Celtic Rumours Archive August 15 2018

 

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15 Aug 2018 20:43:00
just lost £40 million in order to save £5-10 million needed on a couple of defenders.

Sloppy goals, weak in the air.

people said "no point in spending, not going to help us beat PSG"

aye but we would probably beat AEK and earn some money.

no doubt the likes of Dembele, Ntcham and Boyata will be sold to cover this mess.

It sets us back about 2 years, thanks to the board for not backing Rodgers.

Even Rodgers himself though needs to look at his style of play, his record in Europe for Celtic and Liverpool is terrible.

but the board have thrown him under the bus with this one and he knew it before the game kicked off.

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15 Aug 2018 21:30:16
BR has brought 17 players in for £25 million, you would think at least 2 of them would have been quality defenders.

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15 Aug 2018 22:01:31
At the end of the day when our team is compared to AEK's on paper we should be expected to beat them over 2 legs. The manager had enough at his dispossal to win the tie, he didn't. I think Rodgers is trying to deflect the blame and was covering his own arse before a ball was kicked in this tie. If we go back to his first season we played the ball from the back with confidence and played the high press effectively in games. Where has this style of play disappeared to? We have no identity on the pitch anymore. In my opinion complacency has well and truly set in with the team. Rodgers has tinkered with formations and line ups over the last year, his signings have been poor and it has cost us I terms of dropping points in the league last year and obviously not qualifying for CL football this year. We have went backwards since the invincibles season. Our squad is now weaker than it has been in the last 2 years. Time for the board to give us a few quality players and the manager to get his finger out and reinstill the confidence, desire and hunger back into this team. If that happens we will stroll it domestically and could have a decent go at the Europa league.

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16 Aug 2018 09:34:12
Jonbhoy to say 17 players for £25 million is showing you the type of players were having to look for that's under £2 million per player on average. Take away edouards 9 million and it's less than £1 million per player.

I take it your getting the quote from commons in the paper I believe it's actually closer to £22 million in total. We ain't paying for quality just quantity most of the time.

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16 Aug 2018 11:19:58
It’s not £40m unless the TV pot of £13.5m we got last year has been removed. Plus the £11m CL ticket packages goes to charity. It’s nearer £65m, not £40m.

That’s the scale of this ballsup we all knew was a distinct possibility, with a defence that couldn’t keep weans oot a Close.

A complete lack of urgency to fix the Achilles heel cost us. That’s totally unnacceptable. I mean it’s not as if us having a poor defence in relation to European games was in dispute. Even if we splashed £20m on defenders of quality we would be £40m up and have good players we would also sell on for a profit. All gone thanks to complacency and hope. A deadly duo of situations that never, ever ends well. I hope the penny has dropped, I can’t say I am convinced as Lepoards rarely change their spots.

A critical time now, over to you Peter, if you’re not too busy making advertising deals. There’s a good lad.

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16 Aug 2018 13:18:02
Who says if we spent £20m on 2 defenders we would have qualified? Might have had a better chance but there would be no guarantees.

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16 Aug 2018 15:00:40
spot on 4leaf. The £25 million thing is definitely being exaggerated due to Eddies fee.

add to that many players signed like Dembele or Ntcham were scouted before Rodgers came in or signed through the man city mark lawwell connection.

most of rodgers signings have mainly been for backup.

and when the board has spent that little extra it's made the difference, guys like Dembele, Ntcham, Eddie who all have higher value are a step above the rest.

just need to do that with some defenders but sadly i see more sales rather than buys ahead.

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16 Aug 2018 18:35:51
the only guarantee I have witnessed throughought my life as a Celtic fan is when we don’t fix major problem areas we get fecked. These last few weeks are a continued validation of that. Would it have guaranteed success, no, but not doing anything I think guaranteed we would feck up and that defensive part of the team delivered.

So we never try to buy better players because we can’t guarantee it will make us better?

We need to give it a go.

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16 Aug 2018 21:24:07
Some seem to be stupid to think P L decides on the budget and who the money is spent on. The Board decides the budget and B R decides who the money is spent on .
As recently as last February BR took the unusual decision at Celtic because he was so pleased with his bosses . He thanked the Board, D D and P L for getting all his targets everyone he wanted .
I am sure the Board were pleased with that, I am sure what disappointed the Board and has caused them reason for long debate, that Brendan's thanks are now fallen on barren ground, with his complete turn round to criticism and a look at the team against AEK only one of the list of players B R was so grateful for was playing Hendry.

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15 Aug 2018 19:45:12
Some good news rumours that the club are going to pay off big commper and cut there losses. think he should be paying us.

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15 Aug 2018 19:50:07
Don`t understand this being good news, whole affair been a shambles.

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15 Aug 2018 19:58:11
Have you been reading the NewsNow website mate?
Thats where I read thje same rumour.

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{Ed007's Note - Did I not say this days ago or at least last night?}

15 Aug 2018 20:11:18
Anybody know how far away is the Arzani deal away from happening?

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15 Aug 2018 20:41:15
Only Celtic can make a bad news days some how good news. and yet, still no signings imminent.

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15 Aug 2018 20:45:47
If we are getting rid of him and boyata you'd think there must be a CB coming in eh ed007?

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{Ed007's Note - Yes, Rich there'll be a new CB brought in when Compper and probably Boyata leave.}

15 Aug 2018 20:58:42
How do you know there are no signing imminent?
Because its not all over the MSM like every Sevco signing is?

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15 Aug 2018 22:53:49
Any names Ed? I see Diego Reyes is still a free agent after leaving Porto. Surely he’d be worth a punt.

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{Ed007's Note - I'll be honest with you mate, I don't think the Club have identified anyone and that's the problem with Rodgers not wanting Boyata sold, I think the Denayer stuff showed how desperate it is.}

15 Aug 2018 23:15:35
Thats criminal if that’s the case. Surely we should always have a shortlist of targets for each position. I think a right back is just as important. We are so unbalanced and predictable. Forrest needs a bit help down that side.

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{Ed007's Note - There'll be a list but I mean it doesn't look as if they've identified specific targets. Rodgers himself said we were waiting until the English window closes which suggests to me there isn't any targets on the continent and that if we're were waiting until the English window closed we didn't really have any specific targets.}

15 Aug 2018 23:38:51
Unbelievably disorganised if true regarding possible signings, does Congerton really exist?

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{Ed007's Note - Congerton only in charge of finding players, not signing them.}

15 Aug 2018 23:52:17
So with the time we have now will we hopefully be used to get people out first then see what we can bring or bring n first Ed what do u think?

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{Ed007's Note - Yes.}

16 Aug 2018 06:42:39
Jonbhoy - imminent means asap. I know because I am right. Quite obvious really.

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16 Aug 2018 00:32:12
Oh well we will c then not sure if we have the time or money to do it but let's hope we can ED any further news on Arazani joining us?

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{Ed007's Note - Yeah we'll definitely struggle. It's not like we've got circa £30 million banked plus season ticket money and sponsorship money with over two weeks to go in the window.}

16 Aug 2018 12:59:39
As far as I'm aware Congerton produces a list of players for each position to Lawwell and it's down to him to negotiate the deals, I may be wrong. So it'll likely be Lawwell that settles for the usual cheap option/ project. I don't see how BR can take the flack for the duds being signed do you really think he specifically requested we signed all them players in January?

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16 Aug 2018 13:16:56
He did specifically ask for de vries and Hendry.

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16 Aug 2018 15:01:22
Eds spot on in regards to congerton, same with park the scouts get nothing but abuse for us not signing players

or even for signing duds like pukki, amido balde etc

but at the end of the day they make lists and the board choose the cheap option then it's no their fault.

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16 Aug 2018 15:06:10
😂😂i like it ed, some dry sarcasm.

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