Albherto

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Bit of a trend emerging in recent weeks, aye

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Aye, have to keep it tight

Would take a draw right now. Depressingly

😂😂😂 Good man! ☘️

I’ll be honest…

Dreading tomorrow

Hope I’m terribly wrong (usually am, to be fair)

But just have a bad feeling about it

Aberdeen’s next fixtures are:

Hearts (A)
Celtic (H)
Falkirk (H)
Rangers (A)
St Mirrin (A)
Hibs (H)

Not an easy run

Only six-points ahead of St Mirrin, and not out of the realms of possibility that they could get dragged in to a relegation dogfight

Especially considering the form they’ve been in

Very rarely stick a bet on these days, but had a feeling Wolves would beat Villa tonight

£2 well spent 😎 👌

Couldn’t agree more

I would have taken the odd League Cup defeat if it meant giving young players an opportunity

How many did we lose because they couldn’t see a path to the first team?

So much time and opportunity squandered

Aye

Feels like it’s blasphemous to voice that opinion within our support sometimes

100%

So frustrating. It’s not even the lack of financial backing for me, it’s the absence of any kind of long term strategy or vision

Just going from season-to-season, just doing enough and no more

We had so much time and opportunity to build from a position of strength

No, absolutely, I agree

We can’t control outside challenges, and it was a great, dominant period domestically in the club’s history

But aye, you’re right - in hindsight, the real challenge at that time should have been Europe and youth development, and we failed massively at both

I think one thing as a support we need to be honest about is the real manner of success during 9IAR

We have to be realise that, as enjoyable as it was, the scale of the achievement cannot grant the board impunity from criticism

Let’s be honest: was a one horse race the vast majority of the time

🆕⏱️ Celtic now hold the European record for goals scored in the opening minute of UEFA competition

8⃣ They've done it eight times in their history, going on to win 7 of the 8 matches

5⃣ Five of the eight goals came under Jock Stein, including four across just two seasons!

Luck definitely being ridden here

Don’t fancy our chances of scoring two 😅

Some start, but we look very defensively fragile here

Opposition attackers left unmarked or with acres of room time and time again

My Dad watches every single one of them, religiously. Has done for years now

Don’t know how he does it 😂

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The interesting thing about them is that very few of their development players who leave go on to do well elsewhere

Feels like their entire system is focused towards the success of the first team

Manager apparently takes a huge part in it. By all accounts, a simple set-up that’s very well done

Yeah, agree 👍

I think one of the shams the board hides behind is this idea that fans want big fees spent recklessly to compete at a higher level in Europe

No fan I know wants that. We just want it spent far more coherently, inkeeping with the practises of a big, modern football club

I don’t have a problem with Celtic making profit every year. From a purely commercial standpoint, that should be the aim

What needs changed is the methodology used in comparison to European peers working within similar financial constraints

Our use of capital is horrifying. We’re so far behind

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Shortly before being managed by a 73 year old

Thinking they’ve ended up on the set of Cocoon

Board says we can afford either Bodo or Glimt, but not both

😂 You have to laugh or you’ll cry

“Let’s have unity.”

“Ok, what does that mean?”

“It means we’ll carry on as usual, and you lot shut up and deal with it or we’ll ban you.”

Exactly

Instead of a robust interview process, we just really on DD’s judge of character

And have done for 30 years

No way to run a football club of this size

Aye. Incredible brass neck to mention that 😂

Guy actually had to hing about in a hotel room for two weeks because of Covid restrictions whilst John Kennedy took training 😂

World Class

Yup

The “Show Me The Money” podcast with David Low made the point that Celtic are the envy of just about every club in European football in having that kind of liquid cash

Many ambitious teams would love that kind of cash to build foreign academies, scouting networks, youth systems, new stadiums..

Jesus

Citing a managerial appointment literally *twenty-six* years ago as an example of good process

That’s what we’re up against

It’s mildly encouraging to know the players don’t see recent wins as “the sign of champions”

That they recognise them for what they are: scrappy, ugly, fortunate victories against teams that we should comfortably ahead of

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