The SRU have issued a hands-off warning to Celtic over Dom McKay- or suggested that there will be a price to pay for his early release.
Earlier this month Celtic reached agreement with the SRU for McKay to start his new job on July 1 as successor to Peter Lawwell.
Neil Lennon’s resignation leaves Celtic in a delicate situation of having an Interim Manager in place with out-going CEO Lawwell unlikely to be involved in appointing a permanent boss.
Waiting until July 1 to start a recruitment process isn’t ideal but neither is appointing a new manager ahead of the arrival of McKay as CEO.
Rather than give an interview to one publisher SRU Chief Executive Mark Dodson has told the Press Association that McKay isn’t making an early move with that fed in to all Mainstream news outlets.
There could well be off-duty contact between McKay and his next employer but there wasn’t much encouragement in the comments coming out of Murrayfield today.
Sky Sports report:
However, Murrayfield chief executive Mark Dodson is adamant McKay – who currently serves as his number two – will be going nowhere until they find a new man for his position as the SRU’s chief operating officer.
“What’s happening at Celtic is out of my control,” Dodson said. “It’s not something I’m utterly familiar with but I do know Dom is going to have a very full in-tray when he gets there. The issue for us is that he has a notice period that he has to serve here and we need stability in our business too.
“So I expect Dom to be here with us for a while. We’re going through a restructure process of our own here anyway so Dom moving to Celtic just gives us a chance once more to look at what we’re going to do. But yeah, the roles will be replaced and we’ll make sure that we take our time and get some outstanding candidates to replace Dom.”
Scotland’s final Six Nations match is at home to Italy on March 20. Since announcing McKay’s appointment Celtic haven’t made any further comment with Lawwell continuing in his role as CEO.
