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?
The directors who run Celtic have built a culture where loyalty to each other outweighs loyalty to Celtic. Decisions are made not on merit, not on strategy, not on ambition — but on preserving the hierarchy.
He wouldn’t tick the boxes for Wilfried Nancy or Paul Tisdale but someone inside the club must take responsibility and give Forrest exactly what he wants to add another 12 months of record breaking onto his Celtic CV.
Back in the autumn it was impossible to avoid Lennon as he tore into Brendan Rodgers, sounding almost like Kris Boyd’s long lost cousin.
ACSOM this afternoon shared details of Neil Lennon signing a player that he had never seen or didn't want.Rami Gershon. A left-sided defender signed on loan in January 2013. At that point Celtic had qualified for the last 16 of the Champions League and been drawn against Juventus.
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With the pressure mounting on Rodgers Lennon seemed to be in great demand from broadcasters. There was one message. Everything at Celtic was tailored to success with just the manager falling to deliver.
My view on that is, you think further down the line, there may be high-profile managers who would look at the treatment of Rogers and how vicious that attack was on Brendan Rodgers, and think twice about maybe coming to Celtic and their reputations being damaged if there’s a fallout.
Let’s be absolutely clear: Dermot Desmond is not the owner of Celtic. He’s not the chairman, not the CEO, and not an elected voice of the support. He’s an unelected, unaccountable figure who’s somehow decided that Celtic exists to serve his ego.
Failure born from a decade of short-termism, underinvestment, and a boardroom that treats football as an inconvenience to its balance sheet. This is Celtic.