“Really robust offer” is apparently a euphemism for “Can’t believe they would pay that much”, following the transfer of Jeremie Frimpong to Bayer Leverkusen. The player is still only 20, with several development years ahead, but I doubt any of us set his valuation in this bracket.
At times this season I referred to Jeremie as our MVP (after his demolition of Hibs in September) and lamented the lack of end product comparable to Kristofer Ajer, when the adaptable central defender plays right back.
The failure to get crosses into the box by full backs on both wings, at the level Kris can apparently achieve, has been one of Celtic’s critical failures this season. Come what may in the summer, we would have attempted to recruit an improvement, with or without Jeremie, who remains more potential than actual.
There is a major rebuilding job ahead, but with only the Scottish Cup a practical target this season, Neil Lennon is unlikely to see much of the reported £11.5m (before Man City’s cut) this week.
Good luck to you, Jeremie.
Loved the way we whipped the ball around last night.
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Overall you can be critical of him on some of the non football stuff. His big failure to deliver 10 will be remembered by many. As much as the joy he brought us over near 2 decades.
I have no doubt he did what he thought was best but years of battles to hold our ground have probably done him .
The fact he’s been sacked will probably not bother him as long as he got paid I wonder if he will retire or pop up in Uefa. Somewhere which will not be the worst thing for us .
Thanks for everything Peter. You problem was you hung on to long it’s a shame you have let that mob from govan see you off !
Good luck
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Desmond on Lawwell
“Over the years, Peter was sought after by many English Premier League clubs, but his love and commitment to the Club and Scotland were more important to him..’
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C’mon Dermot, waken up.
The reason that Lawwell never went to these rich EPL clubs is because he couldn’t afford to take the huge drop in salary and bonus.
LAMBERT14 on 29TH JANUARY 2021 10:36 AM
Comparisons with the resignations of Reid and Quinn aren’t appropriate. Lawwell, as CEO, is an employee as well as a director.
Or is it because he supports Celtic.
It appears to me that our search for Lawwell’s replacement simply involved a Google search for Scottish Male, AMDG who likes sport.
Unimaginative and lazy like so many of our appointments.
Lawwell’s legacy will be the man who brought the Disco Lights to Celtic Park
Hopefully Bankier next.
MARTIM1980 on 29TH JANUARY 2021 10:52 AM
I think being the highest paid employee in our history and one of the highest paid CEO’s in absolute and relative terms may have something to do with it.
You can commend Larsson for staying as long as he did as there were more financially lucrative opportunities out there.
Not so much with Peter, he would be taking a pay cut or going somewhere where the position was not a sinecure/where there was real competition and the prospect of being fired if objectives were not met.
Desmond on Lawwell
“Over the years, Peter was sought after by many English Premier League clubs, but his LOVE AND COMMITMENT to the Club and Scotland were more important to him..’
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Where to start!!!
His love was shown up when he ‘never even looked at the 5 way agreement’, which meant that the cheating trophies, rangers playing loads of ineligible players in hundreds of matches, was not going to be properly punished with 3-0 defeats and trophies stripped, meaning Celtic were not going to be awarded titles that they were cheated from.
Love and commitment indeed!!
It is scary to witness Celtic ‘supporters’/followers/ fans tearing each other apart. Can we keep in sane and rational?
Always amazes me how many posters come on here specifically to denigrate the blog meister who gives them a platform to post their views.
ERNIE LYNCH on 29TH JANUARY 2021 10:51 AM
LAMBERT14 on 29TH JANUARY 2021 10:36 AM
Comparisons with the resignations of Reid and Quinn aren’t appropriate. Lawwell, as CEO, is an employee as well as a director.
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Ernie
He had the opportunity to give his intention to resign only a few weeks ago and didn’t.
Now he suddenly does so.
Desmond isn’t daft.
He surely knew that Lawwell staying on meant playing in front of a half empty stadium next season.
LAMBERT14 on 29TH JANUARY 2021 11:01 AM
Desmond on Lawwell
“Over the years, Peter was sought after by many English Premier League clubs, but his LOVE AND COMMITMENT to the Club and Scotland were more important to him..’
Love and commitment to his own bank balance.
ROBINBHOY on 29TH JANUARY 2021 11:04 AM
Always amazes me how many posters come on here specifically to denigrate the blog meister who gives them a platform to post their views.
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Paul67 gets off easy on this blog compared to what is said about his Lawwell PR stuff elsewhere.
To be fair, Woodward only has one club to look after……
So when does this new guy get to have a selfie with PaulTheTim?
ONENIGHTINLISBON on 29TH JANUARY 2021 11:07 AM
LAMBERT14 on 29TH JANUARY 2021 11:01 AM
Desmond on Lawwell
“Over the years, Peter was sought after by many English Premier League clubs, but his LOVE AND COMMITMENT to the Club and Scotland were more important to him..’
Love and commitment to his own bank balance.
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I actually laughed out loud after reading that keech from Desmond.
Celtic has issued a statement to the stock market re the retirement of Peter Lawwell.
People on CQN have stated that he was “mutually consented” which would involve a compensation package and is different to retirement. If this is true, Celtic has mislead the stock market.
I urge those people to report Celtic to the relevant authorities as misleading the market is a serious crime. Here is guidance for you to follow: https://aim-watch.com/project/aim-rules/
HRVATSKI JIM on 29TH JANUARY 2021 11:11 AM
Touche! :)) por cierto
HRVATSKI JIM on 29TH JANUARY 2021 11:11 AM
Yes but folk on the Huddleboard said…🤣😂
ROLLING_STONE on 29TH JANUARY 2021 11:01 AM
You can commend Larsson for staying as long as he did as there were more financially lucrative opportunities out there.
Not so much with Peter, he would be taking a pay cut.
Without wanting to reopen an old debate, the reported offer at Arsenal was worth much more
It was Harvey Dent who said it best; “You either die a hero, or live long enough to see yourself become the villain.”
Quoting a DC movie bad-guy seems appropriate today, a day when I’ve got up feeling as if a pain I’d been living with for several years has gone away and I’m walking straighter and with a spring in my step.
To quote another movie character, “One down … one down.”
There are some who will write revisionist nonsense about Lawwell today because he has finally told us he’s going in five months.
I’d prefer it if he packed his pencils and left right now, but I guess there are things he still wants to do, like hanging around to see the Ibrox club presented with the league trophy.
He should be at Parkhead for that.
He should watch that from his Celtic office, because that’s his legacy, that’s what he leaves behind him.
Had Lawwell left the job five years ago he’d still have been in it too long.
But he would have had his fine headlines, he’d have departed on a high, and something of a hero to most of the supporters.
But he botched it.
Lawwell loved the limelight too much and if that meant undermining the second best manager this club has had in my lifetime then so be it.
Once Rodgers had gone, he had the limelight all to himself again.
I hope he’s enjoyed it.
For the rest of his life most Celtic supporters are going to spit after saying his name.
I will think of him, forever, the way I think of Tony Blair, as someone who initially delivered big and then toxified his name and his reputation with acts of staggering egotism and over-reach, all so he could bask in the role not merely of statesman but Sun God.
Future Celtic historians will damn him, and the litany of failure he leaves behind him.
If you believe the hype he has always loved to surround himself with then he was the most powerful CEO in the history of Scottish football.
Yet here is the club he has been running all this time, in total meltdown, whilst a second financially doped Ibrox team sits atop the league table.
Every corruption which existed in our game in 2011 exists now, with a new one – the Survival Lie – layered on top of them.
That’s entirely down to Lawwell and his failures at the strategic level.
Every warning this and other blogs fired about the need for FFP, for refereeing reform, for fit and proper persons tests worthy of the name … it’s all been ignored and even scorned inside Celtic Park.
Lawwell was cosy in his wee fiefdom and never seriously entertained change.
This “all-powerful” figure has left us at our weakest in a decade, and the game more corrupt than he found it.
His final managerial appointment was made in a shower room, and ends in even greater failure.
It was an act of mind-boggling stupidity, an unpardonable folly without parallel in our recent history, a decision without a shred of merit whatsoever.
It was the biggest call he had to make in 17 years, with nothing coming even close to it in terms of its importance and potential impact and he didn’t even try to find us the best person he could.
Instead he appointed a yes-man, a manager desperate enough to accept the job under whatever conditions he imposed.
Lawwell’s ego won over the best interests of Celtic.
I will go to my grave cursing him for that and those around him who enabled and supported it.
Even now, he’s milked the moment for all it is worth, knowing that his toadies in the media and those few left in our support will laud him even as the rest of us wait for the announcement on Lennon, which surely has to come before the end of the day.
There are some who will mourn this announcement, and others who will fear for the future because they don’t know who the new guy is or what he brings to the table, but I am reminded of what Peter Oborne wrote on the day after Peter Mandelson’s first resignation, because it pretty much sums up my feelings.
I’m mangling his quote slightly, for the occasion.
“This morning the (Celtic support) has the bemused and joyful air of a Transylvanian village where news has just come through that Lord Dracula will disturb them no longer.”
Our long season of horror has taken its first positive turn folks.
I’ll be writing more about this later, of course, these are preliminary thoughts … but this development is not only welcome but it is long overdue. Lawwell has toxified Celtic as surely as he has damaged it these past few years.
In order for this club to heal, he had to fall on the sword.
He’s the first, but he can’t be – and he won’t be – the last.
But the healing has started, and I feel pretty good about that.
Peter Lawwell ‘s departure was clearly planned for the end of this glorious 10-in- row season. He was off to UEFA pastures.
The day Rangers died was the beginning of the end for him. Sure he would witness undreamed of on the field success however he took a wrong strategic turn by believing that Celtic and Scottish football required something that looked like Rangers ( albeit a weakened recreation of its former doped up self ) . Once he had dismissed other options and settled on an Old Firm solution he was doomed. Perhaps not right away, perhaps it would take a few years but rather like the person who tells a lie the problem just grows and is usually found out. History is full of such examples- Blair on Iraq, Thatcher, we will never talk to the IRA.
So the Peter Lawwell problem did not start in the Hampden showers but further back when he supped with the Devil. The strategy of a weakened Rangers has blown up spectacularly in his face. He has had to watch the MIB do what they do, deny seeing emails, let the media talk of Rangers winning 55 league titles( same club etc ).
So instead of riding off into the sunset on the back of 10 all the devils which he hoped had been buried have come out at the wrong moment for him.
The former leader of the USA Senate once classically advised that “ when your back is to the wall tell the truth”. Peter should have followed that advice.
All of us who hold Celtic dear would expect that from a CEO and I would expect the Board to be unified on this. Clearly he was not alone in going along with the strategy and the big lie. More questions to be asked.
The old joke springs to mind of the reporter going to a wee town to interview the local hero ……
He pulled kids from a burning building
Saved a dog from drowning.
Delivered a heavily pregnant woman’s premature baby
Single handed stopped a bank robbery ………
The reporter asks a local where he could find the hero ……the local says ,
oh ,Peter the sheep shagger stays at number 9 .YIP shag one sheep and all the other stuff pales into
insignificance…..For ME!!
For all the successes for me, Peter will be remembered as that guy…..
lied about the 12 , the 5 way , let Bankier denigrate us fans ……..one major reason i couldnt do PETERS job (ceo) and there are many others ……I have a conscience .
I wish him well on his retirement .
PS, hope the new guy brings fitness coaches from the rugby game .
ma big pal JAMESGANG will be impressed .
The FOD may well win a football treble this season.
Another treble they will prize just as highly is that the careers of PL, Neil Lennon and Scott Brown will all have pretty ignominious failure as their final chapter.
Self inflicted.
HH jg
the new bhoy’s Linked in has nothing more than what is in the papers.
I did manage to google that he is from Largs, is a fan and is into sailing (makes sense). He did a cross atlantic 2 man trip.
I like the cut of his jib so far.
Huge decision for Lawell to make on the manager now. I’m sure McKay doesn’t want that in his lap on 1 Jul
JAMES FORREST on 29TH JANUARY 2021 11:19 AM
Excellent post James. Keep up the good work.
JF
are you tipping the huns for Europa? Can’t see it
@ CELTIC40ME on 29TH JANUARY 2021 11:17 AM
The one made 12/13 years ago?
That shipped has long since sailed. Sinclair was player of the year 16/17 and couldn’t get in the team by late 18/19.
You can’t dine out on ancient history particularly when you are an executive and that well remunerated.
Noone can DavieHay or say Nay We witnessed an Incredible Forward Player in Odsonne Edouard.
Time will Tell.
Always the Maestro for me.
I think Peter Lawell was an excellent CEO,
Perhaps he stayed a year or two too long, obviously his retirement coming in the midst of our most disappointing of Seasons, sullies his achievements, but the last 9 years of outstanding success will never be forgotten by this Tim.
Reading some of the stuff here saddens me but look keyboard Hard Men are ten a penny.
My focus now is on the future & how the impending changes will affect my Club.
Fáilte Romhat, Dominic McKay.
Welcome to the greatest Club in the world, a Club like no other.
You have taken on the hopes and dreams of thousands of fanatical supporters.
Your decisions will have consequences for the emotional well being of good folk scattered around the globe.
You come to us at a time of great anger and disappointment, none of which will be laid at your door.
You start, unblemished, with a clean slate.
You will find a family wishing you nothing but success.
We have the potential to become a great club once again.
A club that is respected and feared in the European arena.
A club that dominates Scottish football.
I wish you well.
Is the Huddle now going to be a Scrum?
Bring in a hooker to teach throw ins?
Pedro – stayed at least a year or two longer than he should have.
New guy – don’t know much about him. SRU / Murrayfield / Scottish Rugby seem to be run very well in the main.
HH
BGFC
CONEYBHOY:
Me? Lol definitely not, where did you get that idea? :)
Farewell to The Man Who Stopped The Ten.
Appointing Lennon at Hamden was the most horrific shower scene since Hitchcock’s Psycho 😡
Presumably he’s staying on till the end of the season to help Sevco clinch the double? 🙄
Odsonne was Pretty Curtley Ambrose.
Thankfully he, despite his Horrendous shootin’ at the moment , is getting Bach to his Best.
George what a Player.
Odsonne is Actual World Class.
ROLLING_STONE on 29TH JANUARY 2021 11:28 AM
Thats some very confused thinking
You’re using Larsson as an example of someone who stayed a lot longer ago than 2012 when he could have left for more money then using Sinclair to suggest, well, I don’t really know what.
JAMES FORREST on 29TH JANUARY 2021 11:26 AM
Less words James- keep it up 👍