So Shankland scored the same amount of goals as Nygren last season... The season before he scored 8 league goals for Hearts. 6 of Shankland's were penalties btw.
Shankland turns 31 next month is their main striker for next season 😂😂😂😂

01 Jul 2026 22:38:08
Yes he will be Ed, he will still score more than Kenny, Osmand, Yamada or possibly another £1.5m Japanese striker who we will bring in just to make it look like Nicholson knows how to sign a player.

{Ed007's Note - Celtic have still to buy their main striker, TRIFC have and it's Shankland 😂😂 Lawrence Shankland ffs!

01 Jul 2026 23:32:31
The WC has showed that Shankland is rubbish and nowhere good enough for us. His best days are behind him and he was the cheap option for sevco.

He is another cheap option as they go for staunchness which in English means cutting back.

02 Jul 2026 13:20:44
Celtic have still to buy their main strikers since the departures of kyogo and idah, which was 18 and 12 months ago, respectively. Forgive me for not being confident they will manage to do so this window.

02 Jul 2026 13:32:48
I never said he is good enough for us but I won't hold my breath on us signing our Main Striker.
Our money man and our contracts guy will sign no one of consequence as they won't want anyone on any kind of decent money and a long term contract when we get pumped out of the CL and knowing that we will have heehaw chance of getting back into it any time soon with us having to go through 3 qualifying rounds Unseeded for the next 3-5 season's.
Our biggest transfer this season will be around the £3m mark.
The board will be hoping that we can go with Osmand as our main striker until the end of the transfer window and then they will give Iheanacho a shout if he is still available.

On a separate note, I heard that we had actually agreed a deal to sign Dolberg last season, a fee, wages and bonuses were all agreed and we told him we would give him a call back but didn't bother, when his agent tried to get in touch with Nicholson, he didn't answer his call
If that's true then Nicholson and his pal should be sacked.

30 Jun 2026 22:01:50
Anyone here at the Bowling for Soup concert at the O2 on Monday night, band were good but nothing better than that and I was there to predominately see Frank Turner who was superb, but the absolute star of the show was the BFS media team who were genuinely’ world class in everything we do’ we need to poach talent like that for Celtic.

01 Jul 2026 13:43:13
Ha ha Paythefacepainter I really must have led a sheltered life, this group I genuinely had never heard of.

{Ed007's Note - I've no idea what he's on about either 😂🤷🏻‍♂️

01 Jul 2026 16:19:07
Ed007 was referring to the graphics accompanying the concert, they were better than the band, genuinely seriously talented people.

{Ed007's Note - 👍🏻🍀

01 Jul 2026 00:21:37
Well that's June came and went and its took that time to get the coaching staff sorted, be nice to see a player or 5 they cannot afford to feck another transfer window get your finger out we are watching.

01 Jul 2026 08:21:24
They don’t care one iota what the fans think, they’ve proven that time and again. Maybe time for the collective to make direct contact with some our largest commercial sponsors and put them wise to why their revenue will continue to diminish. Would imagine the likes of adidas are getting a bit pissed off by now.

01 Jul 2026 10:14:12
Being reported official move for just from motherwell has been made.

01 Jul 2026 13:04:00
Apparently we in for Just, Maswanise and Watt. Maswanise left out of the steelmen trip to Denmark.

01 Jul 2026 15:02:34
I want those 3 from Motherwell Dr Phil.
It would make you wonder why we never went for their forward player in January.

01 Jul 2026 16:22:01
Seems European clubs fancy maswhinise.

01 Jul 2026 16:28:16
I can see us overpaying for all 3 and them being pish as they are not the standard we need.

01 Jul 2026 17:31:15
Being reported that just will break the record fee between Scottish clubs which stands at 4.5 million wee Joe.

01 Jul 2026 19:56:53
Totally agree buzz.

02 Jul 2026 01:07:19
@delbhoy - if accurate, there is the first part of my prediction coming true.

30 Jun 2026 21:22:45
This set piece coach might turn out to be very shrewd, didn't realise the amount of goals the wee buns scored from set pieces last Season.

01 Jul 2026 00:00:11
Just over one third of their league goals came directly from a set piece which is another reason Hearts didn’t deserve to be Champions.
23 from 67 goals which is a massive 34%.

01 Jul 2026 07:27:49
Did sevvies not get considerably better from set pieces when sausage roll brought someone in too, however this isn’t anything new, Celtic ( Ange br nl) should all have had a specialist on team already, our set pieces have been rotten for years,
What we want is to be good at them not reliant, arsenal and some prem teams last year deliberately played for corners and long throws over trying to score goals from promising positions as the percentages started looking in set piece favour, I’d hate that.

01 Jul 2026 10:02:30
Who'd hate to score goals and win matches Jaa.

01 Jul 2026 17:56:31
Green we scored goals n won matches last season, wasn’t many folk happy, I did say we should have had specialist in ages ago just that I’d rather be good than reliant, it’s a bit like playing to final whistle, winning games in last min is awesome but most I’m sure would rather just win games.

30 Jun 2026 20:59:27
I've uploaded the latest from the Fans Collective onto that section of the forum, you can read it HERE.

30 Jun 2026 19:53:34
Patrik berg from Norway, iv always liked this boy, think he would be a tremendous signing for us.

30 Jun 2026 20:27:56
Excellent player Jim. and should be within a fee we shoukd definitely be affording. been screaming out for a DM fae Broony left.