Ange Postecoglou, by his own words, worked closely with Mark Lawwell during his time at City Football Group’s Yokohama F. Marinos and had a big influence in the appointment of our new Head of First Team Scouting and Recruitment.
The tie goes deeper, though. It was Mark Lawwell, who a year ago, told his closest contact at Celtic about an Australian he knew that was working in Japan and who would be a far better appointment than Eddie Howe.
The then incoming chief exec was understandably cautious about taking this recommendation, preferring to wait for Howe, a known entity. When that line of pursuit was no longer open, the club took Mark Lawwell’s recommendation. It was a radical decision and a huge risk, made at a time when two chief execs were in the building, with differing views.
The relationship between manager, head of scouting and chief exec can make or break a club. They flourish whenever all three are working in sync. On that basis, I’m encouraged by where we are ahead of the summer transfer window.
Uefa’s news yesterday, that Russian clubs will not participate in European football next season, confirmed that the cinch Scottish Premiership champions will gain automatic entry to the Champions League group stage. We will talk more about what this means financially to the club at the appropriate time. What you can be sure of is that a budget spreadsheet at Celtic Park has been updated, the recruitment team has been assembled and there is a clear sense of ambition at the club.
If Mark Lawwell’s player recommendations are half as good as his managerial suggestion, we can look forward to an interesting season.
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JHB on 3RD MAY 2022 3:10 PM
No one on the outside knows how Celtic is run, all the conjecture is composed to fit personal bias & agenda – no proof whatsoever! Where there is proof it shows a successful & well managed club. Noises-off are an irrelevance.
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It is actually quite clear how Celtic is run. It is run on the Desmond/Lawwell agenda of profit/bonus/dividend.
Successful in our own tiny pond, absolutely, but a complete irrelevance on the European stage. The basket case of a club across the river appear to have no such problems.
Off the park, more games than ever being sold out, but no chance whatsoever of the 51 year old main stand being upgraded on Dermot Desmond’s watch. Clubs throughout Europe upgrading their facilities, clubs with ambition and a growth agenda (copyright MM). But not down Kerrydale Street.
Board Loyalists and Board Sceptics will just have to agree to disagree. Not being liquidated is not a badge of honour.
Kenny, Burnley, Lemon
SFTB,
To The Mad One,
The notes are all there,but not neccesarily in the right order.
Morecambe and Wise.
Burnley
Bobby Lennox
From recruitment,to,building a new stand.
Small rest required until Saturday.Only from here,busy socially.
Should try it,Mad One.
JHB on 3RD MAY 2022 1:36 PM…….
Someone mentions dynasty and everyone and their dog joins in – pathetic.
Once minute some are licking Ange’s backside, the next vitually calling him a liar, because he backs this appointment.
The hatred of the Lawwell name by some is sickening and un-Celtic like.
Of course it is only the on-line fraternity that are lit-up and they represent such a tiny fraction of the Celtic support. The only good thing is that maybe we’ll get a break from the ten year old Res 12 nonsense for a while – a pointless & failed crusade drummed-up by folk with too much time on their hands, and of which 99% of supporters don’t even know, or, care, about.
Welcome home Mark!!!!
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Fud.
BHOYJOEBELFAST on 3RD MAY 2022 3:37 PM
Feel free to join in:
King Kenny; Burnley (I was at both games and sure we lost at CP too); Bobby Lennox
SoE @ 3.38
ML gets a job at CFG.
ML’s father as CEO signs off a number of deals where we buy or pay loan fees for a number of said CFG’s stiffs — the good / the bad / the ugly / the lot.
Some amounts of real money change hands — from us to them.
ML still continues to have a job at CFG.
ML’s father moves on and others are given his responsibilities.
ML stops having a job at CFG.
And gains employment at a company where his father still has significant influence.
Not a great look.
At least Jr got a good CV out of it.
You could almost imagine that it had all been planned.
SONSOFERIN on 3RD MAY 2022 3:38 PM
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Agree 100%. Sense & reason are a heady mix.
The Lawwell name is a red rag to a bull for some. Who would they have run the club? – they have no answers. Of course some would like a supporter-run club, but of course what they really mean is joint enterprise between the Trust & the GB….God help us, we’d be reduced to a ‘whelk stall’ in jig-time. It would be a whelk-stall with strong political views operating out of St Roch’s ground…….but there’d not be a Lawwell, or, “suit” on-site, or, in sight.
JHB @ 3pm
“No one on the outside knows how Celtic is run, all the conjecture is composed to fit personal bias & agenda”
Not necessarily ` no one` but I agree with the overall sentiment .
CORKCELT on 3RD MAY 2022 1:32 PM
Welcome to Celtic, Mark, You will be judged on your performance,
Best of Luck to you.
………
Seconded
If I could get DD to change one thing it would be to supply our own Bus /buses……
Green with the 3 Adidas stripes (hoops) with Gold wheel trims 🤣🤣🤣
Its simple and its petty…. Much like masel. 😊
Not a fan of Peter as I have said but I think anyone who would state that Ange is some sort of patsy for the board on this clearly underestimates the man.
He is no ones fool and the appointment of Lawwell junior comes with his blessing. It’s not as if the guy has been working at Tesco for three years….
If someone with the background of Mark Lawwell had been appointed by Old Firm FC, the Media would be hailing a sensational capture and many on here would be wondering why Celtic couldn`t have done similar.
I can only think of one reason why his appointment is being so negatively received by some on CQN.
HOT SMOKED @ 4:29
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Yes – perhaps on reflection, almost could/should have been added.
MARSPAPA on 3RD MAY 2022 4:30 PM
I get the feeling that many of those who are aware of Celtic`s bus supplier feel exactly the same.
Maybe a small matter but I feel changing it would replace some bad feeling with some small happiness.
WINNINGEMMELL@4.01
Sometimes the shortest reply lights up a page.
Brilliant
Hail Hail
Stay Safe
“CADDINGTONCOMMON on 3RD MAY 2022 4:38 PM
Sometimes the shortest reply lights up a page.”
….and sometimes they don`t.
Cheerio for now.
John McGlynn leaving Raith Rovers – door ‘wide’-open for Val McDermid( The Retribution beckons). I don’t think she need fear a Leeann Dempster moment as she sweeps-in.
https://youtu.be/K1JUx3diD7w
An upgrade on this….
🤣🤣🤣🤣
Neil Lennon resigns as Celtic manager after…
The tie goes deeper, though. It was Mark Lawwell, who a year ago, told his closest contact at Celtic about an Australian he knew that was working in Japan and who would be a far better appointment than Eddie Howe.
The then incoming chief exec was understandably cautious about taking this recommendation, preferring to wait for Howe, a known entity. When that line of pursuit was no longer open, the club took Mark Lawwell’s recommendation. It was a radical decision and a huge risk, made at a time when two chief execs were in the building, with differing views.
The relationship between manager, head of scouting and chief exec can make or break a club. They flourish whenever all three are working in sync. On that basis, I’m encouraged by where we are ahead of the summer transfer window.
Uefa’s news yesterday, that Russian clubs will not participate in European football next season, confirmed that the cinch Scottish Premiership champions will gain automatic entry to the Champions League group stage. We will talk more about what this means financially to the club at the appropriate time. What you can be sure of is that a budget spreadsheet at Celtic Park has been updated, the recruitment team has been assembled and there is a clear sense of ambition at the club.
If Mark Lawwell’s player recommendations are half as good as his managerial suggestion, we can look forward to an interesting season.
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MCPHAIL BHOY on 3RD MAY 2022 12:02 PM
Hail, hail to the Champions! (elect)
POR CIERTO on 3RD MAY 2022 12:02 PM
Good Luck Mark, in your new position. Always good to have Tims in the right positions, por cierto
POR CIERTO on 3RD MAY 2022 12:05 PM
“A Sense of Ambition” “A generation of Domination” The soundbites had better be spot on this time! :)) por cierto
CELTIC40ME on 3RD MAY 2022 12:07 PM
Interesting insight into and context around the events of last summer.
It looks like we now have a settled and happy team working together at all levels. Its taken a while to get it right but it looks like we’ve got everything in place now.
CELTIC40ME on 3RD MAY 2022 12:09 PM
Just the throw in coach and director of football to come
BIG GEORGES FAN CLUB – HAIL, HAIL, WEE OSCAR on 3RD MAY 2022 12:10 PM
THEBHOYFROMU.N.C.L.E on 3RD MAY 2022 10:37 AM
Will they rename the Broomloan stand……….The Bellend??
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Yer a bad man…
HH
BGFC
SLÁINTE ANGE on 3RD MAY 2022 12:12 PM
WESTCRAIGS on 2ND MAY 2022 11:32 AM
I don’t think ange knows his best 11.
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But I bet you do
HH
BIG GEORGES FAN CLUB – HAIL, HAIL, WEE OSCAR on 3RD MAY 2022 12:17 PM
“…Rangers, and Scottish football as a whole, have lost a legend and a friend today…”
Lost a friend? Huv we?? Aye???
I think I’ll take the advice offered previously – if nothing nice to say, then probably best saying nothing else.
HH
BGFC
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MCPHAIL BHOY on 3RD MAY 2022 12:20 PM
For those of us who have great angst whenever a newspaper has a headline about which Celtic player is leaving and who is going to ‘snub Celtic’ we should all remember that for most newspapers today they only thing they get right is the date at the top. I see on announcing the death of Jimmy Bell, the Sun says he was 69 and the Mail says he was 57, how hard can it be to get even as basic information as a person’s age correct? We can forget any of these newspapers ever having any scoop on Celtic!
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Couldn’t have the men only on the 69 one.
Don’t like to speak ill of the dead but wasn’t a fan of us.
Oops🤷♂️
Burnley won both games 1 nil and 2-1 (Celtic Park)
Yes Bobby Lennox played in both games.
Not KD.
HOT SMOKED on 3RD MAY 2022 4:37 PM
MARSPAPA on 3RD MAY 2022 4:30 PM
I get the feeling that many of those who are aware of Celtic`s bus supplier feel exactly the same.
Maybe a small matter but I feel changing it would replace some bad feeling with some small happiness.
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Celtic could be getting the best deal possible from Park’s. The Board’s fiduciary duty is to get the best deal for shareholders. There again, maybe it is a long-term contract and can’t be broken now – all perfectly plausible & reasonable explanations. Notwithstanding, surely it is ‘small beer’ in the grand scheme of things? It also shows that we are not small minds who knee-jerk!
JHB on 3RD MAY 2022 3:10 PM
No one on the outside knows how Celtic is run
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Including YOU….CHUMP !
Marspapa,
I’m all for your suggestion about the bus(es). Maybe we could get our current sponsors adidas to buy us a couple and bedeck them in green and white stripes.
I think Park’s provide the buses buckshee due to the exposure on the TV
JHB on 3RD MAY 2022 4:44 PM
John McGlynn leaving Raith Rovers – door ‘wide’-open for Val McDermid( The Retribution beckons). I don’t think she need fear a Leeann Dempster moment as she sweeps-in.
Wee bit of britnat misogyny there to go along with,shallow as f.. racism,
Tam,your shite at being contrarian.
Why don’t you post from your uchoob phone ins
Your at your schizo best,wading into lawell,speaking to green brigade,
Now
Your pro dd,pro Peter,and your pish bout the huns,says everything bout you and your unionism,defend every facet of their creationism.
Go on Tommy give your u choob out.
Some of those phone In where classic
Some not mind ye.
‘Ultra’ sensitivity & sactimony…another heady mixture LOL & HH.
Eyes on the prize Ange
I wish the MOD would delete the ODD
JHB
Not only getting our own Bus (keeping me happy 👍)
It would also cut another tie up to “The old fim” ……
As I said its petty I know…
On the finance side, cutting out the wasteful expenditure on players would go along way to solving that problem eg,
Barkas, Mccarthy and Ajjeti to name a few…….
We’ll have a squad to replenish
(4 min imo) with first teamers so a lot more important issues at hand to be dealt with.
Exciting times ahead…..
Hoping ML can use his extensive contacts through the city group. And assuming he’s not only been working with City themselves hopefully he has knowledge and contacts that don’t only suit a UAE or Saudi style budget.
Who his father is, is irrelevant, he’s vastly more qualified than his dad to be having input in who the club sign (although I’m sure his father ran signings past him).
CELTIC’S £40m UEFA GO-AHEAD
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Wonder if that includes the three-ticket package @ circa £100(×60k) & hospitality add-ons…..if not that would nudge things toward c£50m…..wouldn’t it?
CONEYBHOY on 3RD MAY 2022 5:16 PM
I think Park’s provide the buses buckshee due to the exposure on the TV
*Absolutely, plus there’s nae chance the windaes would get panned in either by that scheitdy support that wrecks our ground including lavvies.
I think we should show respect to the Huns’ kit man at the weekend. Instead of a minute’s applause we could all ring a bell. Take along a school bell, a bicycle bell, a door bell and show our appreciation by ringing them. It would be more appropriate…RIP
MARSPAPA @ 5:38
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You make good points – I respect them. In a perfect world we would do everything right – even hindsight would leave us unscathed.
TONTINE TIM on 3RD MAY 2022 5:44 PM
CONEYBHOY on 3RD MAY 2022 5:16 PM
I think Park’s provide the buses buckshee due to the exposure on the TV
*Absolutely, plus there’s nae chance the windaes would get panned in either by that scheitdy support that wrecks our ground including lavvies.
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That’s a fair point. Didn’t they have a ‘battle bus’ that went up in smoke?
Reminds of that spoof disaster movie ‘The Big Bus’