It’s June now, would be great to get an update in terms of the squad (those who were on loan and out of contract) and an update in terms of our managerial situation.
Whilst we’re on the subject of sabotage…
Before agreeing to return, Rodgers was assured that recruitment had improved since his first tenure.
Remember that first window? £19m spent on 10 players. Nothing had changed. We were still on the hunt for cheap punts.
He wanted centre-backs with pace for the Champions League. Mark Lawwell delivered Maik Nawrocki & Gustaf Lagerbielke - two players who had no pace.
We sold Jota & Abada, but failed to adequately replace them.
Joe Hart announced his retirement in February 2024, yet we had no replacement lined up five months later when Rodgers had to personally contact Kasper Schmeichel and do the recruitment team’s job for them.
On to the second season, where we actually showed some ambitious intent in the summer window. The fact we were without a Head of Football at that time due to the departure of Mark Lawwell may have been coincidental.
We sold Matt O’Riley and then Kyogo in January, but failed to adequately replace them.
Then came the third season, where we were dreadfully ill-prepared for the Champions League, failing to negotiate the qualifiers for the 7th time in 9 attempts.
We sold Kuhn, but failed to adequately replace him (do you see the trend developing here?).
We kept Maeda when his head was already in Wolfsburg.
We sold Idah, messed up the Dolberg deal, then had to go back to the Rodgers Rolodex to bring in Iheanacho.
When Rodgers eventually spoke out about this amateur approach to recruitment, someone at the club briefed against him to the worst tabloid rag imaginable.
You may well have a predetermined view on Brendan Rodgers, but he wasn’t the one sabotaging Celtic. If you believe that, you’ll agree with every word of Desmond’s statement obliterating the man on his departure - a statement that remains a stain on Celtic’s reputation.
The target of our disdain should be fully focused on those in the boardroom who are incapable of progressing our football club, not on managers trying to achieve success to a backdrop of chaos and dysfunction.
Video footage and photos show it hit his had. It’s a real shame that Sam Nicholson has exposed himself as an out and out liar. I hope he can receive some sort of therapy for his compulsive lies.
Sam Nicholson maintains he wasn't guilty of handball on that fateful night at Fir Park.
But he can't help but 'feel responsible' - for Motherwell, Hearts and his 76-year-old dad, a match-going Jambo since the 1956.
Nicholson speaks exclusively to @Graeme_McGarry about the incident, and the fallout.
🔗 https://t.co/9WC8s77aX7
▶️ Here's what happened when VAR checked if Hearts should have been awarded a penalty against Motherwell.
At 6pm on @SkyFootball watch Scottish Football VAR Review to hear what the SFA's head of refereeing Willie Collum made of it 📺
BREAKING: The KMI panel has ruled that Celtic should not have been awarded a penalty versus Motherwell last week
The panel said that John Beaton was right not to award the penalty initially and that VAR should not have intervened
🔗https://t.co/uDuT7zINdc
Couldn’t mark these pricks necks with a blow torch.
Most tainted title in the history of football for the world to see but saying hearts should be embarrassed.
Referring to Mcinnes as ugly as well when you’ve a walking corpse for a manager is interesting 😂
@willste92@sked21 Pitch invasions happen every week. The time was up, Hearts were happy to end the game, simple as that. Move on, you lost fair and square
@TheHeartsReview You’ve genuinely embarrassed yourself on the biggest stage. You should be sanctioned and we should be awarded a 3-0 win instead. Liars, Hearts are liars and so is your ugly manager.
“Derek McIness has told me they are happy to finish” is the best bit of audio I’ve ever heard. What a dangerous little liar he is.
Hearts must APOLOGISE immediately to the Champions.