New manager of New York City, Ronny Delia, knows how to land a big job. He won a miracle Norwegian title with Stromsgodset and won two Scottish Premierships and a League Cup in his two years at Celtic. Since then, he has managed Valerenga, where he has not achieved anything notable.
He first came to Celtic’s attention as a potential assistant manager before being offered the top job. He delivered the obligatory titles at Celtic, and got unlucky in a few cup competitions, but conceding a late goal at home to Maribor, a debacle against Legia Warsaw before finally losing out to Malmo for a Champions League place cast a shadow over his time here.
There’s lots about the business model of the MLS I don’t get, but the move from having David Villa being managed by Patrick Vieira in 2018, to Ronny managing Gary Mackay-Steven in 2020 looks like a club beginning to live within its means.
New York are owned by City Football Group, the parent company of Manchester City, who Ronny knew prior to his appointment at Celtic.
Ronny is a clever man, he will be a better manager now than he was when he arrived in Glasgow in 2014. If he does well in New York, there’s a good chance he will end up somewhere in the Manchester City coaching setup.
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The Battered Bunnet
The answer to your question is that My Left Foot yeah that’s the one he kicks a ball with
Has two feet, two big toes & eight small toes however games a boagay cause this said
question is a trick question & it’s not specific/clearly meaning enough new question
required
DENIABHOY on 9TH JANUARY 2020 9:57 AM
Agreed – hopefully we get that bit of quality up front this month which will give us a huge boost.
HH
TBB @ 09:49
Answer: if you are Celtic, you neither win, nor, lose – because your budget is always based on the smaller amount, i.e. the Europa League.
TBB – I couldn’t help myself I had to google that to find the answer. 😂
Can anyone let me know where I can get an application form to become a paid board troll? At this time of year the extra money would come in handy.
MCNUT on 9TH JANUARY 2020 9:57 AM
true – its tight right now, but I think the winter break has come at the worst possible time for them and the best time for us in the cirucmstances.
We’ll be ready to go again with a couple of new faces and lets see if they can keep up.
HH
SIEMPRE CELTIC (FORMERLY TRADITIONALIST88) on 9TH JANUARY 2020 9:58 AM
AKBW1888 on 9TH JANUARY 2020 9:45 AM
Exactly. They’d need to do so a couple of times AND qualify for the CL a couple of times to justify their current spending.
You wouldn’t bet on it, put it that way.
HH
You are right, has the Celtic Board ever heard of these words stating “Being Pro-Active”?
If Celtic are serious about trying to qualify for the CL Group Stages next Season then
nows the time to spend its a no Brainer. After all players need time to bed in & that’s
a fact
AKBW1888 on 9TH JANUARY 2020 10:08 AM
Yes, very difficult to sign players early July before the CL qualifiers begin. As if we needed another reason there is also the threat to our CL place so best to do what we can now.
HH
Been off the bike and stuck at home with a sore back these past three days. I don’t normally have the time to watch Netflix as my 7-year-old keeps me off it. Playing lightsaber battles and building lego quite rightly gets priority.
Anyway, a friend has been on at me for years to watch Peaky Blinders. Finished season 1-2 in 3 days, now onto season 3. Some of it is pretty good if you can avoid being too analytical. Thought Sam Neill was brilliant as the NI policeman. That accent, to me, is like fingernails scraping down a blackboard.
SIEMPRE CELTIC (FORMERLY TRADITIONALIST88) on 9TH JANUARY 2020 9:36 AM
I hear all that you say ref their un-sustainability. But it’s been this way for so long now that we almost need to create a new concept – ‘sustainable un-sustainability’!!!
We often hear that it’s the hope that kills them. Rather, it’s been the hope that’s sustained them.
For that reason, 9 is pivotal. 10 could be fatal.
HH jg
SIEMPRE CELTIC (FORMERLY TRADITIONALIST88) on 9TH JANUARY 2020 10:15 AM
AKBW1888 on 9TH JANUARY 2020 10:08 AM
Yes, very difficult to sign players early July before the CL qualifiers begin. As if we needed another reason there is also the threat to our CL place so best to do what we can now.
HH
You are damn tooting also in those CL qualifiers you normly come up against Teams
who are well into there Season
So you need to be well prepaired
Deniabhoy
1. Wheel of Fortune – you made me chuckle
2. Sam Neil was wonderfully, horribly brilliant with that hateful voice and character!
HH jg
We’re being linked with striker Scott Hogan from Aston Villa, cost Villa £12m in 2017 but scored just 6 goals in last 54 games.
HH
Back of a fag packet working out but since Sevco were formed they have lost about £325 every single hour of their existence… That is not sustainable
JAMESGANG on 9TH JANUARY 2020 10:19 AM
Ha, interesting concept! Many other business speculate to accumulate I suppose. But those have a clearer path to unlimited growth. Rangers 2.0 are doing it to stop us. Even the CL spot is secondary for them.
They weren’t far off breaking even a couple of years ago too before King took them down this road.
I don’t think they will be so reckless going forward but yeah, they’re ‘all-in’ for now.
HH
One of the downsides of watching something like Peaky Blinders in a foreign language is that some of the social and cultural context is lost — eg – in the Italian version — horrible man Campbell is simply a horrible man with a gruff Milan accent-
https://youtu.be/mfOyqJhqcP4
TBB…………………
Kwality!
BOB LOBLAW,
Do you have suspicions that some posters here are ‘plants’ by the board?
Confused. How is Dembele to Chelsea a windfall for us ?? We have 50m in bank and refuse to invest for CL and ten in a row
Don’t they mean a heated driveway windfall
3.5m for PL is an insult for a person who is overseeing a 3 out of 5 CL failure
90m in money lost
SoT
Then this, young Sir, might be the first ever time that we’ve heard something that you’ve not!😉
It’s fekin brutal mate. Just hearing it has you reaching for your pistol!
HH jg
SoT – ha, ha. Like Trainspotting in Spanish – somewhat loses the colour of the original.
Trainspotting scene in pub: https://youtu.be/h5puyWB2ljo
https://www.glasgowtimes.co.uk/news/18146012.celtic-boss-neil-lennon-wants-sfa-admit-wrong-ban-ryan-christie—say-sorry/
SIEMPRE CELTIC (FORMERLY TRADITIONALIST88) on 9TH JANUARY 2020 10:28 AM
We’re being linked with striker Scott Hogan from Aston Villa, cost Villa £12m in 2017 but scored just 6 goals in last 54 games.
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Looks a bit like a Gary Hooper type.
Came from non-league rather than an elite academy. Scored goals for Rochdale and Brentford but has struggled with Villa and Stoke.
Not exciting.
Winning the league title will probably be the sweetest victory since 2007/2008
@ SETTING FREE THE BEARS FOR RES. 12 & OSCAR KNOX on 9TH JANUARY 2020 9:03 AM
Your comment is not very objective and infers that there was little progress between the RD and BR era- do you really believe that?
Also, the CL comparisons are unfair. In the two years during BR’s tenure when we qualified for the CL we were grouped with Barca, Man City, Bayern and PSG; two groups of death. The WGS/NL groups were far easier tasks.
SIEMPRECELTIC
Scott Hogan had a good scoring record at Rochdale then Brentford but went off the boil at Villa due to injury etc. Damien Duff should know enough about him from the Republic set-up you would think , his current loan spell at Stoke hasn’t went well.
JAMESGANG .
I’ve heard the ‘English’ version
Recall a work related meeting with a guy in Ottawa . Introductory paperwork let me know ( via the surname ) that he was of Scottish stock / Anglicised name and therefore an Ulster Plantation chappie . I pitched up at his office — he was all that and more .. The horrible Northern Ireland Hun voice was still there under the Canadian twang . He was ,of course , a bigot . He competes for my best ever bigot award with a guy I met at Uni in 68 — a fabulous posh public school chap from Belfast who supported Everton.
Ron Bacardi on 9th January 2020 10:46 am
BOB LOBLAW,
Do you have suspicions that some posters here are ‘plants’ by the board?
No I don’t. Someone earlier raised a suspicion that another poster was a “paid board troll.” The thought made me chuckle. Just my attempt at a little humour.
Never mind about being in the market for duds & fuds & surplus to requirements
what is the script with Andraz Sporar?
He has had rave reviews by wee Lubo come on box clever ffs
TIMALOY29 on 9TH JANUARY 2020 11:06 AM
PARK ROAD 67 on 9TH JANUARY 2020 11:11 AM
Yes, wouldn’t be the most exciting but can he do a job… don’t know enough about him. Interesting comment about Duff who probably knows him well,
HH
The probability of qualifying for the Champions League is a recurring topic on the blog. Is it every attempt? Every other attempt? Once every three attempts?
I mind I scribbled some thoughts on it a while back, but it’s pretty simple to get a handle on from a betting perspective.
In recent seasons we’ve entered the draw in the first qualifying round, and had four ties to win in order to qualify.
Let’s take season 2018/19 as the example.
We drew Alashkert in round 1, then Rosenborg, then AEK Athens who knocked us out. AEK went on to beat Vidi (Videoton) the champions of Hungary in final qualifying.
While we might be confident of beating any given one of those teams, in order to qualify we need to win all four ties consecutively, and that’s a classic accumulator.
What are the odds of beating each team in isolation? I don’t have access to the actual odds offered by the bookies, but let’s take a look at it using a little experience and intuition.
On current performance, I’d say we’d beat the champions of Armenia nine times out of 10. Maybe even 95 times out of 100. Let’s allow us a 95% chance in this round.
Next up Rosenborg, the champions of Norway, and old pals of ours over the years. What are the odds of us beating them? Pretty good, I’d say, 7 or perhaps 8 times out of 10, yeh? Let’s say 80%.
Then the champions of Greece, AEK. OK, they beat us last time out in the 3rd round, as Cluj did this season, but I’d expect Celtic to beat AEK more often than not. Shall we say 70%?
And finally Vidi, the champions of Hungary. Mind it could have been Young Boys or Slavia Prague or similar. What are the odds of Celtic beating one of these teams? I’d still back us, but I’d be a little more cautious. Let’s say 60%. Reasonable?
So take those odds and run the accumulator….
0.95 x 0.8 x 0.7 x 0.6 = 32%
In round numbers, that’s leads to an expectation that we’d qualify once every three attempts.
I think this coming season we go into round two directly, so we can take out the 0.95 which leaves us with 33%. The odds are not significantly changed.
The big change comes with getting directly into round 3 or, better yet, round 4.
Dropping directly into round 3 improves the odds to 42%, while getting directly into round 4 gives us a 60% chance of qualifying giving the chances above.
You can play about with the probabilities as you like, but even 3 rounds at 80% likelihood of success (which flies in the face of our experience) in each round gives still just 51% probability of qualifying.
Looking at Bert Kassies’ site, he’s still showing the champions of Scotland entering at round 1, but I’ve got a sneaky feeling that recent results of Scottish clubs in Europe have improved our ranking for next year and we might get directly into round 2. Doesn’t really change the odds though. Scotland would need to jump from (currently) 20th to 14th to make the jump to round 3, and to 12th to get to round 4, final qualifying, to effect major changes to the likelihood of qualifying.
An automatic place in the group stages under the current rules is available should Scotland get to 10th, which seems somewhat unlikely for the time being.
For what it’s worth, there’s my tuppence. Given 4 qualifying rounds, we ‘should’ qualify once in every three attempts.
It’s perhaps a little optimistic insofar as our recent experience might suggests is realistic – Cluj, AEK, Malmo, Maribor, Legia and Braga all spring to mind in recent years.
But then, if you look at our record since we were required to start qualifying in round 2 of 4 (2013), it’s maybe pessimistic. We’ve had seven attempts, and have succeeded three times.
Just seen another Spanish YouTube clip entitled “Watching Paint Dry” its referring to the
Celtic Board’s approach of should we stick or twist in the Transfer Market its a follow
up to the “Big Sleep” like wake us up if anything happens?
AKBW – for what it’s worth, Sporar’s club say Bristol City have made a firm offer for him.
CQN board plants Lol really
There is many reasons why PL is still CEO at Celtic Even though our business in pounds wise has grown very little in 15 years while his salary has increased by approx 400%.
That is spin and he is very good at it
Example was The project manger ronnys disastrous 1st CL attempt. Cost our club about 40m
Was told by a good source that PL PR company that he used would come out with a catch phrase
The in Ronny we trust was spread via CQN and the rest is History
We are now fed the mince about what a successful CEO he is
In truth he holds us back and while some fans believe the PR
Informed my employer that I’ve decided to take it easy and spend more time with my family and assured them that at some stage I hope to become financially self sufficient – until then of course I expect them to maintain my standard of living.
harryandmeghanCSC
DENIABHOY on 9TH JANUARY 2020 11:29 AM
AKBW – for what it’s worth, Sporar’s club say Bristol City have made a firm offer for him.
Yeah no doubt & a bigger wage packet as well.
How come nearly all the players Celtic are interested in becomes common knowledge
around the Transfer Market they should have a “Non Discloser Clause” with the Players
Agents going to the highest bidder is not fair nor is it the right way to conclude ones
Business another example of not being on a Level Playing Field when it comes to trying
to do Business in the Transfer Market