Given his recent run of decision making whenever the current CEO chooses to publish the Annual Report is bound to be swamped by another backlash against the club leaders.
With Celtic fans demonstrating against the club directors at Kilmarnock today Peter Lawwell decided to give the match a miss.It is the second successive fixture that the club Chairman has missed, he failed to turn up at Ibrox two weeks ago for the Glasgow Derby and hasn’t been seen in…
Braga visit Celtic Park on Thursday October 2 at 5.45pm, Season Ticket holders can ensure that they are at that match and the three others for only £140, that is £35 a match for a competition that the first team squad is badly under strength for.
As if using The Sun newspaper to attack former Liverpool manager Brendan Rodgers wasn’t bad enough, the Celtic CEO managed to put out a Saturday night statement that took “Rolling A Jobby In Glitter” to unprecedented new heights.
What is that strategy? In order to make life as easy as possible for next season’s in-house manager the last thing that is needed is Brendan Rodgers leaving in a blaze of glory, of trophies and European progress.
A trip to Ibrox is normally one of the diary highlights of the year for the Celtic executives, today they could have met up with Andrew Cavenagh and the new owners of the Tribute Act formed by Charles Green in 2012.
For now, domestic dominance continues to mask these flaws. But as the new Champions League format ratchets up both the financial rewards and the competitive bar, Celtic’s model will face its most severe test. In Kazakhstan it was exposed and failed miserably.
The Board recognises the inherent inefficiencies of holding excess cash, and, in conjunction with other cash commitments, the importance of investing in strengthening the team to deliver football success.