Amongst the fans the mood is largely frustration, disappointment and anger that despite recent CL windfalls and profit in the transfer market we are being sold short by lacking of meaningful investment back on the playing side.
Yes we all appreciate the perils of spending money you dont have but that does not mean we have to go to the other extreme and try and run a club of the size and stature of Celtic by acquiring loan signings and projects.
Lawwell and Co. know that they dont need to attract quality players to win the SPL at present and seem content to field a team that will be good enough to edge ahead of Aberdeen, Dundee Utd. To the majority of fans this is unacceptable - we need to have a team that is strong enough to at least be competitive on a European stage.
Personally I feel the Sevco thing has let this board off the hook. We are light years ahead of them in terms of finance and will remain so for quite a few years to come. However Lawwell keeps pointing across the Clyde and justifying his penny pinching ways and many fans fall for that rhetoric.
I'm a season ticket holder and my ST is reasonable value IF we were fielding a team containing the likes of Moravcik, Petrov, Larsson, Sutton, McGeady, Hartson, Hooper, Mjallby, Thompson, Wanyama etc etc - but certainly not for watching Johansen, Stokes, Mulgrew, Ambrose, Pukki, Berget, Boerrigter, Zaluska etc etc.
I am constantly bombarded by emails from the marketing department - looking to empty my wallet into Celtic's coffers - 2 new jerseys this year @ £55 each ($92), Buy a brick, Corporate tickets etc etc etc - yet I look at the return on the pitch - Balls to that they will get my ST money and not a thin dime more.
Yes playing in Scotland is a big obstacle but guess what it is where we have always played and will continue to play - stop using it as a justification for short changing the fans.
I am well pissed off right now. This current Celtic squad is perhaps the poorest group of players since the Macari days and year on year the quality gets further diluted. I dont want to see 3 or 4 £6m signings - I know that is not sustainable but FFS come on 3 or 4 £2m - £3m players should not be beyond us. I am also well pissed off with the money we have wasted with our scatter gun approach to player signing - duds like Boerrigter, Balde, Pukki, Bangura, Miku, Lassad, Rogne etc - then hear that there is no money to acquire quality.
Cod Piece - your views on Celtic are pretty much a mirror image of mine tbh.
Yes we all appreciate the perils of spending money you dont have but that does not mean we have to go to the other extreme and try and run a club of the size and stature of Celtic by acquiring loan signings and projects.
Lawwell and Co. know that they dont need to attract quality players to win the SPL at present and seem content to field a team that will be good enough to edge ahead of Aberdeen, Dundee Utd. To the majority of fans this is unacceptable - we need to have a team that is strong enough to at least be competitive on a European stage.
Personally I feel the Sevco thing has let this board off the hook. We are light years ahead of them in terms of finance and will remain so for quite a few years to come. However Lawwell keeps pointing across the Clyde and justifying his penny pinching ways and many fans fall for that rhetoric.
I'm a season ticket holder and my ST is reasonable value IF we were fielding a team containing the likes of Moravcik, Petrov, Larsson, Sutton, McGeady, Hartson, Hooper, Mjallby, Thompson, Wanyama etc etc - but certainly not for watching Johansen, Stokes, Mulgrew, Ambrose, Pukki, Berget, Boerrigter, Zaluska etc etc.
I am constantly bombarded by emails from the marketing department - looking to empty my wallet into Celtic's coffers - 2 new jerseys this year @ £55 each ($92), Buy a brick, Corporate tickets etc etc etc - yet I look at the return on the pitch - Balls to that they will get my ST money and not a thin dime more.
Yes playing in Scotland is a big obstacle but guess what it is where we have always played and will continue to play - stop using it as a justification for short changing the fans.
I am well pissed off right now. This current Celtic squad is perhaps the poorest group of players since the Macari days and year on year the quality gets further diluted. I dont want to see 3 or 4 £6m signings - I know that is not sustainable but FFS come on 3 or 4 £2m - £3m players should not be beyond us. I am also well pissed off with the money we have wasted with our scatter gun approach to player signing - duds like Boerrigter, Balde, Pukki, Bangura, Miku, Lassad, Rogne etc - then hear that there is no money to acquire quality.
Cod Piece - your views on Celtic are pretty much a mirror image of mine tbh.
