Lack of transfer movement!

As a season ticket holder who goes to all home and away games. If the board dont sanction at least a CB & a RB before the end of the window I will not be renewing or going back next year. There is a vast difference between being a loyal supporter who supports his team through thick and thin in the hope they will reciprocate to being a sheep who is being hoodwinked by the board and being ripped off. I genuinely feel the board are just taking the supporters money & the club's money for that matter, with no intention of investing in the squad. Compare that with sevco are skint in comparison yet are signing players left, right and centre. Regardless of opinion on their chances of winning the league, they are spending money and so far it is paying off for them. I never thought for a minute they would challenge us this season but i also did not think they would progress this far in Europe already either. We are being sold extremely short by the Board and I genuinely feel they are in danger of throwing away all the exceptional work we have done over the last 2 years.

 

Quite honestly, its absolutely crucial that we get a centre-half in before the end of this window. The morale amongst the support, due to a combination of poor results and making a mess of transfers, is at a low which, at the end of last season, seemed unfathomable. It would be daft to suggest that that mob haven't strengthened, and as a result of getting a big name gaffer in, good signings and a run of performances, their morale is on a bit of a high. Now, whilst they are not our benchmark for success anymore, due to the extent to which we've left them behind in previous seasons, I certainly don't think they're mugs this season. Whether or not you think he's a good signing, the Lafferty deal and the Croatian boy they've signed, which is arguably a better example, are instances of their manager wanting a player, and the club delivering. The same can't be said for us, unfortunately.

There appears to be two camps in regards to our transfer situation. One who believe that Lawwell wont put up money for players, and the other doubts Rodgers and Congerton's ability to scout talent. Personally, I think its probably a bit of both. Rodgers probably has targets which the club views as out of our price-range, and as a result, he resorts to a plan B, which, as a result of incompetent scouting, is usually a complete dud. As many have said, I'll wait until the end of this window to judge it. But, as I've seen many others on here say already, good offence (which we have) wins games, good defence wins titles. Unfortunately, we are significantly lacking in the latter.

 

"Good things come to those who wait
" Tick followed Tock.

 

£6m for Scott McKenna. * me.

 

anything less than a significant signing at RB & CB and 3points on 2nd of September then I think Celtic park will be empty thereafter & rightfully so.

 

We never had an agreed fee for McGinn so how could he ask for assured ge time? Sound more like a PR spin cause the board and Lawwell are tight fisted * and did not want to pay the extra bit of cash to get him.

Penny pinching once again has caused us to look * amateurish yet again.

 

My worst fear is that we don’t bring anyone else in and we lose that game.

I don’t think we would recover from it.

 

If we dont sign anyone by the end of the window they whole board can gtf. All the income from CL in previous seasons and player sales yet we penny pinch and spend 4m on lights ffs couldve signed a CB with the 4mill

 

Naw. I'll leave that to you pal.

Not Celtic chat though.

 

Naw. All the hanger on old firm * might be gone but they won't be missed.

 

Aye Lion is well known for being a board PR mouthpiece on here

 

Don't think Lion said anything about McGinn in Celtic chat.

 

Agree with some of what you're saying, I said as much yesterday and at the end of last season that Brendan's signings have in the majority been failures. Some of them incredibly bad failures.

However given that he has delivered a Double Treble for us we should be backing him, at the moment our net spend is zero. That's a horrendous way to treat a guy that turned us around from the Deila shambles.

Yes, it does worry me that Brendan sees McKenna as quality but then again he could feasibly be 20th on the list of preferred centre backs. I imagine we'd all disagree on some inclusions on any previous managers targets. For every Wanyama signed by Lennon he also signed a Bangura.

The board was praised for renewing Rogic's and Tierney's contract (although I imagine KT would've been pretty easy to deal with and given it was outwith a transfer window it would make sense to sign improved terms)

Edouard wasn't exactly instantaneous, it still rumbled on for weeks despite us having a previously agreed price.

Also I never said our woes were all down to the board not backing Brendan, he is not absolved of blame. His recruitment, tactics and team selections have at times been questionable.

But what he's done with Deila's deflated squad has been nothing short of incredible and we've coined in hugely because of it through prize money, transfer fees, enhanced sponsorship and manufacturing deals. To then repay him with a £0 net spend on transfers during a window as crucial as this is unforgivable. They have hamstrung him and cost us Champions League qualification in the process.

 

Absolute shambles of a window. * me a blind man can see that gap in defence. Jesus Christ get the finger out and get it sorted.

 

Guys trust me just accept we wont sign anyone, it will make you feel better, been seething all week and just had to let go of the grief at this shambolic state of affairs, a penny pinching tight arsed CEO, who wants to build lights and hotels.

Judging by the tight arsed *, the hotel will likely be this.

 

|If we get a win tonight think we will see a few players coming in before next week and we will know where we stand in terms of euro income for season.
If it's close we might have to wait till after next thursday for deadline day transfers.

 

I read it 100% and I know others did as well.

Well then you/we should be raging with the board for not increasing the offer for Mckenna, as by not doing that they/we are not backing BR, who wants quality, but no-one is, as I said, that's both telling and worrying if we are honest.
I raised those players as an example that the board can act promptly at times. It was to simply highlight that they don't * about all the time, like some seem to say. (Not aimed at you but in general I read how that is the case when its simply untrue, then again a fair bit of what is levelled at the board falls into that category).
On the time taken for Edouard's deal taking a few weeks to agree a deal isn't that bad going given you need to speak to the players representatives who then need to speak to the player and then get back to the board, so I wouldn't play that down tbf.

It is indeed superb what he has done with the squad overall since he took over, no one with any sense would even try to query that. But we have needed a couple of defenders since he arrived and still continue to do. When you say they have cost us CL qualification I don't really think i agree. They are, at worst, partly responsible but certainly not solely at fault, as the players we have, played to a system that suits their capabilities should/would have seen us get past AEK imo. Plus we have had a few windows to address the defence by now, or are we to believe every defender identified, bar those signed, have been ignored by the board? Naw I don't believe that. I think BR just isn't that interested in the defence, as weird/scary/worrying as that sounds and that has cost us here.
As I have said ALL are at fault (varying degrees) imo. I just get tired reading (not just you as you have been sensible in your criticism) how its only the boards fault mate.

 

Paul regardless I feel we will sign no-one even if we made he UCL groups I still doubt we would have signed anyone, Celtic board have made their mind up on this one already! Made last gasp bid for McGinn he was gone, made an enquiry for Panicci when Brendan reportedly told them go get him signed for first day of preseason, made token bid for McKenna knowing it wasn't enough.

Its all part of the we tried, all a bit suspect if you ask me new TV deal discussions coming up, CORPORATE SABOTAGE for me, nice new lights nice celtic way, weakened team on the park, but all main rivals are stronger!

 

The boards penny pinching will cost them more money as we wait til the last available second, pushing prices up as everybody knows we’re cashrich yet * desperate, an awful combination. Their bullshit and fannying about also cost 40+ million CL money.

Lawwell is one of the most professional businessmen out there I just don’t understand what the * * he’s doing this summer.

Eddy was no more than 8 million up front, probably 5-6 with add ons. We got 8mill for Armstrong, 1m for Sviatchenko and saved wages on those plus Roberts, Musonda and some youths. We’ve spent net less than nothing this window, the board can’t fool us with the ‘record breaking’ Eddy signing.

 

don't forget to add the £7.5m on for VVD!

In fact in this financial year 1st July onwards we have spent nil - Eddie fee was in the previous years accounts and more than covered by Selling Armstrong and Erik.