Transfer business at this point should have been almost completely finished I have no confidence in current recruitment system there has to be major changes going forward.Brendan has been saying all summer there is gaps in the squad
We have ten days to go until this particular transfer window door slams shut in oor faces & never ever to open again & so until this actually happens, it is then & ONLY then, we can most assiduously assess and/or criticise who we have signed & those we possibly could/should have signed & didn't & for sure, this is ALL Rodgers' transfer window in that ALL the signings to date are unquestionably his personal signings & as so demonstrably evidenced by us spending a huge, big, whopping NINE & A HALF MILLION POUNDS on little Norwich City's THIRD choice striker that NOBODY ELSE wanted & proving too that Peter Lawwell has COMPLETELY no say in oor transfer ''strategy'' & how much we spend.....
Yes your correct, the valuation of OReily was 30 million , BR mention months ago it’s the quality of the player , doesn’t matter the league he plays in , he also add some midfielder are going for 40/ 50 million , and matts is as good as them,,
If Matt O'Riley is earning somewhere in the region of £20,000 a week and could possibly triple his salary and also play and test himself in the English premiership, which is probably the best league in the world, then of course he will grab that opportunity. Hopefully the money will be invested in new players.
The board's inaction on transfers will have Brendan going in the huff again, the same way he left previously. They acknowledged January was a disappointment, yet we're in the exact same position again. The essentials are a left back, an upgrade on Scales and 2 midfielders if MOR goes. Possibly a winger and another forward. Does anyone think the board will actually back the manager with what he needs?
Brendan going in a huff???? What are the fans complaining about are we in a huff or really angry or dissatisfied is he not reflecting what we are feeling ?
I know your a fan but you cannot be calling adam idah at 8.5 million a snip man. Hope he does well, will root for him to do well, but we got bent over a barrel by Norwich there and rightly so from their perspective.
If i dont see genuine investments in this team when they cash in on MOR ,im done ,i wont be renewing season tickets next year. Im not spending guts of a 1000 quid a year to watch us get skudded in europe and settle for another spl . Im sick of this board ,who do not see if you dont invest in the product ,tou will lose money in fans giving up at being ripped off and sponsors quitting due to lack of quality product.
as a poshie I can see Matt O'Riley wanting that move to Brighton...actually I read he's agreed personal terms, it just up to Celtic now to accept the offer
Celtic board once Dom mackay one man who had a vision to make Celtic a team to be feared within Europe again once he had to walk away as rest of tight wad board in it for themselves did not think along the same lines as Dom Mackay then that guy had to walk ..Its when myself and others i know binned our season books altogether we did and we wont be back until board are gone and Rodgers also is out door .
we signed Stubbs for 4 million (circa 10.4 million in todays money) in 1996!!!!!! We have been conditioned to accept crap bids and wages. Its stagnated our development
Its called tight. Clubs greediest club in all of football ⚽ sadly. Celtic s board are simply in it for themselfs their own pockets own bank accounts only . When Dom Mackay had to walk away as his ambition for celtic was for the team ..thats when it did not suit Desmonds etc within tight board and guys Ambition for Celtic was never met with rest of the boards why Dom had to walk..why i and others i know had decided to pack in renewing season books and we did right thing. But when club know they have very easily taken in fans like guys speaking then no hope for the team . Rodgers is no use an aye man fir Desmond and co and celtic fc shall win only in Scotland only and wont go far in Europe champs leagues or Europa .
Why did it take far too long to sign Idha?? He was a norwich player,norwich didnt want to sell and put a valuation of £14m on him..BR wanted him and club negotiated. But its ok for celtic to say MOR isnt for sale and take 6 months before we sell him?? Cant have it both ways ...tho some peoples purpose in life if to criticise the club they support
Absolutely spot on! The truth is that there is an ill-disguised socio-political agenda against 'rich men in suits' amongst a section of our fan base. I have read people at the highest level at our club described as 'rats' and the biggest clue of all 'Tories'. 🙄. Of course the Board should be open to rightful criticism but silly and vile abuse is another matter altogether and fans of other clubs look on in disbelief as our club, considered by outsiders as the best run football club in the UK, has to put up with such attacks from some of those who profess to be its supporters.
Feels an awful lot like this time last season. Waiting in the last week of the window for the “big” signings, only to end up with Palma as our Jota replacement.
As the future of the midfield gets gets more uncertainty, players dont come any more certain than Lennon Miller. Hes not Luke McCowan or Stuart Armstrong. Hes the next John McGinn, cant miss out
Honestly we’ve got the squad firing like a well tuned engine, despite the lack of deals happening for new signings, now we’re on the brink of selling our pivotal midfielder this late in the transfer window, we’ve got 9 days to meet our targets, and I can’t see us getting anywhere near meeting these targets, there’s,a mention from another Celtic channel 67 we’re meant to looking at Ajax left back Owen Wijndal: , he’s available for 4 million, if that’s the case let’s get the ball rolling for him, we’re off loading Lagerbielke, kubohashi and Burnley are interested in Mickey Johnston, 🍀
As always, love the show, and especially when there's praise for Daizen. His flaws are rare to see on a footballer, which is why they feel more exposed at times, but his best aspects are top notch. He's a poacher with the engine of a wingback, and all the tenacity of a defensive midfielder. He consistently scores scuffy goals that Kyogo would finish more clinically but who cares how they go in. When a player doesn't press as much as they should, or takes a shot when they shouldn't, or makes a successful pass to a team mate which immediately puts them under pressure, we don't think "they are not good enough", we dont think about it at all most of the time. Yours truly, Daizen's #1 fan, apparently 😂🏴🇮🇪🇯🇵🏴 -- Needless to say, I am pooing my pants again for the CL 🫣
A club like Celtic can sell players like MOR and still "have a crack at UCL". What's showing how DEEPLY unserious we are about that however is that we havent reinforced where we badly need it (LB, CB too but then we need to ship one of them) regardless if MOR stays or not. Dont see Rodgers sticking around if we have yet another transfer window where hes been asking for Quality and gets fuckall compared to what he had last season (with the exception of Schmeichel). The clubs Celtic aspire to be amongst, Ajax, Benfica etc all manage to do it. They produce talents, act like stepping stones to top leagues and yet have quality good enough to be competitive in Europe. edit: Frimpong went to a top team! For the record, Yalcouyé from Sweden for 8 million was a record transfer for that club and that players is something Allsvenskan wont see again in a long time. I was hoping for Celtic to bring him in as a replacement for MOR but as always were too slow.
The Celtic FC laid the Carpet for Oreilly to leave the club,that's a fact..Months before his leaving party,they fed Celtic Supporters he was going. Celtic have a board of Directors that don't give one monkeys about their fan base...Same as a government that gets voted into power,promise the world and give you nothing. The people with the least and most to give allways get a raw deal.....Our Day Will Come
Great content once again guys. Got me thinking how do we keep top players for another season or 2. Pay them a CL team bonus per point and knock out stage. We can afford afford it out of the revenue generated.
Celtic only bought and paid such fir idah as he is oirish ..With Desmond and Rodgers if the guy idah was a Scot , welsh or English then no way they would have paid out such for an ordinary striker as he is . Just being frankie bout it 👍🏴
The board can't even sort a cb and LB the last 10 weeks and now they have a midfield problem 😢 .. if matt is 50/50 on this move they really should just reject this but they won't
Lack of quality coming into the squad, would also play a factor on matts decision too, look we’re not going to make any impact in Europe, with the squad we’ve got , and the board are quite happy for us to be in it for the money, yet we’ve got to suffer the same humiliation, while they reap the rewards of the taking part and banking the millions !!!
Football evolves all the time and there's some extreme examples every decade. At the moment it's more crazy than tactics and Financial fair play/Macro economic sports washing etc My hope is some of these so called big clubs miss buying a few of our top players and Celtic have a team reaching their peak in age /experience/ talent at the same time. We are on the correct path 💚🍀
10 days to go in transfer window, there is little chance we will get everything we the supporters want. Bottom line, if we don’t sign Centre Back, Left Back, at least on real quality midfielder, pitchforks out 🤬
Agreed on Raheem Sterling, but there's got to be some loan deals going for young players looking for first team / CL experience that we could use as 3rd striker. Maeda isn't the answer - his goals at the weekend weren't impressive.
Surely the club had to have a plan for O'Riley leaving. A replacement lined up, a big buy, by our standards who we require to be signed up before we let O'Riley go
If Brighton are a stepping stone…what does that make us? I’d like to see us keep players like Matt and Reo by offering the wages reflective of their talent. Watch what happens in the CL when we scoop up all the money from both the tournament and the income from players without replacing them. Bottom of the pile, coffers full and all forgotten about come Christmas.
Well little Brighton & Hove Albion play their domestic football in the multi - billion EPL & have done so for a few seasons now & we play oor domestic fitba in the woeful & dire SPL that as a consequence, COMPLETELY generates NO serious money of ANY kind & so we quite literally can't compete with them on ANY sustained financial sure footing level because we just can't & even worse, we can't even seriously compete with the possibly even littler Millwall FC in the English Championship & as seen with Daniel Kelly choosing to play his football there from January 2025 & so yes, we have ''coffers full'' at the moment, but sadly they wouldn't remain full for too long if we were ever foolish enough to try & take on the multi - billion EPL.
For Celtic to offer Matt "wages to make him stay " , ticket prices would be over £100 / game , champions league £150+/ game. That's the reality of lot of these clubs. I went to wednesday night game down road from me at Highbury few years ago, bought the "cheapest ticket" it was £90 ( this was good few years ago, be more now) . Champions league probably good bit more. The league you play in will always beat big club from smaller country. It's just fact of life , not lot we can do about it.
@@sandersson2813 Oh dear, I'm all for the ''reality checks'' & for sure at this precise moment in time, Celtic are still NOT quite '' a bottom rung on the career ladder''
Hatate reportedly wants away, and I don’t like to say it, but if Hatate does want away and doesn’t get it, partly due to losing oreilly, I don’t think we’ll get top Hatate this season. It’s not all rosy. There’s huge risk our midfield just evaporates over the next 2 weeks. As for how we can appeal to quality players to stay, no matter what we do, the test of the qualities of a player are limited in this league and anything looks better than playing in the driving rain in Dingwall on a Wednesday night. We can’t get round those.
IMO Matt is worth between 36 and 43 million 30% sell on clause or 20% with full valuation met . We should reject everything and lay it down as a marker till Deadline day . At that point the Board sell him and Hitate . Just saying
The thing for me that I don't think is being addressed. Last season we road our luck with the likes of Jamesy coming into form and Adam Idahs loan spell being successful. We get over the line and you are thinking great, new season, 7/8 signings coming in. That hasn't been the case. Ange would have had 7 players signed in July but BR always seems to leave his business very late. To the point that I guarantee we bring two bodies on loan in the last week of the transfer window. We are lacking quality in a few key areas that tbh with the new champions league format we won't get away with. 60 plus games this season potentially and we have so many positions with just one player really. We need a blitz soon for transfers or I'm worried we are two or three injuries away from an average celtic team playing week in week out.
We were NEVER ever going to have '' 7/8 signings coming in'' simply because we already have one huge, big, bloated First Team squad that is still in URGENT need of culling with 7/8 getting kicked oot the door furr good & until that happens....
@@frankbrennan1619 yeah fair point Frank. I assumed by this stage we would have got rid of the three CBs Nav, Kobi and Lag,, Micky J and Holm aren't it either. So Im looking at the squad thinking if we sign players they boys just drop out the squad and we are back to having two players a position. That's what I was hoping for but it looks like Carter V and Scales is our CB pairing for another full season which is just not ideal. Taylor needs completion. O'Reilly on his way out means we need a replacement. Just so much still needing done for me with very little time left in the window.
I agree, we don’t need to sell Matt, make him an offer he can’t refuse and keep him at the club please.. Maeda after O’Riley is our most player at the moment he has come on massively in the last year. What about the finishing on Sunday, compare that to his first year or so at the club!
@FrancoBegbieT2 Brighton is absolutely playing at a higher level. He'll be playing against City, Spurs, Arsenal, Liverpool, Man U, Chelsea, Villa etc and not Dundee, St Mirren, St Johnstone and Ross County. Only a saddo sets any credibility to the result of a pre season friendly, funny you aren't mentioning that Queens Park stuck three past you.
Learn far less playing SEVCO being snakes that always slither off ladder , I would have played for Celtic for £2500 a week plus bonuses with annual increase and wore the HOOPS with the utmost pride , 69 years I,ve supported CELTIC through good and bad . Always been one club ,money isn't be all and end all to some people.Matt will be here at parkhead come close of window 😊
give him more wages to stay another campaign do not sell for less than 30 million the ,the experience he has learned at celtic, cups ,leauges champions league , experience in the international set up at denmark or experience of haveing to win every week home or away at CFC played in the champions leauge scored 18 goal and near the same amount of assists, two many celtic sites complaing the the board then start going on about the 25 million price tag look a the guy from leeds to spurs 30 0dd million another few of them two from lower leauge team in england ...were we brought Oriley and brought him on to be a much better player so how can they say our league in inferior we got him from a lower english team were top teams are speanding 40 millon who have won nothing and england under 21 cap and they are worth more than matt we need to stop going on about paper talk saying 25 ------30 million, or walk he aint goint to break a leg within a week in the leauge matt and his agent no his level with the teams that have been sniffing around him chanceing there luck name our price not the red and blue top papers have a bit of marbles and. then sack and chace them, matt stayes does well for us even individually in the C.L Then matt could take his pick next window and i think he thinks the same way as henk celtic gave him the platform and think he would be quite happy to do well back for his operrtunity at celtic .i think he is going to stay another season at Celtic park and why not he is enjoying his football .. stand firm and get what we deserve for him Celtic .