Online Celtic fans were united in calling for change following the Champions League exit to Kairat Almaty.
A week ago chants of SACK THE BOARD rang around Celtic Park as the seriously weakened side laboured to a 0-0 against the champions of Kazakhstan.
After another two hours of tedium followed by missing three penalties out of five those calls for change were overwhelming as the footballing consequences hit home.
Celtic will be playing Thursday/Sunday football through until the end of January with three international breaks to add to the frustrations and interruptions.
While the Happy Clappers follow their instructions to blame the players costing more than £3m most fans know that last night was the conclusion of club policy started by the sale of Kyogo Furuhashi to Rennes as soon as the final whistle blew on the 1-0 win over YB Bern in January.
That policy was stepped up by selling Nicolas Kuhn while Jota was out with a long term injury.
Nothing changes until this changes. pic.twitter.com/UdnkErB8EV
— Everything Celtic (@aboutceltic) August 26, 2025
Undermining the manager from within has been obvious.
Sticking to signing players in the Project & Prospect category with a £3m ceiling results in recruitment similar to the summer of 2023.
Rather than abandon that it seems that the power brokers inside Celtic want to return to that comfort blanket, effectively admitting that competing with Club Brugge is a task too far.
Meanwhile Michael Nicholson remains in hiding, the last time he opened his mouth in public it was to claim that the ambition of the club is to be world class in everything they do.
That was in June 2023 for the appointment of Brendan Rodgers, this summer Celtic might decide to announce their new management team by statement to save them from the embarrassment of the CEO going in front of the cameras for a second time.
The rotting corpse of Ange Postecoglou’s Celtic team.
That’s what’s we’re watching.
— 20 Minute Tims (@20MinuteTims) August 26, 2025
I’ll not be going to a single game I’ve other commitments on a Thursday night and i hate Sunday games so I’ll save a fortune but I’m fucking livid about it that was the worst 2 games I’ve ever seen in Europe with so much at stake
— Michael Hickey (@Hickey79cfc) August 26, 2025
How do you rate Celtic's transfer business
OUTSTANDING- exactly what the team needed
ON HOLD- They'll come good by September 1
HORRENDOUS- Looking as bad as 2023
Common thread is Peter Lawell.
— Sean son of George (@Velociraptor198) August 26, 2025
F@ck off tory b@st@rds, away to ibrox if you want to help that lot
There is a simple answer here, don’t give them anymore money, to enable them to receive their large salaries. I am taking about the big one. If things don’t change at board level, don’t buy your season ticket. Why bother, if you have to put yourself through Cluj, Marabor, Kairat results, get humiliated by huns, who’s season highlight was last night!!
Indulge me for a minute …and put aside all aspects of the transfer saga while concentrating on last night’s performance…I watched professional footballers unable to pass a ball properly…unable to control a ball…show up their lack of technical skills …and play to a boring and slow system which is so easy to play against…and their Coach and his players deserve top marks for stopping us.. Yes the Board and its attitudes need to go…But if we’re being honest with ourselves…we were shown up in a bad light last night…and that wasn’t all down to the Board…I never expected to see Celtic players play so badly…and I hope I never have to see it again.
Editor: The board has undermined the manager, briefed against players costing more than £3m to their favourite messengers and made it clear that they’d rather sell players than have them in the team. The manager is honouring his contract, the players and their agents know the direction of travel and the effect of all that is in the two performances against motivated, ambitious opponents. Meanwhile Celtic prepare to announce around a £10m payment to HMRC in Corporation Tax.
Editor..there’s ” politics” and there’s football…My reading of your reply is the players and the Manager know they’re being shafted by the Board one way or another…so have decided to throw in the towel…and that’s why last night’s performance was so bad…they didn’t care…Is that a fair assessment…??…’Cos if it is…we’re finished.
Editor: Not throw in the towel, perhaps only giving 95% because of the toxic conditions inside the club. Football is a game of small margine, players look after Number 1 first of all because no-one else will.
I ain’t gonny get involved with percentages…but you seem to have inside info which suggests that the players ( one in particular who shall remain nameless) ain’t giving their all…And that’s unforgivable.
Embarrassed to admit this but after half time last night I put a bet on them to beat us in 90 at 6/1 and in ET at 12/1, weirdly enough I didn’t bother with the pens bet.
We could have played till this morning and not scored.
Reo’s concentration is appalling, Maeda’s headspace is gone, Idah gets zero service so its hard to really pile on him for me, Calmac hasn’t been the same player since his injury, you can turn a tanker quicker than CCV, Engels just hasn’t progressed, he’s a good player that’s all, and as soon as the pens started I knew Kasper wasn’t saving any cos he never does, not his strong point. Kudos to Idah for stepping up first even if he did miss cos he’s had nowt but pelters.
Only thing I would’ve done was play McCowan from the start, he has a bit of zip and forward momentum about him.
Far too many bang average performances over two games, with no creativity on the pitch anymore.
Folk rattling on about tactics from BR, he played the hand he was dealt, his cards just weren’t good enough.
Some of those cards were his, some the board, but more importantly some of the cards weren’t in the deck at all, and that’s the dealers fault.
Cannot remember the last time I watched two soulless performances in Europe like that.
If we roll into Ibrokes like that, then they will do us no problem.
At the end of the day it is not the players or Brendan to blame kyogo sold not replaced, Kuhn sold not replaced we know who did this. It is probably better we are out the champions league as we would get humiliated there and the money would not matter as it would be put away for another rainy day and not used to strengthen team.
Desmond out, entire board out, or nothing will ever change. Big fish in a puddle for the rest of time if they remain. Fans need to stop turning up and spending money on every piece of club tat or they’ll brass it out yet again.
Sickened.
Lol you called me out previously for posting the same thing months ago infact probably last season calling me a Hun in disguise,now you are coming round to my way of thinking it’s OK,oh dear.
Well said Joker,I know for a fact you’ve been saying this for months now.
And I was wrong. Not too big to admit it. My apologies.
Lol I’m glad or as the advert says I’m luvin it.We don’t deserve to be there,but I will tell you what we better hope sevco don’t go through because they will spend that cash from the champions league on players,and it won’t take much to catch us.
Infact we really are on a fakes position in the league anyway,we are probably slightly better shite than what’s actually there,but not by much.
But don’t forget to sellout those Nickel&dime games in the Europa league lol probably get charged even more than what the tickets would have been had we been in the big guys playground to make for the loss,and just to rub it into the fudscthat shoe up they can charge what they and the BENJAMINS in our support will accept it,well they’ve accepted everything else.
You see our board have a wee touch of the Trump narsasicm about them,it’s all about what they can use the fans for not for what the board can do for the fans,bleed them dry and use them until you have no use for them.
Trump has done the same with his MAGA fans that have turned on him,we don’t need them anymore they are losers,the board will do the same with any backlash from the fans who stay away,as others are on a waiting list next to be fleece.
No tickets, no merch, no more.
Michael Nicholson is not matching his pledge of being “World’s best in everything we do”.
Petrov made a lot of sense post-match, from a studio somewhere. What I took, was Celtic must focus on developing a squad that can compete in the Champions League. That done, the future is in Europe. Simple. I may be wrong, but reward for effort and cost, is not found in the Scottish Premiership, unless you compete in Europe. That’s what was said. He was talking about the future. Sorry to repeat that. Seems sad.
It looked as though we had the makings of a squad like that last year, but the board have systematically dismantled it.
Look at us this year after pushing the likes of Bayern all the way last year.
What kind business minds behave in a way that actively disadvantages their own product?
Why go out and hire the best we can..twice…only to undermine him?
I made the decision last after last weeks debacle that I won’t return to Celtic Park till PL & Nicholson are gone, I’m old now so that may mean I never watch them again, but I’m not prepared to be an enabler for these shyster’s in the boardroom.
No tickets, no merch, no subs from me till change is effected.
Bhoy , I did the same a few years back, but sadly nothing will change, the fans will do nothing, like they haven’t time after time.
The club’s largest shareholder seems to wield inordinate influence. The Board take the flak, deservedly so, but one could be forgiven for thinking the manager is happy with the Europa, given that he has no intention, and never has, of hanging around beyond three years. The players will know this but there’s no excuse in failing to provide the effort they’re paid for. All are moaning about recruitment, which is effectively an admission that the Administration, manager and players are not good enough for CL. Failure in the Qualifiers has been a recurring theme for a decade. Everyone knew the score, no-one reacted.