The Celtic Legal team are holding back on Collective Minutes

Celtic’s Legal Team are sitting waiting to approve the Minutes of a meeting with a group of fans led by the recently formed Celtic Fans Collective.

George Campbell carries the title of being Celtic’s Head of Legal and Governance. Two working days after the meeting ended he has still to give his approval to two sets of Minutes that have been forwarded by the Collective.

The broad gist of the meeting is widely available online. At lunchtime on Tuesday the Collective sent out a tweet reporting on the overall tone of the meeting, at 5.40pm Celtic put out a very different view of how the meeting progressed.

ACSOM AT MEETING

At 44 minutes on ACSOM today Martin joined the conversation, like Paul John Dykes he was at Monday’s meeting.

Both were underwhelmed by the ‘actions’ of Michael Nicholson and Chris McKay, effectively they sounded like they had rehearsed the tone of the infamous September 6 statement.

Other than fan engagement and communications it seems everything at Celtic is world class. Just as the CEO revealed in June 2023 in his only ever media conference.

49 minutes

Martin from the Collective

So so both parties John (Yogi Junior) had minute takers, we had somebody who has pulled together minutes from our perspective and the club had someone from their Legal team taking minutes from their perspective.

We’ve sent over a version they’ve sent over a version. We’ve since amended that this morning and sent it to their head of Legal just before lunchtime today. I’d expect a response this afternoon. I think both parties appreciate the urgency behind it.

We’re quite keen to get it turned around, but equally, you know, it’s got to be ,they’ve got to be accurate and full.

Yogi Jnr: And did they object to a recording being made or was that asked?

I don’t think it was actually asked. I think, this is just a personal thing. I I don’t think it would have been wise to do a recording because I think they would have automatically went into like safeguard mode and would have probably held back. I don’t know if you get the full benefit of meeting.

I think they would have been just known sort of the characters we’re dealing with. I think they would have been really nervous about that and it would maybe have been a bit a waste of time in the end anyway, but I don’t know if we’d get much out it that way.

PROBLEM AREAS

Having seen the leaked version of the meeting and the tweet released by the Collective it is fairly clear the problem areas.

The cover up over the senior figures speaking to Roger Hannah of The Sun is very unconvincing.

In the September 6 statement Celtic rambled into claims about Financial Sustainability Regulations restricting transfer activity.

Clearly that doesn’t apply to the most profitable and profit driven club in UEFA.

At the meeting ‘European tax laws’ was pushed as a reason for another horrific transfer window led by Nicholson.

When you pay over £500,000 a year to your Chief Financial Officer there shouldn’t be any little surprises uncovered.

Other clubs across Europe from Copenhagen and Brugge through to Bodo Glimt seem to cope.

If European tax laws are too much for McKay bring in a world class accountant to take his place.

The longer that the club sits on the Minutes the more suspicious they look. Hopefully it won’t be a time-span similar to the July 2024 Fans Survey.

Just because you get the wrong answers doesn’t mean that you can’t publish.

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