On December 7 as a stalling tactic the Celtic board announced that they were holding a managerial review.
Last Monday, February 15, after two months of careful thought, assessment and analysis Chairman Ian Bankier emerged to provide an update soon after the Financial Results for the six months to 31 December were published.
The Celtic chairman claimed:
We are in the period of review we indicated in our announcement of 7th December. I must state clearly that all decisions we take will be taken calmly and rationally. We will not make hasty decisions that we might regret.
Eight days later the club has confirmed that Lennon has resigned as manager.
Having waited two months to come up with the paragraph above it has taken just a further nine days to make that ‘hasty’ decision. Lennon made it, making Bankier’s words and two month review seem like time wasted..
After The Sun had got the story last night, at 7am this morning Celtic announced that Neil Lennon had resigned.
Taking things at face value the Celtic board invested their trust and the club’s finances in a man that opted to walk away just two days after claiming that he was ready for the summer rebuild.
It seems that the club’s slow running review has been time wasted.
As it stands the men that trusted in Lennon, who took more than two months to announce that they wouldn’t make a hasty decision have now been left without a manager. They didn’t read the situation very well. The board were unable to detect that Lennon was close to resigning.
Going by their recent track record on decision making there are plenty of grounds for Celtic fans to be concerned over what comes next from their corporate leaders.
