Celtic admit mistakes, failures and recognise support’s concerns

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·07 de outubro de 2025

Celtic admit mistakes, failures and recognise support’s concerns

Earlier today we reported on the Celtic Fans Collective summary notes from last night’s meeting at Celtic Park with Celtic CEO Michael Nicholson, Chief Financial Officer Chris McKay and various other representatives from the club including Celtic SLO John Paul Taylor…

Michael Nicholson, Chief Executive of Celtic FC and Chris McKay Celtic Chief Financial Officer look on from the stands prior to the Premiership match between Celtic FC and St Mirren FC at Celtic Park on May 17, 2025. (Photo by Ian MacNicol/Getty Images)

It’s fair to note that the supporters at the meeting did not think that it went well and you can read the summary from the Celtic Fans Collective here. Now Celtic FC has acknowledged the meeting and has this evening given their own take on events via a statement posted on the official Celtic FC website.

Vídeos OneFootball

The club statement reads as follows…

Club Executive meets with fan groups

In response to issues raised in recent weeks about the Club’s strategy and operations, we invited representatives of fan groups to meet with Michael Nicholson, Chris McKay and Club executives at Celtic Park and this took place on Monday evening.

It was, and remains, our intention to provide a full minute of the meeting for the interest of the wider fan base. However, with content already being distributed online from the meeting, we are also providing an earlier update.

The Club sought to comment openly on the issues raised to the extent that it is possible to do so, without prejudicing Club operations and confidentiality.

We acknowledged that the Club is not where we want it to be at the moment, that we have not achieved all of our objectives in the summer transfer window and the Champions League, and that mistakes have been made from which we will learn. We recognise the concerns raised, share the frustrations of our supporters and valued the opportunity to hear from supporters last night.

Our immediate objective is to seek to make progress, without negatively impacting on the team on the field of play, and that we continue to focus on delivering success this season.

We intend to issue minutes soon, but outputs from the meeting included a commitment to seek to ensure supporter involvement in meetings with Police Scotland regarding the Fairhurst Report, the review and development of supporter engagement processes, and progressing a new safe standing working group.

The Club offered to continue to meet with supporters’ organisations moving forward and is committed to ongoing dialogue with our wider support. We have always engaged in regular discussions with supporter groups and will continue to do so, with the aim of ensuring that we can work collaboratively and positively in the best interests of our team on the pitch and our Club as a whole.

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

There are always two sides to every story and this is the Celtic side. While supporters will inevitably take sides depending on their own views and thoughts on what has been happening at the club, it is perhaps worth mentioning that both parties have now given a public commitment to releasing minutes from the meeting and both have agreed to sign these off and publish.

Therefore we will get a chance to read word for word what was said and then make our own minds up. This though is certainly a step in the right direction from the club:

“We acknowledged that the Club is not where we want it to be at the moment, that we have not achieved all of our objectives in the summer transfer window and the Champions League, and that mistakes have been made from which we will learn. We recognise the concerns raised, share the frustrations of our supporters and valued the opportunity to hear from supporters last night.”

Club Executive meets with fan groups.
– terça-feira, 7 de outubro de 2025

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