Front and foremost in the minds of Celtic’s board when considering a new manager will be squad considerations. For two years we have recruited to a plan. For example, fullbacks that can invert and are comfortable with both feet, traditional wingers, instead of wide midfielders like Moi Elyounoussi.
A manager can have a plan which superficially resembles how we currently play: move the ball quickly, press as soon as you are out of possession, use the width of the field when in possession, but when you drill down, that tells you nothing about what is required from specialists in the squad.
I don’t think we need a manager who plays exactly as we have recently, although I see the attraction, but whoever it is, he should believe in our current system enough to adopt it. Right now, we have scouted thousands of games ahead of this summer’s recruitment drive. The targe list is arranged to meet specific requirements. Going back to the drawing board at this stage will not produce optimum results.
This excludes no one, but for the first time, the Celtic board are likely to put a great deal of weight into the answer to the question, “How would you propose to play?”
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I think I’d it’s Brendan Rogers there are loads of positives. I’d like to think our star players would want to play and develop under him. I personally think Ange is the better manager but for most of them they will not played for a manager of his profile. I think him and his coaching team would wipe the floor with Beale. Question marks in Europe but they hung over Ange as well.
It’s just feels dirty…we know he is good but he hurt us.
BR for a year we a sucessuon plan would be ideal.
ESPIRITODECELT
Great post with some excellent analysis.
You got me thinking.
During his time at Celtic I, like most Celtic supporters, was delighted with Ange at the helm and rarely if ever did I find reason to criticise him.
Then in the days after his departure, and having renewed my season ticket, I found myself looking forward to next year’s Champions League adventure with renewed enthusiasm. When I thought about that, I quickly realised I was looking forward to a new manager with a new European approach.
We were dismal in Europe over Ange’s tenure. With a new manager, we surely can’t be any worse.
So, our departed coach appointed a Head of Coaching to report to Chris McCart, our head of coaching……
Okayyyy
HH
Tam 5.03
Kitty O Sheas booked for Europe away days?🤔
“This unacceptable behaviour obviously affected the performance of the footballer and his team-mates, who had their attention drawn away from footballing matters by the threats to their own safety,” Fiorentina said.
Does anyone know if anything was done or said about the glass throwing at IBROX during our last game there.
Does anyone know if NO PISTOLS PETE has done or said anything about it with the SFA.
Good evening all,
I hope this post finds you all fit and healthy/happy. Looking forward to see who the board have selected to take us forward. Big shoes to fill. HH
The main thing now IMO, is to keep the team together as best we can.
TOM MCLAUGHLIN @5.09
Great post Tom, agree completely. HH
BRRB
It has been known.
BRRB
Hope you enjoyed yer bevvie in Big Jimmies limo. Lol. HH
WEEFRA
Has ma kerry oot arrived at yer ferm yet? Don’t try the Duvel, it’s deadly. 😉
!!Bada Bing!! on 8th June 2023 5:45PM
It would be interesting to know who is minding the shop this month when the players are away. We can’t put an Out to Lunch notice on the front gate at Lennoxtown for three weeks.
Ange knows exactly what any player of ours he wants will cost, so fresh contracts are required for our stars to catch him off-balance (knowing all the while we can’t fend off their wallet)..
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Ange has been great for us
Wait a minute
– we were rubbish in Europe
– other teams were sussing us out
– our midfield were bullied by the Huns
– he played us like a fiddle
– he’s recruited a head of coaching then off he goes.
Glad to see the back of the Aussie git
🤭
Gene
😂😂
Regarding Ange in Europe .
For me the CL showing was a BIG step forward
Ok the table shows we finished bottom but I did not expect too much in the competition at that stage of the process.
What I did want to see was an end to our players crumbling at the site of CL opposition and being scared on the ball at that level .
To be a Celtic player you have to be a good footballer, you do not get to that level.if you can’t play football, what was lacking was the mental strength to believe you can play at that level and for me Ange gave our players that .
Fair enough they came up short but they did as best they could.
I think the stats were 60 odd goal attempts over the 6 ties . Say an average of 10 a game home and away .
Am I the only one who thinks that’s progress.
I think most would agree with a bit of luck and some better finishing the table might have looked a bit different.
All I can say is that , is the first time I’ve watched our CL endeavors without looking through my fingers .
HH
BRRB
Nice one. Lol. 😂😂😂 HH
A pal described a Rodgers reunion as an ex who cheated on you but then you meet her in the disco 2 years later and she wants you back
He said no way but i said ‘depends if you loved her’
Then the analogy got weird…..
I thought we were great in CL last year going forward. With a bit of luck we would have had 2 wins and a draw
The collective defence was a bit short, not massively.
I really enjoyed the games
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Just watched the events of 1994 again and how between Dempsey and McCann the club was rescued. We are in different times now but all this in bed with the City Group does not bode well. Nobody elected them to be making inroads into Celtic FC. The City Group is a conglomerate of many, many clubs just like the ENIC group who decided against investing at Ibrox around 2004. So wouldn’t this nice friendly City group like a jewel in their crown like Celtic? I trust them as far as I can throw them. Come on Inter Milan in Istanbul !!!
He joined the Hoops straight from school and after making his debut in 1961, he scored 17 goals in 48 games before leaving for Ipswich in 1964.
Whilst younger brother Jim followed him into the Celtic side and had a longer association with the club, in June 1964 Frank Brogan joined Second Division Ipswich Town, then managed by Bill McGarry, and became a real crowd favourite.
After 17 goals in 48 games, you moved to Ipswich Town on June 11, 1964. How did that come about?
The reason I moved was basically over money, as I wanted my wages to be made up to the average for the first team. Football contracts ran until June 30 and about 10 days before that I got a phone call from Jimmy McGrory to go up to Celtic Park. I thought to myself, ‘Great, they’re going to give me the money’. So up I went and the boss asked me if I was still of the same opinion and wouldn’t sign for the same terms as the previous year. I said no and that I wasn’t signing for anything less than what I asked for. He then told me that Ipswich Town manager Jackie Milburn was up, and Jackie was a legend with Newcastle, so I said that I would speak to him, never believing for a second that I was going to go. Basically, I didn’t want to leave Celtic, all I wanted was four quid – taking me from £26-a-week to £30 which was the average wage in the first team at the time. I spoke to Jackie and apart from being an absolute legend in the game, he was such a nice man who inspired me with confidence as he really wanted to sign me. The money I was offered was three times what I was getting at Celtic Park – three times! But I still hadn’t made up my mind because I thought I could stay and fight to get my place back in the team. But I was adamant about the money, I wanted that £4 and I thought to myself that if they can’t give me £4 on trust for being in and around the first team then there wasn’t much hope for the rest of my career here. All these things were going around in my mind, so I went into Glasgow to meet my father who was a florist at Agnes Brogan Florist’s in Castle Street. He spoke to Jackie and he got on as well with him as I did and Jackie said, ‘I can see you’re in a quandary. I know what it’s like to love a club, Newcastle United were my great love.’ So he asked me to come down just to see the place. My father arranged for me to get a flight down to Heathrow and from there I went over to Liverpool Street to get the train up to Ipswich.
What happened next?
Jackie was there waiting for me with a local reporter and photographer to take me to the stadium. It was a lovely stadium with an absolutely magnificent pitch. It was so wide, I thought to myself. ‘I’m going to run amok here – they’ll never get near me.’ It was a beautiful playing surface with it being in the farming country of Suffolk and it was well known in England that only Wembley had a better pitch and, of course, Wembley was only used for a handful of games a year. The Ipswich Town pitch was immaculate so I hummed and hawed and Jackie did his best. I met the chairman and I thought, ‘I’m going to go for it.’ I came back here once to collect my boots and old trainer Jimmy Gribben had them for me. He was sorry to see me go and I was sorry to leave him. It was the same with Sean Fallon who also said he was sorry to see me go and I told him I had my regrets as well, but I had signed now and that was me – so off I disappeared into the sunset.
He made his league debut at outside-left in a 1-1 draw at Crystal Palace on 7 October 1964, and his 13 league goals he scored that term included the first of three hat-tricks he scored for the club in a 7-0 victory a month later.
Brogan became the regular penalty taker and in 1967-68 he made 36 league appearances and was top scorer with 17 goals as Ipswich won the Second Division championship.
He went on to make 203 league appearances and score 58 goals for the club but was sidelined throughout 1970-71 with a broken ankle.
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If a new manager is not appointed by Saturday I’m taking to the drink.
BIGRAILROADBLUES
I’ve got a feeling it won’t be long after the City game on Saturday 🤔
BRRB
Aff it till Saturday?
Sunshine on Green Street (And Danny Dyer)
The dividing line between East Ham and West Ham
European Trophy and route into Europe next season
Along with Leyton Orient, only London clubs to win silverware
Both proper East End clubs
just heard mate say the Mumbai city guy has got it….anyone else know anything?.
GEEBEE1978 on 8TH JUNE 2023 7:14 PM · EDIT
BIGRAILROADBLUES
I’ve got a feeling it won’t be long after the City game on Saturday 🤔
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It is worrying that we seem to be so reliant on the shitty group
Particularly as they have their own troubles to face
Wonder if Dermot sees them as an ally to get into the english system
I don’t know why we are worrying about the new boss; we only employed a rookie twice and relative rookie 5 times in my lifetime 😎
Just hope it is not Brenda, a snake in the grass. If he came and had some success, he’d be off again at the drop of a hat.
Knutsen and Potter for me.
I accept the board does not to rush into things, but we need to act quickly nonetheless
KINGLuBO
FOURSTONECOPPI
I know something.
Tell your mate — Buckingham was in Glasgow visiting friends.
Sorry, 3 rookie 4 relative rookie
Buckingham was executed by Henry VIII
Battle of The Hams, Rotten v West
Perth, Australia July 18th
He’s making a Western Front of us.
The only experienced appointments were
O’Neill
Strachan
Rodgers
Postecoglou
We had trophies with most of the others but it only felt professional with these guys
Geebee1978
Hope so 👍
Coneybhoy
Stop yer kerry oan. 😉
When I scroll through Celtic Quick News on a daily basis and witness the many prayers offered up to CQNers and family members who are sick or even passed away, I believe I am correct in assuming that the vast majority are of the Catholic faith, or more generally Christian at least.
When it comes to Brendan Rodgers, there appears to be a distinct lacking in the act of forgiveness. In fact I even find myself remembering the parable of the prodigal son.
And I’m the atheist.
Like every Celtic supporter, I was hurt when Brendan left us in the lurch but time, as they say, is a great healer. If he is to be the new Celtic manager I would welcome him and look to the future.
Why can’t others?