Dalglish awarded £600,000 over Celtic sacking Former Celtic director of football, Kenny Dalglish, has been awarded more than £600,000 after being sacked by the club last summer. At the five-minute hearing in the Court of Session in Edinburgh Mr Dalglish's lawyers accepted the payout and in turn the club agreed to drop a counter claim against him.

Mr Dalglish had originally been seeking £950,000 along with £35,163 worth of pension contributions from Celtic after being sacked in June.

The £950,000 claim was made up of a payment of £750,000 the club was obliged to pay on termination of his contract plus £200,000 in share options.

The £750,000 comprised payment of an after tax year's salary of £371,880, loss of company car, and loss of health, disability and life insurance benefits and pension contributions made by Celtic in the notice period.

It also included loss of an opportunity to earn an "executive performance incentive bonus" of £144,000 and a "football achievement bonus" of £60,000.

But the former Celtic, Liverpool and Scotland legend agreed to take £585,000 and £27,522 along with interest payments.

Brian Napier, advocate for Mr Dalglish, whose address was given as Belhaven Court, Newton Mearns, Glasgow, said it was agreed the matter would be settled today.

He asked Lord Macfadyen a decree for the reduced sum be granted in return for the counter claim being dropped, which was granted.

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At least I'm confident he'll not get another chance. Sad that he has taken so much out of football over the last few years. Compare and contrast his performance at Celtic with that of Martin O'Neill. As for what he did to us, I still find it difficult to talk about without getting upset.

-- Anonymous, December 15, 2000

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...or angry

-- Anonymous, December 15, 2000

Only one things makes me angrier than TSM, it's Gullit sneering at us. "Keegan's Newcastle weren't that good - Chelsea used to enjoy coming up and beating you. The whole of England was laughing at you when you blew the title". F...k off and see whether you ever get another manager's job, you git.

-- Anonymous, December 15, 2000

whereas dour, miserbale kenny was the life and soul of the party....

they were as bad as each other and did just as much damage, but i think it's been proved beyond doubt that even a manager as good as YBR is having trouble sorting the rabble/rubble left, into a half decent team.

-- Anonymous, December 15, 2000

Dalglish is still worse than Gullit in my books. Dalglish took a very good team, tore the heart out of it, spend £35 million on shit players many of whom have now been sold (or Need to be). Gullit inherited a poor team, spent £35 million trying to make it better, couldn't because he wasn't a very good manager. He did buy some reasonable players such as Dyer and errrrr OK we'll not go down that road, but atleast he left without asking for compensation, unlike his predicesor.

-- Anonymous, December 15, 2000

Dalglish has been compensated to the tune of over £1 million in the last 12 months for utterly failing in two consecutive jobs and getting kicked out of them both.

When good, hard-working people are being made redundant every day with little to no chance of finding another way to keep their families, this makes my blood boil.

He should be sued by NUFC for the contiinuing damage he caused to our club, and for recovery of the costs of correcting the results of his utter incompetence. Tosser!

-- Anonymous, December 15, 2000

Anybody know what Celtic's counterclaim was based upon?

Negligence? Accepting money under false pretences? Nepotism?

-- Anonymous, December 15, 2000

Okay folks. Accepting that Dalglish made a sows arse out of a silk purse.

However, he was a great footballer. He was also a good manager for Liverpool and Blackburn and I wish he'd won the championship for us.

I personally wish him all the best for his future. Probably in punditry or something far enough away from the front line management. He may have been a bad manager for us but he didn't slag the club or us off. He left with a certain decorum and - although he took some money to leave - who hasn't got a redundancy payout written into their contact.

So here's to you Kenny. You were out of your depth at NUFC but I believe you were personally honorable and I disagree entirely with those who may say otherwise!

Si

-- Anonymous, December 15, 2000

As a postscript:- I think you'll find almost all of the players who worked for him (Shearer, Lee, Barton, Speed, Dabs, Given) won't have a bad word said about him.

Even the sainted Peter (who was sold by TSM) regards him with respect!

By the way - I'm not related ;-)

-- Anonymous, December 15, 2000

Bok, learn your facts! It was Gullit who brought Dalglish Jnr into the first team - not Kenny. Kenny brought his son in on v. reasonable terms and I don't think anything Kenny did should reflect on his son.

-- Anonymous, December 15, 2000

I've no doubt mssrs Brady, Hamilton, Ketsbaia, Andersson, Tomasson, Pistone won't have a bad word said against him either. But the way KD treated Peacock, Srnicek, Elliott, Clark, Ferdinand and Beardsley leaves me more than a little angry to say the least. He was out of his depth - a man who time had passed by - much in the same way that's happened to George Graham. The thing that really tipped the scales towards Gullit was his treatment of Rob Lee and Dags Jr amongst others and the Makem fiasco. He didn't set out to rip us to pieces like it APPEARS KD did, Gullit just wasn't up to it. Personally, i'll probably never forgive KD for what he did - because he had the foundations of a winning team in place. It has to be said though that the board were partly responsible as well. Endorsing ANY decisions to sign/release players. The alarm bells should have rung loudly when Robbie Elliot was transfered. RG can do what he likes - he was up against it right from the start. I feel the same way about him as i do about Bill McGarry. They just weren't good enough.

-- Anonymous, December 16, 2000

"Dalglish made a sows arse out of a silk purse!"

Another literary gem from the annals of the Greenspun bbs, and another nomination for "Line of the Year".
Priceless; absolutely brilliant Si.

The only area where I deviate from those criticising KD is those who feel he destroyed a great team that was capable on winning trophies. IMO he inherited a team of talented players, but one that was in decline. Changes needed to be made to restructure the team to relaunch a PL challenge.
In the event he totally and utterly screwed it up, replacing top players with dross, and we're still suffering because of his actions.

Don't be too fooled by players fondness for KD - he behaved as one of them, was almost certainly too close to them, and unequivocally supported them when constructive criticism was what was needed. This was all part of his failure as a manager - managers don't need to be liked to be successful.

-- Anonymous, December 16, 2000

agree with you clarky - but the WHOLESALE changes like the ones he made? There's 'tweaking' - something i think YBRs doing at the moment and there's 'rebuilding'....

-- Anonymous, December 16, 2000