Michael Nicholson

I saw his remuneration details shared elsewhere with his salary topped up with a bonus around 3/4s of his base it would be very interesting to see what the conditions are to meet such a bonus?

You can bet they are fairly limited footballing wise and probably should be to some extent. However, with no one really in charge of the footballing department, your CEO getting a big bonus for what the team on the park do when the management of the club are effectively hindering the teams chances of success seems counter productive.

Chris McKay is the same just on a bit less for base salary.

We have again, one year on, likely put the price up for any winger or forward we go for as it is obvious how desperately short our team is. Any team we approach will just be like you got £10m for your striker and £17m for your winger, you want over £20m for another so we want £6m instead of £3-4m or £10m instead of £6-7m.

 

Where is the guy that said we were gonna be 'world class'? They soon got rid of him.

They recognise our power don't let them convince us to forget.

 

I don’t think this guys grasps quite how angry the support are going to be if he doesn’t sort this out.

 

If he wasn’t doing a good job and not running the club as a business like Desmond wants then he wouldn’t still be in that position.

The CEO is the link between owner and club, I would put my house on it that Desmond sets the goals for each season. So as long as we make player trading profit and CL then nothing is going to change.

 

Has he ever spoken before?

 

He’s well aware of angry people are


Let’s just say there’s a power struggle between Michael and others

 

There's really not. Nicholson is tuned in the same way as Lawwell and Desmond.

 

It's the board of directors who can remove him. I don't think Desmond is the control freak some make him out to be with regard to Celtic, I see him as more the absentee owner who is happy as long as the club is profitable and he's not having to invest anything in it. I don't see how he could be such a control freak when he's rarely about or around and lives have the way around the world - they are contradictory stances so I think a lot of the podcasts or whatever that say Desmond is the issue I take with a pinch of salt.

For me Desmond has little interest in Celtic and has delegated the running of the club to Lawwell and the board who are effectively the same board who have ran the club for 20 years now. Desmond trusts Lawwell and its actually Lawwell through his little puppet Nicholson who makes all the calls.

The only real role Desmond plays is getting his jet out to attract a manager every now and again. He is a retired billionaire with vast business interests. Celtic is just his little play thing and Lawwell is his guy here. Lawwell has generated profits for Celtic and that's why Desmond trusts him but I don't think this strategy, or lack of, is his. If we had a CEO who flashed the cash and was growing our revenue, keeping us debt free and progressing in Europe and had proven this over a period of time then I think Desmond would equally be on board with that strategy.

Also worth noting that Desmond isn't our owner, he doesn't even have a majority shareholding here, he just happens to have the largest shareholding at 35%.

 

Well Michael has been banned from the annual golf trip Desmond‘s birthday party



you tell me there’s no power struggle going on

 

He's essentially the owner. His lack of shares mean nothing, really. He is the owner in all but name.

 

There's no power struggle going on between Nicholson and anyone else.

There's definitely a power struggle between Rodgers and the board/Desmond.

 

It could just be because Michael is a specky * to be fair. Not necessarily a sign of a power struggle.

 

Unfortunately for us, 44% of the shares are owned by a massive number of individuals, mostly fans I would assume, where if there was one body representing those shareholders then the fans would essentially become the major shareholder instead of Desmond.

Pipe dream perhaps but I'm sure @JC Anton had a thread on here about the supporters trust trying to implement this?

 

Or he's * at golf.

 

He looks like the kinda guy that tries to talk to you while you’re winding up your drive.

 

Listen lads am telling you Michael has been bullied by a number of people


He’s been banned from the golf trip


Banned from going to Benidorm for the annual bhoys holiday

had his club credit card taken away


You tell me that’s not a power struggle

 

Calling bullshit.

No chance Lawwell would ever let anyone have a club credit card.

 

53% of the clubs shares are owned by Desmond and an investment company, who always sides with Desmond.

I get it, 25% of Celtic shares are lost, basically. Even then, while their may be a bigger say in the board room, the majority of the shares are tied up for Desmond.

 

This guy is spineless puppet for Dermot and Peter.
He's not even a good one, he has zero power.

I'd also like to see him a) actually speak and b) his performance goals

The only sporting goal is UCL qualification - ie maximise revenue.
Transparency (lack off), as ever, is a huge issue.

 

Michael hasn’t taken this well at all


He has been spotted drinking Buckfast sitting under trees singing the Celtic song