Two weeks ago, I cautioned that the line being given to Celtic by Eddie Howe, that he was waiting to assemble his backroom team, did not hold water, “This could be the reason proffered for the lack of a signature, but I’m not buying it.”
With his former Bournemouth backroom team now free from football commitments, I understand Howe told Celtic he is unable to convince his team to come to Glasgow and is not prepared to come without them. I’m not buying that either. He either has one of the EPL jobs he coveted, or his strength of character is not sufficient for him to cope in Glasgow without a chaperone. If it is the former, he has strung us along, if the latter, he’s too weak to cope here. It is the former, surely?
Howe was clearly our first choice and the man a board felt it worthwhile to not only offer a huge contract and the opportunity to recruit the entire backroom team, but to allow him to sit on the pot until the end of May. Like all these decisions, it was a gamble. Your view is as good as mine as to whether he was worth the wait.
So where has this left us? The ponderous time Eddie Howe took allowed a clear preference to emerge if his deal remained unsigned. You and I will have a weekend in the dark, which is frustrating, but I am not seeing any panic at Celtic Park. The new guy is not from the EPL circus, we’ll find out soon enough if that is a good thing or not!
Have a good weekend, if that’s possible between the two mood killers of managerial recruitment and lockdowns.
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SAINT STIVS on 31ST MAY 2021 12:55 PM
Yes, Saint S. Changed days. Not necessarily for the better. Please add a personal favourite – Cadizzy.
FRITZSONG on 31ST MAY 2021 1:51 PM
SAINT STIVS on 31ST MAY 2021 12:55 PM
“Yes, Saint S. Changed days. Not necessarily for the better. Please add a personal favourite – Cadizzy.”
AW NAW NO ANNONI NOO ANAW, por cierto
Hot Smoked
You as a fan deserve to have seasons like the one just finished.
Stupid is as stupid does.
SAINT STIVS on 31ST MAY 2021 1:03 PM
Allthough they cant get anything right for doing it all wrong, I doubt very much that a PLC board would not have a vision and a strategy going forward.
It is how the structure works, even if they dont pull it off, one year in 12.
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Like your sarcasm.
Especially with the current fiasco.
So should Lawwel have sacked BR for failing in europe ?
Some reports have said that we have had our eye on this guy for months,so you would think we have done our homework……………maybe not.
To those concerned about the UEFA coaching license story, it seems South American and Asian licenses are recognized by UEFA.
If he has an Asian one and not OFC, it’s a non-story.
https://africanarguments.org/2020/07/why-are-there-no-african-coaches-in-europes-top-football-leagues/
AKBW1888 on 31ST MAY 2021 12:17 PM
I’m not joking , akbw , I enjoy watching it – celt’s goal against motherwell in the last match I saw was amazing. I just wish they would reduce the pitch size and goal size. The vision and quality is there but the ‘how far can I wellie it limit’ doesn’t help. You don’t get cnuts like lungeatme and naiscum.
So we are waiting on news of a (second) manager who may or may not be coming to us , apparently recommended by a DOF who may or may not be coming to us . Bizarre .
ADI_DASSLER NOT FOR 2ND BEST on 31ST MAY 2021 2:04 PM
So should Lawwell have sacked BR for failing in europe ?
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The only manager who got us into CL in near enough the last 10 years?
Hahaha!
Fair play Adi for the gag, suppose after the latest Lawwell fiasco we could do with some humour.
Aye we may have won 15 leagues, 10 Scottish Cups, and 8 Leagye Cups this century but when did we ever beat a team of 11 one-legged blind Brazilians on a wet Tuesday night in Perth?
QED- We have been rubbish
St Stivs – your list of good guys from the CQN predictor raised a smile.
I kinda miss Job Baldie’s morning weather report.
Now the weather report from the Garngad :) is the definitive source of truth.
But East Kilbride, with its own micro climate, merited JB’s update.
Rumour doing the rounds that publicans in Glasgow have asked Sturgeon to relax lockdown rules for one day only, the day Lawwell leaves Celtic, in order to accommodate massive demand for Celtic fans looking to celebrate.
Burnley’78 keep on saying it because you’re right. May God save us from panty wetting Captain Mannerings who do or say nothing constructive.
Danny McGrain on Brendan Rodgers
https://twitter.com/Rikos67_/status/1398694019975241732?cn=ZmxleGlibGVfcmVjcw%3D%3D&refsrc=email
GALLAGHER on 31ST MAY 2021 2:45 PM
Burnley’78 keep on saying it because you’re right. May God save us from panty wetting Captain Mannerings who do or say nothing constructive.
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Spot on mate.
Let’s all praise the guy who sided with the deid huns/sevco over his own club, where he was paid a fortune by the fans he shafted.
Glasgow City may be leading our Women’s team in hte SWPFL but the International Squad selection is following a similar pattern
Leaders City have 1 player in the sqad
2nd place Celtic have 1 player
3rd place Rangers have 5
SFTB-big peters fault as well 😉
f–k peter lawell a real traitor who has done more for the huns than his own club
GALLAGHER on 31ST MAY 2021 2:45 PM
Panty wetters?
Are you aware of the following
1. We failed miserably with our quest for ten.
2. Deidco won the league at a canter.
3. We have not had a manager since the 24th February.
4. We failed to appoint our number one managerial target.
5. We are scrambling about looking for anyone available to take the biggest job a manager has faced at Celtic in years.
6. The board has no relationship with the fanbase as a whole.
I could go on but accusing folk of being pantywetters…..
Paul off enjoying the Holiday or holding off for an announcement?
In other news today:
“RANGERS have lost the latest round of a long-running legal battle with businessman Mike Ashley.
The Ibrox club have been told by a court they can’t sue to get £2.4million they say they are owed under a deal with rival sports firm LBJ Sports Apparel and Hummel.”
There are at least a thousand managers / head coaches out there who could do a job for us next season — totally energise the squad and improve the performance levels to competitive standards.
There are 500 managers / head coaches out there who would win us the league with competent MIB.
Norway / Sweden / Austria / Portugal / Central Europe / Benelux — place is “hoaching” with coaching talent.
All in our price range / all who could take us to the next level after the NL slow motion train-wreck and the JK rabbit in the headlamps performance.
AP will do a job for us next season if he turns up — but so could 999 other candidates as well.
The main thing is to let him get on with the job in hand.
The all to apparent failure is to let PL — useless / 2nd rate / low rent property bean counter that he is — be the back seat driver.
That way failure beckons.
KA @ £6mill / £8mill / £10mill — our failure in one number.
T/O decline over 17 years is our failure in another.
And yet still they clap — PL the business wonder brain my erse.
At least we now know who his fan club are.
The go-go world of property — local worthies more like.
The gullibles will continue to back Lawwell and the board no matter what.
They make good bedmates for the huns who are having a great time watching us implode at record pace.
” Leaders City have 1 player in the sqad
2nd place Celtic have 1 player
3rd place Rangers have 5″
That`s only fair. As they are supporters, we can assume that the selectors see Rangers much more often.
L14 @ 3.25
The CQN Small Business fan club is fully aligned / engaged with the PL — business super guru vibe.
Never knowingly undersold regarding blowing smoke up his erse.
Best business brain they have ever dealt with — property bean counter / that is their limit.
The problem is that they believe it and so does PL.
They are small business people for a reason …
Eddie Howe and or his team – doing a U turn
The incident at PLs house and the riots on the streets of Glasgow when we should be housebound could be part of the reason the Howe team did a U turn
Those incidents will have done nothing to sell Glasgow to anyone
Bournemouth is a retirement town very well kept gardens and lots of sunshine
I have always said that any player of manager we look to attract has to be sold Glasgow as well as Celtic
In a football sense you need a bit of character to survive in Glasgow
The 2 incidents mentioned above are enough to make anyone think twice
Throw in, the lack of money, an uphill battle to get into the CL and getting kicked all over the place on a freezing night on crap pitches in towns like Perth Aberdeen Paisley Inverness etc
I always criticized PL for hiring NL in the showers at Hampden
But how many times has PL and DD held talks with the great and the good in the football world to be turned down – with NL they at least knew he would come
Reality is we are not a good fit for a top proven manager
We are a platform for an up and coming, ambitious, unknown
Look at how lucky the Huns got with slippy – pure luck – the guy had never managed a football team
Our task is daunting – the Greek/Aussie does nothing for me (my ignorance not his potential) but our options are not as great as we would like
If he would come – I would wait till after the Euros and get Steve Clarke
Is he the best Manager for Celtic – probably not
Is he the best Manager for Celtic that living in Glasgow is not a problem – probably
67ECW
LAMBERT14 on 31ST MAY 2021 1:58 Pm
Good post’s and reply’s, I agree with Danso 1888 he sums Liewell up beautifully in one word TRAITOR !!
our media have gone full blown ‘build em up knock em down’ mode now…
CELTIC’s approach to make Ange Postecoglou the new manager of the Parkhead club has hit a serious stumbling block, according to many reports…
theres a surprise – its the sheer glee in their reporting that gets to me, they really dont like us do they.
There’s an infatuation on here with Peter Lawwell thats really unhealthy, falling out with each other over a guy that’s leaving us any day now, forget Peter Lawwell, we still haven’t got a manager, and the press are out to hammer us into the ground, these are far more important issues.
Frankly, I couldn’t care less about Peter Lawwell, he’s already ancient history.
Been a while since Paul didn’t post on a Monday………
Although I have said I would prefer a more local choice Postecoglou sounds like a larger than life character who has won titles as a player and as a manager and has been the manager of his national team. The kind of guy who eats, sleeps and dreams football. What he would need though is someone like the late great Neilly Mochan to keep the players fit. The Celtic trainer needs to have a much greater importance.
Lambert14 1:58
Spot on. Like comparing apples and fish! Also, pre-Lowball, post-Xmas meant last 8, now it’s last 16 (or 32 in EL) and we are still failing. Since our last knockout win in 2004 we have only won one single leg – against Zenit under BR. But hey – we have beaten Hamilton a fair few times!
ROCK TREE BHOY on 31ST MAY 2021 3:52 PM
There’s an infatuation on here with Peter Lawwell thats really unhealthy, falling out with each other over a guy that’s leaving us any day now,….
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I think that’s part of the issue.
It’s long been mooted that Mr Lawwell has aspirations to go on to UEFA having been a blazer at the SFA.
As I understand it, he can only hold office within UEFA or any other football-related body if he is an office bearer within a club.
I think a scenario more likely than his complete departure will him holding some ceremonial position at Celtic Park.
Which will allow Mr McKay to “enjoy the opportunity to benefit from the experience of the former CEO”.
It’s a bank holiday for some
I read claims that the prospective candidate hasn’t got some UEFA coaching qualification. Andy Roxburgh has got 27 at the last count. When Zidane first got the Real Madrid job I remember one coach complaining he wasn’t qualified. He didn’t do too badly. Football is not that hard to work out and he’s been doing it all his life. The stagnant SFA will love to get their teeth into this one. Farrygate 2.0
RIMTIMTIM on 31ST MAY 2021 4:09 PM
Yeah, Farrygate 2.
Fergus McCann nailed the bar steward the first time.
Who at the club has raised so much as a cheep of protest at the goings on over the past 12-14 years and their impact on Celtic???
Who promised the Requisitioners he would take on the fight on if the smoking gun was found ?
Who have conspired through their Operation Short Head nonsense to keep the Blue Pound in the game and charge people £49 to see the new club??
And you expect them to lead the attack against Farrygate 2?
SETTING FREE THE BEARS FOR RES. 12 & OSCAR KNOX on 31ST MAY 2021 1:16 PM
Right. So if you agree City are far better than Benfica, I’m not sure how one achievement can be greater if we’re not comparing like for like. Rodgers was at a disadvantage to his predecessors when you look at the groups he had to face.
For people blaming what happened at Lawwell’s house and the George Square riots as reasons for not getting Howe or any other good manager or players.
I imagine if sevco get to the CL groups they will attempt to buy big in the transfer market as they don’t seem to bother with carrying huge debt or debt for equity swaps.
I’d hate to see them bring in a top player or two, and now know that it definitely won’t happen due to the riots and Lawwell incident, which will scare players off.
Of course i’m being sarcastic simply because Lawwellites will use any excuse for the Howe shambles, rather than owning up to how badly the club is run.