Mark Venus interview - WTF?

Either way Trevor he has completely contradicted TM's statement from last week.I hope he is just an idiot and in future is kept away from press confrences.

But his statement is gonna encourage other managers to test the water,who as well as us and even Mark Penus know its gonna take a lot of dough.

 

I did ask the qustion in the opening post: Is this because there has been a really good offer already and Celtic are happy to accept it?

No need to call him Penus though, idiot or no idiot.

 

Problem with that is mate the wages as well as transfer fees,losing him for 14 mil might seem sweet to some but it only takes 15k a week off the wage budget,,where as 3 players at decent fees for us might cost as much as 20k each a week in wages.

 

there is no atmosphere at paradise unless its an old firm game or champions league game,cos we are all squabling its been like this for a few years,lets get behind the team.hail,hail

 

There's bargains to be had out there.Spurs got Nico Kranjcar for two million and hes twice the player. I'm sure anyone here would take Kranjcar plus ten million.....

 

Every player does have his price, although I hope if a ridiculous bid did come in the board would have the courage to turn it down until the summer. It would be a risk for if he got injured or had a loss of form then the bids (if any came in the summer) would be lower, however I think it would even more riskier to sell our best player half way through the season.

As for Venus saying he's no football expert, I hope to * he was being sarcastic.

 

the board wouldn't have the courage to turn down a £11 mill offer because to them it would represnt good business especially if we dont win the league and there is no C.L.football next season this money would offset the loss of revenue.

 

venus really is a *. it was as if somebody briefed him on what not to say to the media but he and he thought * it i'm for a wind up here and told themeverything he thought they wanted to here. he is an absolute baw bag

 

Mark Venus showing at Celtic press conference beset by own goals - Telegraph





Mark Venus showing at Celtic press conference beset by own goals

No reason was given for Celtic manager Tony Mowbray’s decision not to attend the press conference for Tuesday's Active Nation Scottish Cup fourth-round tie against Morton.



By Ewing Grahame
Published: 6:53PM GMT 18 Jan 2010

Target: Mark Venus was unable to say whether Celtic want Philippe Senderos, seen talking to Arsenal manager Arsène Wenger Photo: AFP


Whatever the thinking behind Mowbray’s non-appearance, the decision to send in his stead his assistant, Mark Venus, was, arguably, the biggest PR disaster for the club since Kenny Dalglish unwisely elected to hold his media briefings in Celtic pubs a decade ago.
Venus’s broadcast interview was bad enough. The 43-year-old contradicted Mowbray’s defiant statement from last weekend that Aiden McGeady was not for sale by claiming that “every footballer has his price.” However, when he came to speak to newspaper journalists, Venus seemed to be at pains to tell us what he didn’t know. Which turned out to be rather a lot.
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First of all, he didn’t know the timescale concerning the injuries to central defender Stephen McManus or full-back Daniel Fox, who will be unavailable on Tuesday.
Then he couldn’t say whether Arsenal’s Philippe Senderos was a player Celtic wished to sign. He conceded that Mowbray would normally discuss transfer targets with him but when it was suggested that Venus’s insistence that he hadn’t mentioned Senderos to him would therefore rule the Swiss out, he replied: “I don’t know if he’s not interested.” The Celtic No 2 was, in turn, confrontational, vague and downright baffling and his attempts at repartee made Gordon Strachan look like Stephen Fry. It was, at times, quite surreal.
When asked if he agreed with the manager that the team doesn’t require major surgery, Venus replied: “I don’t know what the word [sic] means.” An enquiry about McManus’ place in the grand plan prompted another baffling response. “I don’t know what a grand plan is,” he said. “Grand means big and… you know. The bottom line is that Stephen McManus is captain of Celtic FC. Stephen McManus is playing for Scotland, Stephen McManus is a Celtic signed footballer.”
Venus denied that new signing Jos Hooiveld will automatically replace McManus in the starting eleven and dismissed reports that the club had paid £2 million for the Dutchman. “I don’t see that £2 million, me: I think you’ve got the figures wrong,” he said. “Nowhere near it. I think you are a million miles off it.”
Asked whether McManus, who had been out of Mowbray’s plans before the arrival of the similarly left-sided Hooiveld, still had a chance of featuring in the first team, Venus became flustered. “That’s what I’m saying,” he said. “It’s up to the manager to pick the team that he picks. The bottom line is you’re asking me a question I can’t answer because the situation hasn’t arisen. What is the question?”
Venus admitted that dropping 19 points in as many SPL fixtures was “disappointing” but at least he doesn’t view tonight’s visit to Greenock as a banana skin. “I don’t know what a banana skin is,” he said, unsurprisingly. “I think it’s something that’s left after you have a banana, isn’t it? Do you know what I mean?
“The bottom line is that I think it is a difficult game. A really difficult game against a team that is going to be fired up. We’ve obviously got a few injuries to contend with that you’d suggest might weaken our selection.” It was suggested that Celtic’s expensive stars must be prepared to graft against their First Division opponents and Venus agreed.
“I would hope, if we had some expensive footballers, that every one of them would get their hands and knees dirty in every game that we play,” he said. “I don’t think this is any different. All right, it is different but, you know.” Venus was asked whether, given the doom and gloom surrounding Parkhead at the moment, this was a match that Celtic simply couldn’t afford to lose.
“A can’t-lose game?” he asked. “What is a can’t-lose game? The bottom line is that this is a football game where you’ve got to go out, play your best and win.
“Other people can write, state or suggest what everything is. I don’t get paid basically to opinionise [sic] on what is and what isn’t key or whatever. I get paid to try and prepare a team to win a football game with the players who are available.”
However, even Venus had to confess that his team fully deserved to be jeered from the field following their 1-1 draw at home to Falkirk on Saturday, a result which leaves them nine points adrift of league leaders Rangers. “I think if you draw with the bottom of the league team at home – let’s be honest, I think I’d be booing as well,” he said.
“Irrespective of how you’ve played, irrespective of how hard you’ve tried and irrespective of what didn’t and did go wrong, if you draw with the bottom of the league team I think you’ve got every right to boo.”
The good ship Venus may yet help steer Celtic out of troubled waters but, on yesterday’s evidence, not without divine intervention.
South Korean midfielder Ki Sung Yeung, who made his debut at the weekend, will miss out after injuring an ankle in that match.

 

Really sums up what is happening at our club just now. I'm not one for negativity i would like to think but it's becoming a shambles.

 

Fans have a right to boo if they want to, I just don't understand why they would willingly damage the team even more by doing so.

 

What a complete idiot

 

Reading this is really pretty embarassing & quite shambolic.

The Telegraph is actually a decent newspaper too.

Can't believe this guy has been sent out on his own to face journalists, I shudder to think what the tabloids are going to do with this ammunition.

 

".....I'm no expert on football....."

Don't think we'll see Mr Venus allowed out unaccompanied in future.

 

Jeeze! That is confusing that interview.
Theres been more interviews with Mark Venus in 6month than there was with Gary Pendry the 4year he was at Celtic, why does Venus keep getting interviewed? They could have got Peter Grant, he wouldn't have got so mixed up. I didn't see all the interview, as much as you have written just what BBC Sport has uploaded & a bit on Sky Sports News, but for me I think he openly answers the questions that are asked then thinks Oh *! I better stop what I'm saying & then tries to turn it about the other way, so it leaves the press guessing, & completly mind * everyone in the process, he basically answers questions twice, so he says yes & no to the 1 question or turns the question around..
The bit you have wrote there about the banana peal, seriously! What an Idiot, what is a Banana peal, its the skin of a banana, is that meant to sound intelligent? I seriously hope he isn't like that behind the scenes & that was just nerves & him getting flustered that came across like that, because if he coaches like that, our squad won't have a clue.
Bet Mowbray does his nut when he comes back & we are still no further forward in knowing if we are getting Senderos or anyone really, Mowbray is good at saying how it is, Venus just trips over his words..

 

Any one of US could have given that press conference

 

what a prat

 

At first, I actually thought that article was a joke until I clicked on the link.....unbelievable.

 

By the way Mark was talking they have been given a good price for McGeady
and they have accepted

 

Regardless of what Mowbray, Venus or Grant say, Lawwell is the man that decides. Venus has said nothing that I didnt already know. Mowbray knows full well that every player has their price, regardless of whether you want to sell them or not. Mowbray is beginning to reek of bullshit, how many times is it now that he's said things to the press that have been bullshit.

He was pulled over his transfer comments and now Venus has given the reality of the situation, a reality thats was explained by Strachan last season. Nothing has really changed, just the spin that surrounds the fact.

Both Mowbray and Venus have stated that it will take an offer they be foolish to refuse to get McGeady. Hopefully that will be the reality of the situation.

Kranjcar is a lazy player though, rather keep McGeady tbh