Work began in 2023 and was expected to be completed in November 2024 to provide a brand new training base for the Academy, Ladies Team and Celtic B squad.
In this day and age of communications people can work remotely but with the start of the SPFL a week away and a Champions League qualifier three matches away Tisdale should be on the job 24/7.
However, if you want to progress, then, as I said, you need to bring in quality and that’s something that we hopefully can do.
Without question commercial matters are essential to the well being of a football club, without shirt sales and all of the associated items Celtic and other clubs would struggle or have to raise ticket prices to retain income levels.
Going to the media isn’t the sort of negotiations that Celtic encourage, it works at other clubs but Celtic prefer silence rather than dealing with agents that like to see their names appear in print.
The influencers had been briefed, Rodgers signings were risky and represented bad value, he should have shown faith in the job-lot of seven projects presented by Mark Lawwell a year earlier.
My dream is to represent this club on a daily basis. There’s so many games at this club and I hope I can break in and get opportunities to do that because that’s all I want to do. It’s such a big club and I want to be part of…
So money will have to be spent on it. And if you wanted to increase it from the current 7,000 up to 12,000 to make it up to 65,000, I suspect the cost is in excess of £100 million at least, at least. And to do that the club can…
Typically the club has decided to keep quiet about the new development but the full size indoor pitch appears to have been ready earlier this year, from the occasional drone reports the site seems to have been completed in May but there hasn’t been a single comment from the club.
Nicholson and the recruitment team have had plenty of notice that Kuhn was leaving, just as they had in January when Kyogo left for Rennes without any genuine attempt at signing a replacement.