Callum Osmand

I agree. I'm not saying the manager is right and the scouts/club wrong, but it's clear we're buying players the manager hasn't had a proper look at. There's a consistent trend emerging where we buy a new player, they get maybe a game where he assesses them (if that), then they get benched forever. There needs to be communication and compromise.

 

Agree, feel like we are being left behind in modern football though either way. The scouts are actually finding good players. Whether we sign them or not due to board negligence is obviously on them.

Rodgers has been incredibly successful for us but I can see the tide changing. The disconnect from board to him obviously plays into it all.

but when we do replace him I think we should be getting a manager in who will play a style, and play that style with players the club buy for him. Most modern clubs do this and I feel like Rodgers doesn’t want to adapt to this modernisation. His pettiness with players to make a point shows this.

 

Think there needs to be a balance. Again at risk of beating it to death, we need a director of football that will work with the manager/head coach and identify players together.

 

It is becoming the normal now, projects coming in that the manager doesn’t know, rate or trust and they spend an eternity on the sidelines and are moved on without getting on the hallowed ground of CP, back to the eternal issue with us is “ who is driving the * bus”

 

The manager spoke about being happy with the scouting and recruitment set up when he came back so he knew what he was signing up to and he knew the business model.
He was appointed partly bcoz he's a manager with a reputation for developing young players. He's not on £2m a year to win the Spfl.

Not every signing can be a project however and there needs to be 1st team ready players too but the manager can't say on 1 hand he has final say on players or say that there is no disconnect and then throw his toys out the pram and omit players from squads at the expense of his fat pals

 

Would be better with Marie osmond

 

Brendan’s quotes from July 1st

 

Emerging. Next step ....heard all the * before brendan. Young talent. * buzz words. * off now brendan

 

Funnily enough it’s actually quite modern for head coaches not to make every signing, we just do it the most Celtic way possible with no apparent plan/profiles to target or DOF/sporting director etc.

We are literally the only team i’ve seen use the phrase “club signing”.

Have any of them ever actually been good?

 

It's the only phrase that'll do because we have no idea who is actually involved in the process. Like, who is the actual decision-maker? Does DD set a budget, does Lawwell say we need to get x, y, and z? What does Tisdale do, if anything? Who identifies which markets/leagues/teams to scout? We've absolutely no idea how it works, we just know it takes ages to get anything done and the manager appears to know as much about most deals as we do.

 

Without knowing the finer details i am convinced there will be targets identified by the recruitment team and it all breaks down when Ze Specky One and co actually have to try and actually sign them.

We have been publicly embarrassed numerous times this Summer by multiple clubs regarding out transfer activities. Got ourselves a reputation which will make iit even harder for them than they already find it.

 

That’s the point of having a recruitment team though. A large percentage of us have screamed for a DoF for years. And say this about ‘club signings’. And this here is exactly how a DoF would operate.

I prefer the setup we have but we * do it wrong. The way we have it, the manager should trust and work in tandem with the recruitment team. But the manager is the actual manager and it’s under his direction. DoF is above the Head Coach, rather than a manager it’s head coach. They bring in the players they recruit and the Head Coach deals with what he gets and fulfills the vision.

What we have is the worst of both. Recruiting team acting like DoF, with the manager above them not needing to give a *.

 

We've seen over many years this recruitment process be successful but for it to work we need a manager/head coach fully on board with it and everyone signing from the same hymn sheet.

We can't have a manger who refuses to play these guys or worse refuse to let them go out on loan out of pettiness.

On top of that, when the recruitment team identify talents players, ie. Kvistgaarden, Orjasaeter, Jansson, Breum Biscoff. We then need to trust their judgement and pay the going rate.

Again it's where a DOF would be far more beneficial, someone who knows modern football, knows players and knows how to deal with clubs professionally.

Look at Thelwell at the Huns. No doubt some of their signings look * but just in terms of how they have gone about deals quickly and professionally.

Given the domination and recourses We've had over them the last 10 years there is absolutely no area of business where the * should be more professional than us.

There a reason almost every single club in EPL has a director of football, we are even seeing it up here now with modern approachs at Huns, Hibs and Hearts.

We either get our finger out and modernise or we'll be left behind

 

We’d still run into the same issue with players being identified, the DoF wouldn’t be the guy negotiating the transfer fee.

This season is the first real season the recruitment has operated like this, and that’s Tisdale.

 

He has to be tho. That's how it works. CEO determines his football budget and it's then up to DoF and the head coach how it's spent. A guy like Nicholson should have absolutely no say in the valuation of players. He has absolutely * all football background.

For example there was a rumour going around a few weeks back were those at 49ers had no issue with Martin being sacked but Thelwell and Stewart were told it was coming out of the football teams budget.

At any rate, if we are talking of a football restructuring then the 1st step has to be the removal of Nicholson anyway. * so far out of his depth he should be wearing arm bands