The Offical Glasgow Celtic thread

[Orior]

As an Armagh man I sincerely apologise for my part in today's debacle. I hereby resign from my position of influence.

And rightly so, lol.

[clarshack]

Rumours on twitter that he's gone.

[From the Bunker]

Lennon interview after the game looks and sounds like an interview after a pre-season friendly loss.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thS_PDk9jkA

[Main Street]

This leadership shambles at Celtic is beyond GUBU.

[Angelo]

The other issue is, who the hell would want to buy the club and invest money into it. Wonder would Rod have enough dough lying about.

Billionaires.

As I said, most private owners of football clubs don't invest in it for the sake of making money. You look at Man City, Chelsea, PSG, Juve, Inter, Milan, Roma, Liverpool etc - look at the money those owners have put into those clubs. Liverpool were on the verge of bankruptcy when the Americans came in and invested in the club and cleared a load of debt, look at all the money Abramovich and the Qataris and that have put into their clubs.

If you look across the city at Rangers, loads of share issues have been actioned to put money into the club, to get investment, to build and improve the team.

Football has rarely been a money making venture for billionaires. How many billionaires made their fortune from a football club? Virtually none, it's generally a hobby, an ego thing where they invest their money and what they get out of it are cups, leagues, promotions, European qualifications etc.

But this is the problem with Desmond, he views it as an investment. He bought his shareholding in Celtic 20 odd years ago, probably with the view that Celtic would have joined the EPL by now and would be worth 20 times what he spent. He has no interest in putting his money into the club. There is absolutely no ambition at Celtic, there is no reason whatsoever Celtic could not be at the same level as Ajax if they had an ambitious board who are willing to put their money in the club to get the best possible management and players they can.

Instead we have a majority shareholder who is unwilling to invest and a board who prioritise profits and their bonuses.

[From the Bunker]

For the past 9 years Celtic have been coasting. There was no need for investment as there was no imminent threat. Except there was a threat to them last year and Covid stepped in and helped us out. So here we are thinking we could cheap skate to the biggest title in 140 odd years of the club. 

[JimStynes]

For the past 9 years Celtic have been coasting. There was no need for investment as there was no imminent threat. Except there was a threat to them last year and Covid stepped in and helped us out. So here we are thinking we could cheap skate to the biggest title in 140 odd years of the club.

There was definitely a need for investment. An investment in a good manager for a start. An investment in a good youth structure and try and produce top class players on a consistent basis. And investment in players to try and make more inroads into European football, where the real money is.

[Main Street]

European football offers rewards but the real awards are with tranfer income, that's what clubs like Porto and Ajax have managed.

[JimStynes]

Yeah you're right. De Jong and De Ligt were sold from Ajax for about £150m. And a few other players sold the next year for near £100m. But at the same time they wouldn't have got anywhere near that money had they not had a great run in Europe. 200-300million quid in transfers in the space of 2 years. Unreal. Their academy must be something else.

[Angelo]

For the past 9 years Celtic have been coasting. There was no need for investment as there was no imminent threat. Except there was a threat to them last year and Covid stepped in and helped us out. So here we are thinking we could cheap skate to the biggest title in 140 odd years of the club.

There was serious need for investment. We have fallen way, way behind at a European level from where we were 10-15 years ago.

[Angelo]

European football offers rewards but the real awards are with tranfer income, that's what clubs like Porto and Ajax have managed.

We've sold players on the cheap at the first opportunity. Van Dijk left Celtic at the first opportunity for a modest fee.

Lawwell's strategy was to sell quick. He couldn't wait to push Tierney out the door last season, a boyhood fan who came up the youth ranks, signed a 6 year deal and was not going to force a move but was actively sold.

McGeady was on Si Ferry's podcast there a few months back and said that the club actively tried to sell him too when he left for Russia.

We are now in a position where we are letting Ajer and Edouard run into the final year of their contracts too. It's just a complete and utter shambles from the club, no vision, no foresight these players should have been tied down a couple of years back. You can see them going next season for £10-20m each and going for triple that in a few years time.

[Angelo]

Yeah you're right. De Jong and De Ligt were sold from Ajax for about £150m. And a few other players sold the next year for near £100m. But at the same time they wouldn't have got anywhere near that money had they not had a great run in Europe. 200-300million quid in transfers in the space of 2 years. Unreal. Their academy must be something else.

Definitely but at the same time - what do you think Tierney would fetch right now if a side like City or United made him a priority? £60-70m? Same with when we had Van Dijk. 18 months later and he goes for over 7x what Celtic sold him for.

[HiMucker]

Hi guys, how's ye all doing?

[Angelo]

Yer boy Davies is off to Liverpool now apparently.

[JimStynes]

Put a lock on the gate and tarmac over the pitch. Useless