As Celtic lurches from calamity to crisis, when the hell are this board going to front up and admit it’s coming apart at the seams?
Eric Knott 
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Something is rotten in the state of Celtic, this can no longer be denied.
There is now an open conflict between the manager and the board, and this was very much confirmed by Brendan Rodgers’ actions yesterday.
It is patently clear he has decided he’s had enough.
A disastrous summer transfer window, in which somehow, he has managed to maintain some sort of decorum, came to a head yesterday.
The Celtic board’s acquisition of Michel-Ange Balikwisha was very much a case of closing the stable door after the horse has bolted.
In the eyes of most fans, it isn’t anywhere near what we require before this transfer window closes.
Before I go any further though, I need to ask this question:
How does Celtic, the “most well run club in the UK”, go from that supposed accolade, to something akin to the shambles across the city in such a short space of time?
In fact, I will give credit where it’s due when it comes to the Ibrox side and the way they’ve operated in this summer’s transfer window.
They’ve gone out and got the players their manager asked for.
Something that seems virtually impossible for our board to do.
Simply because they put self-inflicted road blocks in their way of doing the business that needs to be done.
Lowball offers being their favourite ingredient in that particular process.
But back to the question at hand.
Going from being the “best run club in UK” to the absolute shitshow we’ve seen unfolding at the club over the last week or so.
I’ll tell you why we are where are today.
This “best run club in the UK” bollocks is a mirage, and always has been a mirage.
If we were the best run club in the UK, those 12 out of 19 failures in the Champions League qualifiers would not be a statistic we’re discussing today.
The hundreds of millions that Celtic lost in revenue through those failures would have washed through the club, and helped us to become a respected power on the European stage.
And be under no illusions, it is hundreds of millions.
Today, we would be operating on a similar level to a club like Brugge, who really are the poster boys of how a decent sized club from a smaller league should operate.
If we say that on average, over the years, that Champions League qualification would have guaranteed us £25 million, and that’s being conservative, that is £300 million in lost revenue.
Even if we’d only been successful in half of the 12 failures, we still would have banked around £150 million.
This is the extent of the revenue this board has lost on their watch through consistent failure to prepare for Champions League qualifiers.
But this latest disaster?
Well, that’s the one where the chickens have finally come home to roost.
It’s the straw that broke the camel’s back.
This is that one time too many, and the fans have woken up to the fact that it is no longer acceptable.
In addition to that, it has been further compounded by yesterday’s farcical events at the club surrounding the board’s last minute.com transfer dealings.
It is clear that the “delegation” that went to Anderlecht to secure the signing of Kaspar Dolberg didn’t manage to get the job done.
Hence the reason why Brendan Rodgers has not sanctioned Adam Idah’s move to Swansea City.
Reading between the lines here, the board decided they wanted the Idah funds in the door before they got serious about the Dolberg move.
Rodgers has basically said, “F### that, get your shit together and get this sorted before Idah goes anywhere. I am not going to Ibrox with Johnny Kenny and Shin Yamada as my only striking options!”
Maybe he said in more polite language, but you get the general gist.
It’s obvious the board felt they could pissball about over the weekend in getting the Dolberg deal over the line, and that they were probably intent on announcing him on transfer deadline day.
All while allowing Adam Idah to head south to Swansea City, thus decimating Rodgers’ striking options for Sunday further than they already are.
The fact that they would be willing to do that proves they couldn’t care less about the footballing operation.
That even in the midst of all of this calamity and crisis, the bank balance still comes first.
It was bad enough that they would not supply the manager with what he required to qualify for the Champions League, the fact that they were willing to send him to Ibrox further handicapped up front actually beggars belief.
For guys who are supposed to be Celtic fans to the core?
How much more of this kind of behaviour do we have to take as a fanbase at this club?
How much until we say enough, is enough.
It seems that there are no boundaries that this board are not willing to push.
In fact, it seems they are entirely encapsulated within their own bubble, and that they are oblivious to what goes on outside it.
But we see it.
Even those that refused to see it are starting to see it now.
This weekend the manager put his foot down and said that enough, is enough.
But here’s the big question, when are this board going to front up and speak?
When are they going to admit that they got it all wrong this summer?
And when are they take some accountability for what happened in the Champions League qualifier?
Because amongst all of the failures over the years in these qualifiers, they are the one constant that remains present.
Presiding over hundreds of millions in losses through said failures.
Yet not once have they fronted up and said, “Fair enough, we got it wrong, we’re going to learn from it this time.”
Here’s the problem, it is clear that they will never, ever learn from it.
Because if they were going to, we would not find ourselves in the position we are in right now.
Facing into a Europa League campaign which is probably more difficult than the Champions League campaign we faced into last season.
Playing games on Thursday nights, and league games on Sunday afternoons.
For half the revenue.
Last Tuesday night’s failure was the worst of them all.
It was the one that could, out of all of our qualifiers, been the most easily avoided.
We had tens of millions sitting in the bank, yet we only spent £3.5 million of it.
This week, we spent more on Michel-Ange Balikwisha when it was far too late.
If we get our shit together, we’ll spend £8 million plus on Kaspar Dolberg.
Why now?
Why are we happy to spend £13 million for the Europa League, but only £3.5 million to prepare for the Champions League?
Who is going to answer that question?
I’ll tell you who, nobody.
And that’s the problem here.
So many questions, but never any answers.
And while the questions pile higher and higher, the CEO passes 1346 days without having answered a single question from the media, fan media or our own in house channel, Celtic TV.
That is so wrong, is so many ways.
Celtic cannot continue on this path any longer.
It is a path doomed to failure, and only we can pull together to stop the rot.
If we don’t, nothing will change, and we’ll find ourselves right back here this time next year.
Asking ourselves, how the hell did this happen again?
Well, I’ll answer that for you.
It will have happened again because we allowed it to happen again.
We are the facilitators of this mediocrity.
Is it us who permit it to happen season, after season.
We give these worn out old men our money every time they ask for it.
We buy the four to five jerseys they produce each season.
They abuse our loyalty, but we facilitate that abuse.
We are part of the problem, and until we realise that, this will go on, and on.
I’ll finish with this.
Every season, we, the fans, pay more and more for the privilege of facilitating this farce.
Yet consistently, we get less and less in return.
This summer epitomises that in all of it’s technicolour glory.
Ask yourself this:
Do you think it’s fair to pay more and more each season for a steadily declining product on the field of play?
When Russell Boyce pointed out on the Trinity Tims that we broke the British transfer record for a defender in the 1990’s by paying £4.5 million for Alan Stubbs?
And then Joe pointed out that we paid a combined £10 million for Rafael Scheidt and Eyal Berkovic in 1999.
Shite players by name, and by nature, I know, but we paid serious money for them nonetheless.
£10 million when we had a turnover of about £35 million back then?
£3.5 million up to this week, with a projected turnover of £150 million?
And anywhere between £80 to £100 million sitting in the bank.
But paying £5 million for a player is a massive drama now?
Do you see anything at all wrong with this picture?
Anything?
Can’t you see that you are being completely ripped off by this board?
And we are paying these extortionate prices for utter mediocrity.
How long more are you willing to accept it for?
Celtic, under this board, is getting left behind in the modern game.
It will only get worse with these people in charge.
Either they front up and speak to us, giving us a clear plan for the way forward, or they accept they are not fit for this job.
Either way, it’s up to us, the fanbase to let them know we’re not tolerating this any longer.
These people were willing to let us go to Ibrox with Johnny Kenny and Shin Yamada as our first choice strikers.
No offence to those guys (Kenny and Yamada), but that’s shambolic behaviour, and should not be tolerated on any level.
You have your voice, use it.
Make yourself heard, what ever way you can.
This cannot go on any longer.
#Sack the Board
#Renewal is coming
We moan like fcuk & DO nothing even though we can see for years the urine is being extracted right in front of our own eyes. I haven’t bought merchandise or food on the concourse as it’s all a complete rip off. I’m stunned DD hadn’t sorted this out on BR’s arrival. Imo, only Trains Lindell the 2nd largest shareholder can possibly pressure the board into getting their fingers out & acting professionally but I don’t hold my breath. We are run by money men only interested in the bank balance and not Celtic supporters, sadly DD is in that group.
Forgetting the European dimension for the moment, not only were the Board prepared to let us face the Tribute Act tomorrow with Kenny and Yamada as the only available strikers but they are prepared to hand the initiative to Ibrox for the League Title. We haven’t even completed the signing of Dolberg yet and there’s no way that we can count our Invisible CEO closing that deal before Sunday night’s deadline. We definitely can’t rely on Kenny and Yamada as our strike force between now and the January Transfer Window and hope to get a First Team ready Striker at that point. ( nae laffin at the back).
They will spend nothing we are being duped by their friendly journalists we aren’t serious about a y transfers except seeing idah and Maeda stop giving them your money
I see your grossly obese Friar Tuck-like pal is squealing about the Challenger ‘disaster’ (sic) for the second time this week, a distasteful if not disgusting analogy to make with a football club losing a game.
Luckily for that dumb fat fuck the Challenger ‘disaster’ was yet another NASA hoax designed to both traumatise the public and, more importantly, permit NASA to abandon the ‘Teachers In Space’ scheme, a fraud from the beginning as no one can go to space due to there being a solid barrier in the way, which would be necessary between a pressurised system and a vacuum, otherwise everything would be sucked into the vacuum and nothing would exist BUT the vacuum.
Which your hysterical thick mate hasn’t the brains to even consider, despite all his loudmouthed pomposity and thinking he’s an expert on everything.
So you show him this, Eric, and see how the idiot responds.
NASA Hoaxes #1:
The Challenger ‘Disaster’ Crew Are Still Alive:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5A9jPUDg2k0
Tell him to watch this for the true shape of the earth that NASA themselves can’t make their minds up on whether it’s round or pear shaped.
Ask the peabrained clown why he believes everything he reads that his superiors feed him.
Tell him, as the above videos prove, hi superiors have lied to humanity about everything, from our true origins to the absolute nonsense about ‘outer space’ (sic).
Then tell him that there are only two true black holes in existence, one is the NASA bank account where the US taxpayers’ dollars go and the other is between his dumb fat ears.
Dave Murphy Explains The True Shape Of The Earth (And In How Many Ways NASA Have Lied To Humanity)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3cu3_JgYl4I
Good article, Eric, but Brendan’s total bullshit about ‘the whole club being connected’ means he is now COMPLICIT in the overall scam being run on the Celtic support by the criminal board.
So he can get tae fuck also, taking Desmond, Lawwell, Kennedy, the three Strachans and every other dirty moneygrabbing fuckbag involved in this total takeover of our once brilliant club.
Cheers.
“So, James, what do you think qualifies you for a 70 grand year job commentating on Scottish football?”
“Eh, I like watching movies, playing computer games and reading about Ancient Rome!”
“Okaaaayy, but we don’t really see the connection between infantile hobbies and informed mature comment.
Don’t you have anything else that might work in your favour?”
“Aye, I believe everything I read and am told by my superiors who write the history in the first place!”
“So you’re telling us you’re a compliant dummy incapable of thinking for yourself?”
“Aye!”
“Great! Welcome to the team!
And while you’re still down there …”
You do realise, Michael, that he earns more than what you quoted doing what he’s doing?
Embarrassing amateur heartless don’t give a fuck board broadsheets are more important to them an as for DD an his pal PL I hope you both rot in hell for what you’re doing just
hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha.
That’s supposed to be a reply to Michael, which for some reason is never shown as a reply, certainly at this end anyway…
You ask when are this board going to front up and admit it’s coming apart at the seems ? I would think the answer to that is never, because they believe they are good at what they do, and have a right to lord it over the fans. They are incapable of admitting their mistakes and shortcomings. Sack the board. PS. put some care in the community ads on here for some of your posters/readers.
Eric Knott
says:
30th August 2025 at 4:58 pm
‘You do realise, Michael, that he earns more than what you quoted doing what he’s doing?‘
Of course I do, Eric, but that was the starting rate 13 year ago.
Do keep up, you’re embarrassing yourself.
But not half as much as that fat clown is.
Did you show him those videos?
Do let us know how he reacts, in fact, you could make it a little more interesting by asking him prior what shape he’s thinks the Earth is, as he never stops mentioning it in his hysterical ramblings.
For his hero Neil DeGrasse Tyson told us 10 years ago that the Earth was in fact ‘pear shaped’, a video I’ve already sent you, so see what he thinks of that.
Ask him ‘James, is the Earth round or pear shaped like you?’ and watch his fat bawjawed face explode in rage and fury 😀
Tell him it’s interesting how often he keeps using the shape of the Earth as such a certainty when he’s far too afraid to even consider looking at the possibility that all the white NASA tells him might well be part of a sustained programme of lying to humanity, which is Lisa easy when it’s populated by idiotic little pissants like him.
Cheers.
😁🍀
‘ Yes, the statement that the Earth is “pear-shaped” is a simplified description used to explain its complex shape, which is officially an oblate spheroid that is slightly wider at the equator than at the poles and also a bit wider below the equator. The term “pear-shaped” is used because it captures the slight bulge at one part of the planet and a relative flattening elsewhere, similar to the shape of a pear.’
Yet James repeatedly insists that it’s round …
So which is it, fatso? 🤣
‘Neil Snake In De Grass Tyson Explains The Earth Isn’t Round, It’s Pear Shaped’
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/KB8bawW1am4
Silly little bugger that he is.
Nae luck, Jim, you should try again, see if it works for ye.
Did you watch the videos?
Feck knows how you’ve done it, Jim, but your laughter has escaped the box and is taking over the whole page!
Grand job, we all need a good laugh now and again, especially when it’s at that dumb fat hysterical clown Forrest.
👏😂
Irp says:
“ PS. put some care in the community ads on here for some of your posters/readers.”
You mean the ones who believe Neil DeGrasse Tyson when he says ‘the earth is pear shaped’ or the ones who believe the computer generated NASA ‘photos’ demonstarting the Earth robe round?
Which is it, Irp Irp?
For it can’t be both but it could be neither.
Which Earth shape do you prefer, Irp?
If such a thought has ever occurred to you ..?
While you’re about it, Eric, tell your dumb meat heid mate that the Fiat Earth Society are a bunch of shills deliberately mocking any questioning of NASA’s dumb, wholly unproven, claims.
Ask the fat clown if he knows what a shill is.
And if he doesn’t, tell him to ask his bum master Phil.
For Phil knows very well what a shill is.
Don’t you, Phil?
I was gonna say to ask him how long he thinks his bird will stick around once the A.I. takes his job but that would be rude of me so don’t bother.
😊
Fortunately for fat boy and his shitey job the AI is still clueless in how to describe the shape of the Earth as it claims here that ‘The term “pear-shaped” is used because it captures the slight bulge at one part of the planet and a relative flattening elsewhere, similar to the shape of a pear.’
But where is the ‘flattening’ on a pear?
Has anyone here seen a flat shaped pear?
It also claims ‘the earth is wider at the equator than at the poles, while also being a bit wider below the equator’, but isn’t the South Pole below the equator?
And who has ever seen a NASA image of Earth that is anything else than a perfectly round sphere?
Exactly.
So why are they claiming it’s pear shaped?
And why don’t they show us any videos of Earth spinning at its miraculous 1000 miles an hour since there are supposed to be 50,000 satellites floating about there?
Someone keeps forgetting to put film in the camera?
That the censorship started fae you too, Eric?
I thought you were all for the freedom of speech our forebears fought and died for?
Or are you just following the fat boy’s orders?
OMG who the Hell is that guy he will probably say there isn’t any hell , how does he know this stuff and bang out of order with personal grievance with James,
Brilliant Michael M… The clown that calls out the Scottish fitba stenographers… Will believe everything the BBC propaganda machine tells him about global politics and covid… The fat unhealthy slob who has never exercised in his life and obviously eats junk… It’s telling me I should have to get bill gates experimental gene therapy before I go into celtic park,!! What a clown
Thanks for recovering the AI comment, Eric, you’re a good man and have my apologies for doubting you.
Trinitybhoy, show me evidence for the Hell below us that you’ve been taught and I might believe it but meanwhile I’ll maintain that we’ve been duped and Hell is in fact this realm on which we all live.
What other reason could there be for all the Devil’s works going unpunished?
And cheers, Mickybhoy, good to know that some pompous overpaid blowhard does NOT have the authority to tell folk to allow a wholly untested gene disruptor to be injected into them by a creepy computer nerd billionaire crook.
I reckon it was all part of the fat chap’s contract that he had to push yon toxic poison on his readers for he never stopped squealing about it and demanding everyone follow his dumbassed lead.
Good to know that some folk are awake to the bullshit they’re feeding us, Hail Hail, brother! 🍀 🙏🏻
Michael M needs banned fur being a wee psycho. Oh, and sack the board as well.
I see fat boy and his bird both thought the Kairat game was on Wednesday and nit Tuesday …
You’d think the ‘13 year long Celtic Blog editor’, aka The Overblown Balloon, would notice when his bird’s messed up her copy, even if he’s well used to spunking all over his own.
And anyone clutching their pearls protecting this mealy mouthy turd, well, ye know where to shove it.
Miovski starts for the Sevvies, Gassama almost guaranteed at least one penalty in a Must Win match for the Huns.
Our only saviour might be that they want rid of Martin so bad that the ludges have told their SFA brethren in the middle to give everything Celtic’s way so they can finally be rid of the slick haired vegan Buddhist with the groomed beard who wears trainers with his Sevvie suit.
But if the order is to Win At All Costs you can out your house on Gassama being given at least one penalty against Ralston, and in this case it might actually be justified, as we’re in greyhound against cart horse territory there.
Stee, Stee, you’re missing a V but I have one right here fur ye.
V
Stee anither yin that cannot handle the thought of free speech.
Frighten ye does it, Stee?
Here’s anither V, ye know what to do with it.
V
Now, I might not have a lot of time for James Forest these days, and stopped reading his blog, after having followed him since, ‘On Fields of Green’ days, after his genocide denial, and use of it to score cheap points against the Green Brigade, but you m8 need to get a grip, apart from your utter claptrap, your abuse of James is a disgrace, and you are one of the funniest clowns I’ve come across in a long time. The best idiots are always the ones who think they’re clever, and your level of ignorance really takes some beating, away and get an education, leave the rest of us in peace, knob!.
Michael m what the fuck are you slavering about?
Its about time everyone agrees to boycott a home match to make a complete statement of intent to get resignations if they can’t change & to improve openess between board & fans!
I boycotted the place years ago. Too many happy clapper npc who follow the herd and can’t think for themselves. Needs mass non buying of season ticket books next year as I don’t believe they’re is 10,000 in a waiting list
Forget all the claptrap
Celtic board has always done this, that’s why the last managers left
So Brendan is no different. Hit the board where it hurts and boycott the games, don’t buy season tickets
Also let them see the fans would rather do this than going through games week after week struggling, all of us can stop this now, if we don’t get any transfers.