Neil Lennon ‘got’ Celtic. He was a rookie appointment, and the early weeks were far from comfortable, a Hampden defeat to Ross County looked like an ominous early sign, but from the start of his first preseason he didn’t look back.
He was a hugely successful Celtic manager in Scotland and in Europe. The Barcelona team of the last six years, possibly the greatest team in history, were at their peak when they visited Celtic Park in November 2012. Neil came up with the game plan which brought Celtic victory and raised our profile across Europe.
What he had to endure off-field during his time at Celtic was atrocious and a blight on our society. But he overcame it. He stuck it out when you or I may have left, and now he leaves on his own terms – an undisputed winner.
More at another time on who next, but if we get a man nearly as capable we will be doing well.
Take care, Neil.
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It looks as if Aaronbecks comments (copied by me at 13.11) from the Guardian have been removed by the Guardians Mod.Mibbees for the reply to his comments courtesy of Ewan . I hope Ewan gets his haw maws rattled heehee.
HH
kingsnake
14:14 on 22 May, 2014
Paul Le Guen would actually make sense. He is managing Oman, which can’t exactly be time-consuming or interesting. And when he tried to actually get the Huns to play attractive football, it caused a player revolt. (Go figure …)
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There’s a desert that handy for him when he fancies a wee run.
Whatever you do next, Lenny, good luck. You deserve it.
May be that the timing is right for you to depart and enjoy a “normal” working environment but what an indictment on our country.
Had the feeling Lenny would not be here next season when I saw Scott Brown’s signature on the renewal pack.
And Celric, for heaven’s sake please get an announcement up on our website. Pathetically amateurish, although not massively surprising, that nothing is there yet.
Gerry Bhoy
There are some of us on here that have trouble reading the writing on the ceiling!
Wikipedia updated in the last 30 minutes. Celtic home page still no news …
What about that bird from Clermont?
Still no news on the Celtic website.
Celtic get Neil to sign a confidentiality agreement?
Panic setting in?
LB
Jackie MacNamara..
The ONLY Choice!
Ah like whit he is Daeing at Dundee United..
Yes..
Jackie Mac.. is. the LEADER o’ the Pack!
Kojo
Also I would have Henke if it meant a strike force of Bangura and Zlatan.
Just think.
Moyes would be a good appointment but I feel last season he suffered from “Tony Mowbray” syndrome at UTD. I was constantly reminded of Tony at Celtic every time I heard Moyes being interviewed about UTD’s problems.
I reckon Steve Clarke would be a really good choice, great coach and has some cracking contacts down south at Liverpool and Chelsea.
As an aside I wish Lenny all the best he has provided me with one of my favourite memories as a Celtic fan and he did it as a Manager not a player who’d have thought that! and hope he finds what he’s looking for down south.
FORMER Manchester United boss David Moyes is in the running for the Celtic job, along with Aston Villa manager Paul Lambert and ex-Cardiff man Malkay Mackay.
Club legend Henrik Larsson is the clear favourite to replace Neil Lennon at Celtic Park.
But another former player, Jackie McNamara is also in the running.
Here, Express Sport looks at some of the likely contenders for the Parkhead hotseat.
HENRIK LARSSON
The man known as the ‘King of Kings’ by an adoring Parkhead public is already the clear favourite to replace Neil Lennon as Celtic boss. Idolised after netting 242 goals in 315 games for the Hoops between 1997 and 2004 before departing for Barcelona, the Swede would win the instant backing of the club’s huge support. Has managerial experience having bossed Landskrona and current club Falkenberg in his homeland but nothing that will prepare him for a return to Celtic.
PAUL LAMBERT
The Aston Villa boss is another former Celtic player whose playing honours would certainly win him kudos from the Celtic faithful. He skippered the team which lost in the 2003 UEFA Cup final in Seville and has gone on to build-up a decent managerial record with stints in charge of Wycombe, Colchester and Norwich. However, he had faced difficulties in his efforts to transform Villa during his two-year stint in Birmingham and may fancy a return to ‘Paradise’.
MALKY MACKAY
The Parkhead crowd value tradition and that may also open up the door for sacked Cardiff boss Mackay. Another to have worn the Hoops during his playing days, he has been out of work since his spectacular fall-out with Bluebirds owner Vincent Tan. The 42-year-old kept Watford in the Championship in his first managerial job before guiding Cardiff into the Premier League, so he can boast about a track record of success.
DAVID MOYES
Yet another one-time Celtic recruit tipped with a return to Glasgow’s East End. However, Moyes may see Scotland’s top flight as too big a step down to take just a month after being axed by Manchester United. Lennon’s departure is rumoured to have been sparked by the club’s lack of financial might in the transfer market and that will hardly help convince the former Everton boss to return home after more than three decades south of the border.
JACKIE McNAMARA
You guessed it, another former Hoops player. But the Dundee United boss has made an encouraging start to life as a manager since hanging up his boots three years ago and makes for a decent outside bet. Sent Partick on their way to the Scottish Premiership last season but quit to take over at Tannadice before promotion was clinched. His enthusiastic young team may have lost out on the William Hill Scottish Cup at the weekend but they have enthralled supporters with their free-flowing football this term
No Need For A Continental Coach…
Parks’ Of Hamilton…
Do Us Just Fine…
“British Jobs For British Workers”
As The One-Eyed Son-Of-The-Manse..
Told Gillian Duffy…
Back In 2010..
VIVA Nigel&The British Tea Party…!
Down Wi’ George Galloway’s Dodgy Acolytes..
ACGR
Demise are those two things underneath dembrows.
HH
timaloy29: I was thinking the same thing. *laugh*
Thanks for the memories Neil Francis Lennon, and good luck in your career and for the future, HH.
I do hope this isn’t the way it looks, and that CFC have actually planned for this eventuality.
The two managers out there who would do a great job for Celts IMO, are Paul Lambert and David Moyes, but I’d get them quickly and let them start planning for CL qualifiers.
HH
Good luck my friend. I know it’s not really about history but he could have broke Big Jocks “10 in a row ” record. Who will the next blessed man be to pick up the reins?
LiviBhoy – God bless wee Oscar
14:57 on 22 May, 2014
There will be a confidentiality clause in his contract.
Even if there wasn’t Neil Lennon will be looking to the future and badmouthing your former employer does not endear you to a prospective one.
Paul67
Neil Lennon was a good tactician and made some great purchases in the transfer market.
What I’d never say is that any player ‘got’ any club. The idea that a player is playing for his club is on a par with either himself, his family, his close friends.
It isn’t even a quadruple bogey, nevermind par.
If the whole Rangers going bust thing should’ve taught Old Firm fans is that intelligent, thoughtful sportsmen from Northern Ireland like Neil Lennon or Steven Davis or Kyle Lafferty have absolutely zero interest in the Old Firm ahead of their own long-term financial security.
Jackie Stewart is of the view that sports people need to remove emotion and be clinical in their thoughts and actions or they’ll mess things up, on and off the field. The idea that every successful pass made by Neil Lennon was one in the eye for Irish Republicanism or that Steven Davis thought likewise for his political view is not even worthy of a seconds thought.
These guys had much more important things to think about on the pitch, such as who to pass it to and at what pace.
” Mjallby Blew the Whistle.. Kojo Rang the Bell..
Lennie gave the Signal. n.. CELTIC WENT TAE HELL!”
Hmmmmmmm
Kojo
cavansam \o/
I wouldn;t touch Moyes at the moment. I think a club like Everton was his level. Looked out his depth at a big club. Just my opinion.
He was way too cautious tactically too.
I hope our next manager plays fast, flowing, attacking football.
Neil Lennon is a very hard act to follow. I don’t think any manager in the clubs history
has made money for the board like Neil Lennon.
I think they have been caught cold with this one.
LB
I’m just saddened that NL left his decision to resign long enough for us to miss out on Jim Duffy.
MWD says Aye and is being facetious.
As you get older you realise football is only a sport, but I admit to being genuinely saddened by the news that Neil has left. I wish him all the best. He did extremely well and it is not his fault that the SPL is small time and that Scotland is a more bitter country than our beloved Norn Ireland – spit!
Sad that Neil has parted company with us.
I suppose it had to happen sometime and usually these things turn out the best for all parties in the end. If there were squabbles going on behind the scenes then moving on might be best.
Came at a good moment for me my ST renews automatically my daughter’s needs to be confirmed and was deciding what to do.
Mind made up. This looks like a new era beginning and we need to get behind the club so all renewed and ready for next year. Who will be leading us is the question?
Someone in quickly with a good track record,attacking style and European experience ………and lots more
Good luck Neil thanks for the memories.
Sir Kojo…
D’Ye Realise That McNamara Is A Card-Carrying COMMUNIST…
As Was His Father…..
Now You Hiv Seen What A Mess YOUR Communist In The WH…
Has Made Of Your Country….
Yet You Want To Entrust Bro.Walfrid’s Legacy…
To One Of That Ilk…!
A Spell On The NAUGHTY STEP….
For You..Palomine !
LiviBhoy – God bless wee Oscar
You could be right, the website not being updated smacks of rabbit in the headlights stuff.
I guess the board possibly played chicken with Lenny and lost.
Astounded of forehead.
Did we miss his birthday?
timaloy29
14:58 on 22 May, 2014
Also I would have Henke if it meant a strike force of Bangura and Zlatan.
Just think.
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OK. Thought. Naw.
As far my view on Neil Lennon.
I didn’t want him to be the manager as I didn’t believe he could handle the pressure of being Celtic manager but he more the surpassed my expectations of him.
His tactics against Barcelona effectively burst their side’s aura and has yet to be recaptured.
As a manager he should always be remembered for that.
Such a display of thought places him well above the average managerial candidate in the English Premier League, certainly from a domestic perspective, although Norwich or WBA is probably the level he is likely to be offered rather than Tottenham which I think are a side he’d be capable of improving.
Moyes & McNamara the two movers in the betting markets, now in as low as 2/1 & 7/2. Henrik still favourite but odds drifting to as long as 2/1 from odds on across the board earlier
Kojo you and I discussed this yesterday, I mooted J Kennedy or J McNamara for the post, you mentioned P Hartley, having thought about it a bit more i’m thinking, which one of those is the cheapest and the easiest option, got to be J Kennedy. He’s already in situ, will have all his coaching qualifications and has done a great job with the youth.
He’s only 30 and has no experience at the top level on the minus side, its a gamble and does he even want the job yet? Jackie M looks a safer bet and probably wouldnt cost that much to prise away from Dundee Utd but is HE ready for a much bigger job?
We would all love Henrik, that would be ideal, but Henriks his own man and no doubt wouldnt want ANY board interference in team matters. Could Celtic provide him with that kind of guarantee? Time will tell. But please god, no Owen Coyle.
LB…..
Said hours ago that there’s likely to be a non-disclosure agreement.
Like a few others here, genuinely sad to hear that Neil has left – he gave us some great moments. I wish him all the best for the future.
FOR SALE:
1 m/l bullet/stab proof vest in good condition
A few scrapes and 1largish rip on back 1888 pounds
ps will also throw in a large overworked minder.
ring neil on……….
Hh
Phil
I’d like to see Zlatan and Bangura play together.
Imagine Zlatan’s face when he see’s Bangura try and trap the ball.
The board will and should appoint a manager who is willing to work with scouting staff – there’s a strategy in place and a manager needs to fit into that. It would be a mistake to go for someone who wanted to run the show – that would leave things open to disaster (although you could get lucky and they do a great job, until they leave).
Malone Bhoy
15:11 on 22 May, 2014
You’ve just described Steve Clarke. That was his job at West Brom, head coach, didn’t have final say on transfers
Gold Coast Tom:
You slaughtered Neil Lennon too. And you have the affront to decry anybody else.
Steve Clarke with Kenny McDowall moving back across the city as his No 2.