{"id":190042,"date":"2025-10-10T08:39:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-10T08:39:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/190042\/"},"modified":"2025-10-10T08:39:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T08:39:07","slug":"celtic-explain-steps-behind-paul-tisdale-appointment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/190042\/","title":{"rendered":"Celtic explain steps behind Paul Tisdale appointment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  The club addressed this at a recent meeting with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.glasgowtimes.co.uk\/sport\/celtic?ref=au\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Celtic<\/a> supporter group representatives and board members.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  They pointed out that Tisdale&#8217;s recruitment is part of the club&#8217;s structural modernisation to enhance European competition.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Fans were interested in other potential candidates and any pre-existing ties between Tisdale and the club.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  It was clarified that several individuals were considered for the role.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  As part of the selection process, Tisdale was tasked with analysing the club&#8217;s game model, mapping the playing style and system, and using data to identify players fitting the club&#8217;s model.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  His performance was impressive, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.glasgowtimes.co.uk\/topics\/brendan-rodgers\/?ref=au\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Brendan Rodgers<\/a> backed the final decision to hire him.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The meeting minutes recorded: &#8220;The meeting discussed the Head of Football Operations role and the recruitment thereof, with confirmation sought as to whether a recruitment process was followed and if other candidates were interviewed, whether there was any pre-existing connection between the Clubs&#8217; current Head of Football Operations and any Celtic plc board members and whether the football manager was involved.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;CMcK (Chris McKay) confirmed that the Club spoke with several potential candidates that had been identified but that there was no external recruitment consultancy appointed.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;MN (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.glasgowtimes.co.uk\/topics\/michael-nicholson\/?ref=au\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Michael Nicholson<\/a>) confirmed that there was no family or business connection between the current Head of Football Operations and Celtic plc board members, but that individuals had crossed paths previously.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;MN confirmed that the manager supported the recruitment of Paul Tisdale following a consultancy period last summer.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;CMcK confirmed that Paul Tisdale had worked on a project in which he analysed the Club&#8217;s game model with a view to mapping the Club&#8217;s playing style and system with a view to using data driven results to identify players who fit the Club&#8217;s model.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The club addressed this at a recent meeting with Celtic supporter group representatives and board members. They pointed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":190043,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-190042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-football","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190042","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190042\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/190043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}