“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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THEBHOYFROMU.N.C.L.E on 29TH JANUARY 2021 8:45 AM
The new guy will have a huge smile on his face as he watches most of Ryan Christies efforts on goal
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Definitely a mixed-emotions moment for me regarding Peter Lawell announcing his retirement. Over the piece I would definitely like to sincerely Thank Peter Lawell for his fantastic service to Celtic over the last 17 years and I sincerely wish him and his family good health and happiness going forward! 😊
He should absolutely be welcomed back to Celtic Park with open arms in the future; a fan with brains who managed to fulfil his Celtic dream not on the field of play but in the boardroom!
Aided and abetted by the Green Brigade, I think our spine-tingling 125th Anniversary Celebrations when we played Barcelona will remain a highlight of Peter Lawell’s tenure for me! 😊 🧣🍀. (Not to mention unprecedented success on the field of play over this period! 😊)
I don’t know anything about Dominic McKay, but I wish him every success for the future in his new role! 😊 🧣🍀
In a ‘careful what you wish for’ way, I expect a fair few on here won’t agree with my sentiments, and I expect too that those who will celebrate the loudest won’t be true Celtic Supporters… 😊
Take Care, Keep Safe, God Bless and Hail Hail,
Yours in Celtic, 😊 🧣 🍀
TB&F. 😊
By reckoning domestic success was:
10 League Cups
11 Scottish Cups
16 Championships
Is that right? por cierto.
hopefully mckay isn’t an accountant or a banker.
VINNIETHEDOG on 29TH JANUARY 2021 8:42 AM
For all his faults and he had a few…. Lawwell was a celtic supporter…. His family are celtic supporters…… New man?… Not so sure… In fact very doubtful
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Would a Celtic supporter try to bury res 12, which meant that we lost out on potential millions of European revenue?
Would a Celtic supporter lie about his part in the 5WA, which only benefits the replacement club for our former rivals, and means that our own club can’t be awarded trophies because the club which played improperly registered players can’t be stripped of trophies?
Would a Celtic supporter sign players that the manager didn’t want, and not sign the players that he did want?
Would a Celtic supporter set up a remuneration committee that rewarded him obscene bonuses, despite not making the Champions League in the most of the seasons he received said bonuses?
Would you really say that he was a Celtic supporter?
If he’s a Celtic supporter then the KKK are advocates of Black Lives Matter.
On the announcement and the life and times of Peter Lawwell’s tenure.
I have mixed feelings, he, in my opinion has achieved good things. However, there have been some big mistakes, three of which were not taking on the establishment over the deceased club, the overt verbal abuse to Celtic Supporters and Players by said club and the constant cheating of the MiB.
I have nothing to back my assertion up but I believe he was always going to go at the end of this season on the back of achieving 10. You don’t suddenly decide when the arse falls out the team’s performances that you don’t want to be the CEO.
In my opinion Peter Lawwell has been the master of his own downfall, yes he has done good but in my opinion, appointing NL second time was always destined to it all ending in tears. We often say a certain player will get the manager the sack. In Lawwell’s case it was the manager who was destined to get the CEO his most memorable achievement during his 17 year tenure.
I do acknowledge at this point both Lawwell and Lenny have achieved so much for our club and rightly deserve their place in our 132 year unbroken history.
Yes, that’s right, Peter Lawwell and Neil Lennon will be remembered for the two individuals that failed to win 10 when it was in our hands. Celtic beat Celtic to 10.
I now once again take my leave you, couldn’t not let this historic day pass without recording my views.
Until we meet again…
Keep the Faith!
Hail Hail!
Peter Lawwell worked hard for Celtic and was well rewarded for it Since 2000, we have had the best 20 year period in our history and PL contributed a great deal to that imo.
It is a shame this season has turned out the way it has, and I’m sure PL is as disappointed as the rest of us.
Time will tell whether or not this is a good appointment.
Terry Cassidy, Jock Brown, Alan McDonald, disasters to a man. I’ll wait and see before I make up my mind.
TRUTH_BEAUTY_AND_FREEDOM on 29TH JANUARY 2021 8:54 AM
Hiyya Peter!
I have no mixed emotions here. I am delighted to see the back of Lawwell. His failure to capitalise on the death of the Hun and improve Celtic in Europe and Globally as well as have us bulletproof financially is cause for embarrassment. The result is that we are winning no trophies this season , he has split the support, he has enabled a dysfunctional new club to become Kings and due to him we have lost all financial advantage we may ever have had.
He should not be retiring , he should have been sacked!
Lambert 14…. Yep
I wish Peter Lawwell well in his retirement. Did he make mistakes? Absolutely! Should he have gone against the 5WA? Absolutely, should he have buried the SFA, Rangers, Sevco, the media with Resolution 12? Absolutely! Did he take it upon himself to do/not deal with these issues? Absolutely not! He was a CEO of a PLC and did exactly as he was instructed to by the Board, major shareholders.
If there are issues with all of the above and for most of us they are pivotal then that issue lies with the Chairman, Board members and Desmond.
Before anyone says that if he was a REAL Celtic supporter he should have gone against the Board, that’s all well and good, he would have been sacked and no other company would have touched him. Once Lawwell was sacked the Board would simply have replaced him with another CEO who would do exactly as instructed.
@ PARKHEADCUMSALFORD on 29TH JANUARY 2021 8:48 AM
I see this line get traction, but I don’t entirely agree. I’m sure on some very high level points DD’s input would be slight and persuasive/determinative, but on day to day running, wages, transfers etc, it would have been the PL show.
As was noted recently by another poster, DD is not recorded as attending any board meetings in the latest accounting period.
A CEO doesn’t get paid £1.3m basic and take out up to £3m in a year just to rubber stamp DD’s decisions.
Additionally, DD is largest shareholder, not majority owner, so he can’t dictate matters as if it were a private company or one with a minority shareholding class.
Would be sought*
PARKHEADCUMSALFORD on 29TH JANUARY 2021 8:48 AM
Imo, nothing really changes unless our major shareholder indicates otherwise and that would be by having our manager leaving too. Peter Lawwell, at the end of the day, has had to put into practice what Dermot Desmond wanted. He call the shots.
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Do you really think that Desmond was responsible for Rodgers having players signed for him that he had never heard of and didn’t want?
Why would a CEO do the bidding a minority shareholder?
Why would any person of integrity, if not allowed them to do their job properly, just continue to do this?
Why would any person of integrity lie to Celtic shareholders for the best part of 6 years?
Why would he deliberately lie to said shareholders for all those years, rather than do the job he was employed to do, namely CEO of the club?
Mckay out………
Careful what you wish for.
Angry Brigade
God bless Peter Lawwell for keeping the green flag despite the malcontents begrudgers and naysayers.
Downward spiral?
You ain’t seen nothing yet.
One down, two to go…..
I am glad PL is going, but he isn’t and shouldn’t be the last.
McKay brought the Pro 14 Rugby final to CP in 2019
The success we have had since his appointment as CEO has been achieved despite lawwell.
We should have won every league since his appointment. The trophies rangers won during the cheating years should have been challenged. When mcoist stated that rangers will not accept the stripping of titles lawwell should have immediately insisted that celtic will not accept not stripping the titles. For celtic to meekly accept rangers and the SFA’s conspiracy to help rangers cheat is disgraceful. The celtic board, led by lawwell, have treated the celtic managers, players and supporters with contempt.
Lawwell has a long list of failures and he will go down in history as the man who blew 10 in a row.
Genuinely can’t get worked up by Peter Lawell. He’s now a very rich man, done some good stuff but now tainted forever with a legacy of ballsing up the ten in spectacular fashion. Bit like his buddy Lennon.
More interested in the new man. Didn’t really have a template in mind for the new CEO and so can’t tell what his appoitnment signals – more parochialism to feed the OF bear? Or a signal that we want to use everything at our disposal to make a fist of being a bloody good European outfit?
Anybody got any working insight of the rugger bugger, sailing fanatic?
HH
Will be interesting to see his salary, the ridiculous bonus scheme needs looked at as well.
Big Jimmy
Good morning. Celtic Trust:
https://celtictrust.net/faq/
That will give you all the info.
Take care. HH
Heard from a reliable source that Celtic are in talks to sign Fraser Brown from Glasgow Warriors.
Dominic McKay has started to interfere in transfers already.
No mixed emotions on Peter Lawwell and his announcement today.
He should have been gone over 10 years ago
17 years as a CEO is ridiculous and represents the complacency at the club that ultimately cost us 10iar.
And he has made circa 10m+ for these failures this past decade.
Celtic under his tenure has not moved with the times as a modern progressive football club.
We are now playing catch-up off the park to Sevco Rangers in terms of implementing necessary structure of football division.
Enjoy your retirement PL, hopefully the club can now start to truly maximise its potential with better leadership!
Time to take this opportunity to appoint a Director of Football and separate the football operation from the Commercial side of the business. Then there can be no accusations of the CEO buying players that are not wanted by the football side of the Club.
NFL will be going with Lawwell but that won’t be happening until the summer either. I suspect someone other than PL will be doing the sift and eventual appointment of the new manager, possibly Ross Desmond.
It certainly provides some context for the decision to keep Lenny on
A new CEO has to be given a lot of input into appointing the manager who, in a lot of people’s eyes, will decide whether he’s judged to be a success or failure
All the best Peter..def more pluses than minuses.
Hope your retirement homes got a heated driveway😉
BFTB- I think Lawwell has taken nearer £18 million from the Club
I had a run in with Dominic Mc Kay a couple of years ago when I reversed into his Range
Rover outside Scotstoun Show Ground but I bear him no ill will as he was legitimately
parked at the time!
I do have a few friends who are fanatical egg chasers and they have nothing but respect
for all the great things he has achieved over the years for the Scottish rugby fraternity.
Furthermore as he is a genuine Celtic supporter, I say welcome to to Paradise Dominic –
you have given us new hope for the future of our great club!
Hail! Hail!
MCPHAIL BHOY on 29TH JANUARY 2021 9:11 AM
Before anyone says that if he was a REAL Celtic supporter he should have gone against the Board, that’s all well and good, he would have been sacked and no other company would have touched him. Once Lawwell was sacked the Board would simply have replaced him with another CEO who would do exactly as instructed.
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This is nonsense.
Lawwell was top dog in the boardroom.
He made the decisions and the rest of the nodding dogs on the board followed.
He was a multi millionaire before the death of rangers, so wouldn’t have been in skid row if he had indeed been sacked.
What kind of man, if what you are saying is true, would allow himself to do what you are saying, while acting as CEO.
What you are saying just makes him seem even worse and cowardly.
He lied to shareholders and sent the requisitioners on a wild goose chase, thinking they wouldn’t come up with the smoking gun.
Contrary to what you said, he had carte blanche.
Look at this site.
It used to campaign for res 12 issues, then it done a 180 degree turn overnight, all to suit the corrupt Lawwell.
You make it sound like poor wee Peter.
It was the opposite.
In 2012, when their was no version of rangers, Lawwell had the perfect opportunity to bring in huge change in Scottish football.
We were the last remaining giant and he should have demanded that Scotland go the way of Italy and England in referees and linesmen not being allowed to ref matches of teams they support.
Instead, nothing.
He could have been shrewd and done this through the media.
Instead we had silence.
Also, after the death of rangers he should have campaigned for FFP in Scottish football.
The death of the huns gave him the perfect platform to campaign on this.
Instead, silence.
Now you see a financially doped club at the top of the league.
He has been an absolute disaster.
The news today is the same for me as when the Kellys. Grants and Whites left the club to wild celebrations from the fans.
It’s been a terrible season, but this news is a real pick me up.
I will be celebrating well into the night.
garygillespieshamstring on 29th January 2021 9:03 am
Peter Lawwell worked hard for Celtic and was well rewarded for it Since 2000, we have had the best 20 year period in our history and PL contributed a great deal to that imo.
It is a shame this season has turned out the way it has, and I’m sure PL is as disappointed as the rest of us.
Time will tell whether or not this is a good appointment.
Terry Cassidy, Jock Brown, Alan McDonald, disasters to a man. I’ll wait and see before I make up my mind.
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Good reasonable post
AN TEARMANN on 28TH JANUARY 2021 11:39 PM
Emails eh.Dubia
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-55844603
Thanks for that Big Mhan. Was telling Mrs Emeraldbee, an arch critic of the trip, about the BBC. “That must have been hard for them” says she, “choice of putting the boot in to the SNP Government or giving Celtic too much support”. Mmmmm, perhaps her views are coloured somewhat though where that would come from I’ve no idea.
Ave Ave
James Forrest
Would I be right in saying that you have ditched Ted from making comments in your blog?
I see the moderators have ditched loads of comments, which makes reading your blog far more enjoyable.
If indeed you have, then well done.
WHAT IS THE STARS on 29TH JANUARY 2021 9:15 AM
Wow!!
Good wind up mate.
You had me going there for a minute!
Does Dominic look like Gerrard a wee bit anybody?
So will it be McKay Quick News for the foreseeable ?
Hopefully the rest of the lame dogs will be next.