Rodgers transfer record

I think it's clear to see that celtic urgently need to strengthen there squad if they have any chance of qualifying champions league . And the board is taking a lot of criticism for not spending money.

But let's be honest Rodgers transfer history with celtic and Leicester has been horrendous- 20mil + for idah and engels.

Do we want the board to trust Rodgers with big money as he would most likely pay crazy money for a average player

 

The board should still be fully backing him, even if his record isnt great.

Not saying I rate their business, but the huns board are clearly getting Martin what he wants.

It's up to our board to do the same.

 

I doubt Engels was Rodger signing. That scouts would scout him and he was type of player Rodger wanted in midfield.

 

Yep the board should be backing him, particularly that auld * Desmond seeing as it was their/his decision to bring back a manager with a pish record in the transfer market.

 

I've said it elsewhere, but I dont think we properly progress as a club whilst Desmond and Lawwell are still here.

Both have done great by us over the years, but I think there's a hint of us being held back by archaic views. I mean, do we even have a proper scouting set up yet? We have Tisdale and that's it.

 

Rodgers recruitment over his career has been fairly poor barring a few. It was my main concern bringing him back. His first spell was pretty much Deila's team plus Sinclair. The flip side of it though is how it ended with the McGinn saga amongst others regardless of his history if he is the boards man they should be backing him

 

100% agree. The problem is there is only one was i see either leaving.

If the story about Nicholson wanting a DOF and being told to wind his neck in are true then it speaks volumes.

 

So what do we do then? Give him * all and then go backwards and hand them a league title?

or get him another 10 loan deals or whatever it was in his last window before he walked.

 

The idah price tag wasn't Rodgers (or Idah to be fair) fault.

Rodgers saw something in the lad and wanted him in the club, the board done their usual and then allowed Norwich to rinse the club.

Engels, if an actual Rodgers signing (for the record I think is), certainly showed why we paid a big fee. He hasn't quite lived up to that price point, but you'd have to be a * clueless moron not to see there is an £11m player in him.

Rodgers also wanted McGinn, we refused to pay a fair price for him, club * Rodgers - because I think we would all agree, McGinn would have been quality.

Rodgers also brought in a fair few quality players who done a job and then some.

He hasn't been perfect in the markets no manager tends to be.
But his record isn't as * as made out.

We also can't have it both ways of saying the board but all the players then say it's all Rodgers fault when they are *.
Vice versa as well.

Toure, Sinclair, Édouard, Ajer,(changing his position and loaning out), Kuhn, McCowan, Engels, Kasper, and more can all be credited to Rodgers and have various levels of success to them.

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Another reason a DoF and an actual modern infrastructure would be best here.

We would be signing players through a football department that would be fit for the next manager, even if Rodgers was for the off.

Instead the accepted logic seems to be we are happy to stand still, or even go backwards as we are at present, and give up our own advantage.

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If you’re not at it, or think he’s responsible for the failures in our transfer strategy, then I don’t know what to tell you.

I particularly disagreed with the time when he refused to pay Hibs another 200k for John McGinn out of spite and instead campaigned for the signing of Youssuf Mulumbu.

I hated when he patched Timothy Castagne to get Jeremy Toljan in on loan as well.

Guy hasn’t a clue.

 

We talk about a director of football and having a modern approach in terms of scouting, recruitment, youth academy etc but let's be honest if this board ever did decide to go down that route they would no doubt give it to Gordon Strachan.

 

People have been saying for years to implement this, but once again the powers at be are reactive and not proactive.

 

Are you talking about Lawwell or Rodgers?

cause Rodgers was vocal about bringing in McGinn and Castange. It’s Lawwell and Co who didn’t want to pay the 3m and 7m respectively.

Rodgers ended up signing Castange for Leicester

 

Think Tierney and Nygren for £1.5m fee between them looks tremendous business. If it was £25m between the two we’d think it would be worth the outlay.

We are, rightly btw, wanting us to push the boat out money wise and I agree with that, however transfer fees don’t matter on the pitch, and we’ve signed two high quality guys in them. One at least in KT, I’d label as a genuine world class player.

There’s a problem that we have that is generally ignored in summer windows like this. It’s hard to attract CL quality that we’re asking for to Scotland, and the CL and proximity to England, with a track record of developing them here, bring them success, and bring eyes to them to move to England or a high level like Frimpong did.

But we aren’t guaranteed the CL. And players know they have options and time to pick and choose, the ones at that sort of level we want as fans anyway. So it leaves us either we look at other maybe less guaranteed options, look to other markets largely ignored like Yamada and Inamura or we don’t bring in players not at that level that are waiting, to appease the fans, we can spend £6m/£7m fees and most that command that fee won’t be able to replace what we have.

But… I can acknowledge that being a thing for us, and still acknowledge at the same time that when we add in our board to that equation, the slow and hesitant approach, the lowballing and needless haggling, lack of decisiveness… add both them together it’s frustrating.

We have made 5 signings so far though. And 5 I like, KT is a cut above, Nygren I’m trying to temper my hype about him from what I’ve seen already. Both them are quality. I’ve liked Inamura, I like the look of Yamada and Osmand is a young prospect with high hopes. It’s not bad that, but it’s not us doing everything we possibly can either. Big 4 weeks or so ahead. One that if we don’t do right, guarantees us to be looking for a new manager the next season. Ange and Rodgers have been very high quality, one after the other, I wouldn’t hold out hope in a 3rd appointment in a row at they levels.

 

£2.75m for McGinn. Less than £3m.

Castange I think we wouldn’t go over £4.5m for. And for a season or two at Leicester it looked a terrible decision we made, by the time he left he looked shocking though and I’ll concede I haven’t caught a lot of him for Fulham but when I have he’s been distinctly average. I think £7m for him we would have looked at as a poor signing, and in comparison to since we didn’t I’d take Frimpong over him any day, I’d take Jura and I’d take AJ as well.

Think we done the right thing in hindsight there. It * Rodgers off and was a big part in him * off though but the McGinn * alone we knew that was on the cards. McGinn fiasco alone should have Lawwell far away from us. It’s not gone unnoticed the return to form since he took up the chairman role, look at our approach the small glimpse of Nicholson alone. We signed our 3 main targets that the manager demanded before January, 29th December I think it was. Ange was a force of nature and drove that as well. But * me, that’s unheard of. Then Lawwell and lowballing negotiations returned

 

rodgers's transfer record is shocking no doubt about it ,all the bullshit in the past week or so about 'club' signings as opposed his signings (which he then did a 180° on) was * ridiculous . last season rodgers must have forced the signing of idah ,theres no way we would have paid so much for him without him being insistant .now for him to get the player he wants is all well and good but to then not play him when there was no other strikers was farcical . £9m on a back up is nuts,£6m on trusty and he was bombed out of the side too .rodgers cant even convince himself these players are worth that nevermind a tight as * board who have no idea where rodgers will be next season

 

Our 'coach' doesn't identify or sign anybody, he gets a say before signings arrive (except 'club' signings), he does have a final say on which signings go into squad/team - whilst the excess is loaned out, sold, sit in stand.

Brendan really stuck his neck out on Idah due panicking over Kyogo getting a bad tackle when we had one striker - and we now have a lazy, expensive dud on our hands.
One look at Norwich fan forums would have avoided that.

So now the blazers have returned to old model to further boost the cash mountain and we will lose our 'coach' at end of season because the blazers and the coach don't see things the same way (again).

 

True unfortunately. They'd still meddle as well.

Getting rid of them all would be ideal.

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