The catchy chant that is ‘the Celtic board have got to go’ has been heard ringing around Celtic Park and away venues in recent months, and it’s a sentiment that the overwhelming majority of Celtic supporters will agree with…
Our club has been incompetently run for quite some time now, and it beggars belief that those who operate in the corridors of power of Celtic Park are still receiving their generous annual salaries with perks and bonuses on top.
The shambles that was the last January transfer window, to the calamity that was the summer one, is now threatening to disrupt the current one, at a time we are in a three way fight for the title. It is utterly unacceptable and should warrant instant dismissal for all involved.
They stabbed Brendan Rodgers in the back for pointing out the obvious – that the Celtic squad in the summer needed strengthening after so many goals had been taken out of the team through the sales of Kyogo (£10m), Nicolas Kuhn (£17m) and Adam Idah (£7m) who were eventually replaced by a project signing from Japan (Shin Yamada), a seldom fit free agent (Kelechi Iheanacho) and Johnny Kenny.
Then then gave Wilfried Nancy his job and that cost us the Premier Sports Cup final against St Mirren, a damaging heavy home defeat in the Europa League against Roma and a dozen valuable Scottish Premiership points losing to Hearts, Dundee United, Motherwell and theRangers.
There is also the slight possibility that our incompetent custodians might pull the proverbial rabbit out of the hat in terms of a ‘marquee’ signing before the window slams shut, but knowing them it would most likely turn out to be a three legged hare.
There’s talk of Arne Engels being sold to RB Leipzig (£12m) and they will be all over that like a rash eyeing another cash windfall and another transfer window when they make a profit.
Even so, if Dermot somehow uses our considerable cash reserves meant for a rain day (£75m) – weather report, it’s flaming pouring down – or even his own wealth (no laughing at the back) to bring in a Robbie Keane type signing, it still wouldn’t change the supporters stance towards the billionaire, and his cronies who are dragging our club down with their sheer incompetence.
Our starting XI against Auchinleck Talbot on Sunday was yet more evidence of their failings. It’s why Brendan Rodgers felt the need to stand down, the total and utter failure to add quality to a side who could achieve so much more. After all it’s only just under a year ago we went toe to toe with Bayern Munich in the Champions League, and now look where we are.
Hopefully we do add a few more additions to our ailing squad, but even then it’s still too late for this board. They simply have to be removed. The Non-Execs have been there way to long and bring nothing to the table, they are standing in the way of fresh talent with new ideas and insight. Michael Nicholson is never a Celtic CEO and has done zero to make anyone think that he is deserving of the £750k salary he draws from the club.
Former SPL CEO Roger Mitchell recently described Nicholson as no more than a conveyancing lawyer. Michael Nicholson is a back-room guy, good at contracts but that about it. Why was he ever over promoted to Celtic CEO, a role that requires outstanding leadership and communications skills. They chased Dom McKay after a few weeks in the job, as soon as the previous season’s protests had died down. They even brought Peter Lawwell back as Chairman after he had to resign after the COVID season shambles.
Nicholson got the job because he was inside the tent and incidentally Brendan Rodgers lost his because he was reluctant to put the board before the club. He wouldn’t toe the line and he wanted the best possible Celtic team on the park so that we could compete in European football.
At the AGM (baby Desmond’s statement) and in other pronouncements, ie Lawwell’s retirement address, the fact that we merely qualified for Europe is now being sold as a success story. Gaslighting the support might work on some but not many.
As the catchy chant says, ‘The Celtic Board has got to go, the Celtic Board has got to go…”
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They can get to f#ck and when they get there they can get to f#ck again!
Rodgers should have been sacked on the spot for
failing to get a squad of Scottish champions past a
Kazakstani pub team by comparison.
Fuck Brendan Rodgers and his apologists.
As for the board, DD will be the one to wield the scythe.
You can’t always get what you want and the movement
to ‘sack the board’ is cringey and reeks of fuckwittery.
There has to be a viable alternative in place and whatever
the ringleaders’ fantasies of a soclialist fans’ collective
getting charge of the country’s biggest football club,
that’s not going to happen. We’re not St.Pauli.
There also HAs to be a main market-reputable figure in
command for the sake of Celtic Plc. And like it or not, DD
has major traction in financial circels as far as that’s
concerned. There is NOBODY else with his clout who has
sympathies towards celtic football club, like it or not.
I’m getting fed up with the wipeout narrative and no proposed
solution. It will be a case of better the devil you know – DD and
baby DD disposing of Nicholson at least, maybe one or two
others for show and then hiring closer to home;
they’ll go with known entities for company shares’ stability and
all fans can hope for is that the new hired guns are capable of
doing the job because the ‘new’ board’s loyalties will be with DD
more than ever.
This is a ‘fight’ that was over soon as the AGM descended
into a barny instead of a calculated evisceration by surgical,
structured questioning, and the board circled the wagons.
We may have the numbers but they have the guns, and that’s
all that matters in the business of modern day football.