Like most things at the moment Celtic are struggling badly at the PR game.
In times of trouble getting some good news out there to take attention away from the real issues is very worthwhile, it buys time and fools a decent number of people.
During season 20/21 Celtic’s social media team would have been as well going on furlough, with negativity hanging over everything they reverted to wishing obscure former players a Happy Birthday as fans waited for news of change.
Since November the parallels have been made between this season and the last time Peter Lawwell was fully in charge of the club.
? Work has begun on #CelticFC‘s brand new state of the art training centre!
The new centre at Barrowfield will be the base for the Women’s first team, as well as both boys & girls academies ?
Find out more ? https://t.co/zXYZzRE42I ? pic.twitter.com/9XuIsEl8ak
— Celtic Football Club (@CelticFC) February 21, 2024
The comparisons have been obvious in recent weeks, yesterday the club dug out a feature on the new training complex at Barrowfield with world class and state-of-the-art being used in a similar fashion to the unveiling of Murray Park a generation ago.
Celtic’s Academy and B team will soon have incredible facilities for preparing to face Cumbernauld Colts and Caledonian Braves- along the M8 on Airdrie’s plastic pitch.
Wednesday’s announcement was greeted with no acclaim or fanfare from supporters wise to the tactics of the club. They know that the club is holding back on the Interim Accounts to 31 December 2023 which will reveal a bank balance of around £100m while the team collapses on the pitch, gift wrapping the SPFL title across the city.
In the final week of the transfer window with expectations high for improvements the club revealed that Cameron Carter-Vickers had signed a new contract- a clear signal that there would be very little business completed before the transfer window closed.
Two days after he was pictured in Glasgow the club waited until 10.30pm on Deadline Day to announce the loan signing of Adam Idah. The reaction was almost entirely hostile- the player was excused with the fans hostility all aimed at the Chairman, CEO, Board of Directors and the former CFG Head of Information and Content.
Interim results out tomorrow then?
— 20 Minute Tims (@20MinuteTims) February 21, 2024
Same dreadful coaching staff. Same failure to find us decent opposition for the youth players. Plans changed so now there’s no stand for fans to watch the games. Done cheap, run cheap, a complete vanity project. All we need now is The Leech’s name on it. I won’t be surprised.
— TheCelticBlog (@CelticBlog2018) February 21, 2024
Can’t wait to see the B team and women’s team lift all those trophies because of this… what an utter waste of £20-30 Million.
— Keith Robinson (@KeithRo5808) February 21, 2024
Celtic football club
Forever downsizing to maximise profits.
With this announcement then I’d assume the interim report is due any day. pic.twitter.com/P448fDatD8— brian flynn (@brianflynn2) February 22, 2024
State of the art training centre?
Thought we already had one of those.
Just shows that when one chooses the cheap option, one ends up paying twice.
— George Paterson (@gfpaterson) February 21, 2024
Positive news a pity we never invested in any decent players to train at it HH
— Celtic Gossip (@CelticGossip) February 21, 2024
Be decent if the actual pitch we had didn’t look like a ploughed field, and the players on it were decent. Sort that first. Cheers.
— Viva La Quinta Abada (@Che_Ntcham) February 21, 2024
Work should begin on getting Lawwall and co out of the club
— Steven Whyte (@SWhyte112) February 21, 2024
If celtic spent as much time and effort on improving the team as they do manipulating their fans, they’d be winning the champions league.
— cowabunga1.2 (@2Cowabunga1) February 22, 2024
Can he play left back
— Sam?? (@sam6788_) February 21, 2024
— ????????? (@kingkyogo) February 21, 2024
Naebody cares m8 pic.twitter.com/I9SlvJLXVc
— Rebel86 (@Bludwulf1888) February 21, 2024
Gerry McCulloch: pic.twitter.com/f0oVmvgbRU
— cowabunga1.2 (@2Cowabunga1) February 22, 2024
Work has stalled on #CelticFC‘s first team. ??? pic.twitter.com/98gvdV9sdf
— THE WAKE (@LetThemEatWake) February 21, 2024
When are the Interim Results being released, we’re waiting and tell us some good news that Lawwell and Son are offski. pic.twitter.com/e5SCyTE9bT
— JimLeitrim2 (@JimLeitrim2) February 21, 2024