BoBo Balde Reports Celtic to Fifa

Anyone who slags Balde for staying for cash is wrong, he was part of a successful team and negotiated a contract and signed it. The same people probobly were mad at Petrov for not serving his contract when he DIDNT want to be there, Bobo is on the best money he will ever earn in his life and he wanted to play for Celtic.

He dosent have to moveunless he is paid what he is due. Similr to Graveson STrachan has alienated someone on high wages to try and bore them out the door. Baldes not interested in playing lower level English football so he sits on his money and helps develop the stars of tomorrow!!

 

lets wait and see who he signs for in the summer.....birmingham fc anyone...?
Oh and for the record i was sad to see petrov go but better to get money for a player than have a unhappy one in the shirt.

 

Celtic refused to release him unless he signed a confidentiality agreement, no need to let facts spoil a rant eh?

 

What a sad end to his celtic career.

 

Exactly Hail Hail Bobo!

It proves hes been treated * when Celtic are wanting him to sign an agreement to keep quiet.

 

why should bobo sign a confidentiality agreement> This is the club clearly admitting they have treated him wrongly.The big man has principles, fair play 2 him!

 

At the end of the day though, "no player is bigger than the club" so * him, end of !!!

 

What a * * fifa will see sense well that the hope anyway good riddence to a *

 

The fundamental of anyone playing sport is that they want to play at the highest level possible. That doesnt seem to be the case for this guy.

Balde had plenty of opportunities to move to very high level, play and earn a similar wage to what he's getting at Celtic. Confidentiality agreements are commonplace in any workplace where trade secrets and work practices dont want to made public. They are common in football as much as anywhere else. Balde being asked to sign one shouldn't raise any eyebrows. Him using it as an excuse not to take first team football should raise eyebrows because its a lame excuse.

He could easily be playing in the EPL right now, for similar money, with the offers we have received for him but look at what he's happy doing. Do you want a player thats happy in the reserves and training with the youths? I find that mentality fundamentally wrong and it has no place at Celtic FC. Every player at Celtic should have ambition to play and play at the highest level, without that drive a player is useless when the chips are down.

A player from a previous regime becoming surplus to requirements shouldn't be an issue. The new manager doesnt want you, deal with it and move on. You'd swear this is the first time this has happened in football! He wants to spill all the beans to the highest bidder and try to reveal things that will cost us points. Other teams knowing our methods and tactics will cost us points and people are trying to defend this sort of behaviour? Which is more important to you, Balde's bruised ego or Celtic?

Our club doesnt want internal policies, training practices & work relationships splattered all over the papers and made common knowlegde by someone that shown that he wants to earn all he can while he can at the consequence of his long term future. He doesnt have Celtic's interests at heart. He can claim different but his actions show the mans true colours and I'm surprised that some people are taken in by his bullshit.

The player is protected by the law, players associations and unions. If you think that Celtic are going to shoot themselves in the foot by acting outside of the rules of the game or the laws of the country/EU then can I have whatever you have been smoking? Seriously, they have lawyers on retainers, they will know what they can and cant do before they do anything.

Balde has sadly tainted his good days with all this carry on and once again, the same old people are trying to use the situation to bad mouth the manager, the person that is looking out for the best interests of Celtic FC, and support a player that wants to take all he can and bad mouth the club as a parting shot for his bruised ego.

 

What is you game? every time anyone comes out on the forum and makes a statement that does not tow the party line then it is a case of they do not know what they are talking about or worse still not a 'true' Celtic fan.

Bottom line with Bobo is that you/we/I can think what we like but he has a CONTRACT that allows him to do what he is doing. Is it morally right, possibly not, legally, absolutely.

As for the confidentiality clause, how many players have left clubs and had to sign such an agreement? I would imagine that it is an unwritten rule that when you leave the tactics stay behind. That said it would not be the first time the press have said player A has gone to club X who are now playing his former employers and he will telling them all he knows. Do you think that does not happen? If not you are a fool.

 

I'm talking about going to the press and selling stories, I clearly stated that. Read again

 

Really

So because I have only been here a 'few months' I know nothing and I am not entitled to an opinion. For all you know I could have been supporting Celtic twice as long as you or indeed involved with football at a level you can only dream of. Neither is true but for you to make a statement like that is exactly the sort of behavior I was alluding to.

 

Bottom line is there is something going on at CFC. Now whether that is the board trying to cut wages or players behaving like 'idiots' as we have seen recently then something is not right....

 

I dont buy the loyal Bobo stuff. He tried to get a big move from us a couple of times. As a player too I can see why WGS doesnt play him. Sure he is dominant in the air but he gives the ball away to the opposite about 9 times out of 10 and our whole possession first system would break down with him. Giving him and Thommo bumper contracts was a big mistake by MON. Thommo was prematurely past it and Bobo was limited but they were on the sort of money nonone is Scotland will ever get again. Still, its pretty unique for a player to hang around fully 3 seasons after he fell out of favour.

 

Yeah. He was pretty limited anyway and one of the reasons MON didnt do great in the CL. He was just out of his depth at that level. He would attack everything but not see the clever player doing the diangonal run behind him. His legend and his status go up with every rose tinted passing year.

I have to say Mjallby's reputation is a bit too based on a couple of seasons too. He was also poor for a long time until he showed a bit of form in the couple of seasons leading to Seville. His inability to handle Lovenkrants led to the breakup of the MON 3-5-2 formation.

For me, none of those players was as good as Caldwell over the last year. He has turned into a cracking defender but I dont have much faith in Mick.

 

When did the board act like idiots, clear examples please since you are so brilliant yourself.

Thats when I specifically mentioned the papers, i.e. reason why he wouldnt want to sign a confidentiality agreement. The club dont want him telling people internal stuff for money. But you think this is ok. Are you following Bobo Balde or Celtic??

Where did I mention tactics??? You cant even read my post correctly

 

Keltoi IMO you, and others, allow their blind spot re WGS to indulge in some revisionism. Balde did a good job for us as did Mjallby.

We could have done with a Balde or Mjallby when Daniel Cousin rag dolled both of our CBs each time he was up against them.

 

We play possession football now not pressure football high up the field like MON. Balde is strong and brilliant in the air but isnt the greatest with the ball at his feet and that is a problem when playing possession football. Would you agree?

Balde may have put Cousin in his pocket for those incidents but he would have lost possession in many instances inbetween where he would have cost us the game

 

I do agree, he certainly has/had his limitations and playing silky football was one of them. Nevertheless when he played under WGS last season we kept a clean sheet away from home for the first time in 13 (?) months so it would suggest that he didn't fit in too badly for those games.

Mick isn't the best at keeping possession either (and is poorer at the ugly side of things than Bobo was) so I don't think we can surmise his inclusion would have cost us the game.

 

You were speculating that he would have kept Cousin in his pocket based on his strengths as a player which is his strength and dominance in the air and in the tackle but I easily speculated that his footballing ability was lacking and could have just as easily cost us in other parts of the game. Thats all.