Celtic chairman Ian Bankier is ready to step down from his position subsequent 12 months. The Parkhead membership have introduced that the 70-year-old will depart his place as each chairman and as an organization director in January 2023.
Bankier changed John Reid on the high desk in October 2011 and has overseen a interval of giant success for the membership throughout the previous decade, one which included 9 consecutive Premiership titles and a Quadruple Treble. However his time at Celtic Park will come to a conclusion on the finish of the 12 months because the membership introduced his deliberate retirement in an announcement to the London Inventory Alternate on Friday afternoon.
The assertion stated: "The administrators of the corporate want to announce that Ian Bankier, chairman of the corporate, will retire from his position as director and chairman of the corporate with impact from 1 January 2023. The corporate will make additional bulletins concerning a successor in the end."
And Bankier stated: “It has been an honour and a privilege to serve the membership I'll all the time love, as chairman, for greater than ten years. Our intention was all the time to ship success on and off the pitch and, above all, to provide Celtic followers a membership they might be happy with.
"Throughout this time, I'm grateful to have had the chance to work with so many improbable individuals who have had Celtic of their hearts and labored so exhausting for our membership.
“I do know the remainder of the board will proceed to hunt the easiest for Celtic always and can search to make sure that Celtic maintains its place as the largest and finest membership in Scottish soccer, in addition to progressing as a pressure in European soccer.
“I want the board, our improbable supervisor Ange Postecoglou, our gamers and workers, and, after all, all our supporters' much-continued success as our nice membership continues to maneuver ahead.”
Celtic's majority shareholder Dermot Desmond paid a heat tribute to Bankier in gentle of the information and warranted followers the membership would ship a easy succession. Desmond stated: "I wish to thank Ian sincerely for his contribution to Celtic throughout the previous decade.
"Ian has supplied nice counsel and stability throughout a sustained interval of development and success for the membership and I want Ian and his household effectively for the long run. We'll make sure that we work very intently with Ian over the following few months to ship a easy and efficient transition previous to asserting his successor."
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