Merely a quarter of an hour after the club released the announcement of their manager's surprising departure via a perfunctory short communication, the bombshell arrived, from Dermot Desmond, with whiskers twitching in obvious anger.
In an extensive statement, key investor Desmond savaged his former ally.
This individual he convinced to come to the club when their rivals were getting uppity in 2016 and required being in their place. And the man he again turned to after Ange Postecoglou departed to another club in the recent offseason.
So intense was the ferocity of his critique, the jaw-dropping comeback of Martin O'Neill was almost an after-thought.
Two decades after his departure from the club, and after much of his recent life was given over to an unending series of appearances and the performance of all his old hits at Celtic, O'Neill is back in the manager's seat.
For now - and perhaps for a time. Considering comments he has expressed recently, he has been eager to secure a new position. He'll view this one as the ultimate chance, a gift from the club's legacy, a return to the environment where he enjoyed such glory and praise.
Would he relinquish it readily? It seems unlikely. The club could possibly make a call to sound out Postecoglou, but the new appointment will serve as a soothing presence for the time being.
O'Neill's return - as surreal as it is - can be set aside because the most significant 'wow!' moment was the brutal way the shareholder described Rodgers.
It was a full-blooded attempt at defamation, a labeling of him as untrustful, a perpetrator of untruths, a spreader of misinformation; disruptive, misleading and unjustifiable. "A single person's wish for self-preservation at the expense of others," stated Desmond.
For somebody who values propriety and places great store in dealings being conducted with confidentiality, if not outright privacy, here was another illustration of how unusual things have become at Celtic.
The major figure, the club's most powerful presence, operates in the margins. The remote leader, the individual with the power to make all the major decisions he pleases without having the responsibility of explaining them in any public forum.
He does not participate in club annual meetings, dispatching his son, his son, instead. He rarely, if ever, does interviews about the team unless they're hagiographic in nature. And still, he's slow to speak out.
There have been instances on an rare moment to support the club with private messages to news outlets, but nothing is made in the open.
It's exactly how he's wanted it to remain. And it's exactly what he went against when going full thermonuclear on Rodgers on that day.
The directive from the club is that he resigned, but reviewing Desmond's criticism, carefully, one must question why he allow it to reach this far down the line?
Assuming Rodgers is culpable of every one of the accusations that the shareholder is claiming he's responsible for, then it's fair to ask why was the manager not removed?
Desmond has charged him of spinning things in open forums that were inconsistent with the facts.
He claims his words "have contributed to a toxic atmosphere around the team and encouraged hostility towards individuals of the executive team and the board. A portion of the abuse aimed at them, and at their loved ones, has been completely unwarranted and unacceptable."
Such an extraordinary charge, indeed. Legal representatives might be preparing as we discuss.
To return to happier days, they were tight, the two men. The manager praised Desmond at every turn, thanked him whenever possible. Brendan deferred to him and, truly, to no one other.
This was Desmond who took the heat when Rodgers' returned happened, post-Postecoglou.
It was the most divisive hiring, the return of the returning hero for some supporters or, as other supporters would have put it, the return of the unapologetic figure, who left them in the difficulty for another club.
Desmond had his back. Over time, Rodgers turned on the charm, achieved the wins and the trophies, and an fragile truce with the fans turned into a affectionate relationship once more.
There was always - consistently - going to be a point when his ambition clashed with Celtic's business model, though.
This occurred in his first incarnation and it happened again, with added intensity, recently. Rodgers publicly commented about the slow process Celtic conducted their transfer business, the endless waiting for targets to be secured, then not landed, as was too often the case as far as he was believed.
Repeatedly he spoke about the need for what he called "agility" in the market. Supporters agreed with him.
Even when the organization splurged record amounts of funds in a twelve-month period on the £11m Arne Engels, the costly Adam Idah and the significant further acquisition - all of whom have cut it so far, with one already having departed - Rodgers pushed for more and more and, oftentimes, he expressed this in openly.
He planted a controversy about a internal disunity inside the team and then distanced himself. Upon questioning about his comments at his next media briefing he would usually minimize it and nearly contradict what he said.
Lack of cohesion? No, no, everybody is aligned, he'd claim. It looked like Rodgers was playing a dangerous game.
A few months back there was a report in a newspaper that allegedly originated from a insider close to the club. It claimed that Rodgers was harming the team with his public outbursts and that his real motivation was managing his departure plan.
He desired not to be present and he was arranging his way out, this was the tone of the story.
The fans were enraged. They then saw him as similar to a sacrificial figure who might be removed on his shield because his directors did not back his vision to achieve success.
The leak was poisonous, naturally, and it was meant to harm Rodgers, which it accomplished. He called for an investigation and for the responsible individual to be dismissed. If there was a probe then we heard no more about it.
At that point it was plain the manager was losing the backing of the individuals above him.
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