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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Deila seems to prefer a high tempo 433. Much like Liverpool. Stokes, Commons and Griffiths could be a very exciting front 3. Big VVD would thrive in a system like that aswell.
i paddy mccourt
take a small, provincial club from complete obscurity to runners up spot in the league and then follow that up by winning it despite competition from much larger clubs such as Rosenborg and Brann Bergen.
so his claim to fame is that he won a norwegian league title?
do you think on that basis that he is ready to take on the CLs finest?
he has no decent record
no decent experience
no exposure as a player or boss
why the excitement? is it just me or has everyone on here been swallying?
Had never heard of big Ronny before today.
How tall are the other two candidates?
…and who are they?
HH!!
black and white film noir
ask
Raymond Chandler about DEILA
hail hail
Dontb
My My
No doubt one thing will happen from here regardless of whether this guy becomes the new manager or not –
Celtic will doubtless draw the Norwegians in the CL shortly.
sean thornton
11:50 on 4 June, 2014
Na norwegian guy no fir me.
Stick wi ma original dream team, malcolm tucker and Jamie Mcdonald!!.
Hail hail.
Sean.
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Hahaha. A microphone on the dugout there would be something else…
Ive just read Richard Wilson’s article on the bbc site (http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/27697016) and have a couple of questions.
Has anyone ever seen Paul67 and Richard Wilson in the same room?
Are they one and the same?
Deila brings it all on himself.
Rogue
Stokes and Commons lack the requisite pace.
If I had the choice between Ronnie, Candidate 2 & Candidate 3 assuming Ronnie isn’t Candidate 2 or 3 I would go with candidate 2 as I like the number 2. It has some nice curves and angles to it.
MWD says AYE
I’m going out on a limb here, but I suspect Dickie Wilson doesn’t have too many contacts at CP.
Can’t imagine why not.
T E T
What part of Portobello are you in??
Auldheid 12:11
Just as we need to get players before bigger-market teams find them, so with managers.
Deila is the same age now as NL was when he was appointed four years ago.
Just stating a fact!
HH!!
TBB – For the SPL it will be sufficient I think. The squad will need some adapting to that style.
Of course we could just spend the Seville money on Messi and solve all the issues
Tamrabam
12:20 on
4 June, 2014
He’s a far better candidate though than the other hotly tipped Scandinavian manager. Albeit that one might get bums on seats.
Re: Roy Keane
What if you were told that instead of Celtic approaching Roy Keane, it was he himself who approached Celtic regarding the managerial vacancy. Common courtesy took over and he was spoken too informally about what the job would entail and given a steer that his application would be kept on file. Celtic were happy enough that the news “leaked” that he was interested as it kept the club’s name in profile but distracted commentators from the main work. When Roy realised he wasn’t going to get the job, he asked not to be considered. A face saving exercise on his part.
Mort
P.S. I may or may not have just made all that up!
I also believe that the main criteria for manager should be
Does he prefer school toilet paper rather than one of the leading market brands (slippy and slidy but strong)?
Does he prefer soup taking or soup drinking?
Does he like panty wetters?
Is he Irish and if not is he willing to be Irish?
Is he as Irish as St Patrick wasn’t?
Is he aquainted with Guiness?
Is he a he and not a she in disguise?
Most importantly will he vote AYE?
MWD says AYE
the battered bunnet
11:01 on 4 June, 2014
Syd
If the past 2 decades taught us nothing else, it’s that a successful team on the park and a sustainable approach to business are mutually inclusive.
It’s a balancing act of course, and sometimes the balance tips too far to one side. Mowbray’s appointment saw big losses to fund a team that bombed. Lenny’s time reversed that quite dramatically, although his player signings last summer are negative.
We now have some cash to play with, and we’ll see what we do with it. There’s a school of thought that the cash is being stashed to provide a springboard in the event that Sevco re-emerge, and there is some merit in such an idea, although I don’t subscribe to it. It’s better to be strong than to have the capacity to strengthen imo.
I think though that the plan is simply to do more of the same as we’ve been doing for the past 4 years, only better. The structural problem at Celtic is the substantial decrease in matchday revenue such that the club is beholden on Champions League revenue to turn a profit, but the Champions League is a qualifying lottery.
Between the season ticket discount, the reduced matchday income and the revised TV distribution since Rangers died, the club is down around £5M, or 10% of baseline revenue.
Excluding player trading, we have a baseline income of a little less than £50M, and an operating base of more than £60M. There’s a £15M hole to fill given last year’s numbers.
Thus, carrying a Champions League wage bill – currently £40M – and failing to qualify wipes out whatever cash we have at a stroke. A single season with current costs and no champions league = square one.
What do you do?
I expect we’ll probably try to find more and better young talent, rather than fewer and more expensive proven players. In fact, that’s a given. The result will be a continuing fluctuation in the balance between football success and business sustainability, but the fluctuations will be less marked, and considerably de-risked.
Doubt that’s what you want to hear, but there it is.
TBB
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I think that is worth carrying over.
Is there anything that Celtic should be doing to either reduce the risk of not qualifying ( and thanks a bunch UEFA for that system of fair play) like going into the qualifying rounds with a settled squad by having the season end in November/ December to start in April? Or do we have to wait for the World Cup in 2022?
Or can we have a look at how much TV is shafting us and tackle the constraints that stop us reaching the wider support?
Stuff like that rather than meek acceptance of the status quo. (Not the rock band before you come back with some classical references :)
This guys sounds like a dud!!
Err hold on I know nothing about Norwegian football or him…maybe he is good?
I wont do any research about him, I’m sticking with ‘he’s a dud!”
Cqninonedaycsc
More like the kind of manager I was hoping for, interested to see who the other candidates might be….German, Romanian or Danish?
Meanwhile the Bookies get richer and the MSM show they have no ‘in’ to goings on at Celtic………..thankfully!
HH
Paul, I must admit, you have left me a bit confused of late.
Recently, you implied that Celtic’s thinking had been influenced against Keane by comments posted on this blog. Maybe I got you wrong, but that was the implication as I understood. If there were any truth in that, we all have cause to worry.
Second, there has been a suggestion that Keane wasn’t a realistic candidate. Why would we talk to anyone who is not a realistic candidate?
I had hoped that our focus would have been on getting a manager who would take us further in Europe (even to the Europa League). Do any (or all) the candidates have CL experience?
In Ronny we will trust!
Tom Molach 12:25
You mean Wilson has managed to write an article which doesn’t say “Dave King is such a super duper guy – he’s going to put gazillions into the mighty Rangers and make us – er, I mean them – the bestest team on the planet again”?
jude2005 is Neil Lennon \o/
12:19 on
4 June, 2014
Is Deila a burd
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hope its not a norwegian blue! :)
blantyretim is praying for the Knox family
11:51 on 4 June, 2014
‘as DBBIA isn’t posting
Ronny is 1.88 metres tall which in old money is 6 feet 2.1/64inches’
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I think we need a more accurate measurement.
If he turns out to be 1888mm tall then he’s got the job.
Geordie Munro
Bookies odds are a clear indication. I have never known any manager gig in British football to have so many favourites.
LB
Ronny’s the real Deal.
Hearing that Ronnie will decline as we are not in the bestest league in the whole world next year-SPFL Championship!..HH
If Ronny gets the nod, can we call him “Faither”?
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Why Why Deila?
Sounds interesting alright and the bit about a ‘student’ of the game at least seems to rule out most of the usual suspects that were bandied about by the msm,
Mort,
You may well have just made all that up but it still sounds sound to me. A quite plausible scenario, imo.
I wonder if Alexander Graham Bell would have invented the phone if both his wife and mother were not deaf?
MWD says AYE but NAW to above question.
There are some spicy pictures of Ronnie in the Mail. He likes to remove his clothes. Each to their own.
Offski.
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