The Offical Glasgow Celtic thread

[T Fearon]

Legia seem to think that Celtic should waive the rules and let them through on the basis that Legia won the tie 6-1 and the player in question had no impact.

Interestingly BBC Scotland conducted a vox pop outside Celtic Park yesterday and only one Celtic supporter agreed that Celtic should forfeit their place to Legia and earn huge kudos for doing so.Back in the studio Packie Bonnar said that this would result in both Celtic and Legia being in breach of the rules and both would be kicked out of the tournament.

[rrhf]

I see the rangers violations as up to 11 illegal players playing over many years and it cost Celtic maybe 5 league titles. I can therefore understand when those titles weren't awarded to second placed Celtic why they are not falling over themselves to be the" bigger man" over this.  Who can blame the Tim alloys? 

[T Fearon]

If there are rules with clear penalties for breaches then to waive such penalties makes the rules meaningless.

Celtic have been awarded the tie on the basis that their opponents broke the rules.Simple as that

[Main Street]

Celtic could have wiped out their estimated £15M debt by investing a fraction of that in transfers/wages to get through 1 CL qualifier tie.

Celtic fc's modest debt has been wiped out a while ago.

http://www.scotsman.com/sport/football/spfl/celtic-debt-all-but-wiped-out-by-champions-league-run-1-2785899

feb 2013
progress to the last 16 of the Champions League this season.

The run has almost wiped out the club's entire debt as they made a pre-tax profit of almost £15 million in the second half of last year.

The Scottish champions yesterday published their interim accounts for the six months to 31 December 2012, a period that saw manager Neil Lennon successfully guide his squad through a lucrative Champions League group stage campaign against Barcelona, Benfica and Spartak Moscow. The effect on Celtic's accounts, released on the eve of tonight's last-16 first leg meeting with Juventus at Parkhead, has been dramatic.

The club's debt has been reduced to an almost negligible £130,000, compared with the £7.05m deficit they posted for the same period 12 months earlier. As well as the pre-tax profit of nearly £15m, turnover increased by 71 per cent to £50.06m.

[rodney trotter]

Good start

[rodney trotter]

That was short lived. .ffs.

[Syferus]

Better than a hammering at least.

[Armaghgeddon]

Ambrose needs to go, never watched the match but looked at the update and the first one was he lost the ball at the half way line.

[rodney trotter]

Celtic should have enough at home, controlled most of the game

[T Fearon]

You'd fear for them in the Group stages unless a couple of major signings are made all the same.

[T Fearon]

Qualification for the group stages,which hopefully will be confirmed 5 days before the close of the transfer window,should make Celtic a much more attractive option for players and the significant income accruing from qualification should reduce the risk of spending big on transfers and wages

[lynchbhoy]

Another week and further improvement in team cohesion will be most beneficial.
Ambrose is as he always was - gifting the ball away one minute, then defending magnificently the next.
Certainly getting there as a team.

Celtic only want to get into CL group stages. They won't care about being hammered when there. It's all about money and income.
They will buy no more, but might do so in jan so the new players will be fully embedded in the side for next years CL and the spl season v resurgent hearts/hibs/huns

Did ok tonight. Still have a bit to do to win through as still a bit prone to silly mistakes. Should have won 3-1. Gordon at least on a par with Forster from tonight's evidence.
Should beat Maribor, but still a game to be won yet.

At least delia got his tactics and team formation spot on tonight after his two 'strachan' games v legia !

[stew]

Any new manager needs time to settle in and also to get the buy in from players both old and new. LVG had a nightmare on Saturday but he will learn And grow from the experience,  Delia is doing the same.

Celtic are light years ahead of were they were against legia, mind you it wouldn't have been hard!

[T Fearon]

Lads Ronny's surname is Deila not Delia!

[lynchbhoy]

I called him worse under my breath after each leg of the CL ties v legia!