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"He's Got To Go!" | Celtic crash out of the Champions League - Who is to blame?

20 Minute Tims

James Flynn

Sports, Celtic, Soccer, News, Celtic Fans, Sports News

4.9899 Ratings

🗓️ 27 August 2025

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

Welcome to the ad free advance release of episode #439 of TMT


•The gamble didn't come in - who pays the bill?


•An unacceptable squad puts in an unacceptable performance


•Where do we go from here?


and much more


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0:00.0

Celtic crash out of the Champions League to FC Kairat.

0:20.2

Mistakes have been made on the pitch in the boardroom and by the manager.

0:23.9

A 50 million pound gamble was placed.

0:26.5

It didn't come in.

0:27.9

I'm joined by Merlin Stephen.

0:29.5

Where do we go for here?

0:30.5

Well, we go straight out of the Champions League.

0:32.5

That's exactly where we go, which is frankly disgraceful.

0:36.0

I mean, still just a few minutes on from the final

0:41.2

whistle, the final final whistle after an excruciating night of football, still going to try to come

0:47.3

to terms of what I've just witnessed, if I'm totally honest, if you've come here for sense,

0:50.7

to paraphrase that a Loki meme, you must be truly desperate to come here

0:55.2

for some sensible takes on what we've just witnessed. No, it's a disgrace. An absolute shambles

1:02.8

to not have scored a single goal, to barely even have created a real guilt-edge chance

1:07.9

over two whole games plus extra time against, with all due respect,

1:12.1

the Kazakhstan champions who I, even tonight, was still really confident that Celtic would

1:17.7

beat and it was purely down to the fact that Celtic had to beat them.

1:21.1

Celtic had to flex their financial and experience muscle with their elite manager and their

1:27.1

top class players that we all want

1:28.4

40 million pound for and all that to use that to just just about trundle into the champions

1:34.6

league which is what we've built a reputation on over the last year at least anyway this

1:39.0

whole stuff about how we're establishing ourselves we are progressing as a proper Champions League club. A complete illusion

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