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Published Date: 25 June 2009
Celtic assistant manager Mark Venus will forego Champions League football this season in order to get the right players into the club.
The new Hoops' management team of Venus, manager Tony Mowbray and first-team coach Peter Grant are already preparing for their first Champions League qualifier on July 28 or 29, which comes before the Clydesdale Bank Premier League season begins on August 15.

Celtic will be without key man Shunsuke Nakamura who is to join Espanyol, and there are doubts over the futures of midfielder Paul Hartley and striker Jan Vennegoor of Hesselink, who are both out of contract.

Skipper Stephen McManus will miss the start of the season as he recovers from a knee injury and midfielder Scott Brown is a doubt with an ankle problem.

However, Venus, speaking to the media at Celtic's Lennoxtown training centre, claimed there will be no panic buying over the next few weeks.
He said: "Obviously we have lost a couple of players and we will be trying to bring players in.

"Who they are and where they are, I don't know.

"Personally, and this is me speaking, I don't care how long it takes to bring people into this football club.

"If we have to miss the Champions League qualifier, the bottom line is, I'd like to think we will manage this football club for a lot of years and I'd like to think the players we are going to bring to this club are going to stay with us for a couple of years.

"So I would not want to panic into bringing in a footballer to do a job on the 27th of July when I might regret bringing him in for the next four years.

"We have to bring in the players who we think are right."

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  • Last Updated: 25 June 2009 2:39 PM
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Brown Dirt Cowboy,

St.Andrews 25/06/2009 15:28:30
Like the thinking here. No point in banging the heads against a brick wall. Let's take the time and get the right people place. No 1 priority, as always is the SPL title...anything else is a bonus.
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Daillyman,

25/06/2009 18:00:54
It is a well and good saying you will take your time and build a side. I think that kind of mentality may work with other sides and that supporters will give the management team some slack if results dont pan out.

With the OF, both sets of supporters demand instant success(does not always happen) and trophies at the end of the season. Should things not go well for TM at Parkhead and the Gers win the SPL again (race will be close again) I dont think the supporters at Parkhead will be clapping the tic off the park on the last day of the season for having played "good football", as the WBA fans did this year on relegation day.
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Private Pike,

25/06/2009 19:35:15
#3,#7,#9.
Your ignorance is shining through as usual. You don't have a clue about Mowbray do you?

The one thing that will be apparent immediately with him in charge is the football that Celtic will play. There will be an instant transformation.

The managers you're used to are only as good as the players they sign for big money.

What is different with Mowbray is that he can use the players you already have and make them into a far better team. Strachan couldn't, MON was a joke in that regard. Walter Smith tries but isn't that great at it. Mowbray is outside your recent experience.

OF supporters haven't a clue. You've shown it over Tony Mowbray.
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Daillyman,

25/06/2009 20:21:48
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"Ignorance" Smell the coffee PP.

There was no slagging of TM in my post @7.. My point is that OF supporters demand success immediately.

TM has had his sides play decent football, if CFC play good football and come up empty at the end of the season when it comes to silverware, will that be enough to satisfy the supporters?
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Dún Aenghus,

25/06/2009 23:10:20
#32 Aye! Poor auld pundit, Owned again! LOL!
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