A few categories of candidates for the manager position were identified before the end of the season.
There are a couple who would be considered ideal appointments, and who would be able to get on the list for top jobs in any country in Europe. If we can land one of them, and do so within the timeframe which will allow us to prepare for Champions League qualifiers, I think we’d all be happy (apart from those incapable of happiness, you know who they are).
Then there are managers with clear potential who have overachieved with resources available to them, but who also have a bit of European competition experience. You might know less about them, but their CVs can talk. This list is more extensive.
It’s also worth remembering how Celtic (and others) operate in certain respects when appointing a manager. Clubs often interview potential managers who don’t fit their required profile out of courtesy.
If a candidate of a certain profile in the game (or at the club) asks to be considered, it’s likely Celtic would interview him instead of rejecting him out of hand. Football is a tight, interconnected, industry, where making contacts is preferable to breaking them, so don’t be distracted by newspaper stories that someone or other has been interviewed. The story is likely to be accurate, but the context will mislead.
The process itself also changes how candidates are viewed. What the potential manager says about strategy, recruitment, technology are all likely to inform the club no his suitability.
Brendan Rodgers fits the bill before formal interviewing got underway, but he’s certainly not the only high-profile candidate under consideration, and I know others are making solid running.
The important thing to bear in mind right now, is that the moment a deal is done it will be announced, and that until that moment, don’t waste your time thinking you know what’s going to happen. There are too many variables to be certain of anything.
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THETIMREAPER…
Reckon Biton would be too tall for trench warfare…sitting duck :))
JAMESGANG on 18TH MAY 2016 10:12 PM
Bitton.
Possibly the player he was , was coached out of him.
Possibly.
See Jo Hansen.
Lambert? GTF!!!!!!!!!! Did you read what he said about the Huns?
The Tim Reaper
Who was the singer you mentioned yesterday ?
Id be very surprised if Moyes or Brendan couldnt handle Scoddish Fitba…..easy for them id say.
It all depends on PL.
Will he take a back seat?
I doubt it.
So maybe same old bs.
Cue Neil Lennon….sadly.
HH
GARYGILLESPIESHAMSTRING on 18TH MAY 2016 10:30 PM
JAMESGANG
Si, Senor.
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Very droll
HH jamesgang
Emre Can a good player who may feature in Germany’s Euro team. Milner a work horse who will be part of Engurland’s failed attempt (again). Sturrage who scored a top class goal, sadly (for him) stoopidly, when in a clear offside position, tried to involve himself in a goal scoring header from his team mate, resulting in goal being ruled out. A first class, greedy, self-centered eejit. Hell mend ’em. They deserved what they got. Well done Sevilla!!! A real football team.
HH
Gerry
THE GREEN MAN SAYS SACK THE BOARD on 18TH MAY 2016 10:36 PM
FFS, you would find tenner and lose a score :))
One thing that we certainly do not need is Lambert as Ronny’s replacement. He needs to stick to Pub teams.
MARA
NO WHAT DID HE SA6?
“Possibly the player he was , was coached out of him.”
Macjay,
Possibly.
But he wasn’t the player he was till it was coached into him.
Congratulations to seveeeyah
Bestest and biggest pockets mean nowt
Billions to spend mean nowt
Marketeted and hyped up league imo
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Foxy
We will disagree my friend.
On the marketing thingmi :-)
HH
I will confess that I liked Lambert as a player, and thought he might have done a job for us as a manager ….
but I am going to break one of my CQN rules and say, after today’s statement, he can GTF!
Sipsini
My strategy regarding the manager…is to expect the worst.
If we unveil Brendan or somebody decent….i will be delighted.
So, i hope im pleasantly surprised:)
Doubt it though:)
HH
maradmoinic … just reading back …. well said!!!
“My strategy regarding the manager…is to expect the worst.”
Tgm,
I think we kinda noticed. :)
HH
Macjay
I disagree. Well of course I do!
Or I’m not sure I accept your thesis.
How conciliatory, eh!
No-one coached professionalism and fight out of him.
His ‘performance’ in the cup semi was abject and unprofessional.
Last season we saw mainly his best attributes. This season mainly his worst.
I know you were an earlier signatory to WITS petition but are you seriously suggesting he was coached this season to be 2nd to almost every 50:50, be constantly on the wrong side and dither on the ball before passing it sideways?!!!?
Joe Hanson is an enigma. A Wee one. Horrific most of the season. Like a headless chicken on speed and Ganga at the same time! Retained by his fellow Norwegian despite it all. Repays the faith by part of the underperforming core of players that sealed RD’s fate. Then has his best game of the season once RD is in the departure lounge.
Explain? Season long flounce cos we didn’t sell him to West Ham last summer???
HH jamesgang
2 of Warbiola’s Galacticos getting beat by Wimbledon,who’s striker looks like Cyrille Regis who has just eaten Ceelo Green…
Geordie Munro
Im just being practical.
It would be a big leap from Ronny to Brendan or Davie Moyes.
Cant see it happening.
But dont spoil my fun:)
Neil Lennon….Come on Down
HH
Any guys linked already to the managers job is a few steps ahead of Ronny
Simple
Just read back,still laughing….good stuff bhoys HH
AN TEARMANN on 18TH MAY 2016 10:40 PM
One last attempt. Who do you see on the telly more Roy Keane or Brendan Rodgers?
That’s marketability in real terms.
Plus “Roy Keane’s Fenian Army” sounds better :-)
GEORDIE MUNRO on 18TH MAY 2016 10:40 PM
“Possibly the player he was , was coached out of him.”
Macjay,
Possibly.
But he wasn’t the player he was till it was coached into him.
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In Israel.
Let`s do Jo Hansen.
:-)
BCW
Tim W, got it?
MiT
Agree, Lambert can GTF
I wonder if Rodgers is trying to get DD to throw a bit of money at the team….
Maybe wishful thinking,but BR is in a strong position if they want him.
mike in toronto on 18th May 2016 10:41 pm
I will confess that I liked Lambert as a player, and thought he might have done a job for us as a manager ….
but I am going to break one of my CQN rules and say, after today’s statement, he can GTF!
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Don’t think Falkirk are looking for a manager…..
BADA BING
DD throw money at the team!
I bet you it would be old pennies, farthings, and groats.
Be like a scrammel at a Glesga wedding:)
HH
FOXY on 18TH MAY 2016 10:46 PM
Never mind that, just you stay off Clyde ;)
Bada,
Don’t be silly. Have you not been reading today.
Dd is choking to change strategy and horse wads of cash at the team.
It’s Pl that has been stopping this :)
HH
C-lo green quip…v funny :D
Glasstwothirds full
Not unless Peter Houston is coming to us! :)
‘Like a headless chicken on speed and Ganga at the same time! ‘
There must be a joke about somebody on here in there somewhere.
Almore
That morgue-like atmosphere could be very appropriate on at least one occasion next year.
FOXY on 18TH MAY 2016 10:46 PM
AN TEARMANN on 18TH MAY 2016 10:40 PM
One last attempt. Who do you see on the telly more Roy Keane or Brendan Rodgers?
That’s marketability in real terms.
Plus “Roy Keane’s Fenian Army” sounds better :-)
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Strongly disagree – “Roy” is a one syllable word and alters the meter of the phrasing far too much. “Brendan” works better. Unless you out another word in front of “Roy” – like “Big” or….”Mad”..
TGM-GM- BR is not daft and will be well versed on the state of the Club ,as I said wishful thinking probably,but £5 mil a season added to the kitty? We can’t be far away from a deal if they have met twice HH
James
More Polska than Espana. I am visiting Spain next week with my two daughters, then again in July wi your mate Rasputin. :)
You may have a point bout my Spanish leanings.
GLASSTWOTHIRDSFULL on 18TH MAY 2016 9:59 PM
Fair play to Sevilla. Keep losing their best players, but always manage to replace them.
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Good point but much harder to do in the SPL than La Liga
HH
Don’t know what the fuss is all about,
All throughout season punters spouting off “ma granny could win the league wae Celtic”
Any granny’s looking for a pension top up just give PL a call and the gigs yours!
4am Downtown Liverpool
Wee German woman with a Diamond Tiara, drags a bearded singing German along the Dock Rd by his hoody.
Bearded German singing at the top of his voice…’Let me take you down, cause im going to…Strawberry Fields, nothing is real’
HH