There are names suggested as being on Celtic’s shortlist, but there is no informed comment. This mirrors the appointments of Ange Postecoglou in 2021 and Brendan Rodgers in 2023.
The day Ange accepted the offer, almost the entire body of Celtic fans had to look up how to spell his name. Brendan’s return was met more by incredulity than expectation. The weeks before Ange’s appointment influenced Celtic. While John Kennedy was interim manager, the club openly pursued Eddie Howe.
Howe was (and is) a successful manager, Celtic were keen and most of us believed he would have been a good fit. That positive narrative seeped out of Celtic Park, only to crash when Howe declined the opportunity.
Compare and contrast to the open briefings last month across the city, as sources close to the club churned through a number of candidates who were close to being announced as manager, only to decline.
Information is currency and those low on other currencies can use information to buy favour with the media. Whether the information is good or bad does not matter to the media, who only need to attract eyeballs. If we are told Steven Gerrard is to be appointed manager within a few days and it doesn’t happen, they have another story to tell us when the bomb drops. Everyone wins (not really).
The Eddie Howe fiasco was a lesson in discretion. Business like this is best conducted in private. All we know for sure is that the boards have been cleared. Brendan’s crew, alongside John Kennedy and chief scout Jay Lefevre have all left the building. I don’t know who will be manager, but he will be the first of several new appointments in the coaching and scouting department.
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That awkward moment when someone suggests Steve Clarke for the Celtic job ,
CHAIRBHOY
So Eddie Howe shook hands on becoming Celtic manager but it took a month before he realised Celtic wouldn’t allow him to bring his own backroom staff, rather than asking the question before shaking hands.
Everyone knows he could not convince his people to join him in Scotland. That was the reason he gave for turning his back on the job.
But hey, you go ahead and rewrite history to suit your own nefarious agenda. You should be an expert at it by now.
CHAIRBHOY on 12TH NOVEMBER 2025 2:46 PM
You made that up. Eddie Howe gave an interview with Simon Jordan in December last year
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cSyZgMHTpiU
At 30 mins
I could have gone in on my own, I could have gone in and worked with the staff that were already there.. I had to get my staff together, for me if I was to go into a football club I could have gone in on my own but that would have been a big…I felt I needed to go in at my strongest, with my team.
I had made the decision myself I was keen to go, but I couldn’t get the team together. I couldnt get the team all to agree, its wasnt that I needed every single one of them but of course theres an important dynamic, I didnt feel it was right to take the opportunity. In that moment it would have been wrong for Celtic as well I think. So I declined the offer.
We need a manager and team of top coaches and a full time club doctor and footy focused board.
All I want for Crimbo CSC.
Bad news all this
TOM MCLAUGHLIN on 12TH NOVEMBER 2025 2:29 PM
Don’t discount Nicky Hayen. He is very keen on a move to Celtic.
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Has he said that? My preferences are Knutsen and then Hayen but I’ve got a feeling all of a sudden it’s going to be Hayen. I would be very pleased with either.
Chairbhoy
You really are embarrassing yourself.
20 years of Celtic dominance despite your complaining about almost everything the club was doing must really have worn you down.
Making up stuff in total ignorance really is funny though.
Would be delighted with Hayen, but his coaches and scouting team are what makes him, without them we will be farting against thunder.
I personally can’t see the board sanctioning it, be it with any new coach/manager
An Dún on 12th November 2025 3:05 pm
I’m not advocating for Ronny btw. I’m just highlighting that Deila has more experience and a better CV than Nancy.
So happy to hear that. I can picture the scene at the location of the blig host & peter lawwells secret meeting place, as the host gives an update blogosphere patter. That moment peter lawwell hears ronny deila’s name & the smell of burning rubber, as lawwells soles burn up as swiftly turns & runs off to summon ronny deila to the hampden park shower rooms
https://media.invisioncic.com/g326913/monthly_2018_02/IMG_20180219_222726.thumb.jpg.683282c8051fca474e471850c851aca9.jpg
SAINT STIVS on 12TH NOVEMBER 2025 3:58 PM
Rutherglen’s finest 👍
bournesouprecipe on 12th November 2025 2:01 pm
“Terry Cassidy ( mind him? ) CEO that thought football managers were a pure waste of time and money.”
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After Billy McNeill RIP, was sacked in 1991, Celtic historian, Gerry McNee said that:
“CELTIC SHOULD EMPLOY A COACH TO DEAL WITH THE PLAYERS AND OTHER FOOTBALL ISSUES, AND LEAVE FINANCIAL CONSIDERATIONS TO THOSE WHO HANDLE THAT SIDE OF THE CLUB.”
The MSM, and Celtic View etc said how out of touch with reality McNee was, etc.
Yet Celtic went on and hired and fired another 3 [4 if you count Frank Connor] managers [ensuring a Hun 9 in a row] before stumbling on what they thought would be a puppet manager in, WIM JANSEN RIP, who hardly said anything to the MSM, as he was to focused on ‘coaching’ the Celtic players to win a league title which would prevent a Hun 10 in a row.
And who knows how long in the wilderness Celtic would have been had that happened, had we failed to stop the Huns in THAT 1997/98 season.
But with Celtic having a new and gooder board in McCann era, the interference from McCann with the football side of the club was way worse than anything that we are never fail to see written in these new Celtic versions of history, I wonder why.
So, to have a coach might be a good idea.
BUT.
To have a coach and not expect interference from a dodgy as fk board is for the birds.
Terry Cassidy was obviously looking for his ‘cut’ from player deals [as it would be him who was signing the cheques] from the cheap project player recruitment market.
Just like later on, Fergus McCann and Jock Brown tried to bully Wim Jansen and Murdo Macleod into playing cheap iffy players, and both WJ and MM had to resign rather than be puppets for McCann, EVEN AFTER THEY HAD WON A LEAGUE AND CUP DOUBLE. lol
I’ve yet to read about that in any of these David Low etc kind of flim flam books.
Very strange.
A football manager who FIRST OF ALL, makes the team hard to beat is what we need.
Not another Celtic Way, Brazil 1970’s, tora tora tora, stupidifying pish attempt at trying to be Lisbon Lions.
If we were to get to another European final, the only route is to Park the bus and carry out long ball muggings.
Our wingers would be in footballing heaven with long, over the top, high on the break balls to run onto, and would create a great amount of damage.
Agathe and Petta vs Ajax away springs to mind.
Any Celtic fan who went along with backing a board who secretly kept Old Firm games alive for a 49 quid ticket should be nowhere near the stadium never mind trying to overthrow a board because they are love-sic about Rodgers.
Only sayin.
HH
oot.
Willie Maley was from Newry
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allthough born in Newry , he was in cathcart by the age of 1.
son of an irish military man, in mccallums the glasgow irish and the great war books, he comes across as quite a product of victorian and edwardian middle-class attitudes at the time,
improvement through sport, exercise, the church and an education, but all set against that military standards.
huge supporter of the regiments, maryhill baracks, cathcart drill hall, and the HLI on London road.
he allowed recruitment fairs at celtic park, had military parades and war games. and used the soldiers ften for stewarding big games,
i am very much of the opinion he was a son of the empire, and a glaswegian.
his actual football and spriting prowess are kind of lost but he represented scotland in both sports.
mccallum hints that during the pre war tour of central europe, that he reported what he saw back to british suthorities.
ps, quite a royalist as well.
Struggling to see why the manager of a competitive Champions League club would switch to one with no ambition beyond its own city……..
GlassTwoThirdsFull on 12th November 2025 4:15 pm
You gave that nail some smack there……..
KEVJUNGLE on 12TH NOVEMBER 2025 4:10 PM
bournesouprecipe on 12th November 2025 2:01 pm
“Terry Cassidy ( mind him? ) CEO that thought football managers were a pure waste of time and money.”
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Terry Cassidy the first ‘outsider’ CEO in fairness didn’t last long due to his performance on the board , a bit like Dom McKay
Rimtimtim
Jimmy McGrory was from Garngad.
Just watched the Kenny Dalglish documentary on Prime Video,highly recommended.His time with us gets a good airing with some clips I hadn’t seen before, a special man.
TET
When hammering nails it’s fine to hit hard as long as you’re not off target!
Glass
Ha Ha Ha
Aye, we are where we are cos we have accepted it for far too long, but can’t see it changing any time soon, sadly.
There are wheans out there just happy to see us dominate at home, they have been conditioned to accept it, yet they attack and denigrate others for wanting more, I am happy that we are lording it over the hun, but that is not success it’s just gloating rights, nothing more, twenty years of domination over what, we have been in a one horse race and still fall short on occasion and some think that is the bench mark, a fair few on here do anyways.
Tounekti not in the squad for tonight’s game unless he is known by another name.
DESSYBHOY
I was recently in conversation with a Tunisian football fan. I asked him about Tounetki. He said he was Tunisia’s top player in the European leagues but the national manager isn’t keen. He referred to the manager as an asshole.
DESSYBHOY on 12TH NOVEMBER 2025 5:11 PM
Tounekti not in the squad for tonight’s game unless he is known by another name.
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Injured, not in squad
TET
Yeah – just difficult to see any obvious route to change, sadly.
Sebastian Tounekti has withdrawn from the Tunisia squad for their latest run of international fixtures – with Celtic reportedly keen for him to get a 10-day lay-off because of a suspected injury.
GLASS
For that reason i think it will be the MLS coach.
Why leave Belgium for SPL?
GLENDALYSTONSILS on 12TH NOVEMBER 2025 3:11 PM
That awkward moment when someone suggests Steve Clarke for the Celtic job,
Whilst manager of Kilmarnock F.C., he was subjected to alleged sectarian abuse during a Scottish Cup match at Ibrox: chants like “Fenian bastard” were directed at him. After the incident, he said in a press conference:
“They can call me a bastard or a w… . … But to call me a Fenian b*****d, come on. Where are we living in? The Dark Ages?”
TIMHORTON on 12TH NOVEMBER 2025 5:44 PM
GLASS
For that reason i think it will be the MLS coach.
Why leave Belgium for SPL?
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Tom McLaughlin says he is keen on the Celtic job.
Hayen will leave Brugge for a better league than the Belgian league and SPFL. He’s starting to get talked about around Europe.
Nicky Hayen has managed 10 clubs in the last 12 years.
Happy 80th birthday to old Neil Young.
Your leader talks openly about X, Y, and Z
But deliberately avoids the real issue as far as I am concerned.
What about the price of fish ?????
Aarrgghh !!!!
“Honest to God, Brennan”
Zzzzzzzz
Old man take a look at my life.
BSR – wow. 80 ?
Was reading up on Stephen Stills last night.
What do you mean did I follow the link to CSNY?
Of course I did.
BACK TO BASICS – GLASS HALF FULL on 12TH NOVEMBER 2025 6:06 PM
BSR – wow. 80 ?
Was reading up on Stephen Stills last night.
What do you mean did I follow the link to CSNY?
Of course I did.
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That award moment a few years ago when your daughter tells you she going to see
CSNY in the Hydro.
Rags saying we’re trying for a loan deal for Lennon Miller for January, with an option to buy for £4 million
BIGRAILROADBLUES on 12TH NOVEMBER 2025 6:05 PM
Old man take a look at my life.
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I’m a lot like you
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