What a mess we find ourselves in after Monday meeting fallout | OneFootball

Amid increasing turmoil in and around Celtic, the club are actively seeking a new Head of Business Operations…

Celtic v Motherwell Scottish Premiership Celtic Park on 5 October 2025. Photo Raymond Davies PSI

As pressure intensifies and support for the club hierarchy is at boiling point, the Celtic board seems to be seeking external assistance. The club has announced the creation of a new role — Head of Business Operations — and has begun the search for the right candidate.

The position is entirely new to the club’s setup, and although it appears to be a standard corporate role at first glance, parts of the job listing catch the eye — particularly for majority of us in the fanbase who continue to call for clearer communication, transparency and a defined football strategy.

The role states: “The opportunity has arisen to join Celtic in the role of Head of Business Operations. This role is fundamental to ensuring that supporter services are delivered in a way which ensures world class supporter service is in place.”

“It will encompass a broad range of supporter services including the oversight of all retail operations, ticketing, hospitality sales, and stadium services.”

Celtic Chief Executive Michael Nicholson sits in the directors box with Celtic s Chief Financial Officer Christopher McKay to his right. Celtic v Hibernian, Scottish Premiership, Celtic Park, 27 September 2025. Photo Stuart Wallace IMAGO Shutterstock

The mention of “world class supporter service” will raise a few eyebrows, and understandably so.

Following months of frustration, demonstrations, open letters, undermining the manager and an abysmal transfer window, it is clear those in senior executive roles are out of touch.

There is nothing world class about Celtic at the moment. Certainly not on the pitch. And most definitely not in the way the club acts off it. The “world class football club in whatever we do” phrase was coined by Michael Nicholson at Brendan Rodgers’ unveiling more than two years ago.

Partick Thistle v Celtic. Premier Sports League Cup. Sunday 21 September. Photo Vagelis Georgariou (The Celtic Star)

Two years down the line and that statement can be laughed (regrettably) out of town. World class at terrible transfer windows and inadequate recruitment? World class at awful statements? Is that what Michael was meaning?

If so, he may well have had a point, the same as Celtic has after two games in the Europa League, a after that world class mess they made of the Champions League qualification against a team we’d never even heard of previously. World class at losing £40m from that fiasco.

Jorginho of Kairat Almaty strikes an indirect free kick which Daizen Maeda of Celtic blocks Kairat Almaty v Celtic, UEFA Champions League, Play-Off Round, Second Leg, Football, Almaty Central Stadium, Almaty, Kazakhstan – 26 Aug just 2025 Almaty Almaty Central Stadium Kazakhstan Photo Nikita Bassov/Shutterstock

Anyway, a new Head of Business Operations may be a small step in the right direction for regular, clearer communication to supporters. Yesterday was not a good day for communications at all as far as both the Celtic support and the club are concerned.

Leaked, emotive and partial content from Monday night’s meeting from a few of the supporters in attendance led to a summary of events having to be released by the Celtic Fans Collective and then Celtic FC issuing a statement outlining an entirely difference view, which no-one commenting in the club’s X post was in any mood to accept.

Ricardo Horta of Sporting Braga celebrates scoring his team’s first goal during the UEFA Europa League 2025/26 League Phase MD2 match between Celtic FC and SC Braga at Celtic Park on October 02, 2025.(Photo by Ian MacNicol/Getty Images)

What a mess has been made of this. The best advice now is to wait for the minutes to be agreed by both parties – club and supporters – and then read what was said and make our own minds up.

The supporters at the meeting who couldn’t keep their mouths shut should be not be involved going forward.

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