The Offical Glasgow Celtic thread

[T Fearon]

Poor performance,but had the most blatant penalty in the history of football been awarded,that could have levelled the score and reduced Malmo to ten men,and the outcome may have been different.This is a new and young Celtic team that has a lot to learn about managing big games like this.

[Farrandeelin]

My point is that we can be delusional like Tyrone supporters

"we" as in who Spurs or Celtic?

Both (as in deluded)

[general]

Virgil Van Dyke was nothing but a disgrace last night, if Southampton wish to pay £10m jesus Celtic should bite the hand off them!

Only for Gordon last night it would have been even more embarrassing. Replacing Forrest at a crucial time and keeping Johansen on the filed puzzled me a bit.

Poor side, who can only count their blessings they wont be involved in the Champions League Group Stages - They would have been hammered!

Until Celtic deal with the issue of not being able to win away from home - they will never do anything. They are a 2nd grade team playing in an excuse of a league. They wouldn't even finish in the top half of the English Premier

[An Watcher]

The statement that celtic wouldn't last in this division or that division really annoys me.  Yes it is true they are a poor side in a poor league that would struggle in the championship never mind the premiership.  They do however have a massive fan base and a massive stadium.  If they ever do get into the English leagues their coffers would be bulging to such an extent that they would be able to attract proper players. I mean gary hooper leaves celtic for norwich, van dijk contemplating Southampton over celtic. You can't blame these fellas for going for financial reasons but the only thing that could affect celtic if they got into the premiership is geographical location. They are a huge club which will struggle until such time as they get into the English or some sort of European league. A sad state of affairs

[themac_23]

Very poor, i actually feel for Ronny Delia, everyone knows we are crying out for a striker and Citci isn't the answer, how do the board expect us to be in champions league when we spend the sort of money that would still be pocket change to Europa League clubs? we are at a cross roads, either start to put in the right money and make champions league every year and actually go to compete and not make up the numbers or keep doing what we are doing, see crowds dwindle and make the odd CL group stage where we struggle to get a point or 2.

[Applesisapples]

I don't feel sorry for Deila, he managed to win a league that is poor. John Collins couldn't make it managing in the same league what makes us think he can do it at Celtic? Tactically naïve, poor players and absolutely no pride in either themselves or the jersey. Celtic have at least 3 times the average gate at Malmo yet they were streets apart in terms of heart and ability and will to win. Celtic need the CL if they want to attract and hold decent players, alas the boards ambition seems to end at the SPL. An embarrassment.

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Jim McGuinness in?

[Orior]

Who wants to see Celtic loose all their matches in the Champions League? Not me.

I'd rather they play in a league where they have a chance of winning.

[screenexile]

I don't understand why the outrage maybe it's the curse of a big club in decline but Celtic are certainly not a 'big club' anymore. Yes the history and the secterianism are all great but when the team starts losing you're going to see a big fall off in supporters.

The only hope they have is to try and lure some Oligarch or Sheikh to take them over as some kind of plaything. As things stand Celtic don't have the money to lure the type of player they need. Even with that the fact they play in Scotland against nothing teams week in week out is hardly attractive for a decent footballer to make the move North.

People tried to say that the decline of Rangers wouldn't change anything about Celtic. . . last night was the proof!!!!

Until such time as a sugardaddy takes them over Celtic are going to be the second class in Europe for many days to come! You can't buy all your players from your Scottish League competitors and expect to challenge in Europe!!

[Esmarelda]

A really woeful display on and off the pitch.

Poor defending for the first goal. Then Griffiths decides to knee a lad in the balls. He should be fined a months wages for that. If that had been spotted I imagine he'd have been fined.

Then a replica for the second goal.

Fair enough they were done out of a penalty but that was after the first two instances above.

Leaving Johansson on and taking off Forrest was beyond ridiculous.

Boyata may turn out to be a good player but he's been terrible in the three games this year I've seen him play.

And as Kilbane pointed out, taking outswinging corners with that loo-laa in goals was also very, very odd.

[Esmarelda]

I don't understand why the outrage maybe it's the curse of a big club in decline but Celtic are certainly not a 'big club' anymore. Yes the history and the secterianism are all great but when the team starts losing you're going to see a big fall off in supporters.

The only hope they have is to try and lure some Oligarch or Sheikh to take them over as some kind of plaything. As things stand Celtic don't have the money to lure the type of player they need. Even with that the fact they play in Scotland against nothing teams week in week out is hardly attractive for a decent footballer to make the move North.

People tried to say that the decline of Rangers wouldn't change anything about Celtic. . . last night was the proof!!!!

Until such time as a sugardaddy takes them over Celtic are going to be the second class in Europe for many days to come! You can't buy all your players from your Scottish League competitors and expect to challenge in Europe!!

The point is that they paid a lot more for their squad than Malmo and they pay them bigger wages.

It's not about Celtic beating bigger clubs, it's about beating Malmo to even get into the competition proper.

[general_lee]

I don't understand why the outrage maybe it's the curse of a big club in decline but Celtic are certainly not a 'big club' anymore. Yes the history and the secterianism are all great but when the team starts losing you're going to see a big fall off in supporters.

Define a big club? last year all 20 of the EPL teams were in the world's top 40 richest football clubs. When you see what teams in England have to offer, even in the Championship, which is still a better league to play in than the SPFL, how Celtic manage to attract any sort of playing talent outside of Scotland is nothing short of a small miracle.

The sooner Rangers and Hibs get their acts together the better. Until such times, the measure of Celtic managers can only be judged on Europe and so far Delia, as much as I like him, is failing.

[themac_23]

I don't understand why the outrage maybe it's the curse of a big club in decline but Celtic are certainly not a 'big club' anymore. Yes the history and the secterianism are all great but when the team starts losing you're going to see a big fall off in supporters.

The only hope they have is to try and lure some Oligarch or Sheikh to take them over as some kind of plaything. As things stand Celtic don't have the money to lure the type of player they need. Even with that the fact they play in Scotland against nothing teams week in week out is hardly attractive for a decent footballer to make the move North.

People tried to say that the decline of Rangers wouldn't change anything about Celtic. . . last night was the proof!!!!

To be honest one of the biggest problems are the players who have been on the books from NL time, they seem to be the tried and tested but time and time again the let Ronny down. For example, Charlie Mulgrew was hands down the worst player on the park last night, complete liability. Commons when he came on gave the ball away time and time again and Brown didn't do much. honestly, i was kind of hoping deep down that Commons would leave last year, his best days are behind him and Mulgrew should def be first out the door.

The Europa League is the level we are at, nothing wrong with that there are better teams from better leagues in the Europa League, would love to get drawn against Dortmund or the likes just to get a lift like we got with inter last year. But until the board sort out where we want to go and our level of ambition I'm afraid we just don't belong at the table with Europes elite.

Until such time as a sugardaddy takes them over Celtic are going to be the second class in Europe for many days to come! You can't buy all your players from your Scottish League competitors and expect to challenge in Europe!!

The point is that they paid a lot more for their squad than Malmo and they pay them bigger wages.

It's not about Celtic beating bigger clubs, it's about beating Malmo to even get into the competition proper.

[reddgnhand]

I don't understand why the outrage maybe it's the curse of a big club in decline but Celtic are certainly not a 'big club' anymore. Yes the history and the secterianism are all great but when the team starts losing you're going to see a big fall off in supporters.

Define a big club? last year all 20 of the EPL teams were in the world's top 40 richest football clubs. When you see what teams in England have to offer, even in the Championship, which is still a better league to play in than the SPFL, how Celtic manage to attract any sort of playing talent outside of Scotland is nothing short of a small miracle.

The sooner Rangers and Hibs get their acts together the better. Until such times, the measure of Celtic managers can only be judged on Europe and so far Delia, as much as I like him, is failing.

It won't make any difference. New Rangers will not compete with Celtic for a very long time if ever. Scotland is a country of about 5 million people? I don't think Celtic do too bad with what they have. If you looked at the attendance figures in Scotland & England I'm confident they would be close to the top.

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