From talking to an agent and someone involved in recruitment at EPL level Nicholson has to put in calls to Peter to steer him through negotiations, sometimes the call has to go to an even higher authority before the current Celtic CEO can sign it off.
That information had to be disclosed by the Auditors in the 2024 Annual Report, every club and agent in the game took note with the consequences to be felt this month and in the summer as attempts are made to clear the highly paid deadwood.
Last night’s 3-3 draw at Dundee led to the inevitable dog-whistle tweet from English, when you have never got close to a decent story in your career Twitter offers the attention that you crave.
Ashley viewed all that and was chased out of town. Militant fans and the media demonised him, campaigns against shop staff on Minimum Wage deals were fawningly covered, if big bad Mike could be ousted and ownership returned to Real Rinjurz men all would be well again in the world.
Almost a fortnight on not a word has been said by the SPFL, SFA, or either club. It seems that their joint commitment to the toxic O** F*** brand comes ahead of everything, even a duty of care to employees.
Willie Collum inherited Aitken as a full time VAR official, he called him out on the first edition of the SFA’s VAR Review show but five months later he is still getting a crucial role in top matches.
The Belgian waffle is getting worse every week. It’s excuse after laughable excuse. Clement had the brass neck to talk about injury problems the other night when Dundee had 10 players out – including arguably their best player in Lyall Cameron.
You can only spin and deny reality so much. A 15 point deficit in January is impossible to avoid created by away form that has yielded 13 points from 11 matches. From 10 away games Celtic have picked up 25 points.
The Clement media conference Bingo Card now includes Celtic alongside injuries, Sports Science, penalty issues, VAR problems and the bizarre need to win more jewels.
In over 20 years as Celtic’s Communications Manager there has never been a suggestion of an English club swooping to take his skillset into the EPL. What he actually brings to the club is hard to define as Celtic’s detractors enjoy open season to attack the club with their special…