Peter Lawwell

Surprised bumming up Lawwell has returned so soon to Uber-Timism.

Who’s going to be first to herald him as (formerly) the best CEO in football, or - my personal favourite - Celtic’s greatest ever signing?

 

I’m no expert on PLC’s but I understand that it’s not encouraged for a former CEO to go and and become chairman.
A club of our size should have been able to attract a well respected chairman who might have brought something new to the table. Lawwell has been around the club too long imo.

 

Doesn't matter how many times it's explained he's been here on the board the whole time Ange has been in charge, or that he doesn't have any of the power he did when he was CEO to get involved in the day to day running of the club like he used to, it won't stop the usual suspects from repeating the same pish over and over about him 'coming back' to ruin everything, like he's some undercover hun that wants us to fail.

 

The ones droning on about ‘ignorance’ and him not having any power have clearly little experience of business at board level.

I’d like them to explain to me who exactly is going to stop him from calling the shots? They seem to think an outsider is on hand at all times monitoring each board member’s actions.

Or are they seriously suggesting that he’ll be challenged by the clowns who repeatedly voted him in as CEO for almost two decades?

 

Is a non-executive chairman just like Bankier was mate. He’s got about as much power as he had as a board-member only

 

heres the full statement

tell me why if hes been here all along as a director and that he has no power and now after moving up to bankiers former position as chairman still no power and in this statement from the club that he and the club in this statement regard him of still only being part of celtic for nearly 18 years ? why hasnt that grown since hes not went anywhere and has been here all along ?

hes obviously been elsewhere and not at celtic just look at how his time at celtic hasnt increased since he stepped down! kind of proves it doesnt it ?

 

I personally think it’s ridiculous to suggest that we’re suddenly not getting things done now that he’s back. There’s no evidence of that and I very much doubt he has the influence he did before.

That said, I’m still really quite * off that he is back. He slithered away when things weren’t going well and has essentially snuck in the back door again. It reeks of ‘jobs for the boys’. It’s a significant problem at the club that has blocked progress in past years, in my opinion.

He should never have been back. Not as a director or chairman.

 

No the fact that he was still a director proves that he was still a director at us mate. Like, he was registered as a director.

 

well a director who since he was sacked or stepped down in 2021 his tenure hasnt increased at the club over the nearly 18 years which it should have

so he may have been a director on paper but he wasnt at the club as his tenure hasnt increased

im spelling this out and im done with this angle

he shouldnt be back, hes far too conservative and it was getting worse as is time at the club increased

 

It's absolutely mind numbing

Michael Nicholson getting the Big Job and doing exceptionally well, is now goanny sit quietly and allow Lawwell to tarnish his reputation by purposefully making transfers drag on for no reason.

* imbeciles man

 

I genuinely don't understand anyone's confusion over this, it was reported at the time he was keeping a place at the club when he stepped down as CEO and wasn't going anywhere, it wasn't a secret, him taking Bankier's seat when he retired wasn't half as sudden and shocking as anyone made out, pretty predictable tbh. Doesn't mean any of us are happy with it, just wasn't a surprise and not much we can do about it.

"Peter Lawwell stood down as Celtic chief executive, and from four other Celtic-related companies, on June 30 but he is still a fully fledged director of the football club, The Times can reveal.

Documents lodged at Companies House in Edinburgh yesterday confirmed he is on a non-PLC board which also comprises his successor Dominic McKay, as well as Eric Riley, Michael Nicholson and Michael McDonald."

 

Genuine question then, as I honestly don't know what "powers" are traditionally assigned to each type of chairman/CEO/director/executive, but if he's replacing bankier as the same role, then why did the vast majority of Celtic fans demand bankiers head as well for years, specially in Lennon's final year?
If it's a meaningless, no use title, why are we paying him for the privilege?

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I'm presuming that's 18 years as the CEO, not 18 years at the club - because even his 1994 time spent at the club would be added it so.

He was kept on as some sort of director, club announced it I'm sure, in relation to him being able to hold a seat at a European table (eca?) Which would have benefited us as well.

My concern is that the supposed role being of no power or importance, then why give it to him at all and why did we all want bankiers head to roll for years, if it's a meaningless powerless position?

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It’s not a meaningless and powerless position. Nicholson answers to the board and Lawwell now heads up the board.
He might not be involved in the day to day running of the club like he used to be but you can be sure that he will have a massive say in any major decisions.
As I said earlier, I think he’s been around too long and we should have spread the net further when looking for a new chairman.

 

Because Bankier accused us of being anti-Semite upstarts and was generally a * *

 

The man's a leach who was happy to gamble on 10iar and when it started going Pete tong he (and others) watched on and done nothing about it. Started off the most important season in our history with Scott Bain as our number 1 GK and no RB of note at the club. Gambled on the cream buns still not being good enough to win a league rather than us strengthening what we have.

This is the man who was happy to sell Dembele on last day of Transfer window and then proceeded to haggle over a few pence for Bayo for an entire transfer window. This is the same man who watched on as we lost John McGinn who was desperate to sign for us but again he wanted to haggle over what in the football world is next to nothing and we lost out. Back to 10iar season we again could have signed Ivan Toney but again our biscuit tin attitude seen that one disappear.

And yes he was in charge over a very successful period in our history but be honest could we really have not won all those trophies while the zombies were climbing up the league.

The man would sell his granny if it helped towards his bonus. If he's in any sort of power position in the club you can bet he's calling shots. why pay £3,000,000 for something today when you can haggle for 4 weeks and pay £2,999,999

 

I agree with the feeling in this post definitely btw, but we spent £4.5m on a Greek International keeper to go into that season. Turned out Bain was better than him but we did spend on it.

Lawwell is a weird one for us, because he did so much for us, and he did but he also had too much ego and arrogance to build on the success he did bring. He cut us off at the knees everytime we got in the position to make us the best version of Celtic that we could be.

And that’s where I have the biggest issue with him, his egomania hindered us when some of his genuinely good work put us in a position to kick on majorly.

 

Desmond and his cronies oversee every penny that goes through our club. And Lawwell is his number 1 crony.

 

I never followed the story but what was result of his car being set on fire and talk of gangsters ? did he not take time to be with his family ?