The Board

* the lot of them.

 

I appreciate you’re angry mate but these types of comments you’re making are counter productive.

We all love Celtic but it’s an unspoken rule Celtic means nothing when compared to things like violence and intimidation. Best to just leave these types of comments out.

 

40-45 m of it has gone in the last 3 years (the tierney and dembele money right there)

The issue is at least half of it has been spent on * - that’s the core issue. Dreadful recruitment

 

I can be in a fantastic mood and then ill think about our board and then I'm raging.

I cant actually put into words my hate for them. They've held this club back for years. Enough is enough.

 

The most recent damning indictment of this board is going from Lustig/Frimpong and Tierney, banking £36m from the sale of two of them and ending up with what we have now.

A complete dereliction of duty.

 

Celtic have spent 80 million on transfer fees since 16/17

Celtic have taken IN 87 million in the same time period.

In that time period, wage inflation has been significant also, and given the sheer headcount of failed “first teamers” on a big wedge, more has been spent there than has come in.

THEN factor in loan fees for - Forster, mo, musonda, Roberts, Burke, Benkovic, Arzani, Toljan, Weah, Bauer, Duffy, Kenny, Laxalt.

Absolutely frightening. Forster, mo, roberts, benkovic the only successes there - and the wages spent are millions on millions every year.

There isn’t a biscuit tin mentality - there IS a spending money on dross mentality though.

Incredible spend when you think about it / where we find ourselves. I reckon 20 million on loan fees and loan player wages alone in the time period. That’s conservative too.

 

I said at the time I didn't blame Rodgers for leaving. The timing was a sore one to take, no doubt about it, but I was under no illusions that he left because he didn't get the backing he wanted and deserved. He felt no loyalty to the board and when an opportunity came up, and it was a good one as well, he had no issues with showing no loyalty to them. I never bought into him being this massive Celtic fan anyway, I don't think many people did. To then replace him with Lennon was laughable. I don't mean in the final few months after Rodgers left, as I felt that was a smart appointment in the interim given the circumstances, but I felt completely deflated when I heard he had been given the job after the cup final.

The money we have raked in from Champions League and transfer fees has not been fully invested in the playing squad, no doubt about that. There is absolutely zero ambition shown by this board. It has been the same story for years. They got away with it for so long because it was almost impossible for us not to win the league for a long time. So even though they weren't showing any ambition in order for us to progress in Europe, as long as we were successful domestically, fans will accept it. Last season just showed how inept the board really are, but if the huns hadn't been in the league, it would have been forgotten about as we would still have won the league.

 

So far we have signed 3 players to improve our first team, Adaba, Furuhashi and Starfelt. The board would try to tell us we have signed 5 but Urhoghide and Shaw are nowhere near first team ready, the fans are not fools.

Our first team is crying out for reinforcements but all we have done is signed a measly 3 players since Ange has arrived. We need another CB, 2 RB's, a LB, left winger, Goalkeeper and 2 strikers (Eddy cant be arsed and will be away soon, Griff has blown it and Ajeti is a empty jersey). You could easily argue we need more quality in midfield too.

It wont be long until there are 60,000 back inside Celtic Park, if things continue the way they are going the board will be left in no uncertain terms what the fans think of their disgusting mismanagement. Just sick of this now, its the same old story, we go into hugely important European qualifiers totally under prepared, this season has got to be the worst of the lot.

I will be back at Paradise shorty and when the chants go up from the fans showing their anger towards the board I will not be holding back. Just * scunnered by it all now, enough is enough.

 

Said it earlier in thread we are being marketed by Desmond to be sold

 

Wouldn't poor results make us less attractive to any hypothetical buyers?

 

In what fantasy land have you concocted that conclusion?

 

To be fair, businesses are usually asset stripped without any investment before they are sold. Sounds like Celtic

 

So Desmond’s master plan is to make us *, drive down the price of his shares so he can sell them?

I’m no billionaire myself but I don’t think that’s a profitable business decision.

 

Again, where is the evidence of this?

 

If that was the case, in some alternate reality I'd be Jeff Bezos by now ffs

 

The last decade

 

What about it?

 

Nonsense we spent money last season, some where calling it our greatest ever transfer window, we've spent around £12 million so far this window and still looking to do business.

 

Now you mention that *. I heard him speak for the first time the other day after he orbited earth. Guy should have stayed up there. What an insincere, slabbering * he is man.

 

Ralston. Welsh. Murray. Taylor (Montgomery on as a sub)

Gone - Tierney. Frimpong. Ajer.

Some business.