GLASGOW, SCOTLAND - AUGUST 03: Celtic manager Brendan Rodgers during a William Hill Premiership match between Celtic and St Mirren at Celtic Park, on August 03, 2025, in Glasgow, Scotland. (Photo by Craig Williamson/SNS Group via Getty Images)
Brendan Rodgers has described Celtic’s transfer activity as notoriously late.
The hoops have to name a 25 man squad with UEFA by 11pm tonight gor their Champions League Play Off matches against Kairat Almaty.
Two changes can be made by 11pm the night before the first leg but it is a hard stretch to see a new signing come in at this stage to influence matches of such magnitude.
Transfer business is never far away whenever Rodgers faces the media, over the fortnight since the competitive action got underway his message has seldom changed.
? “The club has always notoriously done business towards the end of the window…”
Brendan Rodgers is “philosophical” about Celtic’s transfer business as he praises the squad he already has ?? pic.twitter.com/AM0fJlroMU
— Sky Sports Scotland (@ScotlandSky) August 14, 2025
Celtic remain vulnerable in the forward areas, an issue that Rodgers appears almost tired of repeating.
Kyogo Furuhashi was sold in January without signing a replacement, more than a month has passed since Nicolas Kuhn was sold to Como, again no direct replacement has arrived.
Celtic face Falkirk on Friday night for a last eight place in the League Cup but it is a place in the last 36 of the Champions League that is the biggest target this month.
Is there some obscure archaic rule which states that all player transactions completed on the last day of the Summer window gets the club a huge tax relief ..or a big bucks rebate ? I know that sounds nutty , but there has to be something advantageous to ‘ the greys ‘ for their continuous lack of activity …every single season ? I’m not buying the ‘ lack of ambition ‘ from the board horse manure , but I’m knackered with a capital ‘F ‘ for the answer . It has to come out with the washing ..one of these days ? Has to !
I know it’s a trophy, and an element in a treble, but I’d play the B team tomorrow night.
If no new signings come in…and we go out of the CL…it will be very interesting to see how the support reacts…Oh there will be thousands of keyboard warriors crying for vengeance…but will the faithful through and through brigade stay silent ??…I think we all know the answer to that.
The biggest problem with this situation is not Rodgers, let’s just say for a minute he’s gone next season.
The biggest problem for me is our new manager is watching this !!!!!
Fourth choice it is then !!!!
i posted this elsewhere, I would be interested in what anyone is planning to mobilise the dissparate Celtic supporters into an organisation for change ? anyone ?
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saint stivs
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August 14, 2025 at 4:00 pm
from previous.
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saint stivs
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August 14, 2025 at 3:30 pm
I wish I had the answers as to how you can change the status quo at CP,
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the answer is always the same.
agitate and protest, turn up and be heard. akin to celts for change, save our celts,
but most of all unite behind a cause and find the appropriate leaders to follow.
what it definately is not, is a group of on;line mouth pieces, producing blogs and podcasts several times a day, that might be read by a few thousands people (all the smae individuals btw, i can read several dozen articles a day across many platforms) but are completely ineffectual at championing change.
the bloggers will hate this – but – you have to take lessons from business and change management.
If Joe and James turned up at Celtic park with a trestle table, and gathered signatures calling for change, great. If Erik could go round the Irish clubs and find shareholders to get them motivated that would be good.
If they could get their collective total readers and listerners to march behind a themed protest, then that would be a start.
But that leadership isnt there.
The voices wont be heard. A shout in the car park at st mirren or a silly question at the AGM, doesnt mean anything.
Posting on blogs, myself included is as relevant as writing to the letters page in the old evening times.
Change happens when people are involved in the processes.
Where are the modern McCanns, McGlones and Orrs amonst the blogs, they dont exist.
I’d have to say that’s one of your better ones, stivs.
To effect change it’s essential to have a) the target (the board) so that’s done.
b) Sufficient stubborn protesters organised into a coherent group and prepared to stay the distance until change (the board) happens.
BUT, it would ALL be in vain if they were replaced by similar parasites, leeches and fleas.
The old ‘be careful what you wish for’ craic applies here. So it’s not just “Celts for change” it’s Sack The Board and replace them with Tims, true Fenians. I truly believe we’ve got the numbers, it’s the big question of organisation as you pointed out.
Don’t make it past the qualifier due to THEIR sheer incompetence and and Maeda will be getting punted , that’s why we’re starting to hear the rumours now
Absolute wankers
NOTorious is a very apt description for something that is NOT happening !