Haha!
Peter Lawwell is the best chief executive in Britain? He was an absolute disaster for Celtic. The man that lost John McGinn and Ivan Toney because he wanted to haggle over peanuts. The man who brazenly admitted that Neil Lennon was always the ideal man to replace Brendan Rodgers and said something like 'there were loads of unopened CVs in the drawer but Neil was always the man'. Brilliant comments and a sure fire way to drum up interest from those same managers in a few years time when you need to sack Lennon because he's an unprofessional booze bag that literally wasn't even trusted to hire his own staff because they were his drinking partners instead of actual coaches. He was a brilliant businessman, no denying that.
Also, it helps to come out of things like COVID when you sell Kieran Tierney for 25 million and replace him with a guy from Kilmarnock for buttons who is so clearly out of his depth at Celtic.
That same board also called the fans "entitled yobs" last year for demanding Lennon be sacked when the league was still salvageable. Lennon oversaw a disaster in the previous seasons qualifying campaign when he lost to Cluj. The tactical genius kept our new 7 million CB on the bench, benched our new LB and played our best midfielder at LB for some random reason. A year later, we're in the same position, this time against Ferencvaros, what does he do? He starts with no strikers and instead plays another midfielder up front. We lose again. Of course. There's 60 million down the drain right away and it can be traced back to Peter's brilliant decision to replace Brendan Rodgers with an absolute clown like Lennon. But wait. There's more. Even after all of that, Lennon then oversaw a disastrous run, literally one of the all time worst in the history of the club, where we had no shots on target at home to rangers, lost 4-1 to Sparta Prague, Lennon then said that result would never happen again on his watch, and then we lost 4-1 to them again anyway a few weeks later. Lennon was then the man that oversaw our brilliant 3 or 4 year unbeaten cup run come to an end because he got outsmarted at home to bottom of the league Ross County in the League Cup. But the fans protesting against all of this were "entitled yobs" (a direct quote). Lennon was kept in post for another couple of months and more embarrassments despite all this.
Elhamed (the Israel internationalist) was rubbish and came from the same agent that we seem to use all the time (nothing fishy there, no sir).
A left back from AC Milan? Laxalt? A complete diddy. One of the worst full backs I've ever seen play for Celtic. Beaten only by Jonjoe Kenny who is undoubtedly the worst player I have ever seen at this club in my lifetime.
They kept Edouard and Ajer because no one wanted them. We still can't shift Edouard to this day.
Remember we rejected 14 million from Porto for Ntcham 2 years ago? We just released him from his contract a year early. Brilliant from the board again. The complete lack of forward thinking is comical.
We use Parks of Hamilton as our official coach. Owned by Douglas Park. Chairman of Rangers. That's how brilliant this board is. They directly line the pockets of the Rangers chairman.
The fans were let inside Celtic Park a few months back to put up flags and banners. This was in the midst of the latest clusterfeck in the middle east where loads of Palestinians had died. The fans put up Palestinian flags and a tribute to a Palestinian friend and Celtic supporter who had died weeks earlier and who had been invited over to Celtic Park many times by the Green Brigade and had even met Scott Brown. The board tore them down and got stuck in to the fans for it...
How about this season. We need a new manager in to rebuild the club after last seasons shambles. What do they do? They piss about letting a little chump like Eddie Howe lead them on for months and then they panic and go out and get a guy whose only ever managed in the Greek 3rd division, Australia and Japan. A complete lack of ambition and imagination. But then once they hire him what do they do? They fail to back him in the transfer market. For the umpteenth time they watched a decimated squad go into the CL qualifiers unprepared and only reacted with signings after we'd been predictably put out. We literally fielded a back line of Bain (terrible GK), Ralston (a hilariously out of his depth Scottish Championship level player), Stephen Welsh (a youth player thrown in because he was all we had), Dane Murray (an even younger youth player with zero experience) and Greg Taylor (the aforementioned Tierney replacement). None of them are good enough. Three of them are youth products who are only involved out of necessity due to the snails pace approach and lack of forward thinking within the Celtic boardroom.
Dermot Desmond literally said last season's Celtic side would beat the 2003 side that reached the UEFA Cup final and had guys like Larsson, Sutton, Hartson, Petrov et al. It's genuinely hard to explain how out of touch these losers are.
One of my personal favourites was them putting season tickets on sale this season before they'd even hired any manager. What club does that?
There's a reason you're so clearly in the minority within the support on this one.
I’ll try to answer your points…….
Peter Lawwell the best chief executive in Britain? - yes 100%, all you have to look at is his bonus, the reason why he got that was because of how well the club have done, just like any other business if club wasn’t doing so well he wouldn’t get bonus he got, it was mainly down to him and as I said in previous post on this he didn’t start on that money, he started on basic salary, basic( per football chief, still a very good wage) and worked his way up the ladder
John McGinn - Celtic matched Aston Villa but problem was he wanted to be guaranteed games and Brendan wouldn’t guarantee, we had Broony, Callum, Armstrong, Rogic and JM chose Villa as would likely get more game time.Toney, not sure what happened probably wanted bit too much what we could afford, honestly don’t know, would’ve been good signing.
Neil Lennon - can’t let someone go who’s just won the cup, then wins the treble the next year, so I think it was a bad decision, imagine if Peter did get somebody else for talking sake Eddie Howe and was completely rubbish lost 9 in a row, everybody would’ve been saying ‘why didn’t Neil get job’ so he really can’t win especially with the most fickle fans in the world.
Out of his depth - Hahahaha that’s a first, Peter been Chief Executive for 17 year, oversaw the most successful period in club’s history ( Lisbon Lions never won 4 trebles in row, one unbeaten, but that’s argument for another day), since he took over we have won - 29 trophies 13 league championships and 4 domestic trebles( club had only ever won 3, but Peter Lawwell was out of his depth hahahaha, so out of his depth Arsenal tried to get him as their chief executive, Peter rejected because he’s a bigger Celtic fan than any of they Entitled yobs.
Entitled Yobs - too right they are booing and abusing a side who lost a cup tie for first time in 35 matches( no other club in world football has done that), then at Scottish cup final the same go and cheer the same bus and players the were chasing and abusing weeks earlier, as I said…. Fickle.
Taking Palestinian flags down - 100% correct decision by the board, no matter what you think about Israel/Palestine Celtic is football club not a political party,
Tony Ralston - tell me a bad game he’s ever played for Celtic? He was our best player at 18 v Neymar, brilliant at ibrox even last season played v Livingston set up Armstrong for which should of been winner so don’t know how anyone can say he’s not good enough because any time he’s played for Celtic he has never let us down.
Putting season tickets on sale - whats that got to do with the manager? The club need money in to buy players, if you’re a Celtic fan you’ll buy a season ticket no matter who the manager is, I know I would. ( that Australian Greek isn’t doing too badly).
Using parks of Hamilton - so you want the club to turn down a free bus? Paying to use another company, something can get for free using parks? That right there tells you the fans just haven’t got a clue.
