Mark Lawwell, Head of First Team Scouting and Recruitment, and Joe Dudgeon, Lead First Team Scout, both resigned yesterday to “pursue other opportunities”. Mark joined from City Football Group (CFG) in May 2022, Joe followed from the same source six months later.
While at CFG, Lawwell was Head of Scouting and Recruitment, responsible for Manchester City, Girona, Ange Postecoglou’s Yokohama and others. The pair worked together for three years at CFG, where Ange bought into Mark’s recruitment and development pathway. Mark then recommended Ange to Celtic.
After his successful first season at Celtic, Ange brought Mark up from Manchester to head Celtic’s recruitment. Plans were cut short when Ange left for Tottenham before the pair set to work in the summer of 2023.
It was clear to many that Brendan Rodgers recruitment methodology was different from Ange’s, while Mark Lawwell’s also differed from Lee Congerton’s, who headed recruitment during Brendan’s first term at Celtic. Lee had worked with Brendan early in their backroom careers at Chelsea and followed him to Leicester in 2019.
Both Lawwell and Congerton suffered some reputational damage among the support during their times at Celtic, although Head of Recruitment is only one piece of the jigsaw. Congerton’s reputation in the game got him the top recruitment job at Atalanta in 2022.
After the work he did at CFG and his transformational time at Celtic through Postecoglou, Mark Lawwell also has significant standing in the game. He will end up back in the English Premier League, where there is a bit of flux at the top end.
City and Chelsea are prodigious hoarders of talent, although he may prefer not to return to City and not be further contaminated by Chelsea. Postecoglou moved for him before and could take him to Spurs. I would keep an eye on Manchester United as a possible destination. Their new controlling shareholder is known to respect the work of CFG and will make changes to the football and recruitment operation.
Liverpool are probably too focused on replacing Klopp than making any further senior changes. There are lots of clubs keen to move up the food chain further down the EPL, who may also move for him. Bookmark me if you think any other scenario is likely. What happens next will be a measure of what walked out the door yesterday.
The January transfer window was described as “disappointing” by Mark’s father, chairman, Peter Lawwell, showing his aptitude for understatement. The manager and recruitment department need to work to the same methodology or we end up with £67m in the bank and spending very little. The frustration would have been palpable.
I think everyone had the best intentions when Brendan joined in the summer and committed to work with the existing recruitment system. The manager must always have the final decision in transfers, but if we do not sign who the recruitment department wants us to sign, those at the top will soon move on.
I doubt we will be able to get Lee Congerton back. Whether you want someone like Lee in to work with Brendan they way they did until 2019 doesn’t matter, it is important that we get someone who operates like that. The manager needs a Head of Recruitment who works the way he does, not the way CFG do. It may not be to your taste, but it’s surely better than rejecting everyone. So nothing to worry about.
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Clunks
You must be in your 50
Rocky .. eye of the tiger
I was born 1970…. suffered the 90s .. the 80s were actually ok
The 2000s … immense
Clunks
That should read your 50’s
1984 Where have all the good men gone and where are all the gods?
Bonnie Tyler – Holding Out For A Hero
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bWcASV2sey0
1983 Someday, love will find you
Journey – Separate Ways (Worlds Apart)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LatorN4P9aA
1976 carry on wayward son, There’ll be peace when you are done
Didnt want to break from the 80’s but then this popped up….
Kansas – Carry On Wayward Son
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2X_2IdybTV0
1981 You take it on the run baby, if that’s the way you want it baby
REO Speedwagon – Take It On the Run
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7Csc6l4QLs
1983 Yeah I love my baby, my heart and soul
Stevie Ray Vaughan – Pride and Joy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0vo23H9J8o8
1983 Floating in the summer sky, Panic bells, it’s red alert
NENA | 99 Red Balloons
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hiwgOWo7mDc
1984 I’ll be coming for your love. OK?
a-ha – Take On Me
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=djV11Xbc914
GFTB
I’ve had a few beers with Lenny 3 or 4 times over the years. He’s a hero you WOULD want to meet. A nicer guy I’ve never met….genuine fella
https://youtu.be/x5gYBBL4rGk?feature=shared
1982 Just like the white-winged dove sings a song
Stevie Nicks – Edge of Seventeen
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UmPgMc3R8zg
1987 I want to run, I want to hide
U2: Where The Streets Have No Name
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3FsrPEUt2Dg
31003 12.59am
I liked your Iwata reference to Neil 👍
Hopefully Iwata is even half as good mate
1983 I’ve travelled the world and the seven seas
Eurythmics, Annie Lennox, Dave Stewart – Sweet Dreams
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qeMFqkcPYcg
1983 She was more like a beauty queen, From a movie scene
LISTEN TO THIS GENIUS, IF YOU LISTEN TO NOTHING, LISTEN TO THIS
James Hill, “Billie Jean” With His Imaginary Band
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2gyxeXW_2T8
I don’t believe James Hill above can be topped
So I will retire
“be careful what you do; because the lie becomes the truth”
Not saw our Melbourne Mick on the blog
But just in case your looking in Mick
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3JrG95HhL2k
Ok, I lied
1982 Meet you all the way
Toto – Rosanna
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qmOLtTGvsbM
was sure it was a studio song, and wouldn’t be able to be replicated live
I stand corrected…..
Toto – Rosanna (Live At Montreux 1991)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0QDB9FtnUM
Just finished the above….
Did they just do that?
Reggie
As for Peter Lawwell, Rangers were going for 4 in a row when they were liquidated. Lawwell’s domestic success is predicated entirely on having no competition
Thats from your post a few days back
Read back.
By all means gnash away on your PL loathing,
Do not blind yourself with it by questioning Celtics achievements.Thats what i am questioning,as i say its a strong school of thought on all hun blogs.if implied here its questioned.
Wee(interview type) question
Your loathings clear,what do you deem his successes?
THEORIGINALSADIESBHOY on 2ND MARCH 2024 11:17 PM
DUSHANBE BHILLY BHOY on 2ND MARCH 2024 6:37 PM
AN TEARMANN on 2ND MARCH 2024 6:03 PM
Reggie,your farting,you wrote
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“You’re”….. not “your”.
Appalling English grammar.
If Carlsberg did hypocrisy.
P.S Please stop bulling Reggie.
…………………….
Lol. I stopped correcting other people’s spelling errors years and years ago. It is an absolute certainty that when you do so you will make one of your own. 🤣
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Dushanbe Bhilly Bhoy
Dae ah get the belt fur that?
Or 50 lines…
I must not make a cut of myself!
MissedletterCsc.
Now read TOSB post again DBB.:-)
It is quite funny and true.
HH
Arpegiator JMJ 1982
https://youtu.be/LzAui_gcdhM?si=mJTUnWDju2B7cBeF
Japan All tomorrows Parties 1979
https://youtu.be/ZuP4Rknvnu8?si=5yG371l_40gYHSn-
Night cqn
Hart
Johnston CCV Scales Taylor
Iwata
Bernardo Matt
Maeda Idah Yang
(If Cal is injured)
If Callum is fit just put him & Kyogo in … it’s when we were wee just pick the first 11 best players stuff the rest
🍀🍀🍀
“Buttered Sausage”……….
:)))))))))))))))))))))
Well that was a nice wee surprise, eh?!
It’s in our hands Bhoys. Would love to see a very thorough humblin’ of thon wee nasty aryan but any win will do.
HHH.
Reggie…
Saw you getting a hard time of it yesterday, hope it doesn’t put you off posting, you make some very good points.
A lot of politics going on inside Celtic Park with the hiheidyins at the moment and this self-seeking and divisive behaviour is damaging all aspects of our Club.
Good fholk just trying to advance a view or opinion, or God forbid, a fact – that does not fit the narrative on Peter Lawwell some wish to promote.
Adherents often use bully bhoy tactics, intimidation yet the give away is fear, most often is… weaponised fear rather than facts and logic supporting a dialogue.
Examples…
If it wasn’t for PL we would be a financial basket case and would have done a Rangers, his financial control is key to our survival.
If we invested in the team for European qualification, we would still likely fail to qualify and would lose the money.
We need a rainy day fund to ensure the Club is not driven down by unseen events.
We need funds so if Sevco Rangers get close to winning a league we can invest money in the team and motor ahead of them.
Lots of great reasons for hoarding money, all of them built on fear… none of them stood up to reality…
When we eventually invested in the football team by getting Brendan Rodgers and his staff in, we did qualify for the UCL and made more revenue and added more value to the Club
When Covid hit, our superior financial position didn’t help at all, we had a torrid time, and told long term season ticket holders, no matter your financial situation during the pandemic, you will cough up for your SB or you will lose your seat.
When Sevco Rangers began to show some form under Steven Gerrard, we threw money at the team, over 30 mn for players, Sevco still ruined our TIAR.
The cult of Lawwell is a myth.
There is no twenty years of domination; an argument for twenty four yes, a good argument for twelve, but not twenty, there is no man with the midas touch.
The blog even unconconciously bows to this narrative and revionism.
Let me give an example from youself…
REGGIE @ 6:46 PM,
“What has Peter Lawwell got to do with Martin O’Neill?
Strachan fair enough his appointment.
At that time (and ever since) Peter Lawwell’s role was an Iron fist, financial controller, it was what the Celtic Board wanted at that time and with good reason.
They had gambled on getting into the EPL and it hadn’t worked out, yes we could go toe to toe with England’s finest, yet with the SKY cash they were receiving, that was just a short term possibility.
With the old firm out in the cold as far as SKY and the EPL were concerned, the medium and long term prospects looked bleak and certainly Celtic’s spend and debt levels were unsustainable.
Yet, it was Dermot Desmond and Brian Quinn that called the shots in those days, funds drying up for MO’N, Gordon Strachan as his replacement, working on a tighter budget, that was DD & BQ’s call.
Tony Mowbray was Peter Lawwell’s first managerial appointment as CEO.
Peter Lawwell was part of a “C” Suite team with an interesting dynamic,
Yet to furnish him with every success since 2003 and excuse him of every failing is abject nonsense.
We had our business model sorted and in place before he arrived, we had Rangers on the run before he arrived, we were punching our weight in Europe before he arrived.
Forget Peter Lawwell, he’s a side show, his legacy will be written by unbiased Celtic historians in the future and not his heavily influenced acolytes.
Hail Hail
It’s being going on for years, adherents often using bully bhoy tactics, intimidation yet they have had poor arguments, difficult to support with logical and factual debate – the giveaway is fear it often is
If it wasn’t for PL we would be a financial basket case and done a Rangers
If we invested in the team for European qualification, we still might have failed to qualify and would lose money.
If we don’t have
None of these fears came to pass, they rarely do
When we invested in the football team by getting Brendan Rodgers and his staff in, we did qualify for the UCL and made more revenue and added more value to the Club
When Covid hit, our superior financial position didn’t help at all, we had a torrid time, and told long term season ticket holders, no matter your financial situation during the pandemic, you will cough up for your SN, no matter, you can’t come to Celtic Park or you will lose your seat.
When Sevco Rangers began to show some form under Steven Gerrard, we threw money at the team, over 30 mn for players, Sevco still ruined our TIAR.
Of course there are arguments both ways, of course and Peter Lawwell had his strengths and weaknesses.
Yet you make some fine points, they are valid
The cult of Lawwell is a myth.
There is no twenty years, there is no man with the midas touch.
Last week I posted how the Fergus revolution, lead to the MO’N resurgence that if we had the GoD, that was the reason.
it’s got to the stage where real reform is well overdue and restructuring will take place.
What you and many others are facing on the forum is displaced billigerence as their situation gets more desperate.
The blog even unconconciously bows to this narrative and revionism.
Let me give an example from youself…
REGGIE @ 6:46 PM,
“What has Peter Lawwell got to do with Martin O’Neill?
Strachan fair enough his appointment.
Peter Lawwell was an Iron fist and financial controller, it was what the Celtic Board wanted at that time and with good reason.
They had gambled on getting into the EPL and it hadn’t worked out, yes we could go toe to toe with England’s finest, yet with the SKY cash they were receiving, that was just a short term possibility.
With the old firm out in the cold as far as SKY and the EPL were concerned, the medium and long term prospects looked bleak and certainly Celtic’s spend and debt levels were unsustainable.
Yet, it was Dermot Desmond and Brian Quinn that called the shots in those days, funds drying up for MO’N, Gordon Strachan as his replacement, working on a tighter budget, that was DD & BQ’s call.
Tony Mowbray was Peter Lawwell’s first managerial appointment as CEO.
Peter Lawwell was part of an “C” Suite team with an interesting dynamic,
Yet to furnish him with every success since 2003 and excuse every failing is abject nonsense.
We had our business model sorted and in place before he arrived, we had Rangers on the run before he arrived, we were punching our weight in Europe before he arrived.
Forget Peter Lawwell, he’s a side show, his legacy will be written by unbiased Celtic historians and not his heavily influenced acolytes.
Hail Hail
Great Day To A Tim…
Remember, only a fool would predict a Motherwell result;)
Us, we go to Tynecastle
The team purring like a finely tuned Rolls Royce
A win sees us top of the League and a goal difference deficit squashed.
Hearts 1 – 4 Celtic
COYBIG
Hail Hail
Apologies for the mess of a post – CHAIRBHOY @ 5:48 AM, l…
Mod – Please delete
Pressed post comment too soon, three hoursctoo soon, itvis early Sunday morning…
Reggie…
Saw you getting a hard time of it yesterday, hope it doesn’t put you off posting, you make some very good points.
A lot of politics going on inside Celtic Park with the hiheidyins at the moment and this self-seeking and divisive behaviour is damaging all aspects of our Club.
Good fholk just trying to advance a view or opinion, or God forbid, a fact – that does not fit the narrative on Peter Lawwell some wish to promote get targeted.
Adherents often use bully bhoy tactics, intimidation yet the give away is fear, most often is… weaponised fear rather than facts and logic supporting a dialogue.
Examples…
If it wasn’t for PL we would be a financial basket case and would have done a Rangers, his financial control is key to our survival.
If we invested in the team for European qualification, we would still likely fail to qualify and would lose the money.
We need a rainy day fund to ensure the Club is not driven down by unseen events.
We need funds to ensure if Sevco Rangers get close to winning a league we can invest money in the team and motor ahead of them.
Lots of great reasons for hoarding money, all of them built on fear… none of them stood up to reality…
When we eventually invested in the football team by getting Brendan Rodgers and his staff in, we did qualify for the UCL and made more revenue and added more value to the Club
When Covid hit, our superior financial position didn’t help at all, we had a torrid time, and told long term season ticket holders, no matter your financial situation during the pandemic, you will cough up for your SB or you will lose your seat.
When Sevco Rangers began to show some form under Steven Gerrard, we threw money at the team, over 30 mn for players, Sevco still ruined our TIAR.
The cult of Lawwell is a myth.
There is no twenty years of domination; an argument for twenty four yes, a good argument for twelve, but not twenty, there is no man with the midas touch.
The blog even unconconciously bows to this narrative and revionism.
Let me give an example from youself…
REGGIE @ 6:46 PM,
“What has Peter Lawwell got to do with Martin O’Neill?
Strachan fair enough his appointment.
At that time (and ever since) Peter Lawwell’s role was an Iron fist, financial controller, it was what the Celtic Board wanted at that time and with good reason.
They had gambled on getting into the EPL and it hadn’t worked out, yes we could go toe to toe with England’s finest, yet with the SKY cash they were receiving, that was just a short term possibility.
With the old firm out in the cold as far as SKY and the EPL were concerned, the medium and long term prospects looked bleak and certainly Celtic’s spend and debt levels were unsustainable.
Yet, it was Dermot Desmond and Brian Quinn that called the shots in those days, funds drying up for MO’N, Gordon Strachan as his replacement, working on a tighter budget, that was DD & BQ’s call.
Tony Mowbray was Peter Lawwell’s first managerial appointment as CEO.
Peter Lawwell was part of a “C” Suite team with an interesting dynamic,
Yet to furnish him with every success since 2003 and excuse him of every failing is abject nonsense.
We had our business model sorted and in place before he arrived, we had Rangers on the run before he arrived, we were punching our weight in Europe before he arrived.
Forget Peter Lawwell, he’s a side show, his legacy will be written by unbiased Celtic historians in the future and not his heavily influenced acolytes.
Hail Hail
Gooooood matchday morning from a 2 degree Garngad.
Off t o watch grandson play footy then for a bite of breakfast then all back to mine to watch the Famous.
I am going to with 4 – 1 the Tic.
BB – I will definitely be at the next swaree as I do miss all you nutters. Can you tell me about last nights comment about my wife I hope it was meant in jest, although I don’t know why you would go there when we have an alcoholic, maniac slinging abuse at everyones wife on here.
COYBIG
D :)
Big Jimmy – Glad you all enjoyed yourselves I will be definitely at the next one.
Hope you are keeping well Big man, the phone-s situation is a nightmare. Hopefully be sorted in the next fortnight.
Remember if you need anything after Mon or Tuesday you can text me on the any number on a temp basis until I get my own phone back. I will text you on Tuesday to see if you get it.
D. :)
Top of the morning bhoys and ghirls from a dry mild and calm G74😎
It looks like a lovely day for footy and for our Brendan and the team to continue there fine form and give us a few goals and a good victory today.
✌️
⚽️⚽️⚽️🍀
Can’t wait for the game coybig
in the meantime season 2 Reacher
Guardian interview eith ghe King of Kings
https://www.theguardian.com/football/2024/mar/03/henrik-larsson-i-have-106-caps-for-sweden-but-i-see-myself-as-foreign?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
Jack Ross was at Lennoxtown a couple of weeks ago, gets on well with Brendan, new Chief Scout or Director of Football?
“I had an opportunity to go to Manchester United in the 1990s from Celtic. I would have earned more, maybe £10,000 or £15,000 a week more. But I had just come off three and a half years at Feyenoord where it had been up and down. I had just found my feet [at Celtic] and I wanted to go on with that. We’d played in the Uefa Cup, I played for Sweden, I didn’t feel I needed to go somewhere else. I didn’t become a superstar at Barcelona, I became a superstar at Celtic.”
Henrik
Gosh – those that would denigrate The Dear Green Place just can’t keep away , apparently.
Bumptious Bevvy Merchants CSC
and as for those who indulge the many-heidit hydra???
Dearie-Me. CSC
in ither news “Any Win Will Do” CSC
In other ither news………………
Mr Hills_hAve-Eyes?
Should Benfica do thum badly ( fingers’n’toes crossed) and then Hibs nick points off thum, he will be “explaining” complext long-term tactical strategems to mouth-breathing currants from a shrubbery in no time at all……….
Please do it Celtic……
Trying Hard Not To Gloat CSC