Reports out of Ireland that Roy Keane is no longer in the running for the Celtic job are correct. The former Sunderland and Ipswich boss asked not to be considered as Celtic have tightened their shortlist over the past few days.
The overwhelming majority of opinion on the blog and elsewhere is that Celtic would be taking an enormous risk with Roy Keane, feedback which I know has reached the club. These decision are all risky, and there are no guarantees we will be able to do better than Roy, but I’d be prepared to take that risk.
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Morning, and Hail Hail to all……..don’t you just hate it when work interrupts a perfectly good morning…..hahahahahahaha
RK informal interview:
DD: Hello Roy, now how would you like to manage the legendary Glasgow Celtic
PL: Roy, you are the only man for the job, the number one candidate
RK: I’d love to manage Celtic, whats the transfer budget?
PL: Excuse me Roy, just got a phonecall I need to make
DD: Well Roy, thanks for dropping by
RK: What about the personal terms
DD: Goodbye Roy, maybe see you on the golf course
PL: (on phone) Shhhhhh, don’t tell anybody I called you oweny
HH
sheik yerbouti
08:53 on 3 June, 2014
Neil’s departure was rather sudden, was it not …….?
cowiebhoy
08:25 on 3 June, 2014
It’s the same here in Stirling…..strange…. :)
dd
Tam could be the new CEO, being a tight-fisted bassa!
HH!!
The players are on holiday. Any prospective manager will have his own scouted players in various price brackets [none of which he’ll be allowed to buy anyway :)], so not at panic stages yet.
67 heaven
I dunno as soon as he said he was disappointed
Not being considered for a top job in England
I felt thew writing was on the wall
sheik yerbouti
09:00 on 3 June, 2014
We’ll get there….need to be careful and choose the right man. HH
Sheik Yerbouti
08:53 on
3 June, 2014
Getting bored
Scheidtless with this manager
Appointment crap
This should have been sorted
Before Neil left
As I posted last night. for whatever reasons he left, and we the fans will probably never know, NL left in a hurry and caught DD and PL flat footed.
Bur never mind PL is of to Vienna so we might get a manager Rapide.
QUONNO
Vienna?
I don’t see the significance,it means nothing to me.
Offski,I must need a pint!
Pl is at uefa meeting today..
Never mind a new manager..
We’re going to need a few more Brother Walfrids…..
http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/S4_Welfare_Reform_Committee/Reports/wrr-14-02w.pdf
The Department for Work and Pension‘s Ministers have made it clear that
they see no direct link between the increase in use of food banks in Scotland and
welfare reform. They argue that the increase in use is ―supply led growth‖ with
individuals using food banks to maximise their ―economic choices‖.
There has been increasing awareness of food bank provision in Scotland.
The largest network of food banks in Scotland, co-ordinated by the Trussell Trust,
has seen a fast growth in food banks and users in recent years. In the 2011-12
financial year 5,726 people received assistance from Trussell Trust food banks,
this rose to 14,318 in 2012-13. In the 2013-14 financial year, 71,428 people
(49,041 adults and 22,387 children) received assistance from Trussell Trust
Scottish food banks, a 400% increase and five times the number compared to the
previous financial year. In November 2013 the British Red Cross announced that it would provide volunteers for the first time to support Tesco‘s nationwide food collection for
Trussell Trust food banks and FareShare. This was a response to the British Red
Cross‘s increasing concerns about the humanitarian impact of food poverty in the
UK.
Morning all
Didn’t want Keane to come in but had become resigned to fact- at least a manager would be there in place for players return from their holidays. That may still happen of course.
Rumours abound and although I like the idea of Clarke coming but am surprised he’s favourite. Bookies have made him favourite but that will be because a lot of people have backed him not because the bookies say so themselves.
My feeling now is that we are going to get a home based manager – Hartley, McNamara, Houston or McGhee in descending order of preference and to be fair likelihood. A bit underwhelming – is their such a word as ‘whelming’ ? – but possibly preferable to some of the hack managers still being touted.
I think it’s time for something of a real examination by Celtic of what are the institution’s true priorities. At times the Celtic hierarchy – which can seem as remote and out of touch as any previous Board – seems to give an impression that putting money into non football projects such as those projects planned for the area in front of the main stand is at least as important as developing the team. Peter Lawwell is a reviled figure these days but he seems to be performing his brief in accordance with his masters’ wishes. I think a shift in priorities is needed now.
Personally I would like to see the appointment of a proper Director of Football , somebody who knows football both as a business and a sport and who will control the finances – the money raised by season ticket sales ( save that allocated for upkeep of Celtic Park and Lennoxtown) , transfer dealings and, crucially, the money raised by European campaigns both at the gate and from the TV companies. The coach and others connected with the football work only with the D of F. Peter Lawwell would only see the coach and players on match days and club ‘dos’.
I know that is kind of how the manager is supposed to work with the Chief Executive ( PL) now but it seems archaic that we still expect a football coach to work with budgets and salary negotiations because that’s the way it has always been done but although the individuals chosen weren’t right the system in operation between June 1997 and June 2000 was better than the muddling along we have largely had since. A good coach should be concerned only with working with football people and not with a Chief Executive who is also as interested in raising money for shops and bars , with dealing with blazers at the SFA and UEFA and all the other things Lawwell currently does.
Sorry for rabbitting on but I am concerned that as a club Celtic is still just muddling through and is continuing to downsize. I cannot stress enough that I think PL is doing a great job (and with admirablenergy) it’s just that it seems to have too wide a ‘spec’ and that the football at times seems a distraction.
Oh and I don’t know who we get as a Director of Football – but I cannot imagine there is nobody out there who is interested in Celtic, knows a bit about the sport itself and who can count.
Jimbo67 praying to Oscar Knox and Thomas Worth
Monteblanco
The whole system is a farce. Mandatory reconsiderations are a nightmare. People are being left with no income for weeks on end. Vulnerable people put off sickness by nurses who have no idea about mental health etc. Its a joke. ..
….pfayr supports weeoscar
07:15 on 3 June, 2014
Yorkbhoy
Apologies if I sounded narky last night …..
No problem, it’s just a blog
People are talking about reduced budgets and money. There is no money in Scottish football. Celtic have a budget that is generated by the market. To suggest spending anymore is sheer folly. Celtic, like many European clubs are treading water at the moment hoping that their route to market will improve. If that means that they cannot attract top managers then so be it.
As long as it is not Owen Coyle.
somebody in edinburgh tonight
who has european experience in abundance..
played in the hoops….
would certainly put bums on seats….
who knows what direction he would take us..
Louis Timlinson
HH
So its Steve Clarke today, is it?
Anyone else think there is a left field candidate in the frame that no one has picked up on?
Sheik, it will all come out in the washing.
Johan Mjällby was sacked, he knew nothing about it until he recieved the call, not a peep from his mate Lenny. Which begs the question who sacked him.
Johan would have been paid his contract plus a wee bit extra to keep quiet.
Martin Reilly on the other hand could not shut up telling all, even the press, panicking it would seem as there were jobs coming up at the time down England way.
My own take on it is everything was decided at the Dublin meeting between DD,PL and NL, even after that meeting Lenny went blabbing to the press about no budget being discussed.
As i said it will all come out in the washing.
Henke or Jackie Mac for the job
KTF
Could weel be someone who hasn’t been in the frame. The only folks liking this so far are Paddy Power et al.
Carrigan
Wee Jackie won’t be Celtic manager whilst PL is in place imo..
Remember the last minute call when he was on his way to Wolves?
Later bhoys.
Work calls. Meetings…o (
Gordon_J
The 13th reincarnation of the Dalai Lama….or Derek McInnes :)
HH
blantyretim is praying for the Knox family
09:24 on 3 June, 2014
Agreed.
The Green Man,
Surely Scotland’s Manager of the Year would be a good appointment??
Blantyre, yes i do but he is on the list, the problem is a celtic director and Darren Jackson.
Jackie would be good in the SPL but not sure about UCL.
KTF
kitalba
01:09 on 3 June, 2014,
Just watched the link you posted, I really enjoyed the programme.
I had fleetingly read about the jaconellis eviction but didn’t realise the extreme measures that were taken to evict them…shocking.
Thanks for posting the link.
BT/Ernie
I was told last week by someone who works at Parkhead that the differences between PL and Jackie Mac have long since been resolved.
Hamiltontim is praying for Oscar
09:33 on 3 June, 2014
Resolved but not forgotten?
Are we correct to assume that of all the (alleged) prospective new managers, Roy Keane is the only one to respectfully withdraw?
Is everyone else still up for it?
I think we should be told!!
Gordon_J
Well, anything is possible…..apart from RK
Smokescreen indeed.
HH
Oscar garcia away back to Tel Aviv so the shortlist wil not include him (if it ever did).
The deployment of the smokescreen, master stroke by the dynamic duo.
Whatever will they think of next.
HH
mncelt
05:28 on 3 June, 2014
Just watched Commonwealth City Ep 2&3. Very interesting documentary. Sad and uplifting at the same time. Amazing that the BBC avoided mentioning Celtic Park for all 3 episodes despite it being located a stones throw from the new Velodrome.
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I mentioned this last night after watching Episode 3. It was as if they were tip-toeing round Celtic Park which was sitting there on maps and footage they were showing like the ole 300lb gorilla. ACGR reassured me that, since the programme was about Dalmarnock and the Commie Games, Celtic Park was not directly relevant. I thought at the time I was being paranoid until I read your comment. Now I know I was being paranoid! ;-)
Anyone who believes Roy Keane was a smokescreen really needs to start reading proper books with words and without pictures and pop-up characters.
Ernie
Who knows?
I’d imagine if Jackie finds himself in the hot seat then we’ll have an answer.
Gold Coast Tom
09:48 on 3 June, 2014
Why?
Hamiltontim is praying for Oscar
09:49 on 3 June, 2014
It’s one thing to resolve an issue with someone you might see fleetingly two or three times a year.
It’s another thing entirely to resolve it to the extent that you can have a close working relationship.