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| Topic Started: 15 Jul 2014, 12:03 AM (1,414,984 Views) | |
| Jinkys 7 | 1 Aug 2014, 10:48 PM Post #821 |
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The Guy.
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| Willie Wonka | 1 Aug 2014, 10:52 PM Post #822 |
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Slavery fled, oh glorious dead
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Tbh I'd like us to have a lot more experience, leaders if you like, throughout the team right now. We badly missed brown the other night. It shouldn't all be down to him. |
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| Zurawski 7 | 1 Aug 2014, 10:52 PM Post #823 |
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Off treasure hunting in Holland
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it might be very hard to get one to come to scotland though. the majority of the premiership were struggling to sign goalscorers last season and they are offering much much more money |
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| nakasboots | 1 Aug 2014, 11:09 PM Post #824 |
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Off treasure hunting in Holland
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Remarkable that in 2004/05 Celtic were 16th richest club in the world, 18th the following year. We are now reportedly in the top 40 after dropping out in 2013. Clearly the funds from Wanyama/Hooper helped us gain a top 40 place. So why have we fallen so far? We had a quality side, wages were high but so too was our stock and our attendances averaged 57/58k. So how the feck can we continually drop whilst finances/debts (in comparison to 2004) are so well 'managed' We can't keep blaming the EPL for inflated wages etc as some of the top teams now are Napoli, Hamburg, Fenerbache who have only recently charted on the list. When Mon mentioned life in the slow lane I'm not sure even he understood how prophetic his words would be. |
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| bermbob | 1 Aug 2014, 11:32 PM Post #825 |
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Getting on a bit
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Sums up my feelings. PL has had success in the transfer market no doubt about that. My gripe with him is that the squad doesn't continually require the addition of loads of cheap prospects when the sum of the money spent could have bought a few players of better quality who would be first team starters. I think the success that PL has had in the transfer market clouds his judgement and fuels his ego when he should be taking a more critical look at the money he has wasted. Much more of the profit from the sale of our decent players should have been invested in their direct replacements, he has missed out on some good players because he refuses to pay the going rate and we end up with two or three numpties. I understand that we are inevitably regressing because if the financial constraints but I feel that PL has significantly sped up this process by not investing in better quality, when he leaves this won't be a part of his legacy that he will be mentioning on his CV. |
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| Barnsey | 2 Aug 2014, 12:14 AM Post #826 |
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Considering retirement
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Peter Lawwell is in a stronger position than the manager, has been for years, and that's a huge danger. I know he's getting paid more than Ronny ffs. It reminds me of when Jock Brown was untouchable. Fans could get any manager the sack, but not the beatified Peter. That's why he treats us like dirt transfer wise and constantly rips the piss safe in the knowledge that as long as his bonus remians intact he doesn't give a eff. |
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| CarlisleCelt | 2 Aug 2014, 07:39 AM Post #827 |
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Occasional Substitute
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| CarlisleCelt | 2 Aug 2014, 07:51 AM Post #828 |
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So our club is just dying on its feet instead! I am not going back until there is some ambition shown once more. And where the f has all the money we have made over the last 3 years gone, no one need tell me it has been spent, I believe it is being pocketed. |
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| CaltonBhoy1967 | 2 Aug 2014, 08:45 AM Post #829 |
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Billy McNeill - "Mr Celtic"
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It really isn't being pocketed. |
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| Zurawski 7 | 2 Aug 2014, 08:56 AM Post #830 |
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Off treasure hunting in Holland
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the accounts are a few pages back and show where the money has went. im not happy with the squad or lack of signings and think we could be in for a pretty boring season but lets quit the hyperbole. "dying on its feet" we have a squad full of internatioals that has achieved regular european football whilst dominating the league. its not their fault the huns died trying to compete with us people are just being illogical and daft with terms like "show some ambition" and "speculate to accumulate" our football side of things have fortunes upon fortunes spent on it. people are making too many unrealistic comparisons to other clubs when its simply not a level playing field |
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| MILLIGANS ISLAND | 2 Aug 2014, 09:02 AM Post #831 |
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....give us a glimmer......
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Isn't it just the case that when ff and Virgil are sold the money will be reinvested in rebuilding the squad? Just like it was with mcgeady? |
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| Dr Huffarr | 2 Aug 2014, 09:03 AM Post #832 |
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Club Captain
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We are what we are. A team in a poor league with a reducing fan base. They are only protecting our future. I think we need to accept the CL may be a ship that has sailed as the elite only want elite in there. The Europa is our future. |
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| Corky Buczek | 2 Aug 2014, 09:08 AM Post #833 |
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Trolololo
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I know - we just can't compete against the likes of Legia and Elfsborg and Karagandy are just our level. And your right - to protect our future we need to pay our CEO more than anyone else bar Scott Brown and guarantee him a bonus no matter how well or how badly we do. Edited by Corky Buczek, 2 Aug 2014, 09:09 AM.
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| An Piobaire | 2 Aug 2014, 09:11 AM Post #834 |
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First team training
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Is it possible to resign from being a Celtic fan? Celtic has been such an integral part of my life for so long. The history, the magic, the sense of community and the pride have kept me going through difficult times in my life. I have travelled with such hope and excitement for so long, suffered the snide remarks and harassment of the peelers at Stranraer and Cairnryan, watched in disbelief the likes of Wayne Biggins and Carl Muggleton play for a team that I held so dear, and then marvelled at how legends like Bobby Murdoch could somehow stick that and remain so dedicated. As the cheating bastards ( and their friends in black and in pinstripes ) racked up their tainted 9, I stayed faithful true and true. I suffered for the wonderful player that was Paul McStay, and regretted so much that his career ended just before the"Magnificent" arrived. I sat and gloated as MON's team bullied and brushed aside the cheating bastards, with swagger and the added genius of Henrik and Lubo. I was proud! I could piss off the Man U's and L'pool's that pre-dominate over here. We had overcome! Then? My club decided to pull the magic carpet from under me. A tad dramatic? Who knows. Appointed a war criminal as Chairman. Check out our record under the penny-halfpenny "Doctor", Blair's heavy. Shameful! I did not set foot in Celtic Park whole that pumpkin was involved with my beloved club. I hoped for better days after his departure. I swelled with pride again when we stood together in the face of the shocking intimidation of Neil Lennon and thought "there is a God" when the huns imploded. But alas, the greedy capitalist bastards who own and run our club have done what the old mob, huns, masons and assorted cheats in suits couldn't do, kill my passion. Playing fast and loose with our loyalty, abusing our low paid staff, cosying up to high Toryism, staying silent on the hun/SFA conspiracy, patronising us with this Biton/Bitton ballocks and making the team a laughing stock? We were always the good guys. Just doesn't feel like it anymore. |
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| Zurawski 7 | 2 Aug 2014, 09:11 AM Post #835 |
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we might have reinvested quite a bit of it if we had champs league money on top of it. i wouldnt get my hopes up now |
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| One sharp cookie | 2 Aug 2014, 09:19 AM Post #836 |
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Getting on a bit
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The McGeady money wasn't reinvested in the team. The cash we spent that summer was more or less the same as what we got for Boruc, Fortune and McManus. |
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| Zurawski 7 | 2 Aug 2014, 09:23 AM Post #837 |
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we spent about 10m. those 3 only brought in about 5 Edited by Zurawski 7, 2 Aug 2014, 09:24 AM.
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| One sharp cookie | 2 Aug 2014, 09:36 AM Post #838 |
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We didn't spend anything like £10 million. I'm sure Lennon said some of the fees quoted in the media for the likes of Juarez and Murphy were miles off. |
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| daithi1879 | 2 Aug 2014, 09:46 AM Post #839 |
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Considering retirement
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| Zurawski 7 | 2 Aug 2014, 09:51 AM Post #840 |
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· Investment in football personnel of £10.29m (2010: £13.64m). http://www.investegate.co.uk/article.aspx?id=201108151100033581M |
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