The “Mysterious” Yet Widely Publicised European Changes.
They indicated that they have some ideas and recommendations on how the club goes forward but as a club they are optimistic about the fundamentals of our club and, in their view, Celtic are a modern, progressive football club regarded as such by football in Scotland and Europe.
The fundamentals of the club are perfectly fine, but they might not be if these people continue to insult the vast majority of the fans. And yes, we’re a modern, progressive football club and we are highly regarded for that outside of Scotland at least … but we are not taken seriously as a major player because we rarely, if ever, act like one.
The trouble with them having “ideas and recommendations” is that they have proved themselves as having no strategic vision whatsoever, and so I’m concerned that these ideas are going to come up well short of the mark.
When asked for a timeline for the outcome of these deliberations they indicated that they were working towards expected changes to European competition focussing on making sure Celtic is relevant and has access and participates in whatever comes along. These changes are expected to happen in 2024 – they said they are limited in the information they can share but it does involve radical change and that this will become obvious in the next week or two – UEFA will be doing presentations around Europe.
Total bullshit I’m afraid, and a sop that not even the dumbest fan is going to accept.
Whatever decisions are being made inside Celtic Park have exactly nothing to do with the changes to the structure of European football.
On top of that, this “we are limited in what we can say” stuff is frankly a lie, because nothing about those changes is a secret.
They have been widely reported in the media, and south of the border they have been taken apart piece by piece. The EPL yesterday registered its opposition to them. The idea of a 36 team “one league” set-up to replace the Group Stages of the Champions League is ludicrous, will only give four extra teams a berth in the tournament.
And we’ll have to win the league to play in it.
That appears not to be this board’s first priority.
On top of that, four extra European games will put pressure on the associations to cancel extraneous tournaments within their borders, so say bye-bye to the League Cup.
It’s a joke, and Celtic has been on the far fringes of the discussion, not at its centre, not even close.