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| Topic Started: 15 Jul 2014, 12:03 AM (1,414,843 Views) | |
| murphio | 2 Sep 2015, 10:55 AM Post #3581 |
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Could start a row in an empty room
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The model of buy low, sell high should be so that any profit made on the sale of players is reinvested back into the team. For two summers on the trot the money generated from selling our best player will be used to essentially fill the hole left by our failure to qualify for the Champions League. This is totally self defeating and can only lead to a continual downward spiral in quality which will in turn lead to an even greater slump in ticket sales. There is a malaise about the club and fresh ideas are needed to arrest it sharpish. |
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| bubba | 2 Sep 2015, 11:00 AM Post #3582 |
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Getting on a bit
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Isn't it worse then that we will have to sell several players to make up the shortfall for our next feck up Bitton for £5m, erm, 4 others for £2m each? Or 8 others for £1m apiece |
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| Otis B Driftwood | 2 Sep 2015, 11:03 AM Post #3583 |
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Satisfaction came in a chain reaction
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We agree.
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| Gonga | 2 Sep 2015, 11:06 AM Post #3584 |
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Older than dirt
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We don't know who is going to be worth what in a years time. In 12/24 months we will probably have Championship clubs trying to take our better players off us for £10m at a time. The new TV deal is a game changer. |
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| stibhan | 2 Sep 2015, 11:12 AM Post #3585 |
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Viva la Quinta Brigada
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The statement irks most obviously because it is so reminiscent of the rhetoric that comes out of our club on a biannual basis. 'The Market isn't good'; 'We asked some players to come and they didn't want to'; 'We didn't want to break our wage structure'. Most galling of all, however, is Lawwell's constant insistence that we can make 'blue chip' signings if we want to, and yet our equally constant refusal to do so. This behaviour is always rhetorically cloaked by the declaration that the 'real value' is to be found in the next transfer window--be that January or the Summer--when the market will have 'settled'. The reality is that Celtic are only interested in winning league titles at the minute. We could win a treble this year quite comfortably (we should have last year) and the season will still be a failure in footballing terms because we have undeniably weakened our team to the point where even EPL misfits are out of our 'wage structure'. Even under Lennon, we had success with markets like South America, Belgium, Holland and Scandinavia. Yes, there were some major failures too, but the idea that we now have to look primarily in the Scottish Championship/Premier League, or EPL development squads, for talent is just not going to pan out well for us or for the marketability of Celtic and Scottish Football in general. We are sleepwalking into Five-in-a-row and it's being dressed up as a huge achievement. Deila said during the week that 'smart' people will start 'judging [him] only on results." The reality here is that they want us to judge them on results in Scotland but some abstracted notion of 'progress' or 'performance' in Europe. You can't effing have it both ways. |
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| Greenock_Celt | 2 Sep 2015, 11:21 AM Post #3586 |
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The game is over, the rebels have won.
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2 furra £. |
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| MBhoy1888 | 2 Sep 2015, 11:24 AM Post #3587 |
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Getting on a bit
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In all fairness it seems to be the case that we did everything we could to keep Virgil here but he wanted to go. |
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| Flawless | 2 Sep 2015, 11:24 AM Post #3588 |
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Fatboab shirt designer
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I'm sick to the back teeth of this. If getting some decent competition and some drive back into Celtic requires them back up in the league I can't effing wait for it. This stasis bullshampoo with half full park, pish signings , ultra austerity is driving me completely mental. |
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| tinsoldier | 2 Sep 2015, 11:31 AM Post #3589 |
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Older than dirt
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Bang on queue CQN have an article up highlighting the £40m profit Celtic have made on transfers in recent seasons. |
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| Ned Rise | 2 Sep 2015, 11:35 AM Post #3590 |
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These boots were made for hunbustin'
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No idea why anyone reads that site. They'd have had us signing Prosinecki and doing features about how Berlusconi was driven to create a team of AC Milan legends after watching the Lisbon Lions. Podium etc. |
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| Flawless | 2 Sep 2015, 11:39 AM Post #3591 |
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Fatboab shirt designer
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Plonkers the lot. |
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| Antoninho | 2 Sep 2015, 11:45 AM Post #3592 |
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Turd Ferguson
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eff off
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| Smiley | 2 Sep 2015, 11:46 AM Post #3593 |
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Off treasure hunting in Holland
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The day after that farce of a transfer window and the club's official account is tweeting pictures of actor and Ross Gellar lookalike Gianni Capaldi on a visit to CP. Comical stuff. |
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| GetFunky | 2 Sep 2015, 11:51 AM Post #3594 |
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Local Hero
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The board seem to be sacrificing success on the park for success on the balance sheet. Surely success on the park aids the balance sheet? |
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| Greenock_Celt | 2 Sep 2015, 11:55 AM Post #3595 |
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The game is over, the rebels have won.
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The club has been run in accordance of what has/is happening with them. It was obvious they would always have to, to a certain extent but for me this window has made it more clear just how much we are running our own affairs on what is happening over there. The board are banking on them coming up next season, they've slashed the squad, cutting costs, whilst banking transfer fees (most of which will only go to cover the lack of European income this season). They're happy for us just to win the league by a few games whilst they aren't in the league. If/when they do get promotion this season we'll no doubt splash more cash than we have recently next summer. It is why we have slashed the squad so savagely this summer IMO and the board will make some dig at the difference in how much we are spending compared to them, we'll have a good old chuckle at them and what they've done to the club for the past few seasons will all be forgotten. Because lol look at them zombies and their no money. If we need that lot in the league in order to show some ambition then I'm the same, I can't wait.
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| antbhoy | 2 Sep 2015, 11:57 AM Post #3596 |
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Marshal of the Soviet Union
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They really don't give a eff about the support or whoever is doing the tweeting is the ultimate trolling shampooe. I really thought this thread would've jumped at least 20 pages after the window closed. Are people that apathetic now that we just can't be bothered questioning the strategy or where we are going as a football club. The most important people are the fans being the lifeblood and that but are treated with utter contempt by the board. Their output after last night was shocking and it appears they've nudged their mouthpiece over at podium towers to put out some shampooe. |
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| Dumbartonbhoy | 2 Sep 2015, 11:57 AM Post #3597 |
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First-team starter
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Self aggrandizing plonkers the lot you mean |
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| Silent Witness | 2 Sep 2015, 11:58 AM Post #3598 |
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First-team captain
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Maybe someone can give me an example of a club that has spent serious money and thrived on it, without being given unlimited funds by a rich owner. There's no lack of Scottish clubs that have spent money they didn't have, and look where it has got them. Celtic are on a different level to every other club in the land precisely because of the financial management. Anywhere, there are numerous examples of clubs that have near ruined themselves on a speculate to accumulate policy. But I'd hope that most of us accept that frustration with the board does not stem from level of expenditure anyway. We're just not being smart enough with our investments. The lack of an additional striker does suggest some reluctance to go and get someone just for the sake of it. We do seem to be getting or fingers burnt continually with some awful duds, with Scepovic the latest in a long undistinguished line. However, while the equivalent of a Sutton or Hartson is now beyond our reach, I would ask why we can't at least track down a Zurawski type. He was only a one season hit, but he scored enough to pay his way, and for less than a million, all we need to look for is an additional poacher. There is definitely a fixation with youth, which for the most part is a good thing for us - we do seem pretty good at finding decent prospects. However, youth tends to be position biased, since a precocious youth will tend to be a central defender, attacking midfielder or winger. This isn't accidental, because becoming a clinical finisher is often an acquired skill (so many strikers start out as midfielders and wingers). You are not going to get a project striker. |
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| Toga Toga | 2 Sep 2015, 11:58 AM Post #3599 |
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Everyone's Fantasy Football first pick
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I can actually see Pistol Pete writing that as he throws custard Cremes at an obedient Paul Brennan. |
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| ghirl86 | 2 Sep 2015, 12:01 PM Post #3600 |
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Brendan Rodgers, make us dream - Celtic FC.
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The point is that if the Board had a problem with how PL does things he wouldn't still be doing them. PL is not the only one whose position needs looked at. |
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