West Brom chairman Jeremy Peace will now turn his attention to finding a replacement for Tony Mowbray who ended weeks of speculation by signing a rolling 12-month contract with his former club.
Mowbray was given permission by Peace to open negotiations with the Parkhead club on Saturday after Celtic chief executive Peter Lawwell eventually agreed to the Baggies' request for £2million compensation.
As expected, Mowbray agreed personal terms and will be joined in the east end of Glasgow by Mark Venus, his assistant at The Hawthorns, and Peter Grant, his first-team coach at Albion and a former Celtic team-mate.
Peace said: "Tony leaves with our best wishes for a successful future in football.
"We will now concentrate fully on the important task of appointing a new manager who can take the club forward.
"As we stated last week, we did not want to lose Tony nor did we encourage Celtic's approach. However, there was a compensation clause in Tony's contract which has been met to our satisfaction and, after talks with Celtic, Tony has decided to join them."
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Can't see Coppell being any use to us, he has had loads of jobs with little success.
Much of the blame for this fiasco lies with the Chairman. Not spending during the
window in previous years. Medling with squad trimming etc. Peace is a businessman and
not a supporter at the end of the day. Ferguson would be my choice or Ferguson and McInnes together.
at the end of the day it was the CHAIRPERSON who got him moved on for money by his complete desire to TRIM a squad that will play MORE games
we shouldnt be moaning about Mowbray
we should be moaning about PEACE !!!
when all these other clubs find buyers ... why cant we ?
Peace needs to sell up and QUICKLY
BUT still bring in Steve Coppell as NO COMPO to pay
true winwood dave,i to have 50yrs service to my club and named my boy after `the king`but i cannot tis time sit back tony mowbray has @#$% onevery albion fan he didnt have to leave............i was sad to see big ron go but after all he had took us as fr as he could have and yes it was the big one man utd not the `other` team in a two team league.......how long wll he last..................boing boing
Do not panic do not pass go! We have all been here before.Osvaldo regrets his decision to leave us.Gary was pushed and saved us from sinking like Bushbury Town did in the eighties. Gary still speaks of us (the fans) from his heart.Ray Harford God bless him was a lovely man who also acknowledged that he should have stayed. I have been a season ticket holder for 50 years since the age of 5.Tony Mowbray will at some point realise that he was a privileged man to manage our club and i hope he is big enough to acknowledge that fact at some point in the future.The 3 biggest clubs in England in terms of loyal support (Trust me I am an old Git now)are us The Albion Sunderland & Portsmouth. Comments welcolmed. Derek Mccines & Michael Appleton?
hey peace you short sighted idiot,mowbray dont leave with mine and i reckon another 30,000 loyal fas he was lured by the sottish pound and your refusal to bak him,he soon showed his colour....green / white so tell us h leaves with good fukin wishes do me a favour @#$% off with him...................loyal...........dont make me laff if you wanted him you would have demanded 10 million not a pittance.....baggies lets get this dictator out of our club
PEACE OUT THEN GET STEVIE COPPELL IN TO MANAGE AND A NEW BOARD WHO WILL SPEND THE PARACHUTE PAYMENTS ON TEAM STRENGTHING RATHER THAN GROUND IMPROVEMENTS ... AS WE EXPECT TO SEE 15M INVESTED IN A BETTER SQUAD !!! NOT HIDDEN IN WAGES PAID OUT
WELL I AM SORRY TO SEE TONY GO. BUT THAT IS FOOTBALL.IRISH CLUB IN MICKEY MOUSE LEAGUE
RES IPSA LOQUITOR
Do contracts mean anything ?
Disappointing decision, would have expected better from Mowbray, but we have had the same with other managers in the last 30 years. Lets clear out the dead
wood now, starting with full backs who cost 50,000 and have inflated opinions
about their ability. Up the Baggies.
Shame that Peace isn't going up there as well !
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