After Celtic fans gathered around Trongate to celebrate the league win on Saturday, first minister Humza Yousaf, took to the media to say, “Clubs can do more, should do more – organise those celebrations, be involved in those celebrations.
“Perhaps they can reflect on what they can do for future years.”
What he is referring to is a fanzone. An area with facilities, security, opening and closing times and a scheduled tidy-up process. They exist all over the world, cities across Europe have wallowed in celebration at some local success. In Glasgow, we are caught between an SNP council, which does not want to give an inch to Celtic, and an SNP first minister, who is happy to be critical of Celtic and Celtic fans, in an attempt to placate the other side of the city, even though he took no time to discover why there was no club organised event.
None of this is anti-Celtic, it is not personal, it is not prejudiced, it is just the result of inept politics and inept politicians. The city and the country would do better if the Celtic fans on Trongate were in charge of both.
Just remembered Frankfurt celebrating last May! That’s a city council that knows what it’s doing.
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Ange to Spurs?
Beware the ghost of Potter past !!!
Butland?
Decent pedigree once but ankle injury way back stalled his career.
Not old.
Exactly the kind of “decent punt on paper” Sevco will be going after this summer.
Three signings. Yawn.
Winning the back pages. Yawn.
Not a farthing paid in fees. Quelle surprise.
Would Kevin Muscat be a contender should Spurs tempt Ange away?
He won the last seasons J1 with Yokohama F. Marinos and would know the Japanese market. He might be a good continuity candidate, particularly given our large contingent of Japanese players.
Whatever happens with key personnel over the coming weeks, I’d hope the board are sighted and are still planning the next 3 – 5 years.
No surprises. No hasty decisions.
BHOY FROM THE BOYNE – I think a few of us discussed Muscat as a potential assistant to Ange when he joined but it didn’t happen. Ange decided to keep the existing support team for continuity purposes and to assess them in the heat of battle.
IF Ange leaves, and I hope he doesn’t, I genuinely would not be surprised if John Kennedy gets promoted. At some point he either has to get the gig or leave and Ange, like previous managers, speaks very highly of him.
Just my observation.
Football has a knack of kicking you, in the knackers !!!….riding a crest of a wave and bang
God I detest the EPL with a passion, but can we deny Ange a crack at it …..not really….he will forever be held in high esteem
Deniabhoy, Kennedy would be a failure….because he can’t inspire , his pressers are drab dreary affairs ….he might be a decent coach…but we need more
VINNIETHEDOG I agree, I am just saying I would not be surprised.
I see the Sun in England are already saying Ange to Spurs is a done deal. There is a growing sense of inevitability about it. If true, I think it is a major slap in the face to Celtic but life will go on. WHo knows, maybe we will find someone even better.
Spurs aren’t a basket case, they could be on the verge of something very big
5 biggest wage bill, in the epl,5th biggest transfer spend in the epl, 9th highest revenues in the world
The stadium is now contributing more to their revenues, BSR favourite Beyoncé is doing a 5 date run there, they’re hosting more nfl games and other events all the time. The new stadium is built, they have a huge waiting list for the most expensive season tickets in Europe.
With the new uefa regs on revenues and spending coming in generating revenues from operations will become more and more important.
They won’t be perennial also rans forever
Levy will always have final say and they’re still looking to replace their dof but a new manager will get money to spend and inherit some very good players
Levy does occasionally listen to the fans, he had agreed to bring in a manager, who’s name I forget, but the fans made it so clear they didn’t want him that he changed his mind. Spurs fans won’t want Ange, but it looks like Levy’s options are narrowing.
It’s one of the biggest jobs in the world, if he was offered it it would be remarkable if he turned it down. If Ange really does want to make his mark in the same competition as Real Madrid the odds would be very short on him going.
You can’t possibly have succession plans in place for a manager at Celtic, unless you’ve been grooming one of the coaching staff. You can’t approach anyone with a serious offer with someone still in place. Approach anyone in a job and you have no chance of keeping it quiet. The present manager is finished.
The speculation is now intense about Ange and overshadowing the cup final. Does the club/Ange now need to make an announcement one way or another?
BHOY FROM THE BOYNE on 1ST JUNE 2023 11:24 AM
The speculation is now intense about Ange and overshadowing the cup final. Does the club/Ange now need to make an announcement one way or another?
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Is that not the intention all along? Celtic have a cup final and potential clean sweep of domestic honours and there are stories about Ange going to Spurs, that’s exactly the plan, certainly within the SMSM, it was ever thus. Celtic either have dud players/managers, which no one wants or they have great players/managers who are all about to leave Celtic. It has been this way since the first game in 1888!
This is much bigger than the parochial Scottish press unsettling us. Today’s press conference for cup final will be feisty…….
As much as the proposition that we have built for aspiring footballers to serve time with us before landing in the EPL, the same goes for managers. It works for us in the long haul.
We need builders. Those who can spot, nurture and then trade players. I don’t want old school like Moyes or knows the city like Lennon or even Kennedy. Rodgers would trade us again in an instant when an english club came calling.
At the very least, I’d hope we have a plan in place at the top that makes sense to what we are trying to build.
HH
Oh well. Too big a job to turn down
If there is such a thing it’s a good time to be looking fir his successor.
The problem with having anything good nowadays is that someone comes and takes it off you. Usually the rich. They get it all.
This is what Ange could have done when Spurs rumours surfaced. He hasn’t. Fair enough but seems to add to the fact that he’s at least interested in leaving. Next few days will be mad, and none of it will even reflect our world record of 8 trebles.
“I have been hearing a lot of rumours going around about other clubs’ interest in me,” Slot said. “Although I am thankful [for that], my wish is to stay at Feyenoord and continue working on what we created last year. There is not – and there has not been – transfer conversation and yesterday’s meeting was exclusively for an extension. All talks with the club have always been only in that sense. I’m looking forward to next season with Feyenoord.”
Big Wavy
Aye, that was a brilliant statement. Just killed paper talk and online ramblings stone dead.
Bhoy from the Boyne
“The speculation is now intense about Ange and overshadowing the cup final. Does the club/Ange now need to make an announcement one way or another?”
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My answer is NO. Any announcement that Ange is going can only serve to undermine the team and the support in the run up to the Cup Final. It will undermine more surely than the uncertainty of will he/ won’t he? could ever do. If Ange has signed a contract, there might be a point to announcing it as a boost but, even there, it has the danger of distracting from the team preparation for a game they should win.
If Ange is staying, the best time to announce it is immediately after we’ve won the Scottish Cup but not if we’ve just lost it- then we should wait a day or two.
If Ange is going- it should not be announced on the day that we win or lose a Scottish Cup- again it should wait a few days.
The team comes first. We need good communication from the club but we do not deserve to know everything. Some things are best kept private.
P.S. Why is the new Sevilla Manager- out of contract this summer- not the favourite for the Spurs job?- he would be an easier sell to their unjustifiably sniffy support.
new article posted.