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The Way Irretrievable Collapse Resulted in a Savage Parting for Brendan Rodgers & Celtic FC
Merely a quarter of an hour following the club issued the news of their manager's surprising resignation via a perfunctory short statement, the howitzer landed, courtesy of Dermot Desmond, with whiskers twitching in obvious fury.
In 551-words, key investor Desmond savaged his former ally.
This individual he persuaded to join the club when their rivals were gaining ground in that period and required being in their place. And the man he again turned to after Ange Postecoglou departed to another club in the summer of 2023.
So intense was the severity of his takedown, the jaw-dropping return of the former boss was practically an secondary note.
Twenty years after his departure from the organization, and after a large part of his latter years was given over to an continuous series of public speaking engagements and the playing of all his old hits at Celtic, O'Neill is returned in the manager's seat.
Currently - and perhaps for a while. Considering comments he has said recently, he has been eager to secure a new position. He will view this role as the perfect opportunity, a gift from the club's legacy, a return to the environment where he experienced such glory and adulation.
Will he give it up easily? You wouldn't have thought so. Celtic could possibly reach out to sound out their ex-manager, but O'Neill will serve as a soothing presence for the moment.
All-out Attempt at Reputation Destruction'
The new manager's return - as surreal as it is - can be parked because the biggest shocking moment was the harsh way Desmond wrote of the former manager.
This constituted a forceful endeavor at defamation, a labeling of Rodgers as untrustful, a source of falsehoods, a spreader of misinformation; disruptive, misleading and unjustifiable. "A single person's desire for self-preservation at the cost of everyone else," stated he.
For a person who values decorum and places great store in business being conducted with discretion, if not outright secrecy, here was another example of how unusual things have grown at the club.
Desmond, the club's dominant presence, operates in the margins. The absentee totem, the individual with the power to make all the important decisions he wants without having the obligation of justifying them in any public forum.
He does not attend club annual meetings, sending his offspring, Ross, instead. He rarely, if ever, gives interviews about the team unless they're hagiographic in nature. And even then, he's reluctant to speak out.
There have been instances on an occasion or two to support the club with private messages to media organisations, but nothing is heard in the open.
This is precisely how he's wanted it to remain. And it's exactly what he went against when going full thermonuclear on the manager on Monday.
The official line from the team is that Rodgers stepped down, but reading Desmond's invective, carefully, one must question why did he permit it to get such a critical point?
Assuming Rodgers is guilty of all of the things that Desmond is claiming he's responsible for, then it's fair to inquire why was the manager not removed?
He has accused him of distorting things in public that did not tally with the facts.
He claims Rodgers' statements "played a part to a toxic atmosphere around the club and fuelled hostility towards members of the management and the board. A portion of the criticism aimed at them, and at their loved ones, has been entirely unwarranted and unacceptable."
What an remarkable allegation, that is. Lawyers might be mobilising as we speak.
'Rodgers' Aspirations Clashed with the Club's Strategy Again
To return to happier times, they were close, Dermot and Brendan. The manager praised Desmond at all opportunities, expressed gratitude to him every chance. Brendan deferred to Dermot and, really, to no one other.
This was the figure who took the criticism when his returned happened, after the previous manager.
It was the most controversial appointment, the return of the prodigal son for some supporters or, as some other Celtic fans would have described it, the arrival of the unapologetic figure, who left them in the lurch for another club.
The shareholder had Rodgers' support. Over time, Rodgers turned on the charm, achieved the wins and the honors, and an uneasy truce with the fans turned into a affectionate relationship again.
There was always - always - going to be a point when Rodgers' ambition came in contact with the club's business model, though.
It happened in his initial tenure and it transpired again, with bells on, over the last year. Rodgers publicly commented about the sluggish process the team conducted their player acquisitions, the endless delay for prospects to be landed, then not landed, as was frequently the case as far as he was concerned.
Time and again he spoke about the necessity for what he termed "flexibility" in the market. The fans concurred with him.
Despite the club spent record amounts of money in a twelve-month period on the £11m Arne Engels, the costly another player and the £6m Auston Trusty - all of whom have performed well to date, with Idah already having departed - the manager pushed for increased resources and, often, he did it in openly.
He planted a bomb about a internal disunity inside the club and then distanced himself. When asked about his comments at his next news conference he would typically downplay it and almost reverse what he stated.
Internal issues? No, no, all are united, he'd say. It looked like he was playing a risky game.
Earlier this year there was a report in a publication that allegedly originated from a source close to the organization. It said that Rodgers was damaging Celtic with his open criticisms and that his true aim was managing his exit strategy.
He didn't want to be present and he was engineering his exit, that was the implication of the story.
The fans were enraged. They then viewed him as akin to a martyr who might be carried out on his shield because his directors wouldn't support his plans to bring success.
This disclosure was damaging, of course, and it was meant to hurt Rodgers, which it accomplished. He called for an investigation and for the guilty person to be removed. Whether there was a examination then we heard nothing further about it.
By then it was clear Rodgers was shedding the support of the people in charge.
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Margaret Houston
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