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The Board - general discussion (including Res 12); notes from the AGM
Topic Started: 15 Jul 2014, 12:03 AM (1,414,822 Views)
Quiet Assasin
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:lol:

The guy is a habitual liar.
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murphio
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Ron Swanson
12 Sep 2015, 12:08 AM
murphio
12 Sep 2015, 12:06 AM
This brass necked bastard, earning 1m a year from Celtic, has the stones to come out and tell Celtic fans in public that everything is OK, that the club wouldn't have made a loss, if only they chose to sell the family silver earlier. This idiot can GTF. He is an utter coakroach. Piss off Lawwell. :nono:
It cannot still be a minority of us that hate what he has done to our club, so why is there so little reaction amongst our fans?
The money this individual has earned from Celtic over the years is mind boggling. We are paying this snake an absolute fortune and he comes and tells us that the reason we made a loss under his watch this year was because he chose to sell our best player a year later than he did. Incredible, absolutely incredible. It's actually funny the brass neck of this carrot. :lol:
Edited by murphio, 12 Sep 2015, 12:15 AM.
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'A world class football club' :lol:

We're more of a pub team.
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That is verbal diarrhoea from Lawwell.
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murphio
12 Sep 2015, 12:14 AM
Ron Swanson
12 Sep 2015, 12:08 AM
murphio
12 Sep 2015, 12:06 AM
This brass necked bastard, earning 1m a year from Celtic, has the stones to come out and tell Celtic fans in public that everything is OK, that the club wouldn't have made a loss, if only they chose to sell the family silver earlier. This idiot can GTF. He is an utter coakroach. Piss off Lawwell. :nono:
It cannot still be a minority of us that hate what he has done to our club, so why is there so little reaction amongst our fans?
The money this individual has earned from Celtic over the years is mind boggling. We are paying this snake an absolute fortune and he comes and tells us that the reason we made a loss under his watch this year was because he chose to sell our best player a year later than he did. Incredible, absolutely incredible. It's actually funny the brass neck of this carrot. :lol:
said in the patronising manner as if hes done us a favour

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CELTIC chief executive Peter Lawwell chose to attribute the £3.95 million end-of-year loss reported by the club yesterday to a desire to support manager Ronny Deila and not solely the absence of Champions League football – as he also claimed profitability would be restored in 2016 despite the Scottish champions’ continued exile from European football’s prized tournament.

Following the previous year’s £11m earnings – bolstered by the 2013-14 participation in the Champions League group stages and the £10m sale of Fraser Forster to Southampton – revenue for the 12 months till June 2015 was down by more than a fifth to £51m, with the figure for player sales dropping to £6.77m from £17m. Lawwell maintained that the drop-off was not a mere incidental.

“We could have recorded a profit by selling players but we chose to retain key members of the squad in order to give Ronny a chance to build in his new post,” he said, with the club’s cash in bank rising to £4.72m. “We expect to be in profit next year and it is important we have the means to remain stable.”

Lawwell is adamant that there would be no change of policy, and no threat to the club’s envied sustainability, even if they were to win a fifth straight title only to then endure another evening like the one in Malmo that brought elimination at the Champions League play-off stage last month.

“These games happen in football,” he said. “Scotland were beaten in Georgia. Teams suffer off nights. We are talking fine lines. We consider ourselves a Champions League club but our objective this season will be to do well in continental competition through the Europa League and go again. We are solid enough that we do not need to change our strategy of investing everything that comes in.

“It isn’t becoming any easier to reach the group stages but there is no alternative to what we do. What would the alternative be? To give up? We continue to do well in a difficult environment. In this calendar year, between the January transfer window and the summer window, we spent £10m on new players. That is massive for a Scottish club and allowed for by our fundamentals.”

The sale of Virgil van Dijk to Southampton for £13m last week – which will underpin any profitability for Celtic in next year’s figure – made him the latest player the Scottish champions have cashed in on handsomely courtesy of the English Premier League side they have practically become a feeder club for. A total of £35m will be poured into the club’s coffers because of the moves made by Victor Wanyama, Van Dijk and Forster in recent years, and this approach of bringing in unpolished gems and selling them on for huge mark-ups is a central plank of Celtic’s economic equilibrium.

Lawwell admitted it was a “challenge” to keep such a conveyor belt turning over – a fact demonstrated by the need to outlay £4.5m merely to acquire Croatian central defender Jozo Simunovic as a long-term replacement for Van Dijk. “We are having to go younger,” he said, in reference to the newly-turned 21-year-old from Dinamo Zagreb. “And that makes the signings riskier. But the wages to be paid for a 24 or 25-year-old can prove prohibitive.”

Yet the Celtic chief executive rejected the suggestion there is no obvious next Van Dijk/Wanyama/Forster. “We have value in the squad with such as Nir Bitton, Stefan Johansen and, we believe, new arrivals Dedryck Boyata, Nadir Ciftci, Scott Allan, Saidy Janko and Simunovic,” he said. “No-one had heard of Wanyama, or Ki-Sung Yeung or Gary Hooper. What would people want us to do? Buy in a 33-year-old striker like Ricky Lambert, who cost £3m and is being paid £60,000-a-week by West Brom. That isn’t on and we will continue to look to be creative and innovative.

“In my 12 years, we have been champions eight times, made the Champions League group stages seven times and the last 16 of the tournament three times. In the same period two of our biggest clubs have gone bust. Our environment is challenging and there is always pitfalls such as an off night in Malmo.”

The veiled reference to a “bust” club was the only time Lawwell came close to lifting the name of Rangers yesterday. He declined to respond to the comments of the Ibrox club’s owner the previous day that, with Championship success a given in his eyes, next season Rangers would start off with the intention of winning the top flight. “We have a big game against Aberdeen, who are second in the league and are our closest challengers, and that is what matters right now. Anything else is irrelevant.”

Lawwell also refused to comment on the unfortunate timing of Leigh Griffiths being admonished in Edinburgh Sheriff Court for chanting about Hearts player Rudi Skacel being a “f******* refugee” on the very day that Celtic backed a European Club Association move that will mean E1 for every ticket sold when Fenerbahce visit Glasgow on 1 October being donated to organisations assisting in the refugee crisis.
Read more: http://www.scotsman.com/sport/football/spfl/lawwell-3-95m-loss-is-because-celtic-backed-deila-1-3884699#ixzz3lTZAodsf
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No-one had heard of Gary Hooper? :rubeyes: :lol:
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Quiet Assasin
11 Sep 2015, 08:27 PM
Gonga
11 Sep 2015, 08:26 PM
Quiet Assasin
11 Sep 2015, 08:24 PM

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Where did all that pressure come from?


The nature of being the Celtic manager?
To be fair Gonga, most of that pressure would have come from his employers.

I remember in the pre game build of the Helsinborgs CL qualifier first leg in Sweden the camera cut to an ashen faced Neil Lennon watching the warm up and the host said something about him feeling the pressure, one of the pundits was Strachan and he told him that Lennon would "be left in no doubt as to how important this tie was to the club by Peter Lawwell" so I don't think pressure on a Celtic manager to qualify for the CL is unique to Deila.
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Lawwell :ffs:
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I don't think I've ever read / heard a chairman or CEO mention another teams player the way he did with Rickie Lambert there. :lol: :lol:

He's absolutely shameless.
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Off night against Malmo? Really Lawwell?
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I well remember the clamour to sign Ricky Lambert on here. Did it end up at a 163 page thread?

Lawwell in talking pish shocker.
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Stringer Bell
12 Sep 2015, 07:12 AM
I don't think I've ever read / heard a chairman or CEO mention another teams player the way he did with Rickie Lambert there. :lol: :lol:

He's absolutely shameless.
I thought he did well to blank the the latest pysh from the the South Efrican snake-charmer, but throwing in details of Virgil's salary--then using Ricky Lambert's pay packet as Squirrel Number 2, ? WTF??!!

Go now, you utter Bengal Lancer.
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Quiet Assasin
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..for the maintenance of dinner tables for the children and the unemployed
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mytsharp
12 Sep 2015, 06:39 AM
Quiet Assasin
11 Sep 2015, 08:27 PM
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11 Sep 2015, 08:26 PM

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The nature of being the Celtic manager?
To be fair Gonga, most of that pressure would have come from his employers.

I remember in the pre game build of the Helsinborgs CL qualifier first leg in Sweden the camera cut to an ashen faced Neil Lennon watching the warm up and the host said something about him feeling the pressure, one of the pundits was Strachan and he told him that Lennon would "be left in no doubt as to how important this tie was to the club by Peter Lawwell" so I don't think pressure on a Celtic manager to qualify for the CL is unique to Deila.
I didn't say it was unique to Deila. Anyone who heard Lennon after the Karagandy home game would know that.

Deila didn't deal with the pressure at all. That's the problem. The pressure passed down to his players and that's bad management.
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My word Lawwell spouts some amount of shampooe. His head is so far up his own backside it's unbelievable.

It won't happen but please leave Peter.
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The problem for many of us is that Malmo wasn't an off night. There have been plenty of similar doings in Europe and we seem incapable or unwilling to address that.
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Why don't you guys just give it a effing rest.

WE SEE YOU! OK?

If your not happy, why don't you just go and eff off somewhere else?

'Celtic Supporters'? My effing arse!

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A PHILLIPIAN
12 Sep 2015, 08:45 AM
Why don't you guys just give it a effing rest.

WE SEE YOU! OK?

If your not happy, why don't you just go and eff off somewhere else?

'Celtic Supporters'? My effing arse!

:lol:
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Lawwell had to speak eventually. He has had time to say the right things, but has, once again, chosen poorly and decided to talk a load of patronising, made up pish.

I'm sick of all this chat of us needing to spend more and more money in order to succeed when a) we already spunk tons of cash, season after season, on absolute trash and 2) there are very good players moving to clubs on the cheap all over europe, all of the time. Our entire scouting structure needs a complete re-think, not the amount we spend.
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murphio
12 Sep 2015, 12:06 AM
This brass necked bastard, earning 1m a year from Celtic, has the stones to come out and tell Celtic fans in public that everything is OK, that the club wouldn't have made a loss, if only they chose to sell the family silver earlier. This idiot can GTF. He is an utter coakroach. Piss off Lawwell. :nono:
Could have sold him last year but then he would not have been able to sell him this year. Plus we already sold forster. If we need to sell 24m of talent to make a 6 or 7m profit then how bad would the books be next year.

Gambled outrageously on qualifying for the CL 3 times in two years with a prospective first team coach promoted to manager in the job interview on nothing more than a hunch, then giving him a shoestring budget to perform the task.

But he's telling us that we shouldn't complain because he could have sold VVD earlier. There's only one reason he wasn't sold last year and it was nothing to do with the team or the fans. It was maximise his exposure and work up his sales price.

Celtic under this board are as unambitious as it gets.
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Tone the language down guys, emotive subject as it is there is no need for it - BBB
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