Are Celtic Doing A Rebuild Of The Scouting Team To Rodgers Blueprint Now?

Yesterday there was an interesting little bit of information which made its way into the pubic domain concerning stuff that is happening in the background. The club has put out a job ad for an “analyst.” I suspect that this is in relation to the recruitment team.

And this begs an interesting question; are we done with this “head of recruitment” stuff now? Ange Postecoglou was a tremendous success without one of those above his head.

Whatever it was that he did, he didn’t need that particular role filled with someone to second guess his work. You wonder if perhaps Rodgers isn’t insisting on a similar setup.

We need an analyst because we undoubtedly lost some good people when Mark Lawwell left. One high profile member of his team departed with him, and that was probably the least of it. So, we do have to start rebuilding that area of the club … is the boss running that rebuild? Is he stamping his mark on it? Is it, in fact, being built to meet his blueprint?

That would be interesting to say the least.

That could be what we’ve needed. The system certainly should have been made to serve his needs last summer. If it had been we might have this league title just about sewn up by now, instead of having to fight for it. Massive mistakes have been made here, by a lot of people at Celtic Park and we’re not done with that issue, not by a long way.

But at some point, you have to give people time and space to start fixing what they’ve broken, and I know that this is what they rely on.

If we lose this title hell will deserve to be paid. But at the end of it all, regardless, this club needs to start preparing for what comes next.

If Ibrox has that Champions League jackpot we’re already facing an emboldened and stronger version of them next season … and we had better be ready to ante up.

That job is not going to wait until we know how this season ends. It can’t. So it makes perfect sense that it’s already underway and Rodgers has confirmed that he been talking about his own plans for signings and the rebuild he knows has to come.

Mark Lawwell’s departure strongly suggests that he has won the internal debates over what the strategy should be. With Desmond having his back, he might now be exactly where he should be; the most important person at Celtic Park.

If he’s leading the changes, if he’s in charge of the process, if the football people are finally back in charge of the football department we are definitely on the way to better days ahead.