GLASGOW, SCOTLAND - OCTOBER 02: Celtic Chief Executive Officer Michael Nicholson during a UEFA Europa League 2025/26 League Phase MD2 match between Celtic and SC Braga at Celtic Park, on October 02, 2025, in Glasgow, Scotland. (Photo by Ross MacDonald/SNS Group via Getty Images)
Michael Nicholson survived Tuesday as Celtic’s Chief Executive Officer.
The previous day the club had sacked Wilfried Nancy and Paul Tisdale.
That duo were two of the key appointments on Nicholson’s reign. The other was Mark Lawwell.
In a properly functioning PLC every appointment at that level is driven by the CEO.
As we know Dermot Desmond drives the decisions at Celtic. Twice Martin O’Neill has been appointed as Interim Manager this season, neither time has Nicholson been mentioned in the process.
Nicholson has two options on Celtic’s disastrous season.
Either he is the CEO making the big decisions or he cowers in his office doing nothing while extracting £17,000 a week.
@CelticFC if he’s lying here he should be sacked
If he’s serious he should be sacked https://t.co/3HCC7dzPeK
— Mac #120? (@weeramborossa) January 6, 2026
On December 3 Nicholson told the Celtic website:
In appointing Wilfried to Celtic, we believe we have brought a hugely talented Manager to the club. He is a man who absolutely understands the demands at Celtic, he is a man of real humility but also someone with his own ideas, his own vision and such a personal drive and desire to do well for the club and our supporters.
Everyone at the club will unite strongly behind Wilfried as we move forward and we will ensure we will give him our unswerving support as we strive to achieve our objectives.
Over more than four years as Celtic CEO Nicholson has provided Celtic TV with two interviews.
Reading a script behind Gerry McCulloch confirms that the Celtic CEO is every bit as wooden and spineless as the pictures portray him.
All that Celtic fans have heard from Nicholson is how wonderful Nancy will be. The Frenchman lasted 33 days, taking charge of eight matches and coming close to trashing the season.
Many suspected that Nicholson was an empty suit. The Nancy disaster confirms that. McCulloch is highly unlikely to be commissioned again to produce a sympathetic view of the CEO.
Surely time is up for Celtic’s ‘leading sports lawyer’. But what firm is going to take on a complete loser on the back of his Celtic stint.
Should Michael Nicholson be sacked as Celtic CEO?
YES- The clear out of dross must continue
NO- Mikey is a leader and a right good Celt
Why would he have been aware of WN for a long time?
I mean, we had BR in place, a well respected and successful manager.
Was he aware of WN in advance because the plan was already in place to push BR out the door?
For me, this is just confirmation that BR was being deliberately undermined, he knew Tidsdale was useless and called it out.
No wonder he walked, snakes in suits.
It barely matters who the CEO is if their role is solely to be a glove puppet for the Grand Old Duke of Cork. It’s like choosing between Sooty, Sweep or Sue. Personally, I’d pick Sue because she always seemed to have a nicer personality than Sooty or Sweep, although deep down I always knew she was really just Harry Corbett as well.
Nicholson should be held to account for these comments about his or the board’s outstanding candidate, we are lucky that MON has come back after that disaster if he had been kept we possibly would have one the cup top of league and saved roughly 5 mil which could have been spent on a player the old saying penny wise pound foolish.
Bad enough he hailed the appointment, seemingly board led not Desmond this time. But even after the clear evidence of a few games, Nicholson gave this non-descript disaster a vote of confidence !!
He should resign with immediate effect for a complete failure to do his due diligence of this imposter and the millions of ££££s he has cost this club.
With MON & Maloney at the helm and doing well, we would almost certainly have been clear at the top of the league right now, instead of needing a huge push to recover the lost ground.
Hopefully the new recruit from Chelsea has some proper contacts / targets we can attract in this window. I would bin every single “Report” if any from Tisdale and his scouting / data system.
The most striking part of that WN endorsement? —-
“ He is a man who absolutely understands the demands at Celtic, he is a man of real humility”
The absolute bollocks that a PR person would produce. ( I’d be surprised if anyone at Celtic has a computer never mind able to use AI!) Michael Nicolson is so out of his depth he can’t see the shore.
This time next week we’ll still be asking when are they bringing a striker in
https://youtu.be/vv9-zTWvDfA?si=BkyTfAdlOHP33Jck Have any of you seen this idiot mention Celtic as hooligans
Well, let’s not forget that other sackable / resigning mistake from the CEO?
MON publicly stated that he had not even been asked to consider staying on at the club until season end.
A quite staggering admission?
After a month of disaster with Nancy – plus the added, significant expenses
of recruiting / firing him and his backroom team –
the club decided only THEN to ask MON to manage until season end…?
That monumental mistake in judgement also sits squarely with the CEO.
[But, the fact that he is still lingering at the club confirms that he is just
a very expensive, nodding donkey for DD? 🙁 ]
A ‘ sackable offence ? ‘ Just the one ? That’s a bit on the conservative side …with a small ‘ c’! ‘ Don’t you think ?
Why can’t desmond see right through nicolson ??????? The guys a pure banger .
If they do get a striker – Hamstring guaranteed for sure…
Then again Pissdale is away so perhaps not !
£17,000 a week. Your turn for the big spoon Michael. It’ll be easy, just keep your mouth shut and I’ll make all the decisions.
The old pals bowling club mentality. Doesn’t cost them a bean too. Absolutely shameful.
A shower of parasitic bastards.