It’s embarrassing he even needs to emphasise that what football club doesn’t want too progress and push forward board are a joke
However, if you want to progress, then, as I said, you need to bring in quality and that’s something that we hopefully can do.
There was no hint of ‘unsavoury scenes’ on Celtic TV but that wasn’t going to stop Pilcher from delivering the sort of content that the Record website thrives on.
Without question commercial matters are essential to the well being of a football club, without shirt sales and all of the associated items Celtic and other clubs would struggle or have to raise ticket prices to retain income levels.
Referencing that a lot of hard work is going on behind the scenes is a favoured phrase from Rodgers, used when it appears that the club has ran out of ideas on how to improve the first team squad with a £3m ceiling imposed on transfer fees.
Last season’s Champions League campaign should have put the club in a position of strength, one to kick on from and become an attractive place for players to go. Instead they look vulnerable, happy to cash in while the going is good, preparing for the inevitable rainy day.
In response to the displaying of the racist and/or discriminatory banner at the Fenerbahce game, the club can confirm that it is in the process of issuing lifetime bans to the individuals responsible.
Going to the media isn’t the sort of negotiations that Celtic encourage, it works at other clubs but Celtic prefer silence rather than dealing with agents that like to see their names appear in print.
Almost certainly the same source has come up with both stories, that source is Wishful Thinking, a close friend of Fletcher.
When you’ve just scored four goals, that always seems to be OK, but we lost an important player in January in Kyogo, who scored a lot of goals, and we’ve lost Nicolas Kuhn, a lot of goals again, and even Matt O’Riley last summer.