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I hope he does well but the comments on the Celtic forums are pretty bad: https://kerrydalestreet.co.uk/adam-idah-fishal-signed-on-loan-t141667-s360.html "woeful" "a lot to be desired." "Big praise for putting away those two spot kicks, but he was awful. Worrying."

This thread is so awful and laced with vitriol and jealousy that I've felt compelled to log in. Why so many neative comments for a fan who's clearly committed to the club, put on some great watchalongs during the pandemic and has provided decent content since. And for those asking why it's newsworthy? Local news akways tries to find an angle on a national story; there's just not enough content without it so this sort of story with case study who's documenting everything for you in perfect. Some people need to get a fking life.

I'm not sure this is a terribly good take I'm afraid. A career in football means you forsake some things in "away from football." It's the same as being in the army or any number of careers. There are certain things you can't do until that part of your career is over. Such as having a podcast. Those limitations are there (and often in their contracts) for very good reasons which I would have thought would be incredibly obvious. Sorry, if they're a little bored in the evening but there are plenty of other hobbies without associated risks that I'm sure the club fully sanction and are supportive of.

All well and good but things like unfollowing the club across social media smacks of petulant behaviour. I think it’s understandable that fans might look at that through the prism of the season and draw their own conclusions.

Where do you see the goals coming from?

This is bonkers. As long as it's not personal there's nothing wrong with fair criticism. You think the pundits on Match of the Day only say how fantastic players are in teams occupying the relegation zone? He is paid a fortune, commanded the 7th highest transfer fees in the club's history and is playing extremely poorly. It is absolutely fair that fans on a discussion forum can debate his performance and whether he should be in the team.

That's all true but half a season has shown he's simply not good enough at this level. He should be dropped and given some time in u-23s to regain confidence before we give him a run out in the Championship next season.

The club's model is to buy younger often unknown players or players who are undervalued following a relegation and sell on for higher price. It's a gamble. Sometimes it works (Buendia) and sometimes it doesn't. Webber was a 'genius' because Buendia was a decent replacement for Maddison. This time is hasn't worked. None of the new recruits are upgrades on what we've lost, particularly in Buendia and Skipp. If we get promoted again following this season's relegation we'll do the same: buy cheap, unknown players and hope they can be developed and eventually sold for a decent profit. If a few come good we'll be talking about how Webber is a genius once more. If we get duds then we'll just repeat and go again.

Every single player we've released or loaned out over previous couple of seasons (Vrancic, Trybull, Leitner, Drmic, Hernandez, Stiepermann, Jerome) would improve this team.

Prediction: Cantwell - desperate to play against Ronaldo - suddenly recovers and makes starting XI.

No, he's Argentinian.

Best kit the club has released in years

This thread is a little embarassing. Way to advertise you don't really understand the issue.

I can only speak for myself but this has nothing to do with the sale of Emi. Whether you like it or not we market ourselves as a family club. Having a betting company as a shirt sponsor is far from ideal for what I would hope are obvious reasons. I know a number of people who have got into serious financial difficulty as a result of addiction. However, this is the real world and betting companies offer a lot of money. What we seem to have done here though is not just take sponsorship from a betting company but take sponsorship from a particularly seedy one. Their social media was only photos of John Terry, RvP and a load of scantily clad women. It just looked...cheap. For me, that's the difference between this sponsor and the last one. As many people have pointed out surely someone looked at their social media and thought "Hmmm maybe these guys don't fit with the club's DNA." I find it incredibly hard to believe there wasn't another sponsor offering a similiar amount of money that was more appropriate. I also would have thought you'd sell more shirts with (for example) Lotus on the front as opposed to BK8.

It's quite bizarre that so many people are failing to see why this isn't great.