The Offical Glasgow Celtic thread

[general_lee]

Anyone thinks Bilic or any other decent manager will go up to Scotland is in dreamland. Rodgers went to rebuild his reputation and left as soon as he got a decent offer. Only realistic option is to follow Rangers approach. Take a punt on a young manager looking to improve himself

Bilic has been sacked from his last three jobs, including a stint at some Mickeymouse outfit in Saudi Arabia.

[Main Street]

Isn't is so that most coaches are sacked?  Bilic earned £13m  for his season's work in that Saudi league
He would be quite fortunate to get the Celtic job at this stage in his life.

[illdecide]

Anyway lads my view on it is as follows...Celtic played rightly until the sending off and were def the better team, Bitton was playing well too up to that even though he's a player i'm not a fan of and that hasn't changed. The fact that he's a better option at CH than Duffy says it all. Had Jullien been fit it could have all been so different...(but if your Granny had balls...). Celtic looked the hungrier and dominated and only for a fantastic save from Satin himself we would have went in 1-0 up. The second hald seemed to be going the way of the first and if i was being honest it probably would have ended up 0-0 had Bitton not been a dick.

Ref was ok and in no way was he to blame for Celtic getting beat today, it's fine lines between winning and losing and the luck didn't go our way today but the table doesn't lie and they are top because they've been the outstanding team all year. There is no way on this earth that it can be salvaged so we all expect Lennon to go or be sacked so the Board should do it now or over the next fortnight to ensure the man in charge gets a go at the transfer market and gets 5-6 months bedding in period. What a disaster of a year in every sense but we pick this year to f**k up the tiar year. Whether it's the Boards fault or Lennon's fault or someone else's the situation now is we need it fixed asap. Sad, sad day for sure. My phone never fecking stopped all day from Rangers fans i work with but TBH i'd rather listen to them hoors than some of the melts on here.

[Orior]

What was wrong with Christis today? In the first half he had a few shots from outside the box, which went nowhere near the goals.

Did he improve in the second half?

[ned]

Anyway lads my view on it is as follows...Celtic played rightly until the sending off and were def the better team, Bitton was playing well too up to that even though he's a player i'm not a fan of and that hasn't changed. The fact that he's a better option at CH than Duffy says it all. Had Jullien been fit it could have all been so different...(but if your Granny had balls...). Celtic looked the hungrier and dominated and only for a fantastic save from Satin himself we would have went in 1-0 up. The second hald seemed to be going the way of the first and if i was being honest it probably would have ended up 0-0 had Bitton not been a dick.

Ref was ok and in no way was he to blame for Celtic getting beat today, it's fine lines between winning and losing and the luck didn't go our way today but the table doesn't lie and they are top because they've been the outstanding team all year. There is no way on this earth that it can be salvaged so we all expect Lennon to go or be sacked so the Board should do it now or over the next fortnight to ensure the man in charge gets a go at the transfer market and gets 5-6 months bedding in period. What a disaster of a year in every sense but we pick this year to f**k up the tiar year. Whether it's the Boards fault or Lennon's fault or someone else's the situation now is we need it fixed asap. Sad, sad day for sure. My phone never fecking stopped all day from Rangers fans i work with but TBH i'd rather listen to them hoors than some of the melts on here.

Wouldn't agree about Madden. Should have yellow carded Morelos very early and could have even shown a red. Quite a lot of soft frees breaking up our play. Red card was probably fair enough but I doubt it would have been given at other end.
I'm heartened by the performance but we still struggle to score.

[illdecide]

Ned i agree about Morelos tackle tbh but other than that he didn't get us beat today. It all boils down to one stupid act of play from Bitton that cost us the game, that's it in a nutshell.

[Hound]

Ned i agree about Morelos tackle tbh but other than that he didn't get us beat today. It all boils down to one stupid act of play from Bitton that cost us the game, that's it in a nutshell.

Clearly Stevie G has well outperformed Lennon this season, but today Lennon's team were the dominant one until that ridiculous take-down. If Morelos was a guy who scored everytime he came up against Celtic, you might have some justification for what Bitton did, but it's almost certain that would have been blazed high or wide or both.

And of course the only goal was a bit of a fluke (albeit like most OGs, some blame should attach to the player, even though commentators seem to always to try and absolve the 'scorer' of all blame).

Anyone know or hear of what Lennon's wages are compared to Gerrard's? Or how much extra Rodgers got for going to Leicester?
While Celtic can't afford the best players in the world, I'd have thought paying for a good manager wouldn't be out of the question.

[Angelo]

Ned i agree about Morelos tackle tbh but other than that he didn't get us beat today. It all boils down to one stupid act of play from Bitton that cost us the game, that's it in a nutshell.

Clearly Stevie G has well outperformed Lennon this season, but today Lennon's team were the dominant one until that ridiculous take-down. If Morelos was a guy who scored everytime he came up against Celtic, you might have some justification for what Bitton did, but it's almost certain that would have been blazed high or wide or both.

And of course the only goal was a bit of a fluke (albeit like most OGs, some blame should attach to the player, even though commentators seem to always to try and absolve the 'scorer' of all blame).

Anyone know or hear of what Lennon's wages are compared to Gerrard's? Or how much extra Rodgers got for going to Leicester?
While Celtic can't afford the best players in the world, I'd have thought paying for a good manager wouldn't be out of the question.

Rodgers was on around £2m a year at Celtic. We were supposed to have around £7m from Leicester for Rodgers and his backroom team members that left.

[MK]

Rodgers left for a club that spent £100 million on training facilities...after Celtic failed to up their measly bid for John Mc Ginn amongst other things...poor management at all levels now showing in results

[tyroneStatto]

When we didn't score when on top in the first half there was only going to be one outcome.
If there's any consolation we've been put out of our misery at this stage of the season, and now it's time to finally get a new manager in to rebuild for next season. And even Bilic would be a massive upgrade on Lennon.

[marty34]

Rodgers left for a club that spent £100 million on training facilities...after Celtic failed to up their measly bid for John Mc Ginn amongst other things...poor management at all levels now showing in results

True - they gambled and lost...big time.

Lawell thought Celtic could keep winning in Scotland and get an odd result in Europe to get to the group stages (Champions Lge or Europa Lge) and everything would be happy.  Didn't want to spend money on Mc Ginn or, more recently, Toney, but then panic buy with Ajeti etc.

League not lost today - Lennon should have went 4 months ago. It was clear this past few years, especially in Europe, that he didn't have a clue about tactics or formations etc.  He's a nodding dog for Lawell and isn't good enough.  Some of the results against minnows in Europe have been more embarrassing than today.  Be interesting to see where he goes after Celtic.

The club has been run down this past few years - everything on the cheap.

[ned]

Rodgers left for a club that spent £100 million on training facilities...after Celtic failed to up their measly bid for John Mc Ginn amongst other things...poor management at all levels now showing in results

True - they gambled and lost...big time.

Lawell thought Celtic could keep winning in Scotland and get an odd result in Europe to get to the group stages (Champions Lge or Europa Lge) and everything would be happy.  Didn't want to spend money on Mc Ginn or, more recently, Toney, but then panic buy with Ajeti etc.

League not lost today - Lennon should have went 4 months ago. It was clear this past few years, especially in Europe, that he didn't have a clue about tactics or formations etc.  He's a nodding dog for Lawell and isn't good enough.  Some of the results against minnows in Europe have been more embarrassing than today.  Be interesting to see where he goes after Celtic.

The club has been run down this past few years - everything on the cheap.

Pretty succinct summary. The problem hasn't just been this season. It goes all the way back to when MON left. From there we have had two good years under a good manager. Basically 15 years of mismanagement. There was going to come a time when Rangers won the league but it shouldn't be this year or next (because they aren't  a good team, functional at best) but in about 5 or 6 years time at earliest. Negligence on part of our board.

[Angelo]

Rodgers left for a club that spent £100 million on training facilities...after Celtic failed to up their measly bid for John Mc Ginn amongst other things...poor management at all levels now showing in results

True - they gambled and lost...big time.

Lawell thought Celtic could keep winning in Scotland and get an odd result in Europe to get to the group stages (Champions Lge or Europa Lge) and everything would be happy.  Didn't want to spend money on Mc Ginn or, more recently, Toney, but then panic buy with Ajeti etc.

League not lost today - Lennon should have went 4 months ago. It was clear this past few years, especially in Europe, that he didn't have a clue about tactics or formations etc.  He's a nodding dog for Lawell and isn't good enough.  Some of the results against minnows in Europe have been more embarrassing than today.  Be interesting to see where he goes after Celtic.

The club has been run down this past few years - everything on the cheap.

Pretty succinct summary. The problem hasn't just been this season. It goes all the way back to when MON left. From there we have had two good years under a good manager. Basically 15 years of mismanagement. There was going to come a time when Rangers won the league but it shouldn't be this year or next (because they aren't  a good team, functional at best) but in about 5 or 6 years time at earliest. Negligence on part of our board.

Lawwell joined in O'Neill's last season so spot the pattern.

Tbf Lawwell should have been sacked after the shambles he made with Balde's contract then froze our best centre half and highest earner out of the first team because he made a mug out of him.

[StPatsAbu]

What a sad fcking day.  The fact it was a must win is in itself a tragedy.   

The lockdown should have presented the opportunity to see Rangers bankrupt again but the board pissed away millions on average players, penny pinched on real quality like John McGinn to save 500k and then went for a cheap manager in Lennon thinking he could beat a Rangers who were in financial diffs again.

Gerrard will probably get them into the UCL group stages and clear their debt in one go. Joke

[tyroneStatto]

What a sad fcking day.  The fact it was a must win is in itself a tragedy.   

The lockdown should have presented the opportunity to see Rangers bankrupt again but the board pissed away millions on average players, penny pinched on real quality like John McGinn to save 500k and then went for a cheap manager in Lennon thinking he could beat a Rangers who were in financial diffs again.

Gerrard will probably get them into the UCL group stages and clear their debt in one go. Joke

That petty much sums it up unfortunately.