Can everyone just calm their jets on the notion that Brendan Rodgers, or anyone else for that matter, is in prime position for the manager’s job?
I’ve seen these appointments at close quarters for a long time. An interview is often little more than a courtesy. Remember years ago, the ex-Juventus boss, a disaster in Turin, never taken seriously in Glasgow, but he had an influential agent that Celtic wanted to get closer to?
There was also an ex-Celtic player who applied. Everyone know he was a hopeless manager, but still, am ex-player deserved a little courtesy. He was interviewed, then politely told they were going in a different direction.
Brendan was a winning Celtic manager. If, as reported, he was interviewed, you’d better believe he has invested some capital in even being considered. The way he behaved at Liverpool, then Celtic, and his lack of structural legacy at both these clubs and at Leicester, means Brendan has a bit of a reputational challenge going forward. Even being considered by Celtic would do him good.
I don’t see it going any further than this, though. We’ve seen what an actual great manager can do. One that leaves a legacy of a valuable squad. One that never considered short-term loans as part of his modus operandi. A team player in every sense.
We have had an elite operator for two years. The difference to what went before is stark.
I know that in 2019 we didn’t as much appoint Neil Lennon as end up with him after an unfruitful search. So, if we’re reading the signs, there’s a chance we’ll end up with a breaker, not a builder.
I’m reading the signs and I just can’t see Brendan Rodgers getting this gig. His interview is just noise, it’s not the sound you should be paying attention to.
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only mention that as I got no abuse in his latest rant
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I have given my list of characteristics I don’t want in a new manager:-
Facial blemishes
Doesn’t take interviews in a shower
Had a Celtic subbuteo set as a youngster
Has appeared on Love Island or I’m a Celebrity
Has ever owned a Boyzone or Westlife record.
EntitledCelticSupporter csc
SFTB
Solid set of non reasons
On Deila, was he not interviewed for the assistant managers position before Peter showed him the changing rooms?
Just watched Series 1 of the Sky Italia supernatural-crime drama series called ‘Christian’.
Kind of like Gomorrah meets Messiah.
Heid still spinning about the meaning of the last episode – intriguing wee show with Ser 2 in the works.
Celtic need:
Steady hand on tiller for a critical money spinning season ahead
Surrogate faither figure (like Ange was)
Don’t need:
Cheap options
Speculative punts
beach towels
https://twitter.com/LDTEEstore/status/1667100439681155072/photo/1
SFTB
I noticed that you never mentioned rick astley
Particularly, you never mentioned his
“I’ll Never Let You Down” period
Which excludes our favourite run away in the middle of the season manager
PS
I hope you all now have that fecking horrible song in your head
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3nV9udxkkxw
*whimper
EDIT
I was of course thinking of this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ
Mod
🎶 Do you remember rick astley?
He had a big fat hit that was ghastly
He said I’m never gonna give you up or let you down
Well I’m here to tell ya that dick’s a clown
Though he was just a boy when he made that vow
I’d bet it all that he knows by now
All men (all men)
All men are liars their words ain’t worth no more than worn out tires
Hey girls (girls) bring rusty pliers to pull this tooth
All men are liars and that’s the truth 🎶
sftb
okay then matey
I see you were scarred as much (if not more) than the rest of the population by stock aitken waterman type hits
Bet your kylie poster took a battering……
Note, that as much as I wanted to mention jason donavon, I kept it to the kylie level xx
Kevj
Rick Astley, kylie and jason donavon……..
I await you’re next post with 80’s level fear including manager level espionage, CQN spy stories and espionage fears that were popular during the 1980s, partly fueled by the ongoing board (kelly’s) War.
The fear of covert operations, espionage, and infiltration by enemy huns added to the general atmosphere of suspicion and distrust within the season ticket holders
It’s important to note that these fears and concerns were not uniform for everyone and varied depending on factors such as location, socioeconomic status, and personal circumstances.
Unless you had a season ticket at 46 quid……
The only thing I disliked about Rodgers’ style of play was his possession obsession.
The best thing about it was his penchant for scudding the Huns.
If he can further exploit the ruthlessness of Kyogo, the creativity of Reo and Jota and the rock steadiness of CCV, we will be treated to more hun skelping.
3 or 4 league wins over the cloven hooves almost guarantees CL football and the riches that follow, allowing us to further strengthen the team.
That’s good enough for me.
And so it came to pass that Ryan Kent joined Turkish team on a free.
Oh, how the sh1tey have fallen !
Can it really just be two short years ago, that the uncapped crusader took an extra protein shake …..
(preseason friendlies are private arrangements – the only compliance requirement is disciplinary reporting , none of those pesky drug tests)
… and proceeded to destroy the galactico reserves?
A £50m price tag dutifully placed on his shaven head by the compliant SMSM … his transfer from Sevco was to send shock waves round … er .. something.
Where did it all go wrong for the walk on extra in Prison Break?
turkish???
Not spanish
Italian
German
French or greek??
Lol
not even a fooking championship team
How we chortle
Kevj
Good to know I can sneak you out when the blog is struggling}
xxx
Pity my insomnia (and anyone else that cant sleep) is the only one that can see your nonsense
xxx
Mod
Thumbs were made for scrolling.
Good morning all from Govanhill.
Good morning all from another lovely morning in the Garngad.
So according to some our search for a new mananger begins.
Awe thats good what 10 days after last 1 left.
Celtic board gotta love them, bless the little liars.
D :)
Celtic, get this managerial appointment sorted. The last thing we need is dithering on an Eddie Howe scale.
If a ” top” manager is to be installed, he will want autonomy. He will want control over who we sign and who we ship out.
He will need to evaluate the academy prospects.
He will want to oversea pre season tours and training.
He will want to review our rapidly impending fixtures
He will want to properly prepare for our crucial , mega important CL campaign.
He will need familiarisation time, especially if its not BR.
To state the obvious, we cannot do anything of the above and the clock is indeed ticking.
HH.
Dalachy Muffin
Nooznoo and record links.yeez are hard to spot!
All we are waiting is keef whoredass to be quoted……oh wait
Woken by the sound of a cheeky young magpie on my windowsill pecking at window in morse code.
“Brendan and Dermot In London. Stop. Signing deal today. Stop. See bird feeder. Stop. Post Scriptum. Stop. Don’t forget to leave out some water. Stop. Ave Ave. Stop.”
Make of that what you will, good morning.
Ave Ave
For my tuppence worth I must say I was impressed with bodo glimp (sp) when we played them , they outplayed us that night ,they were a fast outfit and steady in defence . That’s why there boss would be my choice to try and get on board .
MODERATOR1888 on 12TH JUNE 2023 8:59 PM
My take on Paul67’s leader, and again I aint talked to him and wont for a week atleast
“An interview is often little more than a courtesy.
Remember years ago, the ex-Juventus boss, a disaster in Turin, never taken seriously in Glasgow, but he had an influential agent that Celtic wanted to get closer to?”
Who is in couple hours flying distance that has the same agent???
Or something similar
In the last 10 years Celtic has always been good disguising their transfers
No one in the media had a clue till it was announced
I believe this one will be the same……
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So as reported by McGowan, BR had two phone calls with Desmond, these calls went well enough for our CEO and CFO to fly out and present him with an offer and presentation on where we see the Club going. Further talks with Desmond are planned for this week in London.
Very simply, the job is Brendan’s should he want it and I suspect we’re some way down that road already.
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The only reason I changed my name from Gold Coast Tom to Tom McLaughlin — my real name — was because I moved back from Australia to Edinburgh after 10 years and didn’t see the sense in continuing with the geographical moniker.
I also made it clear to the blog at the time that it was a name change.
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Recall you goin thro illness as GCT,reintroducing yourself back as your name(long ago now might have been pre GCT then back tas was course,and with over a thousand posts,variation in thought,learning and they mostly still go if sadly some passed away.
Tom I read back again .
I am reposting part of my answer,to you
‘Reintroducing yourself as your name’
on previous page4.
Your answered me as tho I were criticising you when in fact I was commending you by contrasting your behaviour with the 10 min anonymi who soil this place.
HH
Good morning CQN.
Another beautiful day and, who knows, maybe even a busy one for the bookies.
I’m sure I read a Julia Donaldson book to my children when they were young titled
“You’re all my favourites”
🤔
Anyway, we won treble.
Something to smile and shout about.
Have a good ‘un
If it’s to be Rodgers – and I’d grudgingly accept him back – he needs to be told in no uncertain terms that the core of this present team stays as it is.
Fassreifen, Not sure you could do that.
I expect Desmond & Nicholson have presented Rodgers with a blueprint of where they see Club going,
I am sure pesky things like remuneration and staff would have been dealt with by now.
Rodgers for his part would have put forward his wish list and I feel certain that full control of Footballing matters would have been high on the agenda.
There will be differences right now, I’m sure Desmond will want assurances that there will be no mid Season jumping ship, Rodgers will also have his list, Agents & Lawyers will be involved,
If this much vaunted Head to Head between Desmond & Rodgers actually happens, I reckon the deal will be done.
However as we all know these things can become unstuck, I feel pretty certain that just like Howe & Ange, in this eventuality there is a fall back Manager waiting in the wings.
I’m still puzzled by Paul’s Article, maybe all the red tops have it wrong & it’s only all noise but right now it doesn’t look that way.
Checking in.
Is the Rodgers still just noise?
Feeling very feckin noisy across the spectrum. Let’s just get the right appointment.
Get it done. Like the look of the young Norwegin B2B guy we re on the verge of signing. More of the same please.
HH
Harald Brattbackk talking about our latest signing.
“He’s from my hometown,” he said. “He’s exciting and he moved from home quite early to Valerenga. He’s been consistently good and he is one of those players who are still young, but also good.
“How well he would fit into a Celtic team I wouldn’t know because I don’t know who the manager is going to be. I would say he is more attacking than defensive. Certainly his work ethic is really good. He runs a lot and is one of those players you don’t see all of time during games, but he is right behind you backing you up or just in front of you taking charge.
“I think he’s been at a good place developing. He is discussed [for potential transfers] every year. He was only 17 when he left and has been three years at Valerenga, I think.
“The manager wanted to play him young, so he’s got quite a few games at a high level. You can see that he has got potential.
“With the likes of him compared to say a Martin Odegaard, maybe he has the same potential, but Odegaard got the potential out when he was 15.
“You could see he would become really good. With Holm, it is a bit different and it is always exciting to see when players move if they are able to reach the next level.
“You would think they have got it, but you don’t know until they try.”
No return of Congerton
No expensive loanees with no chance of buying at the end of the term.
Put Rodgers in charge of the development of players (his sweet spot) & infracstructure and have the scouts work their magic on incoming (to a template of young stars with a sell-on in a few years).
Get Peter Lawell back in his box and leave Nicholson to manage Rodgers.
HH
BURNLEY78 on 12TH JUNE 2023 6:38 PM
B78-One can only imagine what this place would be like if we hadn’t dominated Scottish football for an entire generation.
AT- There are whole fields of Psychiatry devoted to dealing with reality and dealing with illusion and ruminant imagined thought
B78-We have been enjoying the most consistent run of success and beating some of the best teams we have ever beaten in Europe this past 25 years.
AT- domestically we were playing criminals for 12 of those year,adding to 12 at the end of last century,Criminality we Celticplc done/commented zero bout.
A criminality whose favoured funder B.o.S came within 35 minutes of ENDING all Celtic conversations,win lose or draw.here nationally and internationally.remember that Ending all conversations of our club forever
In Europe I would like more victorys in Europe.
Some victories truly commendable in matches only.One final and solace at getting snout in the money trough
B78-Imagine if we hadn’t won an unparalleled trophy haul. Imagine if we were sat in 1965 looking back at the prior 25 years. Or even in 2000. Imagine if we were where the new govan franchise is now.
AT- See above on Imagining and reality
See also contrast with reacting to cheating
Govan franchise-you mean a team founded and ‘accepted into our league'(where were they b4?) in 2012 with honours going back to 1872
B78-I can only wonder about the responses of the many football gurus and informed experts on here would be.
AT- no gurus or experts here B78,just fans voicing their experience,fears and worries,Fans not consumers.some of it incorrect nonsense but your quiet why the girn grows?
Any comment on the uncertainty that may stoke them?
How’s that manager search goin? With our slick well run professional Corporate side?Who run our £100m club?
Flame still on feet of those in our team who decide
B78.Entitled, not at all.
AT- I think you are getting your entitled chat,mixed up with get us tf out of current uncertainty fans want ended,it generates its own demand until that uncertainty ends.sort the uncertainty,give our fans leadership and direction by our own heirarchy fanse.over a week now
The entitlement you reflect,ably augmented by the hun mirroring language of a ‘generation of domination’.is that Cellic speak watp?
would not want anything from them,least of all their hubris.
I think your getting your consumer speak and fan speak mixed up B78.
Celtic fans want the uncertainty ended,til that happens you’ll get the desecration of previous managers(read the header) again get the manager chosen and back to one Celtic.
Why is slaughtering one manager OK Neil today
and BR in past ok by the bloggerati.but not fans.
Celtic fans are always there.
Consumers are not.
The bloggerati are not.
One Celtic.
HH
Excellent lead article from Paul67 IMO. ‘Breaker’ v’s Builder analogy sums it up for me.
Huge red flag if Rodgers comes back…..unless he has undergone a personality transplant.
The only scenario I see Rodgers working without disrupting the structural work started since 2021, is that he informs the club what type of player he requires for his system and the club presents a list of names.
Kinda, like the transfer committee where Rodgers role is that of Head Coach.
What could possibly go wrong :-)
Rodgers out :-)
Too soon?