A record amount for Matt. The Celtic Board needs to support Brendan Rodgers right away if they have any aspirations of being a football team. They’ve got less than a week to complete that task.
September 3, 2022, Cinch Scottish Premiership match between Celtic and the Rangers saw Liel Abada and Matt O’Riley celebrate their team’s third goal.
Despite the substantial cash compensation, we will have a significant vacuum to fill since Matt O’Riley will shortly join Brighton as a player.
The English Premier League team has consented to give the Scottish champions a record transfer fee that could potentially bring the club as much as £30 million for the Danish international. Celtic acquired the player for a meager £1.5 million from MK Dons, who I understand have a sell-on clause.Furthermore, because Brighton is a developing team, much like Celtic, Celtic’s sell-on clause may provide another multi-million pound return on investment in a few years.
Milton Keynes Dons’ Matt O’Riley makes motions during the team’s March 02, 2021, Sky Bet League One match against Gillingham at MEMS Priestfield Stadium
But if we don’t move quickly and spend all of the money we received for Matt—or at least a sizable portion of it—on a replacement, then it’s all for nothing.Or at the very least add a couple of elite players to lessen the damage.
It’s quite unlikely that our board of directors will change a lifelong tradition of reinvesting large inbound fees on quality players, as they are not known for doing so. They apparently struck it lucky when they decided to name Ange Postecoglou after blowing the ten with absurd summer spending in front of the ten attempt.
Celtic fans sold out our season tickets even during that season, when the pandemic prevented them from entering the stadiums. Neither Brighton nor Atalanta supporters did that. After the Neil Lennon appointment in the shower fizzled out, they stammered their way through the process of selecting a new manager.
They spent months courting Eddie Howe, but in a fit of desperation, they decided to take a huge risk and hired an Australian coach in Japan who had recently lost to AEK Athens despite having Greek ancestry.
When Ange Postecolgou arrived, money was made available right away. This money came from Celtic support—not our billionaire greatest shareholder—in exchange for a sketchy streaming service on Celtic TV.Before they were traded for large sums of money, he brought in players like Jota, Matt O’Riley, Liel Abada, Gorgios Giakoumakis, Carl Starfelt, Josef Juranovic, and others who all performed well on the field. The payoff on letting an elite manager spend close to £100 million will be achieved with Reo Hatate or maybe Kyogo coming up.
We have to add three or four more people at the very least before the window closes next week. It’s essential if we hope to build on our previous season’s success both at home and in Europe. Additionally, it’s what keeps the exceptional manager we now have in place.Ange Postecoglou had success in mind. One of the reasons he desired that at Celtic was that he had always aspired to be a Premier League manager.Well done, sir.Brendan Rodgers desires to be Celtic’s manager. He wants to manage Celtic because he is a true Celtic fan and he is a better development coach than Ange Postecoglou. He texted the Board and the Celtic support in code yesterday. I know how to manage it better this time.
He shares your and my frustration as a Celtics fan.However, the previous time he made the moonlight trek down to Leicester, taking the quick fix, which was far from the easy way out. On this occasion, Brendan intends to maintain his position and pursue his goals of advancing Celtic as a contender for the Champions League.
Ange was handed fresh players from all over the world last summer after his head was turned for several months and when Brendan returned to “buy in” to the board’s excellent plan of making project signings into superstars after a few months at Lennoxtown. He gave them all a chance, and the reason we have one in Australia declining to return is essentially that the youngster is aware that he is in over his head.
After cleaning up that mess, Brendan wants “quality” instead of punts who were chosen not by a top football coach but rather by the boardroom or their minions. Players like Abada, O’Riley, and possibly others are leaving.
With less than a week until the window closes, the club is in financial abundance, yet as of this morning, we are weaker than we were at the end of the previous season. The lack of ambition in redeveloping Celtic Park’s main stand has resulted in a vast waiting list and sold-out season tickets, depriving supporters of access to their club. In just one year, Fergus—who was by no means as wealthy as Dermot Desmond—built the three stands that currently support Scottish football. After twenty years in office, Desmond still hasn’t fixed the hot water in the restrooms, much less added 20,000 seats to Paradise.
The Rangers are now in desperate need of money and talent, so there’s no use in holding things the same. The people in charge need to be really ambitious if they want to take our football team to new heights. We have the tools; now is the time to put them to use by supporting Brendan so that we may all benefit. While Matt O’Riley was a second choice after the Australian chose to join with Middlesbrough (how did that work out for you, bro?), he may not have signed him, but he GROWED him into a player who Celtic were able to sell for £30 million.
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