alan280170
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^^^Big fish, very small pond^^^ can do nothing about it really.
^^^Big fish, very small pond^^^ can do nothing about it really.
True, but not that long ago we were competing with the 'Big' teams in Europe. From the MON era to even WGS i had optimism going into the CL that we could get out the group stages.
The boards decision to dilly dally while Rangers(2012) went under has caused this catch up again.
Look at the Dutch league for example. Got 3 big teams and one of them Ajax spent £9m on a player this season! Is money in the Dutch league better or more then Scotland?
It's not the Celtic model now but to progress in Europe we need to buy players who are country miles ahead of Scotland but good enough for our CL campaign.
Look at Sinclair for example. He was drifting since his Swansea days and at Villa was stale but totally rejuvenated now. He looks a player in Europe and is clearly waaaay ahead of anything up here.
For £3-4m quid a great bit of business.
I get where you are coming from, but the key to a lot of things today is TV money and players wages, I am pretty sure that Scotland has one of the worst deals in Europe IIRC even Norway get more money per team.
Yes good management and a good squad will only get you so far as when a big money offer comes in, that player is gone as you cannot afford to pay him 80/100k a week and the likes of a middling EPL team can.
Couldn't agree more. I was too in the dump Broony camp and was wanting Sviatchenko made Captain, happy to be proved wrong.Obviously I'm over the moon with the performances of the players we have brought in at celtic, but the main thing that's sold me in Rodgers is the difference he's made to Scott Brown - last season, I'd have been happy to punt him, as he seemed to be well past his best. Never been happier to be wrong, as Broonie had probably been our most improved player this season. Bossing the midfield in so many games - including against Man City.
We need a far stronger midfield to compete in Europe, but it's night and day to the weak rubbish we saw from Ronnie last year.
It would have been more of an achievement in times when there was more of a challenge in the league to be honest, Rodgers has undoubtedly made an improvement, but the league is a sh*te barometer to actually give merit to the unbeaten season.
I'd say it's more of an embarrassment that it's not been done so often since Rangers dropped out the league to be honest.League was sh*te last season and season before and season before etc yet it wasn't achieved. The Rangers came back into the league and remember #goingfor55 yet failed.
We can't help being light years ahead of everyone and you always get anomalies and decisions that can go against you that kills the chance. Ross County penalty that was a dive? Could have been 0-0 at that point and it was gone.
Lots of teams across Europe have achieved that feat and those leagues are not sh*te. To be unbeaten over 38 games is a feat and probably not achieved again.
It would have been more of an achievement in times when there was more of a challenge in the league to be honest, Rodgers has undoubtedly made an improvement, but the league is a sh*te barometer to actually give merit to the unbeaten season.