It’s not just a quick fix, either. Celtic are weaker than last season and have regressed. The squad’s going to take a lot of work to reach a level needed to make a serious impact in the competition.
This season has been a strange one, pre-season in Japan he looked better than ever but an indifferent 45 minutes at home to Athletic Bilbao at the time of transfer speculation seemed to carry consequences.
Back in August, before losing to Kilmarnock in the League Cup Rodgers explained that his role was to coach and develop the players supplied by the club. On his return he had highlighted the great work by Lawwell Mini, one of the factors that made him decide on another stint…
Those years of mismanagement have taken the wage bill above Celtic’s with even some fans starting to question what they are getting back for the blue pound.
Beale was certainly a believer, Clement has done the rounds and knows a fake when he sees one, it should make for an interesting month before the Transfer Window opens.
The petted lip was out, TikTok seemed to walk off in slow motion, there was no eye contact with Clement before he kicked out at an object in the dug-out. The Poundland Jack Grealish deserves more respect than that.
This world class club is once again out of European football before Christmas, missing out on the embarrassing record of not having won a knock-out tie since season 2003/04, the season that Lawwell got his feet in the door as the £248,941 pa CEO on a turnover of £69m.
All eyes are on Lawwell Mini to see if he can buck the trend and deliver players capable of going into the team and improving things rather than bloating the wage bill.
Selling Jota and Carl Starfelt at the same time as Aaron Mooy retired has trimmed quality from the squad. Injuries to Reo Hatate, Liel Abada and Daizen Maeda has left Rodgers with just four or five reliable performers forced into carrying others that are miles short of the standard required.
the Scottish press was invited to a largely off-the-record meeting at Hampden last week to give an update on how VAR has been going. What was clear from a meeting that lasted nearly two and a half hours was that Crawford Allan, the head of refereeing is trying to be…