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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‘well Clemente, where’s your two penalties?
What a great result last week was! por cierto
Anybody know if Keevins is working today ?.
Hahahahaha..🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
I never want to watch that mob but does anyone know if the +8 mins was legit?
Love it!
Whatever people’s view of Mark Lawwell I think this news plus the Huns dropped points will see a better buzz around the place.
Let’s kick on. Eyes on the prize
Tuned in to Well tv prior to HT best team won but the pen and how Sevco are refereed is disgusting.
TEXASTIM
Nope never 8mins Alan Muir & co at there best.
Dipped into thems media. Need to go and shower now.
“We simply don’t have the mentality to win titles, sad but true. Bottle merchants.”
“They can play 28 minutes injury time. Won’t make any difference.”
“Blaming a referee for this performance is a cop out 100% cop out. They have shat the bed big time.”
“Just feels like a total pendulum swinging result if it stays this way.”
“If it had not been for Butland behind this defence we would not even be in contention.”
Now on to Edinburgh.Dont slip up.
Junior Lawwell out one day, huns lose at home the next.
Synchronicity or something else?
Hmmmmmmm?
Booooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo.
You, fck off, you fck off you fck off !.
Diapers.r.us.
Massive game tomorrow. Come on Celtic x
Well absolutely delighted I was wrong earlier . But they still got there penalty .
Phone in time 🍿 😋
The Huns season about to totally unravel next week.. Benfica Thursday away and away to Hibs on the Sunday! por cierto
Watched their game.Goldson and Soutar,,like Laurel and Hardy whole game.Bair roasted them.The big boy Spittal,terrific today.Excellent player.Any manager watching them today,especially Hibs for next week,should have no fear.
Any win tomorrow Hoops,but 3-0 would be nice.
Absolutely delighted.C’mon the Celts! as my late father would roar.
Just back from out and about with Mrs EKBhoy, had strict observance of radio blackout, to avoid the switch on radio and they score syndrome ; parallel universe theory.
Good to see them running out of steam
But, but, but we had more shots at goal than Motherwell!
LMFAOcsc
£2 at 10-1 on the mothers :)
Reggie you wrote
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.
Utter utter shoite mate.in your loathing of PL you are demeaning Celtics 9iar.
Do remind the blog,which events took place,that resulted in what is colloquially termed-
the shitinoot!,
Or in the business world the global ignomony of Liquidation on 14/6/12.
Ergo Celtics second 9iar is not valid due to cheatin hunnery self harm?…Gtf wi that notion.
Every bit of their journey round the u-bend was due to Sir Hunner of Pence’s cheating hunnery,they own every single bit of chaos that came on them,Sir Hunner of Pence it was who conceived and rolled out as cheatinhun business policy their road to the liquidation.Celtic had nothing to do with their self harm.
As Bada says PL did not play for Celtic
Your assertion is better suited on one of the hun platforms,you read it there often.
If your goin to pick Paul up on semantics get your own English in order.
We won our trophies fair and square,see your pal Minty for explanations as to what exactly happened to them
MAESTRO on 2ND MARCH 2024 5:07 PM
Thanks for the info – felt like my question was rhetorical….
I thought they were unbeatable?
Comments from FF
Absolutely, Dessers is awful, don’t care if he’s been scoring recently, he is rotten, never a rangers player. That big lump up front for them today was far more effective
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Not buying a proper striker in January has cost us big time.
Having said that, it was criminal the number of chances that were missed today.
And of course, Motherwell‘s Tim supporters played like their lives depended on it.
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It was coming. Clement has achieved miracles with what he had on offer. Most games we have never really been convincing, except against Hearts. And Tav has saved us on many occasion. Today we ran out of steam and ideas. ’Well were very organised and surprisingly confident. The first 15 minutes they were all over us. I said at half-time even if we equalise Motherwell had goals in them. And so it proved. In terms of skill and quality we are quite thin on the ground. Today was one step too far for the team. Take it on the chin and go forward again.
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Horrific in the two areas that matter.
Defensively we have looked miles of it, Goldson has been a liability and Tav caught at the back post for the 100th time.
Up top couldn’t finish their dinner, it is a real worry how many chances created to scored.
The usual aimless balls launched in to a box full of hammer throwers.
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Not sure how many times I’ve said this in the past but we will not win anything with those bottlejobs. Bottled numerous domestic cup finals, cost us a European cup, 2 going on 3 league titles. They should all be gone in the summer. Also I think a lot of them and the manager thought that the league was already won
(ironically posted by someone called FMT loyal)
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Seemingly Kelly had a great game.
Last week in the pub, We discussed the merits of him replacing Joe Hart at the end of the season.
Possibly short term
HH.
Lovely…just ..Lovely
We’ll see
Just do our own job.
Jane Lewis will be pleased with today’s result- Good Girl- she is!
Don’t normally go to work tomorrow, might make an exception laugh at them all.
They have been giving it big licks the last two weeks
Reggie
And i dont credit PL for nothing
I credit Celtic for winning whats in front of them
Not Celtics fault the hun self harmed
Its Celtics fault we win,its Celtics fault we loose
Magic
WELL Done the ” WELL”.
I wonder what excuses Clement will make up ?
MAGIC….and that Hun defeat ” should ” be a maior boost to the Celtic Bhoys Tomorrow before Kick aff ?
HH
Plenty on here will be pretty upset about the score at Ibrox.
Motherwell had the best chances and definitely deserved it.
Rangers tav pen due to var and dear old Euan Anderson.
We have a job to do at Tynecastle but our record under BR is good there.
Win that and the other lot have got Benfica twice and Hibs away in the cup.
It might be interesting.
Looking forward to hearing who Phil blames and his interview grilling from the media not.
GREENPINATA on 2ND MARCH 2024 5:16 PM
I was giving him pelters at the start saying that he never plays well v them, so glad he stuffed my comments doon ma throat :))
Interesting the comments from FF
Can imagine their forum showing something very similar from Celtic forums a couple of weeks back mind you. por cierto
:)
An T
Gordon Strachan team achieving what he did when they were doping themselves financially under BQ direction and PL management led to them combusting.
It started back with Dick Advocaat but they had to double down after MON came up and we began to over spend.
We got it right and they brought back Walter and kept spending to meet his whims. I was actually with Bain when he got the go ahead to keep spending in 2009. Even he was astonished.
We did drive them to the wall and managed our own situation well.