Not Actually that Crucial a Summer as of August 2023...beginning to now think everything isnt fine!

I’ve spent too many years on here thinking bad results would force board hand.

Mooy is a big miss, without hatate also midfield lacks guile.

Jota is a huge miss, Maeda and haksa are not at his level.

Hart to me looked done second half of last season. Said it at time, that’s not reactionary.

CCV injury exacerbates things. He’s different class. As is Johnston vs ralston, hopefully AJ back playing next wk.

My fear is going down a panic loan route. I truly believed 2.5 months ago we would invest in qty 3 proven players who would change the dial. It’s clear that’s what Brendan feels is needed after today, but only last week he was praising scouting yada yada.

Between injuries, a keeper who is past it and player losses we are ccv, starfelt, hart, Johnston, mooy, hatate, jota down in terms of what we would like. That’s 7 of 11 of a starting team - so am I surprised at today?

Not at all.

Of those 7, 4 have not been replaced by proven better quality - they have been replaced by projects. Or left as is (hart.)

No one has come in who is proven to be at a level or better than those who have left or who are on their * (hart again)

It’s not good enough. And that’s not being OTT either.

 

Said it on Friday, glad we signed Gustaf but the lack of solid rumours is worrying.

Tierney, Merlin, Podence, Fraser and Kvistgaarden, and I know Kvistgaarden was only broke yesterday, but there's been next to no movement on the other players, with zero murmers on a GK outside of Livakovic, who is almost certainly not joining us.

Next 10 days are vital, we should really have another 2 players signed before the St Johnstone game. Need to bed these players in before the game at Ibrox.

Let's hope the Kilmarnock defeat was a kick up the * we desperately needed, Rodgers has said multiple times he wants a few more players in, needs to be action now.

 

I think 2 or 3 are hopefully just finishing touches

 

Hope so. It’s one of the few times I’ve felt truly let down in over 35 years. Yes there have been plenty times of frustration but this has been utterly deflating tbh.

what a chance we had to take the next step.

to date we have not. We have gone backwards and that is not acceptable

 

No valid reason not to spend

 

Allowing them to catch up AGAIN!

 

* off with the club has let Rodgers down *.

He's let the club down so far with the changes, we've lost some big players but we've also forced players to play against their strengths. Taylor, outstanding last season as an inverted winger, utter * at an overlapping fullback. Kyogo, the most dangerous poacher with outstanding movement, come back deep to collect.

He's putting out "the club strategy is" * off and say what you need rather than regurgitate generic *.

I was happy enough when he came in, and not overly worried about us being slow in the market. Now I'm just * raging about how quickly we've decided to be turgid * again. Take this as the single * off opportunity of being * that the red imps game was in his first stint. When the * did we last go out a cup in the first possible round? It's * embarrassing get it * fixed

 

Imagine Ange came in and was told to play to the team he inheriteds strengths. He knew how he wanted to play and was backed with pretty much a new squad. Yes BR has taken on a triple winning team but almost all here are saying we need 1st team ready players for GK, LB, DMF, AMF, LW, SC. I agree but if the team he has is that great as we say why do we think we need 6/11 starters. I keep repeating but he knew * well we needed power in this team.

When we lost starfelt it proved that the club can identify the replacement and get a deal done quick. Why has everything else been delayed? Is it just easier to sign centre defenders?

 

My fears are now amped up to * hilt.

Either we go hard on the targets we have been supposedly working on...

Or the board, Lawell 2.0 and BR hit the panic button, start buying any oul * to make it look like they're making an effort.

The longer the window rolled on with * all movement the more agitated and beligerant I got. Apologies to all. But that doesn't mean I've been wrong. So far anyway.

We are far weaker than we should be. Every position has been compromised either by neglecting the window, or by BRs apparent need to tweak what was already working.

Everyone at the club better get the * finger out sharpish. Or it'll be banners and plastic sharks by xmas. Something that still haunts me to this * day.

 

There's a few thousand more of us in the panic station with you now mate.

 

Seems so far that are recruitment has been a gamble. Going for the potential and prioritising the model in its entirety.

100% we have. Needed 4 or 5 bits of quality from the outset. Have we done that? No. We've revisited the list from January getting in players from South Korea, followed by getting players in the potentials market again.


That leaves us 6 in, spent around £12m and we're weaker.

So having needed 5 players of good quality in, in 2 months ago, we still need them with 2 weeks to go. With how we operate and the speed of it, we get a couple in tops.

We're doing it at a time in the window were we're now waiting potentially on other moves to click in to place, over pay or be rejected and go without.

Think folk within the club are relying on Rodgers to work his magic and improve everyone. He's not a miracle worker.

Same time, think BR has been too passive and relying too much on the work done previously by Lawell Jnr. Heard him say a lot, that he's happy with what's suggested to him and the work done. OK, but we need him to be assertive and push for more Eddy's, Castagne's like his first spell.

This can all be done within our budget and model. Comfortably.

 

Hart*
Johnston, Nawrocki, CCV, Taylor*
Hatate, McGregor
Abada*, O'Reilly, Maeda*
Kyogo


Bain*
Ralston*, Welsh*, lager, Bernabéi*
Kwon*, Holm,
Yang, Turnbull, Hacksa*
Oh
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4 first team players(positions) that need a massive upgrade on.

Need a younger, quicker keeper.
Need a left back on a par with Johnston at right back.
Need a left winger to replace the quality and calibre of Jota
Need a right winger of equal measure (though I have a liking to Abada and Yang as a right wing pair).

Those positions need badly addressed - did before the end of last season and more so now that Jota left and Hart is dropping in form.

How none of those positions have been improved upon is beyond me.
If you want to improve the standing of the squad and impact in Europe, then those positions alone needed addressed massively.

You've then got 5-6 backup players that needed sorted as well.
I say 5-6 because it feels a little harsh on Kwon who is just in the door.

However, equally, if you wanted the squad to improve overall and be stronger, those 5-6 positions desperately needed looked at as well.

With a manager like Rodgers, you could excuse perhaps Abada and Hacksa, maybe even Bernabéi, as players he MAY have been able to coach and develop in to star players for us (big hopes), but alas, that doesn't seem to be the case (very early days of course). But we desperately needed to strengthen these positions as well.

Instead, the best we've got to seeing any sort of "change" is a merry go round effort at CB, where we are still one short of the standard required - and that's hoping we get lucky with the two new guys.


The annoying thing is, every single position is an issue we already knew about last season. Yet the recruitment has not at all addressed it.
Everything is a project signing that doesn't improve us at all.

GK x2
Lb,
Rb,
CB,
Cm,
Lw x2
RW.

I honestly doubt we will solve any of these issues before the end of this window.

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think Rodgers could have changed it up a bit yesterday with formations when it wasn't working but something tells me he is subliminally trying to tell the board he doesn't have the players. Bit worrying if that is the case 2 games in.

 

What part do you not agree with or all of it? Are you quite happy the state the squad is in?

Or the fact we have lost key players and not replaced them, now resulting in us taking an unnecessary gamble at the start of the season for no obvious reason?

Results like yesterday can happen, shocks happen like St Mirren last year. However, for those that watched our first two leg games this season that yesterday wasn’t a surprise.

We have been really poor this season so far and look more like the team that dragged themselves over the line last year than the one that went out and won the league and was on track for a record points tally before easing off at the end.

 

The fact he's not pushing for these sort of players concerns me.

The passive attitude and acceptance is not what I expected from him at all.

He left last time because the club wouldn't back him and support him with these signings.
Confuses me why he would accept coming back, being this passive.

Basically looks now like he's came back and been told, it's how it used to be and you'll take it. And he's went "yes boss".

10 days to see a difference, really don't see it.

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Dunno whats going on as Rodgers seemed perfectly calm with the situation the other day and how the scouts work etc..

Lennon yesterday was quite harsh on what was needed and he better than most know how we operate transfer business. Then after the game Rodgers seemed to be complete opposite of just a few days before.

Interested to see what happens but I think it's clear Rodgers isn't best pleased at the moment