McGowan’s update on Paul Tisdale’s Celtic role

Paul Tisdale is already in place as Celtic’s Head of Recruitment according to Stephen McGowan.

On Wednesday evening the Daily Mail reporter broke the news about the former Exeter City boss, now dubbed a ‘Football Doctor’ was in the frame for a role at Celtic.

There has been nothing officially from Celtic or Tisdale but in today’s Daily Mail McGowan confirms the role of the 51-year-old with an eye-catching dress sense:

According to his old mucker Steve Perryman, Celtic’s new head of recruitment is a man who wears many hats.

If Paul Tisdale has his wits about him, he’ll leave them at home when he goes out in Glasgow city centre.

Once dubbed ‘the most stylish man in football’, the 51-year-old cut a dash on the Exeter City touchline by wearing 1950s-style pork pie hats, deerstalkers, tweed waistcoats and cravats.

Until March Mark Lawwell was in place as Celtic’s Head of Recruitment, a role that he held through four transfer windows in which only Alistair Johnston has been found to be first team ready.

Back in the summer of 2022 Lawwell brought in Sead Haksabanovic, Alexandro Bernabei, Ben Siegrist, Moritz Jenz and Oliver Abildgaard. Only Bernabei is still with Celtic but is in the middle of a loan spell with Brazilian side Internacional.

A similar fate awaited the signings of last summer with only Luis Palma, Yang Hyun-Jun and Maik Nawrocki still in the first team squad with none of those players starting a single match in the SPFL or Champions League this season.

This summer it seems that the manager has taken control of recruitment with a notable improvement in quality while still delivering a significant profit on trading.