Dermot Desmond

Do the press never try to get a hold of this guy to ask his opinion of how he thinks the club are doing? STV and BBC news became unwatchable with them clamouring to speak to whoever owns the zombies over the years. Surely to * Desmond has to stick his glorious mouser over the parapet at some point.

 

He gets away with everything Scot free people should blame him not the board

 

He wanted Keane, Deila is Lawwells boy.

 

Bit hard to get a haud of him when he's on the golf course. No fair to ruin the man's round. Come on.

 

People actually slag the board all the time though but theres not much that can be done, we are a skint team from Scotland whos fans were once used to being one of the top 30-40 richest and most powerful teams who have now been demoted to a Club who are now not even really near the top 100 richest and most powerful clubs and whats came with that is much worse players being signed and anyone decent leaving.

It's a difficult job which in reality very little can be done to appease fans.

 

Who' fault is that? We were top 40 when Lennon was getting us to the CL. I was * shouting from the rooftops that we needed to build upon this and our board along with the Tyler Blackett of managers gutted the team for no reason and most of the fans * backed them. We could easily have had 4 straight qualifications if we done things properly.

 

Racist

 

No we weren't, we were lucky in that we signed a lot of good players on a small budget Forster, Wilson, Matthews, Ledley, Kayal, Ki, Wanyama, Stokes, Hooper etc and became quite a good team but it only lasted 2/3 years and then they basically all left and we relied on luck to try and replace them all again on the same small budget.

As time passes it gets harder too even only 5/6 years ago Celtic were bigger than we are now and English Championship teams or French teams or lower end German and Italian teams were all smaller, now we are smaller and they are all richer so price ranges have changed, wages have changed and now there are more teams shopping in the Kayal, Wanyama, Matthews, Hooper range.

The dynamics of football are changing year on year and the likes of us are sinking further away while others get richer.

If you think it's bad now wait and see what it'll be like in 10 years when English Championship clubs will probably be richer than Celtic and so even players like Leigh Griffiths will be sitting on Championship benches earning £20k a week while Celtic are still shopping in the £10k a week player range.

 

Why do people argue with me? * look it up. It will take ye two minutes on google.

 

I hope we are in the big man's will, that's for sure!

 

Look what up?

Im talking about or standing in the game. Celtic of say 2000-2005 were one of the richest teams about there was probably 40 teams at most richer than us worldwide who were above us in the food chain of football, probably not even that maybe only 25 or so. 2005-2010 we probably tumbled down the list about 10-15 places a year.

Now we are nowhere there are now teams in China, USA, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and who knows where who can sign players we couldnt dream of.

Im sure i've seen you saying Celtic should get Moyes or Rodgers but that is pie in the sky at best and mental hospital talk at worst. You also claim Celtic shouldn't have sold Van Dijk etc but those players don't want to play for us for too long so they have to be sold.

 

Good point, out all the board and Lawwell slagging etc that gets done on here i've never read a valid point from anyone thats pointed out anything that was done wrong or any points they do make are actually incorrect like you see "downsizing" claimed a lot when the wage-bill has never really changed in over a decade, it's just the players you could once get on a £35million wagebill in 2002 are much better than ones you can get on the same wagebill in 2016.

 

The main reason Dermott Desmond probably doesnt turn up at the AGM is he could easily answer all questions and set people straight but that the truth is WE ARE * in Scottish football and dying a slow death and the only way things will improve is to leave Scottish football. Probably why whenever he does say something its only ever talking about getting out of Scottish football but obviously as the main shareholder he isn't going to come out like Homer Simpson saying the end is near.

 

You can't say we're not in the richest 40 ILTC - that is disingenuous - we are. Back in the early 2000s we were top 20. But I get what you mean - wages weren't as high, nor transfer fees. We could compete with most clubs except the top 10. Our wage bill and revenue has stagnated whilst everyone else's has grown, hence we can buy less for the same price as before.

They all have more expendable income aswell. I mean in England the are guaranteed £100m a year in the revenue without question, so it's easy to budget and you can blow a fair whack and not really care.

Football inflation - it's a *.

 

Well if you are talking about standing in the game then we were in the top 40 football brands published June 2015, in fact we were in the 30's if you would care to look. I will not be linking the page as once you start people will be flat out asking for the same and as well it is not up to me to inform anyone else that's up to themselves. And another thing stop with the * boo hoo hoo poor us bullshit, if we wanted we could go out and get the likes of Moyes & Rodgers. What is happening here is that you are defeated by the downsizing and you have been manipulated through popular consensus into believing things that are false. Show some * balls we are only being assfucked by downsizing because of attitudes like yours that let them get away with it.

Nothing personal by the way this is aimed at the support collectively who seem to have lost their fight. We can demand better we dont have to let this rape continue.

 

Ask him does he have any plans to halt our slide that has seen us go from a lower level Champions League team to a lower level Europa league team in the past few years. Why does he think 15k season ticket holders aren't going to games and what are his ideas to tempt them back. Basically what are his views on the direction the club is going and does he actually give a *. What are Deila's targets and does he think he is on the right track in achieving them ??? (Worrying if he thought he was)

 

Pish

 

I good come back but dont cry when * nothing changes in fact dont cry at all. The hottest places in * are reserved for those who in times of great moral crisis maintain their neutrality. And our * club is in the middle of a moral crisis and people who sit back and take it make me sick.