‘Their wage bill is 24m less than ours’ ‘They’ve made us a laughing stock’ ‘Celtic board are a bunch of imposters’ Copenhagen defy Lawwell to expose Celtic’s serial failings
Soccer Football - Scottish Premiership - Celtic v Livingston - Celtic Park, Glasgow, Scotland, Britain - December 21, 2022 Celtic fans inside the stadium before the match REUTERS/Russell Cheyne
Three weeks ago Peter Lawwell was telling Celtic shareholders how it is becoming increasingly difficult in the Champions League but the club was striving to be competitive.
Last night FC Copenhagen beat Galatasaray 1-0 to finish second to Bayern Munich in Champions League Group A with eight points.
There will be no European football for Manchester United in the new year, their one Champions League victory involved a last minute penalty save from Andre Onana to deny Copenhagen a point.
Tonight Lawwell and his boardroom colleagues will look out at the disco lights and hope that Celtic can win the dead rubber against Feyenoord to end a six year run without a win, 10 years without a home win- over the last month Copenhagen have beaten Manchester United and Galatasaray.
If Copenhagen can do it, Celtic should be able to do it. Nobody will tell me differently. pic.twitter.com/4DeorR2FgR
— CelticLisboa (@CelticLisboaa) December 12, 2023
Whatever metric you care to look at- turnover, stadium size, wage bill, CEO salary Celtic are far bigger than the Danish champions.
Only serial failings at an executive level mean that it has taken the Danes just one season to match Celtic’s points total over their last three campaigns.
I would venture that Copenhagen have football people running the team and not an ex accountant, his son and an old doddery billionaire who uses Celtic as a plaything that he bothers about 2 or 3 times a year. We are a shambles off the pitch and they have made us a laughing stock
— PicklesMcPickle (@StenFluffman) December 12, 2023
And in a far more difficult group! Our Board only care about making money and until that changes, we’ll remain the whipping boys of the UCL.
— Doug Smith (@Skyseller67) December 13, 2023
Copenhagen summer spend – €17.7m income, €8m expenditure (€9m profit) – squad decrease of 2 players
Celtic summer spend – €34m income, €22m expenditure (€12m profit) – squad increase of 7 players
Of the 7 Celtic brought in only 2/3 are seen with any degree of regularity
— CelticFan7691 (@CelticFan7691) December 12, 2023
2023 income £25.5.m v Celtic £119.9m!
— Algarve Celtic (@AlgarveCeltic) December 12, 2023
They wage bill 24m less than ours . And they recent report on the revenue was 48 million less than Celtic football club sack the board
— specks (@specks17145060) December 12, 2023
Now for all the happy clappers…”but, but…[insert excuse here]”
— cowabunga1.2 (@2Cowabunga1) December 13, 2023
Technically they are in a harder group as well ?. Good for them though! What ive noticed when i seen wee highlights is theyve defended well, something Celtic cant do
— Francis Bradley (@bra83001) December 13, 2023
The Celtic board will tell you differently. Bunch of imposters.
— CFC (@MarkFeely6) December 13, 2023
In a considerably harder group than ours too.
— Huell?? (@huell_2) December 12, 2023
They probably have a squad of about 20 established players. Celtic have a few established players plus about 25 players who haven’t played 59 games in senior football at a decent level.
— Big Ernie (@RRumbles6) December 12, 2023