Chickens coming home to roost for Desmond and Lawwell........

Stronger team or stronger financial position?

 

I haven't see any of the balance book loyal at all since the result...

 

Wait till next week troops. If and when we go out of Europe, maybe then some will wake up to the boards penny pinching money grabbing tactics. I hope to * we dont, I hope we hammer them 5 -0.

Its Karagandy CASINO ya'll and Pete's got his cash slotted on his lucky colour, his lucky number once again. Yee hawww.

Biscuit * tin.

* biscuit tin.

We cannot succeed if we are nothing more than a development revolving door of a team.

A * training centre for mid BPL teams bargain buys.

We need a leader wi balls in Midfield (aside from Brown - who yes has a pair - just).

We need a beasty quality CB (particularly if VVD is for the off ffs!).

We need a striker with genuine flair and a record of hitting the * net regularly (and do not mention Stokes - that does not * fly, sorry it just doesn't).

Get Derk, Amido, McGeough, Kayal tae * (now please, esp Kayal ffs), we need players with drive, mental strength and * passion.

Overreaction to one result? Aye ok, keep with that logic/argument, finger in ears la laa la 'not listening'.....la laaa laaa.

* it, Im done heading for * Guinness land. I don't a flying * if no one agrees but Pete can go * himself.

Laters and hail * hail.

 

I could easily be wrong and if he has said it I'll hold my hands up, but I struggle to believe that. If he has said that then he shouldn't be the manager. These champions league qualifiers are win at all costs, if that means the football is poor to watch then so be it. Qualification into the champions league defines our season these days, it allows us to keep players that would probably otherwise be sold, and hopefully spend a bit if money strengthening the team (although that's up for debate).

He may of said that about one of our friendly games, but there's no way he'd of said it regarding a competitive game.

 

Thats the kind of pish that * spouts, to get the season tickets sold, Mr Soundbite at his best, this * gets paid a fortune to come out with this *

 

He'll do his yearly dig at Oldco/Sevco to try and get fans to like him... again..

 

"I think last night's result may have been on the cards. There has been no investment in the team."

"The last 6 months wasn't enjoyable. I started getting angry with the players which is not a good sign."

Neil Lennon speaking on @bbc5live

 

Now we know why Lennon wanted out, he knew this was coming, he knew he would have to sell his top assets again and take a risk on more unknown quality, sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't and I don't think he wanted to take that risk again.

 

Not like Lenny to speak like that about the club. Things must be really bad behind the scenes..... Guess thats why they brought in another novice.

 

We all knew why he left. Tired of buying cheap and making them into something, selling big and getting even less to spend than what he originally had. Hard to work in that way for so long.

Sad thing is, if we gave him the money, I think we would've improved upon the success of the Hooper, Wanyama, Wilson team.

What's even worse is that the board won't spend now if we are to go out next week. I can see us being caught in a vicious cycle where we have nothing to build upon each year as this team isn't going to get us through the qualifiers and no investment will be made.

The damage is done if we are to go out to legia. No investment, no progress.

 

Instead of financial fair play maybe the authorities could force teams to charge ticket prices based on the cost of players...

celtic fans would be getting in for free while people in london and manchester would be getting charged about 300 quid a game.

Congrats to our opponents last night... they showed us how it should be done and their fans were in great voice. They seem to have passion and great team spirit which our players have not showed this season.

 

Sack the board, sack the board. FFS. We played absolutely * last night, the players on our team are better than there's, Delia * up the tactics and Mulgrew and Ambrose had two of the worst games imaginable.

The people who are saying we havn't stumped up any cash and replaced Wanyama and Hooper are deluded. Wanyama was an absolute steal, we paid £800,000 for him, how the * are we gonna do that again. We did brig in Biton for a higher price than that who was far higher rated that Wanyama at his age. We paid £2m for Pukki and £1.8 for Balde last season and over £2m for VVD - they are all a step up in price from what we were paying the previous season. Anyone who thinks a £5-6m striker is going to come and play in the SPFL when they can go down south and get twice the wages is not living in the real world.

We play in a shambles of a league where we are far superior to the rest of the teams in it, that affects what can be done off the pitch. There's no sponsorship money, no TV money, no prize money, all we have is CL money and player sales. We were in unsustainable debt under O'Neill when we were qualifying for the CL and paying big wages and big fees, it doesn't work in Scottish football. There is a reason we played Legia last night and a * pub team from Iceland before that, our league is a nonsense, our other teams can't even qualify for the Europa. We still have players on our books worth £8-10m, Dundee Utd just sold two of their best for under £6m. That's the financial climate of Scottish football. We're a whale in a * puddle, and until other teams step up their game and make the lead and exciting prospect again there's nothing we can do about it.

 

We didn't replace Wanyama with Biton. Biton hasn't played regularly at all. We didn't replace Hooper with Pukki, Pukki isn't a pure forward like Hooper. Amido Balde was signed as a "project", not a replacement.

Signing random players who play in a similar position as the ones who leave is not actually replacing them.

 

Nobody is asking us to spend that much money on a striker, the fact is we have not spent a single penny this summer despite making record profits the last couple of years. We are fed up with the board gambling with everything.

 

Established players as good as Wanyama and Hooper are not going to come here, proven by the fact that once they had established themselves they left. We buy players i the hope that they will reach that standard. We bought Griffiths last season too, to come in and start. The players people think out board arn't buying don't exist.

 

bargain basement players now added with bargain basement coaching staff, this is what we have sunk too, good managers can get the best out of ordinary players, bad or gambling on a manager just makes the situation worse, if Delia fails its obvious Lawwell knows * all about football or what it takes to find a manager, he should fall with Delia if this goes pear shaped

 

The players on the park last night should have beaten Legia, or at the very least not lost 4-1. Investment is needed in the team but they are within their rights to believe that that team was capable of getting them through this round at least. Mowbary came in and threw a shitload of cash around and brought a lot of players. Its not always the answer. One player would not have made a difference last night, unless he had been a replacement for Mulgrew

 

I thought we should have played 4-5-1 or 4-2-3-1 last night. Should have been very defensive in focus. Just a very poor display and a new manager - lacking European experience - maybe? Very disappointing. Maybe, the under investment in the squad is now showing. Hopefully in second leg, it can be much better. Time to support the team and get behind them.

 

If,(sorry IF) we turn this around in the second leg, it will be one helluva feat but it shouldn't disguise the fact that the tactics and personnel used last evening were not correct. I think the new guy Berget should never have been played, seems like he needs to spend some time in the boot room. When I look at the lineup now I see less and less "british" players, not that I'm advocating for homegrown talent but the present setup just aint right. Why, for example, was Stokes not playing from the start? Is he not fully fit? Could it be that the only person who is "on line" with Deila is Peter Lawell? And dont say we played good against the Icelanders at Murrayfield, they were hardly a proper test.

 

Deila doesn't do defensive.