Paul Tisdale is being targeted to overhaul Celtic’s Recruitment and Development set up.
Brendan Rodgers has been measured in his criticism of the set up that he inherited but after a disastrous summer of recruitment in 2023 the hoops boss seemed to take control in January 2024 with Nicolas Kuhn and Adam Idah proving to be a cut above the previous template of project signings.
In March it was announced that Mark Lawwell, son of Chairman Peter, was leaving his recruitment role but there has been no word from inside the club of a successor or revamped Recruitment set up.
It took Celtic until the final week of the summer 2024 transfer window to get serious over recruitment with Rodgers insisting on a quality threshold.
Plans for January should be well underway with the well connected Stephen McGowan of the Daily Mail reporting:
Celtic are set to bring in former Exeter City boss Paul Tisdale to revamp the club’s football operations.
Describing himself as a ‘football doctor’, 51-year-old Tisdale has been working as a self-employed consultant.
The former Southampton midfielder also coached MK Dons, Bristol Rovers and Stevenage in a managerial career which spanned over 1,000 games in the dug-out.
With head of recruitment Mark Lawwell and chief scout Joe Dudgeon having left Celtic in March, Tisdale has been targeted for a senior role at the Scottish champions, overseeing functions such as recruitment, data and coaching development.
The summer transfer of Matt O’Riley created a trading profit but just as significantly were the moves out of the club of Sead Haksabanovic, Ben Siegrist, Yuki Kobayashi and Oh Hyeon-gyu with loan deals arranged for others recruited by Mark Lawwell such as Kwon Hyeoko-kyu and Gus Lagerbielke with earlier deals completed for Alexandro Bernabei and Marco Tilio to move out the club.
