Paul Tisdale arrived at Celtic in October with a statement full of promises and what looked like a clear idea of how he wanted to improve the club.
The self-styled ‘football doctor’ was hired by Celtic as the club’s Head of Football Operations as Tisdale looked to bring a freshness to identifying new talent and helping to improve the football academy.
In his statement on the day he was appointed, Tisdale told the Celtic FC website, “It is a huge honour to accept this new role at Celtic and join a club of such pedigree and stature.
“I can’t wait to join the team, to begin my work and deliver positive results. Celtic demands and deserves excellence across all areas and I know that that is something the Board and Brendan seek at all times.
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'In my role I will be doing all I can to further develop our work across talent identification, development and analytics, always with the aim of ensuring high-level support of football performance.'
“In my role I will be doing all I can to further develop our work across talent identification, development and analytics, always with the aim of ensuring high-level support for football performance.’
“Having knowledge already of Celtic, I know there are so many quality, authentic people at the club all pulling in the same direction and passionate for success.
“I look forward to joining them as we work together to deliver excellence for the club and our supporters.”
Empty words that not only look embarrassing, but also make the Celtic board look foolish.
Paul Tisdale’s Celtic failures laid bare
Since his appointment, Tisdale and Celtic have still failed to properly replace Kyogo Furuhashi and Nicolas Kuhn.
There is no denying that attempts, (if they can be called that), at identifying some kind of replacements have been made after Celtic ended a two-year chase for Michel-Ange Balikwisha and managed to barter Sevilla into letting Kelechi Iheanacho leave La Liga for free.
Celtic are now almost a full calendar year since Kyogo left. Let that sink in for a minute.
However, since Tisdale’s appointment, Celtic have lost eight fixtures over three competitions and also lost a major cup final.
Celtic lost Brendan Rodgers as manager and the Head of Operations was also reportedly personally involved in Celtic pursuing Wilfried Nancy, and allowed John Kennedy to leave the club unceremoniously.
When Nancy was under pressure after losing to Dundee United, Tisdale took a break from Celtic and was nowhere to be seen.
In fact, he has not been heard of or spoken in public since his statement back in October, but was pictured falling asleep in the stands as Celtic lost to Hearts last month.
To use Tisdale’s own words, are these actions of a club striving for ‘excellence’, ‘positive results’ and aiming to achieve a ‘high-level support of football performance’? We think not.
Paul Tisdale must resign or be relieved from his duties at Celtic
There is no doubt that, as well as the appointment of Nancy, Paul Tisdale’s role at Celtic is also untenable.
Not only has the appointment of Nancy been shambolic, the basic promises that he made have all been broken.
If Celtic fans were to be fair to Tisdale, then giving him a full transfer window to try and redeem himself doesn’t seem like a big thing to ask.
But when this transfer window is for a manager he identified who is now failing spectacularly and judging by how this club conducts itself during negotiations, would any supporter trust anyone at the club to even spend the money correctly to improve the squad? Yeah, us neither.
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