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The long slow deterioration of Celtic PLC

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Greenlantern

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Some Celtic fans sense of realisation is wayyy off, and, in some ways very contradictory. You wish to be a small provincial club? That’s not gonna happen.

Lawwell and the board took a punt with Deila, it didn’t pay off, and they got that one massively wrong! We move forward. In reality that was a mistake, but if it had worked out, we’d be singing his praises.

My main concern is far removed from merchandise, ticket sales or dwindling attendances, ‘shiny wee cups’, it’s performances on the pitch and the lack of young Celtic players coming up to the 1stteam, that’s a coaching and management objective, not PLC.

We’ve one of the best training facilities at Lennoxtown and the best resources in Scotland to perform, why can’t this be translated onto the pitch? Get the right man in for the job! That one is specifically for Lawwell and the board to guarantee, and I’d rather them than some other coven of blood sucking vampires!

It’s about being realistic, and understanding where Celtic is in the world footballing stage.

Lawwell’s remit and objectives for Celtic in this current climate are quite clear, and he’s been rather receptive to the fans over the years; Win and win in style, a decent run in Europe, coach players for a good sell on value. Everything else; should take care of itself, cups, competition money, bums on seats, merch etc.

Me as a Celtic fan; I want to be entertained!

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Jacksgranda

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Celtic fans have went from every bad losers blaming everything and everyone for not winning leagues to bad winning tossers.

 

That's not fair, they win occasionally.

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flyingrodent

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I think the short explanation for this is:

 

There didn't used to be much money in Scottish football, so Celtic couldn't afford expensive, flashy players to destroy other teams.

 

Then for about fifteen years, there was lots of money in Scottish football, much of it borrowed, and so Celtic could afford expensive, flashy players, and a lot of people got used to seeing them destroy other teams.

 

And now, there's not much money in the game again, and once more Celtic can't afford expensive, flashy players to destroy other teams. 

 

Quite a lot of Celtic fans seem to think that the board are deliberately denying them expensive, flashy players, out of cheapness.  This is mainly because most of those fans haven't cottoned on to the money situation.

 

And that's about it, I'd say*.

 

(*There's a bit to be said here about Celtic gambling on an inexpensive and promising manager while they had the chance to do so, and that experiment going tits up.  Nonetheless, it's the cash that's the main issue, and that's largely down to the ludicrous amounts of money sloshing around Europe's larger leagues).

 

Edit to add: Juan Mata's in the paper today talking about how he makes £150,000 per week.  Per week. 

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ScotSquid

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Celtic spend their budget exceptionally badly. That's their fundamental problem.

Every non bigot on this message board could look down that squad list and after several 'f**k me.. How much???' exclamations at the Brown, Johansson, Forrest etc disasters immediately get a red pen out and point out where things are going wrong.

Celtic buy very badly overall. Pay too much in salaries to inadequate nothing players. Make bad managerial choices.

Ranieri is winning the Premiership with a budget not much more than Celtic's. Obviously they are a much bigger draw than Celtic due to the league they are playing in. Celtic get scudded by minnow sides with a fraction of Celtic's budget regularly in Europe. A total embarrassment.

Celtic should be much much better than they are. They spend enough to be so.

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ScotSquid

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:lol:

Their playing budget is around £60m. It dwarfs Celtic's.

Really?

You'll be just about to post your evidence for this claim, no doubt.

Their wage bill last season was 36.6 million. Very similar to Celtic's.

It will be bigger this season, but certainly not £60 million, which is a laughable claim.

Put it this way, Celtic's wage bill will be closer to Leicester's than Aberdeen's is to Celtic.

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topcat(The most tip top)

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Leicester City player salaries

http://www.totalsportek.com/money/leicester-city-salaries/

Last season Leicester City finished 14th in the table which was pretty good having just return to premier league and with premier league tv money windfall (£71.6 million) they managed to sign several key players in the summer of 2015 spending around £40 million in summer and January window which increased their wage bill from £36.6 million in 2014-15 season to club record £48.5 million this season.

Shinji Okazaki – £8.6m from FSV Mainz

N’Golo Kanté – £7m from SM Caen

Yohan Benalouane – £5.5m from Atlanta

Gökhan Inler – £5.5m from Napoli

Demarai Gray – £4m from Birmingham City

Robert Huth – £3.3m from Stoke City

Daniel Amartey – £5.2m from FC Copenhagen

Leicester City has already offered contract extensions to Riyad Mahrez and Jamie Vardy who has been sensational this season. Both signed new 4 year deals to remain with the club till 2019. Vardy became the highest paid player in Leicester City ranks with £80,000 a week salary while Mahrez is making around £55,000 a week with his new deal signed back in August 2015.

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