'The Banter Years'

Two you what, if glory years mean trebles every season I never want them to end.

 

I know its been said before but that is a staggering amount. It makes him by far and away the highest earner at the club. Does anyone know if thats the case at many other clubs? How can he in good faith justify our wage structure, which could be seen as prohibitive when he's cleaning up so much money above any of the players & manager. It really shows what he thinks of himself and what we value in our business model. I.e Profit, profit and profit. Lawell is a money man yet I agree with others who say he has manouvered himself in to this Director of Football role. His 'come out each window stronger' mantra that he peddles despite the obvious regression in squad quality also shows he makes the judgement call on what areas of the team needs 'strengthened'.

Ultimately he has far too much influence at this club. Lazy recruitment, eeking out contracts to over the hill players, over reliance on loan players (the Man City connection through his kid), penny pinching on squad players ahead of quality all point to this but Desmond and the board seem more than happy with it & it doesn't look like changing for a long time. Realistically probably only a complete capitulation on the field domestically will begin to change that.

 

This, plus some of the criticism is also continually inaccurate/overstated which then reduces the valid criticism.

 

£2.4 million of that was from a staggered bonus which was negotiated with a remunerations committee but I'd hazard a guess that they didn't negotiate as ferociously as we do over every single transfer fee or contract. That is on top of his 100% salary increase between 16/17 to 18/19.

It puts him into the top 3 CEO packages in UK Football, only behind Levy of Spurs and Woodward of Man United. More than double Moore of Liverpool who overseen profit rising by more than 300% while Liverpool made a Champions League final, before winning it the following season and coming within 1 point of winning the league. It appears that we can compete with the EPL after all; but only in 1 particular area.

 

Club PR going into dave king levels of distraction today.

Facebook account : on this day we signed odsonne eduoard on a record breaking permanent deal!

Official site: on this day we signed george connolly

 

That's a real eye opener and I can bet the disparity between Levy/Woodward wage and their top earning players (probably players earn more) isn't as great as it is between Lawell and the players here.

 

I genuinely had no idea he was in that pay bracket in comparison with EPL....lots of food for thought there

 

This is nothing like the McGinn situation, the board * about with the McGinn situation hence why we lost him. In this situation the board have done almost everything right and are still getting slated for it.

 

They post these things all year round, they'd still have happened if we'd signed turnbull and four other players this week, it's not a conspiracy or deflection get a grip.

 

Our fans need to accept that not everyone wants to come to Celtic. That’s why we couldn’t get benitez or mourinho or martinez, and it’s why we don’t get a lot of players we go for. Outside of potential champions league football we don’t have very much to offer compared with low end prem teams/upper championship teams.

 

It's situations like the Mcginn transfer and our terrible transfer windows going back years now that lead to the board getting hammered either way. They have eroded any good will and fans have lost patience. Yes they have probably done the right thing here but I'm not surprised fans still give them grief, they have built up a reputation over the years of being cheap skates and this is coming back to bite them. Their statement was probably the biggest acknowledgement of that you will get.

 

I'm sorry but that's defeatist, propagandistic nonsense. Of course we will find it difficult to attract elite level managers and players but we should be able to attract individuals further down the rungs, either young players looking for game-time in a team that competes for trophies and in Europe or players that have fallen out of favour at richer clubs.

All we need to do is point to the recent examples of Champions League and possible Ballon D'on winner Virgil Van Dijk or Moussa Dembele who is on the cusp of a move to Man United, Arsenal etc.

Other clubs in provincial leagues with similar budgets as us manage to identify and attract players, why are we any different?

 

I take your point. We missed out on McGinn because we repeatedly failed to meet Hibs asking price until it was too late. With Turnbull we met the asking price and couldn't agree personal terms.

I just think there is some similarities, mostly in terms of the outcome. Alongside McGinn and McKenna, we have now ultimately failed to land another up and coming talent from Scotland.

The club then let the DT saga run on for a week, in the headlines daily, and we ended up not signing him. I feel because of this we have started the summer on a negative and in my opinion is going to affect the rest of our summer.

 

I'm sure Lawwell earned £1.25 m last year which makes his weekly wage £20k (a fair chunk in itself) so where do you get this £60k a week

 

£1.12 million salary, £2.4 million bonus = £3.52 million for the year or £67,692 per week.

 

In the heat of Lisbon...

 

That’s approx £24k a week.

 

Whatever way you cut it Lawells always getting a bonus. A massive one or an even more massive one so in real terms that 24k a week is prob a minimum of 35/40k up to the near 70K you have quoted. Best paid person at the club by far. Does he deserve it? In the majority of the fans eyes, * no. In the board room amongst the suits and the shareholders. * yeah he's the main man. Lawell only answers to the latter and that's the disconnect right there.

 

No more depressing pish. HIGH ENERGY. QUADRUPLE TREBLE. UP THE RA.