No idea if Mark Lawwell has handed in his notice or not, but his critics should consider that he's recruiting players based on the board's strategy - top price £3m, top wages £16k and top age around not higher 24. So his job is to look for prospects and potential, looking for further signings like O'Riley and Hatate. Maybe that's the problem and why he might want to leave? Also if he goes and those who want him out are happy, what comes next? Another guy who has the advantage of not being called Lawwell, getting asked to do the exact same thing. It's the strategy that needs changing.
Mark Lawwell did play a part in bringing Ange to Celtic, when no-one else in European football was prepared to give him his chance. So there is some credit there. The second Strachan son though, the one who was the manager of the golf shop, that would take some explaining and from the outside looking in is not a particularly good look. Nor does it do Mark Lawwell any favours IMHO.
I'm not sure if you have more background info than most of us based on discussions with people within our club, or if you are speculating like the rest of us. But it is an interesting take on Lawwell Jr's situation that I hadn't really considered. Like many I had not considered that he was possibly fed up being viewed as the patsy for the board's severe lack of ambition. Like most people he maybe does have battles with his Dad behind the scenes.
I think we all totally understand and support the 'buy young, develop & sell for big profit' business model, as it is what makes a club like us grow. But you can't - and shouldn't - do this exclusively. You do need to supplement these development projects by reinvesting a decent chunk of your profits into handpicked players with more experience (in the 23-27 years age bracket) for specific roles, in order to progress and improve the side.
IMO, we should only be bringing in 2 or 3 youngsters to develop slong with our own youths, in any 1 season. Bringing in too many results in many failures which is a complete waste of money, which could have been invested in less - but more experienced/higher quality- players. If you have such a massive squad like we do, and most matches are high pressure/must win, then it becomes extremely difficult to develop more than 3 or 4 youngsters at a time, so the rest stagnate and probably regress (and so drop in value) due to lack of competitive gametime.
It is the board's strategy that is failing and maybe ML is taking too much flack for adhering to it. But the truth is that even if the two sons are strictly following the board's flawed policy, there are far too many "failures" in the players they are identifying as targets. So many of their new signings simply are not of a high enough standard to make it at a club of our level, never mind to push on to a higher standard so we can sell them for a big profit.
When you have so many failures then it is a case of unnecessarily pouring money down the drain. At which point the board needs to tweak their business model, as they did to great success when Ange was here.
So maybe ML & Seve Strachan are just following orders, but they were botg over-promoted into lofty positions they were not suitable for, due to nepotism. Sometimes in business people can surprise you and grow into these positions quickly and prove to be massive successes. But IMO that is not the case here for both Juniors.