Bodø/Glimt has so far earned 600 million kroner (€53.15m) in Champions League prize money this season. This is what we are missing out on by having no vision.
Bodø/Glimt has so far earned 600 million kroner (€53.15m) in Champions League prize money this season. This is what we are missing out on by having no vision.
We keep using them as an example. They in reality got an easier knockout game than us and we were a kick away from beating bayern just last season. Thats how bad our mismanagement has been this season. One kick away from a knockout win, down to cant beat hibs at home. Bet theyll get picked apart in the summer, and still come back stronger than we can manage, another lesson for us. Crazy.
NotNeedzmoar on
ok but have you considered that buying a quality striker wouldve cost us like 5 mill more than what we spent on Balikwisha?
Gink1995 on
I remember being linked with both hauge and Høgh and not paying the money for either, now both are well out of our range because we decided against spending money for decent players
GuyIncognito211 on
This a why I’ll never understand why people say the board only care about money.
They routinely cost us absurd amounts of money by having less than no ambition
As flawed he is as a player if we’d signed Tounekti in July we’d likely have qualified for the CL *and* ended up paying about half of what we paid for him
Sechzehn6861 on
It’s so hard to compete though. It’s just impossible.
(We vastly outspent them in the summer as well as taking in significantly more in transfer fees just on one player)
Their record transfer fee paid is about 5 million.
Their record sale is about 15 million.
This team was in a UEL semi final last year, only put out by the eventual winners and they’re now beating last year’s beaten UCL finalists in a UCL knockout tie.
We are a dreadfully ran football club. Bødo’s population is smaller than Hamilton’s and their football team has been wildly successful since 2020. They were promoted back into the Norwegian top flight in 16/17…Knutsen took charge barely two years later and it’s fair to say they’ve done quite well ever since.
4 league titles out of the last 6 and unprecedented progress in European competition.
Throwaway187493 on
Wonder if Bodo will keep all 53m in the bank next season though
Claymore86 on
Before this terrible season, Celtic were arguably on par or better than most of the teams from position 24 down. Those teams have earned an advantage of between €21-€50 million and right now Celtic don’t even look like they will make that difference up next year as they will likely be in the Conference league at best. If through some unbelievable means, we do open the purse strings and we do massively improve the scouting and transfer strategy (unlikely), we will struggle to attract decent prospects. I fear the ship has sailed and even if both the board and DD are replaced (unlikely), it will still take a few years to catch back up with the current trajectory we are on.
With fans and board separation as big as ever in the last 20 years and the players not playing for any of the three managers we have had this season, it’s only going to get worse.
PeaceLoveCurrySauce on
Mad that they are a summer league as well
MrCondor on
That’s only this year, we won’t have any European money to speak of next year either.
Didn’t spend in the summer/winter to strengthen and will have cost the club over £100m in revenue over 2 years.
Just watch how quick we regress from here because they’re not going to chase CL football and spend the sort of money required to rebuild this squad. Resigned to purgatory for the next 3 or 4 seasons at a minimum.
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We keep using them as an example. They in reality got an easier knockout game than us and we were a kick away from beating bayern just last season. Thats how bad our mismanagement has been this season. One kick away from a knockout win, down to cant beat hibs at home. Bet theyll get picked apart in the summer, and still come back stronger than we can manage, another lesson for us. Crazy.
ok but have you considered that buying a quality striker wouldve cost us like 5 mill more than what we spent on Balikwisha?
I remember being linked with both hauge and Høgh and not paying the money for either, now both are well out of our range because we decided against spending money for decent players
This a why I’ll never understand why people say the board only care about money.
They routinely cost us absurd amounts of money by having less than no ambition
As flawed he is as a player if we’d signed Tounekti in July we’d likely have qualified for the CL *and* ended up paying about half of what we paid for him
It’s so hard to compete though. It’s just impossible.
(We vastly outspent them in the summer as well as taking in significantly more in transfer fees just on one player)
Their record transfer fee paid is about 5 million.
Their record sale is about 15 million.
This team was in a UEL semi final last year, only put out by the eventual winners and they’re now beating last year’s beaten UCL finalists in a UCL knockout tie.
We are a dreadfully ran football club. Bødo’s population is smaller than Hamilton’s and their football team has been wildly successful since 2020. They were promoted back into the Norwegian top flight in 16/17…Knutsen took charge barely two years later and it’s fair to say they’ve done quite well ever since.
4 league titles out of the last 6 and unprecedented progress in European competition.
Wonder if Bodo will keep all 53m in the bank next season though
Before this terrible season, Celtic were arguably on par or better than most of the teams from position 24 down. Those teams have earned an advantage of between €21-€50 million and right now Celtic don’t even look like they will make that difference up next year as they will likely be in the Conference league at best. If through some unbelievable means, we do open the purse strings and we do massively improve the scouting and transfer strategy (unlikely), we will struggle to attract decent prospects. I fear the ship has sailed and even if both the board and DD are replaced (unlikely), it will still take a few years to catch back up with the current trajectory we are on.
With fans and board separation as big as ever in the last 20 years and the players not playing for any of the three managers we have had this season, it’s only going to get worse.
Mad that they are a summer league as well
That’s only this year, we won’t have any European money to speak of next year either.
Didn’t spend in the summer/winter to strengthen and will have cost the club over £100m in revenue over 2 years.
Just watch how quick we regress from here because they’re not going to chase CL football and spend the sort of money required to rebuild this squad. Resigned to purgatory for the next 3 or 4 seasons at a minimum.