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Mark Wilson reveals Fergal Harkin’s interesting hands on Celtic experience

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Mark Wilson has revealed that Fergal Harkin accompanied Celtic on some foreign trips during his time playing for Celtic.

The defender joined Celtic in January 2006 not long after the hoops had switched over from a long running deal with Umbro to a lucrative kit deal with Nike.

Harkin has been touted for a role at Celtic, possibly Director of Football, but at that time was working on the marketing side with Nike as they developed their partnership with Celtic.

While playing in the League of Ireland Harkin qualified from University College Dublin with a Masters Degree in Business Studies. From Nike he moved to Manchester City in 2010 where he started on the coaching staff and is new responsible for their massive loan player operations that has involved Daniel Arzani, Patrick Roberts, John Guidetti and Jason Denayer al spending time at Celtic.

In July Dom McKay will replace Peter Lawwell with a new structure expected that will leave football decisions to people with a proper understanding of the role beyond hoping to make a quick profit on transfers.


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I came across Fergal (Harkin) before, believe it or not. When I was at Celtic around 2007, 2008. Fergal worked for Nike at the time, Celtic had just had the big sponsorship deal with the company and Fergal was at the club quite often.

I’m pretty sure that he came away with us on a couple of trips to the States and he had a great connection with the players. He had a lot of access to the players, he would chat.

A wee bit of history of Fergal, he played, or was involved in the Martin O’Neill Leicester team so he knows Neil Lennon, he knows the connection with the club and after his spell at Nike he went to Man City when the money came in and he was identified by the scouting department.

He has obviously progressed through his time there, he is in charge of the loan markets. If I believe what I’m reading that loan market at Manchester City is a huge department that he is running and over-seeing.

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