‘About time this parasite was challenged’ ‘Get him tellt’ ‘Right time, right place’ Celtic fans react to Lawwell’s Calm Doon incident

Twitter users were quick to back the Celtic fans that questioned Peter Lawwell on the club’s disastrous transfer window and the failings of the so-called strategy.

That policy seems to be to provide the playing squad with the minimal investment to stay ahead of their O** F*** business partners while sending the bank balance through the £100m mark. In the year to June 2023 Celtic’s biggest single expense was the £8m send to HMRC in Corporation Tax while rookies were being sent off in the Champions League then allowing Phil Clement’s side reaching top spot in the SPFL before they crumbled.

Lawwell and his cronies had been dropped off outside the St Mirren Stadium in a luxury Parks of Hamilton coach ahead of the 12 noon kick-off with Matt O’Riley missing from the Celtic side as he completes his move to Brighton.

It is a transfer that has been obvious since bids were made by Inter Milan and Atletico Madrid in January, in trademark Lawwell fashion there has been no succession planning with just five days left to scramble around in the transfer market to see who Barcelona and Manchester City have no need for in the season ahead.

While Michael Nicholson is now picking up the CEO salary that he was groomed for Celtic fans know that every decision at the club has the stamp of Lawwell all over it.

In the summer of 2021 Ange Postecoglou and his agent Frank Trimboli showed how easy it is to attract ready made first team players to Celtic that can be sold for a profit while delivering success.

Postecoglou had a plan, over the last three summers Celtic have had the carrot of guarantee Champions League football but the decline in recruitment can be traced back to the appointment of Mark Lawwell as Head of Recruitment, that was followedsix months later by Daddy’s official return as Chairman in July 2023.

After bringing in Liel Abada, Carl Starfelt, Kyogo Furuhashi, Josip Juranovic, Joe Hart, Giorgos Giakoumakis, Jota and Cameron Carter-Vickers the Ange Experiment delivered Reo Hatate, Daizen Maeda, Yosuke Ideguchi on December 31, followed two weeks later by Matt O;Riley.

Chairman Lawwell sold Juranovic and Giakoumakis in his first window back, with O’Riley almost a Brighton player the quality of the park has been converted onto the Balance Sheet beloved by all accountants.

The recent rapid reaction to an article on The Celtic Blog shows that Lawwell is very sensitive to criticism, he is aware that there is a world outside of the fawning content on CQN and ‘opinion pieces’ served up by his media messengers which generally include the moonbeam of how he turned down jobs at Arsenal and Liverpool to dedicate himself to Celtic.

From yesterday’s video it seems that Lawwell sought out the supporters standing outside the St Mirren Stadium, they didn’t get in his way or confront him as he made his way in the front door to the warmth of the Directors Room and first class hospitality.

Rather than offering any answers or solutions to a Recruitment set up that Brendan Rodgers considers isn’t fit for purpose Lawwell did what comes easiest to him and that is talk down, twice saying Calm Doon emphasises by his hand movements before walking away.

While face to face the video picks up no bad language. As the former CEO walks away the word ‘arsehole’ is heard. Anyone that has had the misfortune to spend time in Lawwell’s company will know that he uses much stronger language than that.

After the win over St Mirren Rodgers spoke out more directly than ever about the failings of Recruitment in a club Lawwell shaped for 17 years before his prodigy Michael Nicholson took charge.

With his appointments at every level throughout the club Celtic works in the image of Peter Lawwell.

This week will underline that issue more than ever, only a fool would bet on Celtic not recording another transfer window surplus followed by the usual hard luck stories of complications and difficulties in the marketplace with lessons to learn.

In the Interim Accounts published at the end of February Lawwell admitted that the January Transfer Window is notoriously difficult, it seems that those issues have been transferred through to June, July and August on his watch.