Richie McElwee

🥳 Rangers Football Club turns 154 years old! Towards the end of March 1872, Moses McNeil his brother Peter McNeil, their friends Peter Campbell and William McBeath had a dream in West End Park, Glasgow. Their dream became a global sporting institution.

@TheParkheadF Absolutely no change at Board level if 60k renewals

I sat yesterday and done some proper digging into our squad and the absolute damage this board have left us with in terms of recruitment and honestly, when you actually put it all down on paper it becomes even more alarming. So here it is. This summer, Celtic need mass boardroom change. Do I think it’ll happen? No. But what they must do those who caused this mess is get the next managerial appointment right. No more “jobs for the bhoys.” We need a proper, modern manager with his own staff, identity and structure. And crucially, this needs done before the World Cup, not mid-July when we’re scrambling with European qualifiers on the horizon. Preparation is everything and we’ve failed at that repeatedly. That’s job number one. Now let’s look at the squad. Players leaving (loans ending): 🇲🇽Julián Araujo 🇦🇹Junior Adamu 🇨🇿Tomáš Čvančara 🇺🇾Marcelo Saracchi 🇳🇴Joel Mvuka 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿Benjamin Arthur That’s 6 players gone instantly. Players returning from loan: 🇭🇳Luis Palma 🇵🇱Maik Nawrocki 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿Stephen Welsh 🇯🇵Shin Yamada 🇮🇪Johnny Kenny 🇯🇵Hayato Inamura Another 6 coming back in, and let’s be honest none of them are coming back stronger. If anything, most have regressed or stagnated. So we lose 6 and bring back 6 that arguably weaken us. Contracts expiring: 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿James Forrest 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain 🇩🇰Kasper Schmeichel 🇳🇬Kelechi Iheanacho Now we’re up to 10 senior players leaving. Likely departures: 🇯🇵Daizen Maeda 🇯🇵Reo Hatate 🇵🇹Paulo Bernardo (wanted out in January) That’s 13 heading out the door. Potential sales due to finances: Without Champions League money, the board will be looking to cash in. 🇧🇪Arne Engels (Nottingham Forest interest) 🇺🇸Auston Trusty (Lazio interest ~£10M previously) But here’s the problem after this season, their value likely drops. So we could be forced into accepting lower offers. That potentially takes us to 15 outgoing players. Now the real issue long-term & short-term contracts for underperformers: 🇧🇪Michel-Ange Balikwisha (2030) 🇹🇳Sebastian Tounekti (2030) 🇯🇵Shin Yamada (2029) 🇮🇪Johnny Kenny (2029) 🇯🇵Hayato Inamura (2029) 🇳🇴Odin Holm (2028) 🇵🇱Maik Nawrocki (2028) 🇭🇳Luis Palma (2028) 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿Stephen Welsh (2027) 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿Adam Montgomery (2027) That’s a huge chunk of the squad that were tied down on long-term deals, and let’s be brutally honest, most of them are or were nowhere near the level required. Tounekti? Maybe you could argue keeping him as backup if Jota returns fit but that’s about it. The rest? We’ll struggle to sell permanently. Most will be loaned out repeatedly until their contracts expire. So where does that leave us? If you factor in: players leaving, players we want to move on and players we can’t move on you’re potentially looking at 20–25 players in flux this summer. That is absolutely insane for a club the size of Celtic. This isn’t just a bad window. This is years of gross mismanagement coming home to roost. Recruitment has been scattergun. Contracts have been handed out recklessly. Squad planning has been non-existent. And now? We’re staring into a rebuild that could set us back years if it’s not handled properly. This summer isn’t just important. It’s defining for the next era of Celtic Football Club.

@LanaWolfUK Clyde Port Authority (they still own it?) would have to lease the land to potential investors somebody would need to shell out a fortune on infrastructure, throw in licensing, polis, cooncil hurdles galore, economic uncertainty. Too much pain for all tbh

Why the fuck don’t we have restaurants, bars and terraces along the Clyde? Imagine how nice it would be in Summer. Every other city makes good use of their rivers.

Fuck the SFA. Fuck the SNP. Fuck the Pope. Thank you for your attention .

@nufcscot Haha 2 teams! Sit down ya daft cunt

Tell you , they go on about Rangers but the amount of decisions as a Motherwell fan I’ve saw go Celtics way is fucking disgusting in 30 years plus . But the have you believe otherwise. End of day they are shite, total shite and they probably win it . Sums Scottish football up

@_Brian72 Your average hun :- “fckn great day out man, we sang about the famine, celebrated paratroopers, sang f t pope, leathered cunts. What’s that you say, a couple of wee guys writing 66 on a wall and we got beat on pens? I’m so fckn offended man. I’m going onto twitter. WATP”

Not been on here much over the past week but can someone confirm I have this right 🤔 The fans that: • Rushed gates without tickets forcing themselves inside • Graffitied walls mocking the Ibrox disaster • Pitch invaded at their biggest rivals Are… the victims? 😂

@timmymhallet67 This type of graffiti happens during every Glasgow derby from both sides. Celtic and the Huns just clean it up and that’s the agreement. Now why do you think after this derby it’s all over the news….go on have a guess…..

Whoever did this is an absolute cunt. Wonder is he man enough to defend it on here? No cunt carries a sharpie round, so he planned to do this. What an absolute tramp. No whataboutery, we know Huns r tramps. Is anyone gonna say this is anything other than behaviour of a cunt?

@BradleyJaxsun @ClydeSSB

An older Celtic fan on @ClydeSSB who was present at the Ibrox Disaster criticising those who mocked the '66' last Sunday. I have a few Celtic-minded acquaintances who think the same. How anyone can make fun of a tragedy like the Ibrox Disaster truly beggar's belief. What sticks in my throat is those same Celtic fans (not every single one of them, obviously) mourned alongside Liverpool fans following the Hillsborough Disaster (the club even had an organised fund raising friendly against Liverpool- the latter's first game since the tragedy happened). Yet the minority of the Celtic fans mock and make fun of the deaths of 66 Rangers fans proves their sick mentality. As @RangersFC said in yesterday's statement, that's not 'fan rivalry' nor is it banter.

@rynrbrtsn @JohnnyLoganBohs Just a bit of fun, nobody is harassing them lighten up

@JohnnyLoganBohs And no one I'd saying you don't. But they're only being video'd here so they can be harassed online later. Save the cameras for when they're doing what they shouldn't be

Look, I've got a personal issue with the police in general. I think their corrupt thugs that enforce the brutality of the state and that most people who join them have an inferiority complex and get aff on the power. But this is just a form of doxxing. Sure, record the police/

@raskulmusic @CelticFC @RangersFC @PoliceScotland Boys a Legend and gave a very good account of himself. It’s also rerr seeing the pain inflicted on greeting-faced freaks like yersel 👌

Is this a likeness of anyone you know? Sharpened up the original image using notegpt.io/ai-image-sharp… Leathering folk with his belt. Probably already banned from at least one stadium . @CelticFC @RangersFC @PoliceScotland

@garymcquade10 These are the nutters who think Celtic lads sitting in the stand defending themselves from being attacked by rabid auld pish-stained jakey huns were in the wrong 😂 These freaks aren’t wired up like you and me it’s pointless trying to rationalise.

Regards the incandescent faux outrage at the 66 pish - call me ignorant - bt I've never heard a song regards that sung at P/heid or the Shit Pit in ma life & if someone can prove me wrong I'd hold my hands up & say & it's still nowhere NEAR the bile they've been singing forever!!

@trueblues1872 Beating the Huns 4-2 pens. Huns invade the pitch and attack everyone and get whipped into submission. A perfect Sunday.

That lad using a belt on an old man hope gets arrested along with the other 5 guys attacking him

@BBCRadioScot @BBCSounds Chris McLaughlin on the radio just now falling over himself to make out one side as bad as the other. A shite journo who regularly takes it up the arse off rangers….thats why you’re banned from Celtic Park.

There’s chaos in the aftermath of the Old Firm derby as Celtic knock out Rangers in the Scottish Cup, and is Motherwell’s title challenge over? Listen to The Scottish Football Podcast on @BBCSounds bbc.in/4lgo1Bj

@AGCeltic__ I’ve had a few bevvies and read this. It makes sense

Callum McGregor tonight is ahead of the Glasgow Derby game Sunday, replying there are is starting lineup that which proud of Martin O’Neill the in Scottish Cup this weekend. Thank you Matt O’Riley 💚

@olesoul57_2 They’ve had a full week to research Tourette’s and they’re still incapable of comprehending the condition. There is officially no hope for these brainless racist cvnts.

Deon Cole: "If there are any white men in the room with Tourette's, I advise you to tell them to read the room, lord. It might not go the way they thinketh."

@Stanspadowski72 @GP_RFC97 Complaining about something then saying singing bigoted songs for 90 mins is ok….sit doon ya daft cvnt

@GP_RFC97 Imagine a Rangers fan defending an unwashed tarrier mutant? Even worse, a tarrier scumbag mocking the 66. Songs, bigotry etc all well and good, there is a line though, mocking 66 Rangers fans who tragically died crosses that line, anyone failing to see that is a cretin.

The rangers support is finished. Outwith the hardcore support we have folk trying to ruin folks lives for something they done in the heat of the moment. Horrible grasses. It used to be a rivalry full of hatred.

@JGlasgowCelticK Tam Graveson. Absolut nutter

Name the player. #CelticFC #COYBIG #Hailhail 🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀

@paddyb53 Affects DDs American based companies and shareholders not happy ….can’t be having that now it’s all about the 💰

It seems to me that Celtic FC banning the Green Brigade from the Stadium has more to do with their colourful banners and flags in support of Gaza and voicing their backing of the Palestinian people against genocidal Israel.... than a piffling wee scuffle during a Falkirk game.

@poz_roz3517 @BradfemlyWalsh Another brainless cretin spouting outrage…have a day off ffsake

@BradfemlyWalsh hes so privileged. that hes had his whole life documented, documentaries about his disability a movie made and is sitting next to those Black Millionaires...then calls them the N Word. Name a Black person with a disability in the UK who has gotten the same treatment. Just ONE!

You know lads, I'm not entirely sure that a white, Scottish, community centre caretaker with a profound disability, living in one of the poorest areas of the UK, IS actually more privileged than two famous, perfectly healthy, African American millionaire celebrities.

@PolitlcsUK Starmer now completely owned by his cult masters who dictate his every move, words and activities.

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