Maloney’s philosophy / idealism will not work with the current group of players. We do not have a central defender who can pass the ball out of defence. We would need to change the 3/4 of the defence and purchase 3-4 new midfielders. They will have to be of quality for £3m -£4m. That will not happen this side of 2030, if ever.
As Tommy, correctly states above and you have mentioned on previous articles, the lack of planning, strategy, professionalism and vision, sacrificed for short-term profit, has landed and we will now reap the results of that until a change of ownership is in situ.
Andy I thought this was the scenario ahead since Moloney came back to the club that he was being groomed to eventually take the reins as manager, I'm on record on several platforms saying so and I've never thought that it was a good idea. Shaun was a decent player but that, as we all know, doesn't necessarily mean that you're management material, he's worked under Roberto Martinez who in my opinion is a very limited coach and has flattered to deceive in his career. The Belgium team he managed should've won a world cup or a European championship at the very least but he couldn't get them over the line. The managed decline at Celtic is beginning to reap what it sowed, there's no football department to speak of, there's no long term plan for what the club wants to achieve, there's a lack of ambition and the supporters can see they don't see the vision we have of what the club could become. There's no joined up thinking, there's no marriage of departments to compliment each other. The club should have a scouting department worthy of our stature which should be supplying names to the manager well in advance and a "football department" which we lack. That should then go to the finance department to facilitate the manager in bringing the best players available to us in our price range and these players should then be brought in on the opening of the transfer window or as close to it so the manager and staff can bed them in and work on our style of play. I realise this is an oversimplified way of how it should be done but it's how in effect it should work. We're working off a twenty year old business plan, that's if a plan actually existed in the first place, the problem with that is the game's moved on at lightning pace and we're not even close to being prepared for it. The managed decline is evident for all to see except our board, now for those who want to point to trophy counting, there's an argument to be made that we've actually underachieved as the Ibrox club wasn't in the league for five years and with our financial superiority we should've won trebles every season as nobody could match us. We're too parochial only wanting to do enough to stay ahead of the club across the city when we should be light years ahead and left the rest of the league in our shadow. The failure to do so is coming back to bite us on the arse now and I fear that things are going to get a lot worse before they get better, when you're taught a humbling footballing lesson by one of the poorest Ibrox sides I've seen shows how far standards have slipped and we're not close to our nadir yet. Some might say I'm overreacting to one defeat but this has been coming for a long time and even a blind man could see it happening. The only way to change things is to oust the Desmond stranglehold along with the rest of this board as they've got no real interest other than being ahead of their Ibrox business partners. I fear that this is just the beginning of our downfall and that things are going to get much worse before they get better, I've been saying this since about 2007 that the lack of ambition and the absence of a strategic plan to take the club forward would cost us dearly, my only surprise is that it's taken this long.
I think many of us have worked for a boss who delegates responsibility to us for something and then comes along and changes bits of what we’ve done and the whole thing collapses. You’re convinced that it’s failed because of his tinkering and he’s sure it’s failed because it wasn’t good enough in the first place despite his attempts to fix its most obvious defects. I have no idea whether Shaun Maloney is a good enough coach for Celtic, but it’s certainly quite clear that the current arrangement isn’t working. To be frank, it wasn’t very good last season either, but they got away with it. Lady Luck has left the building.
Maloney’s philosophy / idealism will not work with the current group of players. We do not have a central defender who can pass the ball out of defence. We would need to change the 3/4 of the defence and purchase 3-4 new midfielders. They will have to be of quality for £3m -£4m. That will not happen this side of 2030, if ever.
As Tommy, correctly states above and you have mentioned on previous articles, the lack of planning, strategy, professionalism and vision, sacrificed for short-term profit, has landed and we will now reap the results of that until a change of ownership is in situ.
Andy I thought this was the scenario ahead since Moloney came back to the club that he was being groomed to eventually take the reins as manager, I'm on record on several platforms saying so and I've never thought that it was a good idea. Shaun was a decent player but that, as we all know, doesn't necessarily mean that you're management material, he's worked under Roberto Martinez who in my opinion is a very limited coach and has flattered to deceive in his career. The Belgium team he managed should've won a world cup or a European championship at the very least but he couldn't get them over the line. The managed decline at Celtic is beginning to reap what it sowed, there's no football department to speak of, there's no long term plan for what the club wants to achieve, there's a lack of ambition and the supporters can see they don't see the vision we have of what the club could become. There's no joined up thinking, there's no marriage of departments to compliment each other. The club should have a scouting department worthy of our stature which should be supplying names to the manager well in advance and a "football department" which we lack. That should then go to the finance department to facilitate the manager in bringing the best players available to us in our price range and these players should then be brought in on the opening of the transfer window or as close to it so the manager and staff can bed them in and work on our style of play. I realise this is an oversimplified way of how it should be done but it's how in effect it should work. We're working off a twenty year old business plan, that's if a plan actually existed in the first place, the problem with that is the game's moved on at lightning pace and we're not even close to being prepared for it. The managed decline is evident for all to see except our board, now for those who want to point to trophy counting, there's an argument to be made that we've actually underachieved as the Ibrox club wasn't in the league for five years and with our financial superiority we should've won trebles every season as nobody could match us. We're too parochial only wanting to do enough to stay ahead of the club across the city when we should be light years ahead and left the rest of the league in our shadow. The failure to do so is coming back to bite us on the arse now and I fear that things are going to get a lot worse before they get better, when you're taught a humbling footballing lesson by one of the poorest Ibrox sides I've seen shows how far standards have slipped and we're not close to our nadir yet. Some might say I'm overreacting to one defeat but this has been coming for a long time and even a blind man could see it happening. The only way to change things is to oust the Desmond stranglehold along with the rest of this board as they've got no real interest other than being ahead of their Ibrox business partners. I fear that this is just the beginning of our downfall and that things are going to get much worse before they get better, I've been saying this since about 2007 that the lack of ambition and the absence of a strategic plan to take the club forward would cost us dearly, my only surprise is that it's taken this long.
I think many of us have worked for a boss who delegates responsibility to us for something and then comes along and changes bits of what we’ve done and the whole thing collapses. You’re convinced that it’s failed because of his tinkering and he’s sure it’s failed because it wasn’t good enough in the first place despite his attempts to fix its most obvious defects. I have no idea whether Shaun Maloney is a good enough coach for Celtic, but it’s certainly quite clear that the current arrangement isn’t working. To be frank, it wasn’t very good last season either, but they got away with it. Lady Luck has left the building.