And with that failure comes the consolation of playing in the Europa League group stages – an achievement Nicholson will no doubt highlight in the future when accusations of lacking ambition are levelled at him again.
Martin O'Neill had his company hat on as he faced the media following Celtic's Champions League exit.There were no gags or funny quips about his age as the veteran manager took responsibility for another humiliating exit from UEFA's premier competition.And no-one in the Scottish media was going to ask the…
One match does not prove that a club’s entire strategy has failed. But two decades of abject failure, losing to teams that we should be playing off the park, exposes the total incompetence of the Celtic Board.
Celtic’s performance against LASK sent another shudder of fear through the Ibrox support.
While most bears claim that they don’t care or didn’t watch the reality is very different.
The vast majority were watching every minute on TNT Sport. Hoping for crumbs of comfort on the eve of…
Possibly doing part of your job properly after five years of trying having banked around £4 million in wages is not to be celebrated.
You don’t need to be a cynic to think that Baur and Hassan were only signed with the virtual guarantee of the Engels fee arriving. It’s the Celtic/Nicholson Way.
I think the recruitment is very, very important, to try and get some more players in if we can do. And I think the Champions League game is nearly within a couple of matches of the season starting.
The players that watched Kyogo and Kuhn get sold realised that they could be next, that they were more valued on the Balance Sheet than on the team sheet, that Nicholson would rather sell players than build a team.
Over the next three weeks Celtic will publish their accounts for the year to 30 June 2025 with turnover in or around £150m on the back of five Champions League matches bolstered by selling Matt O’Riley and Kyogo Furuhashi, the fee for Nicolas Kuhn is on the 25/26 ledger.
Home wins over Panathinaikos, Viktoria Plzen and Alloa haven’t papered over the cracks, even the Gullible & Deluded fans can see through the soundbites delivered by the bearded former MK Dons boss who has refused to slip into the brogues associated with his job.