09 Jan 2019 00:15:28
Chris

It is all a question of balance.

I personally think that now is the time to open the coffers and secure title number 8 as it is not a foregone conclusion after dropping 6 points on the 29th.

With our wage bill, I would not want to miss out on Champions League money.

Trouble is, we have journeymen on lucrative contracts and the board do not support Brendan's judgement on the transfer market.


1.) 09 Jan 2019
09 Jan 2019 08:15:10
The board don't support his judgement.
It was Rogers that wanted compper, Hendry, Hayes, Musonda, gamboa but to name a few.
One of the biggest nonsense statements from celtic fans is that Rogers hasn't been backed.


2.) 09 Jan 2019
09 Jan 2019 08:21:38
Dropped 6 points on the 29th?
And do you know someone personally on the board that told you they don't trust Brendan's judgement?
Maybe it's the same person that told that fat prick Boyd there is a split in the dressing room.


3.) 09 Jan 2019
09 Jan 2019 11:41:54
Every manager makes a poor signings oneil signed Douglas Strahan signed Killen the list goes on Brendan has done well with the players that were here ie Forrest and brown and made them better.


4.) 09 Jan 2019
09 Jan 2019 12:23:20
Mally Douglas wasn't as bad as made out to be.


5.) 09 Jan 2019
09 Jan 2019 13:27:56
The point he made was we could (should) have been 6 points clear instead of level - not to mention the team selection and tactics were questionable to say the least once again away from home.
The manager has been backed since day-one going back to the initial signings of Dembele, Sinclair and Toure. However this was followed by De Vries, Gamboa and Eboue (in no particular order) and a good few mediocre to poor choices with only maybe Ntcham and Edouarde standing out from the rest; although one or two are still relatively untested or have been brought in for the future.

Before this window he had brought in 17 or so players, many of who are possibly on their way out the door in one way or another.
The current window shows caution and wisdom - so far - regards cash spent as it's certainly not the best time of year for choice and quality available and to be honest we still have a pretty decent squad to handle domestic fixtures (as long as we turn up and don't tamper with formation or have more injury problems) .
Obviously we have some uncertainty and question marks in defense and it seems we are pursuing options in this window so all-in-all we should end the break in better shape and hopefully with a handful of passengers off the wage-bill?


6.) 09 Jan 2019
09 Jan 2019 13:31:12
The six points drop is a figure of speech. If we had won, we would be six points clear, rather than level.

Admitted that the board has backed the manager in the past, but if you remember the last transfer window and the McGinn situation, Brendan made strong hints about the clubs lack of ambition on the transfer market.

I have no inside board knowledge, but I strongly suspect that there is a bit of displeasure within the club with regard to Brendan's transfer record.

Only my opinion.


7.) 09 Jan 2019
09 Jan 2019 13:41:42
I think if you actually read what McGinn says is that he chose to go down there as he was guaranteed first team football and has nothing to do with the board.


8.) 09 Jan 2019
09 Jan 2019 13:44:08
Imo he was prone to too many howlers kev and his biggest was Seville unfortunately I just think we've had better keepers.


9.) 09 Jan 2019
09 Jan 2019 15:49:35
You’re correct about Seville Mally but if you watch the away game against Boavista, you’ll see that we wouldn’t have been in the final without big Rab.


10.) 09 Jan 2019
09 Jan 2019 16:15:36
There is no hiding the fact that he did make blunders but not as many as a lot of our fans make out.
In the run to Seville he had some wonderful game. Vs both Liverpool and boavista he made some out of this world saves.


11.) 10 Jan 2019
10 Jan 2019 15:13:21
Rab the crab was awrite, he did pull off some worldies, still say if we had boruc in that team the uefa cup would be sitting in the big ones shadow in paradise.