how costly an error will not signing steven fletcher prove to be?

Your opinion.. One fact is that we had an 8 point lead.. It was actually heading for 10 points when we were 2-0 up against Dundee Utd at home that day before taking off Samaras and then spending the entire game trying to hold on for a win.. 2 points dropped and only an 8 point lead.. Against Motherwell going 1-0 up and then trying to play out for the win.. 2 points dropped.. Taking the lead against Hearts at Tynecastle and then trying to defend that lead.. 2 points dropped.. Dropping Mcgeady and Samaras at home to the huns to play defensive minded players and set the tone for the 0-0 bore draw.. 2 points dropped.. It's not like we dominated these games and strikers cost us.. It was turgid football where the results could have gone either way on the balance of play.. I'd say that not having the ruthless streak required to go for the throat and bury our opponents when we should have done is what cost us the league and because the manager is the one with the power to change the pattern of games it's ultimately him who has to carry the can..

 

As much as I disliked life under Gordon Strachan I do have to agree with this. If Strachan had been handed a new striker in January 2009, Fletcher for example, then I feel pretty sure that 4IAR would have been achieved.

We can all see that not signing Steven Fletcher was in all PROBABILITY a mistake. What's the point of continuing to look back at it and rake over the coals of a bad decision though? There is nothing that can be achieved by doing this. It is now time to look to the future. It looks as though we are about to have a novice manager on our hands and we are staring down the barrel of the Huns potentially doing 3IAR. I think we need to focus all our thoughts and support on the season ahead of us as it is going to be a huge challenge. That sounds like a much more productive use of our time as Celtic supporters than constantly harking back to past mistakes the board made.

 

There I fixed that for you

Gordon Strachan is the second most successful Celtic manager of all time,
with a record that would make a saint blush. I won't hear a bad word about WGS

 

imo if fletcher had arrived we'd have got the 4narow. fletcher is a fantastic player and would bloom in a team more suited to his strengths. burnley probably wasnt the best club he could have gone to as a striker. burnley are more often than not in defensive mode. who knows maybe he'll flourish in the championship now he's been relegated.

 

He was way overpriced, 4m was ridiculous.

 

Whe have let better players pass by for less money.
He could have signed for us and broke his leg in the first trainings session .

 

Its just so frustrating that the board never learn - penny pinching, losing titles, losing CL money due to qualification rounds, appointing football idealist managers. They are not learning from their mistakes. I happen to think the appointing of rookie would be potentially be another case of repeating a mistake. It seems to me that their memory does not even stretch back to the 90s when we did all this football idealist manager, rookie managers, failing to by those one or two extra quality players etc. i find that maddening. Many fans warned against all these things. They are paid to know better, make cool clear headed decisions, not repeat mistakes etc.

 

Steven Fletcher, at the time needed to go away for five years and learn his trade like others have suggested.

 

Fletcher is not worth 7m, its just the usual hyper-inflation of the Prem

 

Just because we were linked and didn't sign him doesn't mean he would have been some sort of saviour. Vastly overrated imo and I'm glad we didn't spend £4m on him. I would have liked another striker but didn't think he was the answer and still don't.

 

Have to say 12 goals in his first full season for Burnley is good for a relegated team who were very defensive. That suggests he has stepped up and someone who can score 12 for a very lowly relegated EPL team could surely score more than twice than for a dominant SPL team. I think we really missed the boat on this one. The guy is extremely e and very skillful and now seems to have added more goals to his game.

 

Willing to play the long game on this loser, let's see where he is in three years time!

 

how costly an error will not signing insert random player's name prove to be?

it's all ifs and buts. we will never found out anyway. one thing is for sure: not singing him has not affected the current nor will affect the next season.

 

I don't think we missed the boat at all, I still think he's overrated his record for Burnley isn't exactly great 8 goals and 5 assists in 35 starts in the league.

 

For all those people saying Steven Fletcher wasn't worth £4million:

I agree with you....BUT.....if it was a choice between paying £4million for Steven Fletcher or £3.2 - 3.8(you choose your figure)million for Marc-Antoine Fortune' then I personally would rather have shelled out for Fletcher. Fletcher will give you as many goals as Fortune' in the present and, due to the fact that he has age on his side over Fortune', more goals and more appearances in the future.

 

We missed the boat on signing many players, not just Steven Fletcher.

One player can't change the whole season, even Keane couldn't. As for not signing him THAT January, our problems were much more serious than not signing Fletcher.

 

They didn't sanction 4 million because he was never worth 4 million.

He hasn't exactly set the premiership alight either.

 

Not that costly he,s not a goal scorer and thats what we need, a would put him on the same level as fortune, fortune was a mistake for the price we paid for him imo, fletcher would have been as well