IS PAUL TISDALE THE CELTIC BOARD’S NEXT FALL GUY?
- BY LIAM CARRIGAN
- 11 minutes ago
- 3 min read
There’s a growing groundswell of opinion amongst a significant amount, though of course not all, of the Celtic support.
The idea that Wilfried Nancy is “out of his depth” at Celtic is a popular theory, and one that appears to have some first-hand evidence in the form of both the manager’s strange tactical choices and his seemingly oblivious statements after each of his first 3 defeats.
However, most fans also accept that Nancy himself is not the one to blame for any of this. After all, who among us wouldn’t jump at the chance to go and work for a far bigger, higher profile employer, on a better wage, and with the opportunity, if you do well, to move even further up the European football pyramid in a year or two.
For someone like Nancy it’s a no-brainer. I challenge anyone in his position to knock back such a golden opportunity.
Most fans get that, which is why our ire is remains laser-focused on Paul Tisdale The Celtic Board and anyone else involved in the recruitment of Wilfried Nancy.
With Paul Tisdale The Celtic Board Have an Easy Out for the Current Crisis
So, in a season of scapegoats being repeatedly throw to the proverbial wolves to deflect from our own board’s incompetence, could Paul Tisdale be the next victim?
Sacking Tisdale would do nothing to alleviate the current Celtic crisis, at least not in the short term. It would however allow the board to offload Wilfried Nancy and his backroom team in a way that still, in their own eyes at least, retains some semblance of face.
Get rid of the manager, get rid of the guy who was supposedly responsible for hiring him, and use January as a time for a complete reset, whilst winning the League is still a viable possibility.
Martin O’Neill could be brought back as a stabilizing influence again. It's now clear he didn't want to leave as early as he did. But this time, if we did so, he think he deserves at least an 18-month contract. I do not want to see Celtic’s 2nd greatest manager of all time reduced to being our equivalent of Graeme Murty.
Make no mistake: this is one strategy that I think the Celtic Board will be considering at the current time. I do not however believe it is the correct one. Until the real driving force behind this current malaise at Celtic, the two-faced triumvirate of Dermot Desmond, Michael Nicholson and Peter Lawwell are also removed, we’ll just be papering over the cracks.
A complete overhaul of the entire corporate culture at Celtic is the only way the myriad problems facing our club are solved in the long term. The Celtic Board remain in almost complete denial of this reality.
Until that changes, protests will continue, results will probably still stagnate, and eventually, even the Teflon Don calling the shots from behind the scenes will no longer be untouchable.
We’ve reached a point now where, should the current instability, on and off the park, drag on much longer, our major sponsors like Adidas, will have to call into question their long-term financial commitment to Celtic. This isn’t what they as corporation, or indeed us as a fanbase or as customers signed up for.
The Celtic Board is no longer fit for purpose. Jettisoning Paul Tisdale might buy them some time, but it’s only delaying the inevitable.