One match does not prove that a club’s entire strategy has failed. But two decades of abject failure, losing to teams that we should be playing off the park, exposes the total incompetence of the Celtic Board.
The Celtic Academy doesn’t produce footballers, the club doesn’t communicate with anti-establishment fans, the facilities at Celtic Park are from a previous century.
Michael Nicholson has admitted that he can't cope with agents!For the CEO of a football club it is quite a big drawback.Like a taxi driver that struggles to deal with traffic. Or a chef that has multiple food allergies.Nicholson's qualifications as a joke figure increase every time he is taken…
Typically O’Neill has decided to protect his CEO, blaming himself for the delay in appointing his trusted assistants. Not every fan will accept his explanation.
No big deal you might think but when they run their holidays back-to-back at a club as dysfunctional as Celtic it becomes a big issue.
Celtic are in exactly the opposite position. They have no plans to invest the income over the year back into the club. Generating profit resulting in Corporation Taxed seems to be the target.
On all known form Celtic will spend some of the money raised from the sale of players. The £70-90m in the bank won’t be touched.
Dermot Desmond, Peter Lawwell and Michael Nicholson see things very differently. A transfer window is the chance to sell off performing players, bank a profit and hope for the best with some project signings from trusted sources.
Celtic have just written off £1m by releasing Stephen Welsh from his contract. There would be change out of £1m if that figure was used to pay Fotheringham and Maloney for one season.
This weekend Celtic could be back to square one if O’Neill and Keane decide that it’s not in their best interests to manage such a dysfunctional club.