One of them is has 94 full international caps from a career where he played 500 matches for Benfica, AC Milan and Fiorentina. The other is apparently a leading Scottish sports lawyer.
Critically the ground was laid for signing Daizen Maeda and Reo Hatate before McKay mysteriously left on September 10. He delivered the Gold Standard in transfer windows. Highlighted by every transfer window conducted by Nicholson.
Jordan Lotomba was given 10 minutes at Ibrox and lived up to the billing given to him by Feyenoord fans. Tony Ralston has came off the bench in the two defeats since.
Celtic have too often appeared to operate according to the preferences of Dermot Desmond rather than the requirements of a major European football club.
Temporary solutions have become permanent strategies. The overwhelming impression is not of a club relentlessly pursuing excellence, but of a club repeatedly choosing the safety of control over the risks required for genuine progress.
Will he want to sit down and plan his strategy with a CEO who had to leave the room to get permission to spend another £100,000 to recruit Luke McCowan?
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.