I’m feeling really good. Feeling good. We’ve had a great, really, really good pre-season. The players are shaping up very well, working very hard. There’s real spirit and solidarity here in the team.
We know the work that we need to do, and it’s my responsibility to convince the club that we really need them, clearly I’m not doing that job as well as maybe what I can, but I will continue to pursue that because it’s something that’s really important for us.
The summer transfer window was the opportunity to show that lessons have been learned, instead it has confirmed that the virus of complacency has set in deep across the club.
The Board recognises the inherent inefficiencies of holding excess cash, and, in conjunction with other cash commitments, the importance of investing in strengthening the team to deliver football success.
Taking players on loan from Manchester City was a feature of Celtic a decade ago when sections of the stadium would be closed, getting thrown a few projects to bolster a team that lacked purpose with little aspirations or ambitions to be competing in the Champions League.
In this day and age of communications people can work remotely but with the start of the SPFL a week away and a Champions League qualifier three matches away Tisdale should be on the job 24/7.
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.
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.