Some perspective first. Ronny Deila, manager of Norwegian champions Stromsgodset, is not about to be appointed Celtic manager. He does, meet the criteria, unlike the various one-season wonders cast aside from the English Premier League. I believe there are two other strong candidates, Ronny has no pre-eminence at this stage, but unlike the various ‘favourites’ who have appeared in recent times, at least he is a genuine possibility.
Stefan Johansen worked under Ronny immediately before joining Celtic, which gave club scouts an insight into the coach’s style of play. Stromsgodset are predominantly an attacking team, who press high up the field and pass quickly.
His players are dedicated athletes or they don’t remain his players for very long. He is also one of the game’s intellectuals, a former teacher – and what I’ve been asking for since Neil resigned – a student of the game. His attitude to his own role is one of continual professional development.
Ronny has a track record of improving players and improving teams. He is not a brand name, nor a shareholder’s whim. He is not being considered because he’s ‘pals with Peter and out of a job’.
Please bear in mind………..
Ronny Deila is only one of three genuine contenders Celtic are considering at the moment but all three match the same criteria. They are intelligent, technically adept, progressive, winners. Which has made me more excited than any of the names suggested so far.
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Sunburst,
Interestingly (or not) the ie spelling gives One Ireland.
Petec
Hiya.. Palomine??
HIvnae Bin Talkin’ Much.. tae each ither,lately..
tae Ma.. regret..
The Turf Accountants ur the Poor Mans Stock Brokers.
Yes…. The Stock Market is Similar,in that The Insiders.. the wans who Mak or Break a Stock Price.. are Master Manipulators..
That is why..that Ah only Buy.. when My Chosen Stock Is…. Declining..
and when it Bottoms..
Ah Stop Buying..
E.g.
Ah bought.. Lloyds Banking.. all the way down.. From
42,00 Dollars..oan the N.Y. Stock exchange..
Ah Had already SOLD It.. at… 44.00 Dollars..at a Ratjer Large Profit..
It went down n down.. and Ah kept Buying .. using only a Thousand Dollars At a Time.. until ..it .. hit Bottum
at.. 1.94 Dollars…
then..like Ah told you
Ah stoapped Buying..
N.. Ah wull Not Buy it Again.. until it Hits the High..
It is Noo..is In the 5.00 n change Area. n..
It is oan the RISE.. which Ah fully expected ,
n..It wul Continue tae Rise. because.. Fundamentally.. Lloyds is a Very Good Stock.
The Mugs..noo. Seeing the Stock is oan the Rise wull Chase it..
All the wey Up…
n..in a Rising Market.. that is Not a very good Idea..
Na..Ma Method is Best..
Ah wulll jist watch the Stock Going up n Up…
and Pick My Spot when tae Cash in..
Jist like Ah did the Last Time..
Ah hiv jist gien ye . Ma secret of Success.. in the Stock Market..
But.. Ah am confident.. tha not many oan here.. wull Fully grasp
whit Ah am Oan Aboot..
N.. that is why
the Stock Market Manipulators Mak the Money which they Do..
Most folk who are in the Market.. Dinna Fully Understaun. wit is going oan..
Jist like the guys who Bet wi the Bookies..
Nice chatting with ye,pal..Like Alwiz
Kojo
Still Laughin’
Gotta Go..joe
Seeya.
Saw Ronnie and Peter on the TV in the pub but no sound.
What did PL say and who is that cracker blonde on SkySports News?
How do they get round employment law? They all look similarly lovely
Geordie. I find that more than Interesting.
I can see the Orcs crying Fenian conspiracy already..
excellent stuff
About the Teachers debate, well, all anyone can go on, IMO, is their own experiences.
I must admit, I was not really interested in School, I liked PE and that was about it. I can’t think of any Teacher I didn’t have respect for, there was one I was in Love with as well, I didn’t do well in Maths because I was too distracted, she was a wee babe.
What I did see was a Teacher (relatively) young as well, have a nervous breakdown because the Class, well the bampots, who were allowed to get away with anything. The belt wasn’t an option anymore and I can’t remember seeing him again at the School. Maybe he wasn’t cut out to be a Teacher but what I saw was just wrong.
No matter what anyone tries to say, Teachers don’t have it easy.
Geordie
While dropping league position. Correct. I will pull him up tomorrow about his lack of precision ;-)
What about players sales ? How has he coped with that ? Has he developed and sold ? Egil says they hung onto their better players. I would love to know for sure.
Would be good to know
Night Night
Kojo
00:46 on 5 June, 2014
Petec
Hiya.. Palomine??
HIvnae Bin Talkin’ Much.. tae each ither,lately..
tae Ma.. regret..
The Turf Accountants ur the Poor Mans Stock Brokers.
Yes…. The Stock Market is Similar,in that The Insiders.. the wans who Mak or Break a Stock Price.. are Master Manipulators..
That is why..that Ah only Buy.. when My Chosen Stock Is…. Declining..
and when it Bottoms..
Ah Stop Buying..
E.g.
Ah bought.. Lloyds Banking.. all the way down.. From
42,00 Dollars..oan the N.Y. Stock exchange..
Ah Had already SOLD It.. at… 44.00 Dollars..at a Ratjer Large Profit..
It went down n down.. and Ah kept Buying .. using only a Thousand Dollars At a Time.. until ..it .. hit Bottum
at.. 1.94 Dollars…
then..like Ah told you
Ah stoapped Buying..
N.. Ah wull Not Buy it Again.. until it Hits the High..
It is Noo..is In the 5.00 n change Area. n..
It is oan the RISE.. which Ah fully expected ,
n..It wul Continue tae Rise. because.. Fundamentally.. Lloyds is a Very Good Stock.
The Mugs..noo. Seeing the Stock is oan the Rise wull Chase it..
All the wey Up…
n..in a Rising Market.. that is Not a very good Idea..
Na..Ma Method is Best..
Ah wulll jist watch the Stock Going up n Up…
and Pick My Spot when tae Cash in..
Jist like Ah did the Last Time..
Ah hiv jist gien ye . Ma secret of Success.. in the Stock Market..
But.. Ah am confident.. tha not many oan here.. wull Fully grasp
whit Ah am Oan Aboot..
N.. that is why
the Stock Market Manipulators Mak the Money which they Do..
Most folk who are in the Market.. Dinna Fully Understaun. wit is going oan..
Jist like the guys who Bet wi the Bookies..
Nice chatting with ye,pal..Like Alwiz
Kojo
Still Laughin’
Gotta Go..joe
Seeya.
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Cheers Kojo,
A load of Bollingers if you ask me.
Keep on riding those lines.
Maestro
I thought this from the article at the E Tims link says it all in terms of Celtic’s thinking.
“We need a manager who grasps the essential nature of our buy low, sell high strategy rather than one who merely accepts it. We need a system and style of play that gets the most out of our players while entertaining the fans.”
If buy low sell high is how things are then better someone who accepts the reality and works within it than someone used to a different reality.
Natknow 22:17
Bwilllyyant lol ;-)
HH
One last anagram for the night shift, this time the subject is the pie eater himself. AMC
I give you
‘Comical, Airs Tits’
Hx2
Aw naw,
Points are 29, 36, 43, 45, 58, 63.
Positions are 11, 12, 7, 8, 2, 1.
While it’s 100% correct to say the points.do increase year on year the positions are not exactly the same.
Does this guarantee he will be a success? Nope. Neither does it guarantee he’ll be a flop? Shouldn’t think so.
No idea about player sales. I do know they lost their best player from last season though :)
hamiltontim is praying for oscar
23:40 on 4 June, 2014
HT: Hiya Mr Lawell, it’s hamiltontim here, I was wondering if you fancied swapping jobs for a week or two?
PL: Are you kidding? I’ve seen the abuse you teachers take on CQN!!
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After a trying and stressful day that was what. I needed to bring some relief
Thanks HT
Auldheid
00:52 on 5 June, 2014
Maestro
I thought this from the article at the E Tims link says it all in terms of Celtic’s thinking.
“We need a manager who grasps the essential nature of our buy low, sell high strategy rather than one who merely accepts it. We need a system and style of play that gets the most out of our players while entertaining the fans.”
If buy low sell high is how things are then better someone who accepts the reality and works within it than someone used to a different reality.
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That makes a lot of sense but the involvement of Roy Keane does not look good, IMO.
I actually think Roy will go on to be a very good Manager in the future, he has a determination to succeed that would have really rubbed off on our younger players, despite all the Press.
All the negative news stories about Roy Keane, No, I don’t believe a word.
Headphones on for the surround sound listening to this olde Skool Classic.
Guinea Pigs Agree.
Petec,
Teaching can be stressful and you need to care to succeed but teachers do not get made dedundant or make multi million decisions.
They also do the same job every year
It gets easier with repitition.
In industry you have to learn quickly and adapt.
I posted earlier that jobs are different but certain professions moan more than others or some are less known.
I went out with a nurse and a teacher when i was young
Due to the big footprint in life , they felt the need to talk about it a lot.
As an engineer, i mumbled a bit , but deferred
I am in financilals now and say even less.
Some jobs cause debate but the workers don’t half look for it!
Just booked my room at the hotel for the Styx Pool tournie. Looks like there is only 4 single rooms left, although there are a few doubles for those that are feeling lucky (it is a bit of club by the looks of it), or taking partners.:D
I will be driving from Dumbarton, so I can give a lift there to the venue, and back for those that stay overnight.
is–are.
gremlins.
Teacher debate.
I suppose it’s no surprise to everyone that my experience of teachers goes back to the 50s and 60s.
The teachers we had were more than just in it for job security.
They had a mission.
That mission was to turn out well educated, well rounded youngsters who would challenge the bias and bigotry in employment. People who would be so well rounded, so well qualified the non Catholic closed shops would crumble and fall.
The successful results are all around you.
The qualifications of those on the blog and our host are plain to see.
Argumentative though we may be we are also articulate, imaginative and all inclusive.
Not to mention caring, charitable and handsome.
GG
I went to a Catholic school and was denied all sport and social from 2nd year to 5th due to teacher action. No school trips, no footie team, no senior chill oot room.
When i hung around after my last higher,my Maths teacher spotted me and told me to get off the property
That was my prom
Ayrshire boys are tough!!
‘GG
01:58 on 5 June, 2014
Teacher debate.
I suppose it’s no surprise to everyone that my experience of teachers goes back to the 50s and 60s.
The teachers we had were more than just in it for job security.
They had a mission.
That mission was to turn out well educated, well rounded youngsters who would challenge the bias and bigotry in employment. People who would be so well rounded, so well qualified the non Catholic closed shops would crumble and fall.
The successful results are all around you.
The qualifications of those on the blog and our host are plain to see.
Argumentative though we may be we are also articulate, imaginative and all inclusive.
Not to mention caring, charitable and handsome.
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I agree with all of that, except the last, you obviously huvnae seen me. :P
I’m still a very Lucky Man.
I would never do this though, no matter what the Stage.
If this is what happens……
“Power and the money, money and the power. Minute after minute, hour after hour.”
Messi for me everytime, hopefully he remains as humble as possible.
Coneybhoy 02:06
84-88?
Coneybhoy
Are you in Brooklyn?
Was it because teachers were working to rule?
Or were you suffering at the hands of over zealous disciplinary measures?
I wonder how many Brown Paper Bags have been passed at the upper echelons of the game of fitba……
…And how far down it goes.
‘GG
01:58 on
5 June, 2014
I found myself most impressed and nodding sagely until you said ” we.”
:-)
GG and Petec,
Correct timing on the work to rule, in Ayrshire, and 80s. Was pretty grim. We had school trips up to 3rd year. Got Xmas party up to 4th year. No senior nonsense, did that ourselves and got hosed!
Gag
Catholic Boys was a great film, never see it on TV.
I have seen that movie about a strict boys school in Brooklyn.
I thought it was more a coming of age, comic movie.
Just checked IMDB Its known as Heaven Help Us.
I once had a team, they played in green so it would seem
They told me I should isn’t it good, norwegian would?
They asked me to stay and they told me to sit anywhere
So I looked around and I noticed
The Green brigade weren’t there
I sat on the dug, biding my time, drinking their wine
We talked until two and then they said, “It’s time for bread”
They told me they worked in the morning and started to laugh
I told them I didn’t and crawled off to sleep in the bath
And when I awoke I was alone, this bird had flown
So I pissed on the fire, isn’t it good, some Norwegian would
Remarkable bird. The Norwegian Blue.
http://youtu.be/npjOSLCR2hE
Since we are going all Norwegian, what about Thor Heyerdal
I remember reading the Kon Tiki expedition book at school.
I hope the adventure he takes us on will be a bit more comfortable.
The Good Ship Celtica will be sailing with Norwegian Cruise Lines to Miami, Bahamas, Caribbean and other exotic locales.
Or Raold Amundsen
Or Raold Dahl, did he consider himself Welsh?
Celtic close in on double act of Deila and Collins
Michael Grant
Chief football writer
Thursday 5 June 2014
CELTIC are close to appointing Ronny Deila as their new manager within the next 48 hours and could recruit John Collins as his assistant.
Ronny Deila
A deal has still to be agreed with 38-year-old Deila’s current club, Norwegian champions Stromsgodset, but progress could be swift. Stromsgodset turned down Celtic’s first offer of compensation last night although talks between the clubs continued. The Norwegians do not want to deny Deila the chance to advance his career but also feel that, as a Champions League club – they will enter in the second qualifying round, along with Celtic – they should be adequately compensated for losing their manager.
Deila’s agent, Tore Pedersen, is believed to have met senior Celtic figures in Glasgow yesterday after the Scottish champions asked permission to speak to his client on Tuesday night. Deila declined to discuss Celtic in any detail last night when he faced reporters after Stromsgodset were beaten 4-2 by second-tier Tromsdalen in the Norwegian Cup.
“It’s speculation, there’s nothing concrete at the moment,” he said. “It’s flattering. It’s a big club, and it’s nice to be one of the names mentioned. I always said I have a dream [to manage outside of Norway]. This isn’t the right day to talk about coaching internationally, but we’ll see when the time comes.”
Herald Sport can reveal that Collins, the former Celtic midfielder, has been identified as an ideal figure to provide knowledge of the club and the wider Scottish football scene given that Deila has never previously worked outside of Norway. Collins played for Celtic between 1990 and 1996 and later managed Hibs and Charleroi before becoming director of football at Livingston in February, 2012, where he lasted a year. Celtic are tempted by the idea of introducing a director of football too but Collins’s role, if confirmed, would be as Deila’s number two.
The shock move for the Norwegian came from left field yesterday after days of speculation concerning Henrik Larsson, Malky Mackay, Owen Coyle, Steve Clarke and Roy Keane, with the latter approached by majority shareholder Dermot Desmond only make himself unavailable for the job.
Although there is disagreement over compensation, that is not likely to be a significant stumbling block given that Deila has made it known that he wants to come to Parkhead. He signed a new contract at Stromsgodset in 2013, after the club became Norwegian league champions for the first time since 1970, and he is contractually committed to the club until 2016. Celtic will have to pay compensation to free him early but his current salary, understood to be around £200,000, would not make the settlement prohibitive.
Deila amounts to a leap into the unknown for Celtic given his age, his lack of experience outside of Norway, where he won the Norwegian Cup in 2010 and posted steadily improving league results from when he was appointed in 2008 to last season’s title success. His style of football is attacking and based on energy and pressing, often playing a 4-3-3 formation, while as a qualified teacher his manner is thoughtful and measured.
Stromsgodset chairman Tom Saxegaard told STV: “We are going to play in the Champions League and obviously we want to keep him. He’s our manager and is under contract with us for two-and-a-half years. We really think he can get to the very top.”
The club have already done one piece of business with Celtic this year, with midfielder Stefan Johansen moving in January. He will be a highly influential figure if Deila takes over and the manager tries to impress an experienced, seasoned Parkhead squad.
Despite last night’s cup defeat, which may prove Deila’s swansong, Stromsgodset are unbeaten in 46 home league games since June, 2011.
Melrose: What Jock did was more than Par for the course
Staff writer
Thursday 5 June 2014
HARRY MELROSE witnessed at close quarters how Jock Stein was both a genius in the dugout and a shrewd operator off the park.
Harry Melrose played under the ‘revolutionary’ Jock Stein
Melrose – part of the celebrated Dunfermline team that Stein led to Scottish Cup glory in 1961 – recalled how the hugely successful manager arranged to return to Fife for a pre-season friendly with Celtic to facilitate Kenny Dalglish’s move to Liverpool in 1977.
Sitting in the suite at East End Park that is named after his one-time mentor, former winger Melrose reminisced about Stein ahead of a documentary about the man by purpleTV that is due to air on BBC ALBA on Monday at 9pm.
Stein outfoxed the prying media, Melrose recalled, to help Dalglish seal his record breaking £440,000 switch to Anfield from Celtic.
Melrose said: “He was a great man and so easy to approach if you needed a bit of advice. He was also a shrewd man and I remember he phoned me once during the summer when I was Dunfermline manager.
“He said, ‘how would you like a pre-season game with Celtic?’ I said ‘that would be great’. But he had an ulterior motive; there had been word about Dalglish moving on and the press were at him all the time. He came through here and he went away with Kenny Daglish at half-time to sign for Liverpool.
“It was a chance to get the press off his back and get out of Glasgow with Kenny Dalglish. It was good for us but he had another motive.”
Dunfermline was Stein’s first port of call in a managerial journey that would lead to him masterminding Celtic’s historic European Cup triumph in 1967.
He arrived at Dunfermline in 1960 and immediately transformed a side that was struggling in the league into Scottish Cup winners.
Many memorable European nights followed and Melrose, who plied his trade at Dunfermline for a total of seven years, reckons Stein was a pioneer when it came to mind games. “We had been drawn with Everton [in the Fairs Cup] and they were called the Bank of England team because they bought all their players; there were a couple of Scotsmen there as well.
“On one Monday morning after the draw had been made, he came stomping in. There was a notice board where he used to put the team up, he came up and put something up and walked out again. He had never done this before. We all went up and it was a headline out of one of the Glasgow papers and it said, ‘Who are those country cousins? Never heard of Dunfermline’.
“That is what Everton were meant to have said. We said, ‘we’ll show them’ and he didn’t have to make a speech before the game against Everton; it was psychological and we won.”
Melrose insists Stein brought a revolutionary approach. “In one particular game I was dispossessed by the full-back a couple of times and at half-time Jock said, ‘it looks like you won’t get past the boy’, and I was down at that.
“But he said ‘look, you’re probably the bast passer of a ball at East End Park, use your strengths and pass it’. I probably wasn’t the best passer but he said I was. He had that ability to get something out of you.”
Amidst the surprise over Celtic’s pursuit of Ronny Deila, a simple fact was overlooked. The Parkhead club have come close to hiring a Norwegian coach before.
Seeking a replacement for Wim Jansen in 1998 they turned to the eccentric, welly-boot wearing figure of Egil Olsen.
‘Drillo’, as he is known, had just ended a nine-year stint as the manager of Norway’s national team. A deal was close, but faltered after Olsen refused to place Copier, his pet pooch, in quarantine. ‘It was Celtic or Copier,’ he admitted later. ‘And the dog won.’
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Front runner: Ronny Deila has emerged as favourite to be the new manager of Celtic
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Stripping off: Deila celebrated a win for Stromsgodset against Viking by throwing his clothes into the crowd
Olsen was brilliant, but barking. In comparison, Deila, 38, has been hailed in his homeland as a model of sanity and progressive thinking.
There was always the possibility that Celtic’s search for Neil Lennon’s replacement would end in Scandinavia.
The expectation was that Henrik Larsson, the legendary Swede, would fill the void. Larsson had other ideas, opting to remain with Falkenbergs until the end of his contract.
Roy Keane, Ireland’s assistant manager, also asked to be scored from the shortlist. A role as assistant manager at Aston Villa now beckons.
Neither man, in truth, made much sense. Celtic’s transfer model is based on securing talented young players and developing them for big-money sales down the line.
There was nothing to suggest either Larsson or Keane could do that. At Stromsgodset, Norwegian champions last season, Deila has made it his trademark.
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Big shoes to fill: Celtic manager Neil Lennon lifts the SPFL Premiership League trophy
Promoted by sporting director Jostein Flo at the age of 32, he delivered a first title in 43 years with just one player – Lars Iver Strand – over the age of 23.
The policy is not set in stone. In 2009, he did sign one veteran on a six-month loan deal – capturing former Celtic midfielder Vidar Riseth.
‘If you take the whole of Scandinavia, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, there are some very good coaches,’ Riseth told Sportsmail. ‘But Ronny is the best.
‘I’ve felt sure for some time someone would pick him up.
‘He has had many offers. Over here they compare him to Jurgen Klopp.
‘Malmo wanted him and he was on the shortlist for Rosenborg.
‘He was my coach at the end of my career. I know him very well.
‘I played for Stromsgodset for half a year – and I was five years older than him when I went there.
‘I might have been 38 – but he didn’t treat me any different to the others.
‘I was the captain, I could have taken it easy. They could have said: “Vidar, you can relax a bit and train as you like”.
‘But that’s not Ronny. I had to run every lap the other players did. I had to train every time the other players trained.
‘He doesn’t care if you are 38 or 18 — you play for the team. He is fair and everyone is treated the same.’
A qualified teacher, Deila’s attraction to Celtic is obvious. At a club with average crowds of 6,000, he has worked with a transfer budget dwarfed by more fashionable clubs like Rosenborg without complaint.
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Shock: Deila has emerged as the favourite
Armed with an excellent scouting set-up, Deila likes his teams to play aggressive, attacking football. In his first season, Stromsgodset finished 11th. But, by 2012, they were second. Last season, they won their first title since 1970 against all the odds.
‘Stromsgodset are Kilmarnock — seriously,’ claimed Riseth. ‘When they beat Rosenborg to the title, it was like Celtic losing the league to Kilmarnock.
‘He barely spent any more. He brought new, young, hungry players in and it takes a special coach to do that.’
One of the players he transformed was Stefan Johansen, changing his position and attracting Celtic’s attention by turning him into the Norwegian Player of the Year.
Deila’s teams are rarely about the individuals, however.
‘The thing with Ronny – the only thing – is the team,’ added Riseth.
‘He is great with players. He is fair and never stops talking to players, outlining the situation.
‘He works players hard in training. He speaks to them a lot off it.
‘He wants to attack all the time, he likes to get the ball forward quickly.
‘Of course they like to pass the ball, but it has to be passed quickly to the goal.
‘His mantra is “tempo, tempo, tempo”.
‘When he bought players in Norway, he bought quick players – guys who have lots of speed.
‘Speed is the number one thing he looks for all the time.
‘So, for the fans, it’s going to be brilliant watching Celtic again if he gets it.
‘He thinks like Celtic think – he attacks all the time.’
Celtic made contact with Stromsgodset officials on Tuesday night to declare an official interest in speaking to their manager.
After seeing off Malmo and Rosenborg in the past, the unfashionable Norwegians are in no rush to lose their coveted coach, securing him on a new contract until 2016 after the title win.
Unusually, however, Celtic offered confirmation yesterday that Deila is high on their list of prospective candidates. They may have done so to dip the toe in the water, to gauge reaction amongst supporters.
Deila offers none of the sex appeal or commercial pull of a Larsson or a Keane. But supporters are always quick to welcome overseas candidates with an enthusiasm they would rarely show for, say, a manager from England’s League One.
A manager from the Norwegian league will always draw some scepticism, but the reaction from Celtic supporters to the Deila pursuit is largely favourable.
Accepting that the Parkhead post is no longer the draw it once was, the 38-year-old appears to be a better ‘fit’ for the Celtic structure than either Larsson or Keane.
‘People in Scotland probably don’t know much about him,’ added Riseth. ‘He’s not as sexy as, say, Roy Keane.
‘But they shouldn’t judge too quickly.
‘When I joined Celtic, the coach brought a guy called Lubo Moravcik.
‘No one had heard of him, he was 33 and no one there had heard of him.
‘It was all, “What kind of player is that?!”
‘But Lubo was brilliant. And I honestly think if he gets it and people give Ronny a chance at Celtic, he will make that kind of impact.’
Twists and Turns. Condolences. Take care TaT and Chris.
Zbyszek
Tyvm.
Thanks to all for kind comments.
Still trying to find out if our new manager nominee speaks English?
Does he?
Is it of vital importance?
Coach from Norway? Six months back Legia were top of the league and on the middle of the lap looked like the only candidate for the title. You would say – good is that manager who made it. The owners of the club decided to change manager and signed contract with Henning Berg. That Berg who won titles with Manchester United under Ferguson, who not long time ago got job at Blackburn and in strange circumstances was fired after 60 days. We were also after Solskjaer but he knocked us back due to possible work in England. Legia started watching candidates for this job few months earlier. What can I say after few months with Henning Berg? I had doubts but times with him tells it was very good decision. Everybody likes the man. Very professional, ambitious young coach with high managerial skills. Changed Legia game. We are stronger, we are better, we are finally the team.
Ronny Deila speaks fluent English.