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Brendan Rodgers has left Celtic. He’s vanished into the mist with a resignation letter, as yet unpublished, and a knowing smirk. And if you still thought you were dreaming all this. Here’s the official evidence. With another plot twist attached, straight from the heart of the bureaucratic abyss. 27 October 2025. CELTIC PLC (“Celtic” or the “Club”) Brendan Rodgers to leave Celtic Celtic PLC confirms that first-team manager Brendan Rodgers will leave the Club immediately. He has today tendered his resignation which the Club has accepted. The Club would like to thank Brendan for his contribution to the Club during both of his periods at Celtic and wishes him success in the future. Former Celtic manager Martin O’Neill and former Celtic player Shaun Maloney have agreed to lead the first team on an interim basis. The process of appointing Celtic’s next permanent Football Manager is already underway, and an update will be communicated in due course. Enquiries: Celtic PLC Chris McKay, Chief Financial Officer Read it again. Just in case you missed it. That’s right — the Chief Financial Officer is now the voice of Celtic Football Club. Not the CEO, not even the omnipresent Peter Lawwell hologram. The accountant. The man who checks the printer leases and the VAT returns. When the finance guy is making the football announcements, you know the structure’s gone full dystopian. And there now will be questions asked about where the Chairman and the CEO are at the moment and about their own futures at Celtic PLC. David Low, who knows his way around the financial side of the business world, picked up on their names being notably absent from the official notification to the markets of the manager’s resignation. He was asked this question on X: ‘David with your background and experience can you tell me does Dermot have the authority to issue a statement on behalf of Celtic. Should statements not be issued solely by Celtic board?’ David Low’s response: ‘The chair or CEO normally makes these announcements and the fact a supposed NED issued the statement is notable. Also, notable is that neithers’ name was on the Stock exchange announcement.’ Does the CFO step forward because the CEO, Michael Nicholson, is rumoured to be halfway out the door, and the Chairman, Peter Lawwell, might not be far behind? There’s even talk of Willie Haughey waiting in the wings because nothing says “fresh start” like another millionaire with a club connection. And then there’s Dermot Desmond, the man who usually prefers the shadows, now suddenly raging in public. His statement wasn’t reassurance, it read like revenge. Pages of corporate fury, aimed squarely at Rodgers. He accused, contradicted, and moralised, like a billionaire priest doing penance by blaming everyone else. If Desmond’s goal was calm, he missed the target by miles. He’s poured petrol on the pitch and lit it with his cigar. Rodgers didn’t go alone. The backroom staff, one in particular, who has been part of the club for more than a decade, sided with him. Walked. Packed his things and left the lights on for loyal Stevie and Gordon Strachan’s boy. The rest followed their man out the door. So, the board, in a panic, dragged O’Neill from his fireside chair and Maloney from the youth system and told them to steady the ship. It’s football by defibrillator. It’s surreal. The club is in freefall, the leadership is in hiding, and the one person fronting it all now, it seems, is the financial controller. If this were any other organisation, the shareholders would be demanding resignations. But at Celtic, crisis has become routine of late, part of the operating model. So, here’s where we are, Rodgers gone. Desmond raging. The CFO informing the Stock Exchange. Rumours swirling of CEO and chairman exits. And in the dugout, a septuagenarian who thinks throw-in coaches are a moral failing, and his Seville sub, who just closed a youth-pathway corporate education video, on his laptop is to take training. This isn’t a football club anymore, it’s a corporate hallucination. A place where nostalgia has replaced leadership, and now appears outsourced to accountants. Celtic in the Eighties by David Potter, signed copies by Danny McGrain available from celticstarbooks.com Don’t miss the chance to purchase the late, great Celtic historian David Potter’s final book. All remaining copies have been signed by the legendary Celtic captain Danny McGrain PLUS you’ll also receive a FREE copy of David Potter’s Willie Fernie biography – Putting on the Style, and you’ll only be charged for postage on one book. Order from Celtic Star Books HERE.
