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How Irretrievable Breakdown Resulted in a Savage Parting for Brendan Rodgers & Celtic
Merely a quarter of an hour after Celtic released the news of their manager's shock departure via a perfunctory five-paragraph communication, the bombshell landed, courtesy of the major shareholder, with whiskers twitching in obvious fury.
In 551-words, key investor Dermot Desmond eviscerated his former ally.
The man he persuaded to come to the club when their rivals were getting uppity in that period and needed putting in their place. Plus the man he once more turned to after the previous manager left for another club in the summer of 2023.
So intense was the severity of his takedown, the jaw-dropping comeback of the former boss was almost an secondary note.
Twenty years after his departure from the club, and after much of his latter years was given over to an continuous series of public speaking engagements and the performance of all his old hits at the team, O'Neill is back in the manager's seat.
Currently - and maybe for a time. Considering things he has said recently, O'Neill has been keen to secure another job. He will view this role as the ultimate chance, a gift from the club's legacy, a homecoming to the place where he enjoyed such glory and adulation.
Would he give it up easily? It seems unlikely. The club might well reach out to contact their ex-manager, but O'Neill will act as a soothing presence for the moment.
All-out Effort at Character Assassination
O'Neill's reappearance - however strange as it is - can be set aside because the biggest 'wow!' moment was the harsh manner the shareholder described the former manager.
It was a full-blooded endeavor at character assassination, a labeling of him as untrustful, a source of untruths, a disseminator of misinformation; divisive, misleading and unjustifiable. "A single person's desire for self-interest at the expense of others," stated he.
For a person who values decorum and sets high importance in business being done with discretion, if not complete secrecy, here was a further illustration of how unusual things have become at the club.
The major figure, the organization's most powerful presence, moves in the background. The remote leader, the individual with the authority to make all the important decisions he wants without having the responsibility of explaining them in any open setting.
He never participate in club annual meetings, sending his offspring, his son, in his place. He rarely, if ever, does interviews about the team unless they're glowing in nature. And even then, he's reluctant to communicate.
He has been known on an rare moment to defend the club with confidential missives to news outlets, but nothing is heard in public.
This is precisely how he's preferred it to be. And that's just what he went against when launching full thermonuclear on the manager on Monday.
The official line from the club is that Rodgers stepped down, but reading Desmond's criticism, line by line, one must question why he permit it to get this far down the line?
Assuming the manager is culpable of every one of the accusations that Desmond is claiming he's responsible for, then it's fair to inquire why had been the manager not dismissed?
Desmond has accused him of spinning information in public that did not tally with reality.
He claims his statements "have contributed to a hostile environment around the club and fuelled animosity towards members of the management and the board. Some of the criticism aimed at them, and at their loved ones, has been entirely unwarranted and improper."
Such an extraordinary charge, indeed. Legal representatives might be preparing as we speak.
'Rodgers' Aspirations Clashed with Celtic's Strategy Again
Looking back to better times, they were tight, Dermot and Brendan. Rodgers praised the shareholder at every turn, expressed gratitude to him every chance. Brendan deferred to him and, truly, to no one other.
This was the figure who drew the criticism when his comeback occurred, after the previous manager.
This marked the most divisive appointment, the return of the prodigal son for some supporters or, as some other supporters would have put it, the return of the unapologetic figure, who departed in the difficulty for Leicester.
The shareholder had his back. Over time, the manager turned on the charm, achieved the victories and the honors, and an uneasy truce with the supporters turned into a love-in once more.
There was always - consistently - going to be a point when his ambition clashed with the club's operational approach, however.
This occurred in his first incarnation and it happened again, with added intensity, over the last year. He publicly commented about the sluggish way Celtic conducted their transfer business, the endless delay for targets to be secured, then not landed, as was too often the case as far as he was concerned.
Time and again he stated about the need for what he called "agility" in the market. Supporters agreed with him.
Even when the club spent unprecedented sums of money in a twelve-month period on the £11m one signing, the costly Adam Idah and the £6m Auston Trusty - all of whom have cut it so far, with Idah already having left - Rodgers demanded more and more and, oftentimes, he did it in public.
He planted a controversy about a lack of cohesion within the club and then distanced himself. When asked about his remarks at his subsequent media briefing he would typically minimize it and almost reverse what he said.
Lack of cohesion? Not at all, all are united, he'd say. It looked like he was playing a risky strategy.
A few months back there was a story in a publication that purportedly originated from a insider associated with the club. It claimed that Rodgers was damaging Celtic with his public outbursts and that his real motivation was managing his exit strategy.
He desired not to be present and he was arranging his exit, that was the implication of the story.
The fans were angered. They now viewed him as similar to a martyr who might be carried out on his shield because his board members did not support his vision to achieve triumph.
This disclosure was damaging, of course, and it was intended to hurt Rodgers, which it did. He called for an inquiry and for the responsible individual to be removed. Whether there was a probe then we heard nothing further about it.
At that point it was plain Rodgers was losing the support of the individuals in charge.
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