Matt McGlone's very interesting take on things

that might have been a last minute buy ,i dont think he was in the frame at all

 

we tried to sign Kaddouri last summer so he was on our radar.

 

did not no that,cheers

 

He's still inelligible for the Europa, which then causes a nightmare with selection & continuity when Lenny plays him at LB in the SPL.

Just for the irony Lenny complains about lack of consistency & not having a stable back 4 selection.

Duhhh, no * Sherlock.

Don't sign a * inelligible LB then.

 

I wasn't defending Lenny - I was saying he had known about Kaddouri for a year and would have been keeping tabs on him ever since Izzy got injured and therefore would have known he was ineligible - therefore making another naive decision to sign him as opposed to someone available for all games.

 

I know, not having a go at you mate.

No * Sherlock was directed at the immaginary Lenny reading this.

 

no bother

 

I actually agree with most of this but not all.

Firstly I do not believe Lennon was high risk at all. High risk would have been to spend a few millions to get an experienced manager and back him with £5-6m to rebuilt an awful team into a good one. Lennon was the easiest choice and a blessing for the board. He was a cheap rookie who would be accepted by the fans. He represented a get out clause for a board who didnt want to spend the money that they would have to if they were to meet the expectations of the fans.

Lennons tactics have left me frustrated as he has made mistakes. But the reason for the rapid decline of our team in recent years is not the fault of Lennon. It is the fault of the board. Put simply we have lost 3 in a row going 4, and have been humiliated in Europe 2 years running, and our total net spend over the last 3 years has been zero! Nothing, nada, zip! Our whole defence, keeper, and back up keeper at the weekend cost £0. How long have we complained about poor defending and yet we are watching a freebie defence!

This is not a defence of Lennon per-se. While his tactics may be to blame for recent results, it is the board who are watching as the club slowly declines year after year

 

Lennon still found the money to buy Bangura for over £2millions + he re-signed Sammy, when he must've known how * he was, cos I * did!

He signed an Euro illegible LB & complains of a lack of consistency in the back 4.

He dropped Zaluska who was playing well, for Forster who has been shipping goals like *.

He's chopping & changing every week - no-one has a clue what the team will be.

Aye, Lawell has to take a lot of the blame - but Lenny has spent money & none of it was on a defence that cost Mowbray his job & cost Lenny a debut Championship.

 

I ask you all to recall back to the year 2000, the Celtic Board, had all but agreed, that Guss Hiddink would be announced as the next Manager of Celtic F.C.
But then up popped Dermot Desmond (D.D.) to introduce the new Manager, Martin O'Neil. By the way, the Board, were unanimous on Hiddink, they had even had tentative discussions with Hiddink, who openly admitted this. So, Martin's appointment was down to one man, and that man being, the one and only D.D. I think, what we all tend to forget is that Peter Lawwell, is merely an employee of Celtic F.C., yes he runs the Club on a day to day basis, but he works under the watchfull eyes of the same D.D. Peter Lawwell, maybe many of you don't know, worked under Fergus McCann too at Parkhead, and left of his own accord, ..... despite McCann's good work, he was tight wee man financially. Even Brian Dempsey, who brought McCann to the Club, couldn't work with McCann, because McCann wanted to make money out of the Celtic supporters. Peter Lawwell, I can assure you all, is a Celtic man, through and through, even before he became an employee of Celtic F.C. he actively supported Celtic, from the terraces. Peter Lawwell, at this moment of time, will be feeling as sick as you and I do. As for his salary, please get realistic, the mans our Chief Exec, compare his salary with other Chief Execs in football, then come back, and try and insult the man, or even begrudge him his salary. He was headhunted by, I think, it was Newcastle, then Arsenal openly tried to get him, but the man stayed with the Club he supports, when he could have made mega bucks more down in the English Premiership. Yes we have a Board of Directors, but the Club is run by one man, and that man again is D.D. I really detest the fact that sometimes he can't be bothered to even attend our Club's A.G.M. Yes we hear that he is a big Celtic fan, but is he ? or is he just in it to use Celtic as "I'm the boss of Celtic F.C." and also use them as an investment. I tend to agree with the part of Matt's assesment that Neil Lennon, isn't getting to sign the true calibre of players, that he wants to play for Celtic. That indictment cannot and shouldn't be aimed at an employee of our Club, namely Peter Lawwell, ........... if that's the case do we also sack Neil Lennon, for not getting the real players he wants to play for the Club he loves. Our anger should be directed at D.D. for not properly investing in our Club, but beware, the Celtic support, have told him that before, and his answer was, "I can walk, then where would you be". Such is the arrogance of this man, but we need his money, without it we would be in a bigger stoosh. Ok, some of you might say, get him tae *, but what do we do then ? Does anyone know a billionaire out there who will plough the much needed millions into Parkhead, then please, without any delay, issue his name now, and we can centre our campaign for a wealthier Celtic, around any mystery buyer, buying out D.Ds. control of the Club, we all love. That battle may commence yet, but meanwhile lets rally around our team, and our Manager, Neil Lennon.

 

<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:WordDocument> <w:View>Normal</w:View> <w:Zoom>0</w:Zoom> <wunctuationKerning/> <w:ValidateAgainstSchemas/> <w:SaveIfXMLInvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:IgnoreMixedContent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:Compatibility> <w:BreakWrappedTables/> <w:SnapToGridInCell/> <w:WrapTextWithPunct/> <w:UseAsianBreakRules/> <wontGrowAutofit/> </w:Compatibility> <w:BrowserLevel>MicrosoftInternetExplorer4</w:BrowserLevel> </w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:LatentStyles DefLockedState="false" LatentStyleCount="156"> </w:LatentStyles> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 10]> <style> /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0cm; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language:#0400; mso-fareast-language:#0400; mso-bidi-language:#0400;} </style> <![endif]--> I read your post and although I don't see any problems with your opinion to why we do what we do, I want to put it out there that Celtic has been a viable business for the last 6-7 years where it has only been giving out what it has been taking in financially.

Hence the fact that D.D's money is important doesn’t hold water. I could do what he is doing at the moment with my dole money.

 

Too much emphasis being put on the board and not enough on management and players. Load of crap.

We're all aware of board's role, * this transfer window just reflected that! But much of the fuss wouldn't happen if players weren't demoralized and team being changed every week, resulting in some embarrassing performances and results.

Even free transfer signings like Kelvin Wilson and Majstorović we should be able to cope with Sheridan, Sutton, Kyle etc. Even with average signings we still have players of higher quality than league opponents. I know it's not good enough for our European ambitions, but it should at least do the trick in SPL, where we seem to struggle.

 

Rangers do not have as good a squad as us IMO, but they ended up champions.To me, we were the best team in Scotland, but they managed to get over the line first.No-one could have foreseen how undaunted they would be after we rag-dolled them last winter/spring.They were out on their feet for all to see.........but they werent.We ALL thought they were though...including the players and management.In any other year we would have been champions and not in the disarray we are now.I dont necessarily blame anyone among the players and management, you sometimes just have to accept you were beaten.They deserved it.Miller scored for fun and we were * ourselves they had to let him go for £400k.....but did we cash in while they looked down and out?Did we *.
Someone mentioned earlier about speculating to accumulate, well you have to admit that that is precisely what they have been doing throughout their financial problems, and it has paid dividends because we didnt do the same.We allowed them to get out of jail...to get last years CL money etc.They have spent on decent quality while skint, and reaped the rewards.Lawwell tried to make them look stupid, as we all did, regarding their attempts to buy and offers to sell this summer.......well who is laughing now Mr Lawwell?
Rangers finances are in a mess because of tax irregularities etc, not because of spending on players.(not in recent years anyway)
Regarding the OP....why does MON not go public about his grievances if he was not paid off?And if WGS and TM were paid off to shut up, what is to stop NL refusing such a payoff and publically airing his own grievances, if and when he probably goes?(sorry, but it seems kind of likely now....hope im wrong)

 

Well Magoo, I get the impression you either know Lawwell or have an awful lot more knowledge of the man than most of us do and if that's the case then this is a very good post wether we agree with it or not because it is pretty rare for anyone to come out and fight his corner constuctively.
I tend to agree with the general tone of the post, particularly about Des the Golfer!
However, my opionions on this are purely just that, relatively uninformed opinion. I would say though that my cousin has met Lawwell and is a lot more critical of him.
I don't think we are EVER going to progress significantley under DD