For the umpteenth time, the Celtic board are doing everything and anything at their own pace.
Celtic’s non-World Cup players are set to report back for pre-season training on Friday, returning to a squad where very little has changed since the dust settled on their domestic double.
You have even got to a stage where pundits, such as Hugh Keevins, have admitted that they are ‘running out of ways’ to criticise the Celtic board now.
Keevins hit the nail on the head when he stated that Celtic have ‘more kits than coaches’, as Martin O’Neill’s backroom staff is yet to be sorted.
“Martin O’Neill has no backroom staff, no chairman, no head of recruitment and nobody willing to take accountability,” said Keevins.
“The business of Celtic Football Club has, in the absence of any evidence to the contrary, come to a complete stop.
“The way things are going at Celtic Park, Martin O’Neill will look behind him on the touchline at kick-off against Dundee on August 3, and there’ll be no one left in the home dug-out.”
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Hugh Keevins tells the Celtic board what every fan is thinking
You get the sense that people from the outside are starting to see why the Celtic fans have protested so much.
Despite Celtic’s on-field dominance, the paying supporters always see the bigger picture – and over the past 12 months, the reality of the situation has never been clearer.
Keevins told the Daily Record that things have become so problematic, as proven with the Shaun Maloney and Mark Fotheringham situation, that it has ‘broken my personal blame-ometer.’
“I’ve run out of ways to criticise Celtic hierarchy,” said Keevins. “They are fleecing devoted fans and have more kits than coaches.
“Maloney and Fotheringham have been sufficiently insulted to decline Celtic’s offer of employment on reduced wages. Strachan has gone off to West Brom. Who’s next? More importantly, what’s next? I have run out of ways to constructively criticise the Celtic hierarchy. They have broken my personal blame-ometer.”
Michael Nicholson and Dermot Desmond called out
Peter Lawwell left Celtic last season. But it isn’t enough, as Michael Nicholson and Dermot Desmond’s names continue to be on the chopping block.
An ongoing frustration for Celtic fans is the deafening silence from the club’s hierarchy.
As Keevins rightly pointed out, Nicholson has somehow managed ‘not to have said a single word in public’ throughout the chaos of the past 12 months.
All while telling Celtic’s global supporters to ‘give us your money and go away’ when running the football club.
“Michael Nicholson is, to get down to basics, paid a salary that would be life-changing for the Celtic support,” said Keevins.
“He has presided over twelve months of turbulence while managing not to have said a single word in public.
“Is he in charge of a football club who believe they are looked over by a guiding hand and are, therefore, immune from the rules as they apply to the rest of their competitors?
“An institution who, by their eternal silence, also believes that blatantly ignoring the people who pay hundreds of thousands of pounds to fund the club’s business are unworthy of their concern?
“Or has Dermot Desmond simply not yet told anyone what they have to say? I can highlight all of this in the full and certain knowledge that no-one from the club will deem it necessary to refute any of the criticism made of them.
“Celtic have a thriving business which is based on the unwavering devotion of a global support. The club reserves the right to have no interest in any of them. It is an astonishing, utterly unique business concern. Give us your money. Go away.”
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