Celtic Park. 17 May 2025.. Photo Vagelis Georgariou
We assume it was supposed to reassure. Instead, it highlighted almost all of their own out of touch, self-congratulatory, cocooned views on how to run a football club, and led to a massive backlash from the fanbase, coupled with significant concerns for the club going forward.
The statement was long in words but short on clarity. Where fans were looking for the professionals running the club to comment on another Champions League qualification round exit, and a pig’s ear of a transfer window, Celtic instead offered us the delusionals.
For those who weren’t worried before, soon pants were on head and pencils were up the nostrils — much like those who drafted the statement in the first place.
Michael Nicholson, Chief Executive of Celtic FC looks on from the stands prior to the William Hill Premiership match between Celtic FC and St Mirren FC at Celtic Park on May 17, 2025. (Photo by Ian MacNicol/Getty Images)
Indeed, it was very much a ‘poor us, it’s affy hard’ approach to running a football club. Kinda like Randall Graves in Clerks – “This job would be great if it wasn’t for the… customers.”
In Celtic’s case, they added – UEFA’s Financial Sustainability Regulations, the transfer windows, those pesky other clubs, agents, players demanding wages, the need to strategise for stuff, the expectation to prepare for...
Celtic Park. 17 May 2025.. Photo Vagelis Georgariou “It’s one thing saving for a rainy day but it looks like Celtic are saving for a monsoon,” Swiss Ramble We assume it was supposed to reassure. I...