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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BelmontBrian on 12th November 2025 8:58 pm
Evening all.
For No.1 Son. 😉
The Stranglers – All Day and All of the Night
https://youtu.be/y6k3tNNRS_I?si=OwD9bRm9ODWRTKnh
Hope you are keeping well.
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NO. 1 SON says ” Thank You”.
I have not been too great in recent months, that is why I haven’t been out anywhere since early August ( I Think ? ).
I hope that you and ALL the Family are fit and well.
God Bless.
HH Mate.
KEV
“The revelation of Ireland 1995-2020”
In tandem, the growth of social media has facilitated constant, short appraisals of controversial and emotive themes, contemporary and historical.
But the social media fora can also work against perspective and nuance and facilitate simplicities, distortions and propaganda masquerading as fact, too often in a bilious and self-righteous manner. This is such an overwhelming modern impulse that it has been described as the tyranny of the instant and the treadmill of the unending now
Celtic Mac
Hope I,m addressing you correctly
No, not for me, not down that road, it’s not always easy, but as Oldtim67 used to try and stress on here there is a kind of joy to supporting Celtic Football Club, one that many on here seem to have forgotten…
I on occasion walked beside Oldtim67, indeed I recall a joyous night where we celebrated Oldtim67 80th birthday, a replica of the European cup was 2nd place(only for that night) to Davys celebration of his life, all joyous Celtic fans that night regardless of views on the PLC, I’ve never forgotten
lionsroar67
OldTim67 used to joke that his Mother Mary* delayed his birth day by twenty four hours to make sure he wasn’t born on July 12! Great little story re his 80th birhtday, the replica European Cup a touch of class, apt and poignant given that he had, along with many others, made the trip to Lisbon in 1967 as a young man. Made it back to Lisbon, in the company of Blantyre Tim if I am not mistaken, in what he considered to be a pilgrimage, for the 50th anniversary, really that not so long ago. I made the point on here shortly after his passing, and to Paul67 in person, at the memorial service part of his funeral, that discovering and being part of CQN in the latter part of his life (twenty years or so) rejuvenated him. and his love for Celtic, because of the many new friends he made. Of which you are and were obviously one.
*took that from Let it Be
TML,
So,StMirren STs sold,just over 1000 now you say,
H,mmm 🤔.Are you sure?.You seem
be very sure,as is your way.
I hate international weekends, almost worse than close season, you’re in the middle of it and then, coitus interrupted. It’s no wonder the level of blog fighting goes up. The collective borg v board billionaires standoff is becoming a huge yawn. Bring back the left back saga and where did the Seville money go.
Good morning all.
TURKEYBHOY
I understand that the point of my comment about St Mirren season ticket holders went way over your head. Now you’re getting in a pickle over my follow-up too.
Like shooting fish in a barrel.
Scotland need to avoid defeat in Greece to have a chance of winning the group and automatically qualifying.
Good morning CQN.
Taurangabhoy earlier – with you.
BTW – where did the Seville money go?
Er … Spent – long before we reached Seville
🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
quadrophenia@2.43am
Interesting exercise but one which just goes to show that ChatGPT has a long way to go before it reaches the levels of a bona fide supporter travelling on the top deck of the Clapham Omnibus CSC.
Celtic Mac
So anyone who criticises the Celtic Board doesn’t enjoy our years of success and is entitled. What a pile of poo.
Love how you glossed over the closed upper tier, defeats at home to the likes of Cluj, Maribor, Copenhagen etc when if we had simply maintained the score at the start of the game we would have qualified. What about the infamous managerial appointment in the showers and the throwing of the applications of other candidates into the waste paper basket? It could have been so much better. The majority of Celtic fans must be entitled otherwise there wouldn’t be a collective. You fall firmly into the Happy Clapper CSC.
TheOriginalSadiesBhoy @ 11:25 am,
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Back to Basics – Glass Half Full @ 10:40 am,
Where did the Seville Money go!?
~~~~~~~~Drum Roll~~~~~~~~~
Stephen Pearson….
Hail Hail
Wishing your club and team to be the best they can be , is not entitlement.
HH
theoriginalsadiesbhoy
Keep dishing out the insults if you must. The Cluj game cannot be attributed to the Celtic Board, but rather to the absence of game management from Neil Lennon, and a lack of nous from the players, not quite on a par with Brazil – Italy 1982 though. Thing is Neil Lennon had achieved good away results on a couple of occasions in CL qualifiers. And his Celtic team did defeat Cluj at a later date. You are probably not alone in blaming the Board for that defeat but you are betraying your own credulity in continuing to do so.
Keep stocking up on the tangerines!
From Stephen Pearson’s Wiki Page…
“However, Motherwell’s financial predicament ensured they were unable to refuse any reasonable offers[9] and when Celtic manager Martin O’Neill paid £350,000 of his own personal money in January 2004, Pearson fulfilled a childhood ambition by moving to Parkhead.[10]
🎶 Martin O’Neill, Martin O’Neill, Martin O’Neill, Martin O’Neill, Martin O’Neill, Martin O’Neill, Martin O’Neill, Martin O’Neill🎵
Hail Hail
Celtic Mac @ 11:51 am,
Neil Lennon was appointed by this Celtic Board.
They must start taking responsibility…
I get that when he was appointed, our Principal Shareholder was half~cut with wormtongue in his ear.
Looks like exactly the same senario when he had his hissy fit on the official Club website.
Hail Hail
Greenpinata 11:49
Bang on.
Knowing how our cheapskate board operates, we’ll end up with a “project” manager
kingLUBO
I wonder when the statement from BR will be released?
KINGLUBO on 13th November 2025 12:06 pm
Knowing how our cheapskate board operates, we’ll end up with a “project” manager
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Aren’t Knutsen and Hayen “project” managers
Wasn’t the previous Celtic manager the highest paid in our history.
Proxy Shares question and answers
Graces Bar 13th Nov 7 to 9pm
https://x.com/TheCelticTrust/status/1986124925724237877?t=5oBI5Y4Ahf7H6OzBv9okkQ&s=19
HH
The_huddle @ 12:15 pm,
Well, obviously I cant speak for KingLubo…
But would getting a quality, experienced, established manager be such a bad thing?
AND
No the previous Celtic Manager was not “the highest paid in our history”
That “honour” goes to Peter Lawwell
Hail Hail
Just while we’re mucking about at lunchtime…
Nicky Hayen: Is 97 matches in the Belgian top league plus 15 (fifteen) in the Welsh PL sufficient experience to equip a football manager with the wherewithal to succeed at Celtic, reputed to be one of the most challenging jobs in the game?
Ditto Wilfried Nancy: 130 matches in the MLS after a stint in college football.
Discuss.
So what was Celtics best ever CL result ?
Easy 2-1 v an incredible Barca team at their peak in 2012.
Followed by Man U and Milan. 2006 and 2007.
2 managers reviled and abused by our own. 2 managers detested even by some. Looked down on by other entitled self appointed but bitter experts on here.
2 managers abused by our rivals and one who really did take one for the team personally.
‘Something inside so strong’ was one of my favourite days as a Celtic fan.
Sadly the ‘entitled’ have short and selective memories. Preferring to remember and quote 2021 and 2009 or 2011 rather than remember these great European occasions or the 8 leagues these guys did win against sometimes cheating domestic rivals. The loss of 4 leagues titles in 20 years is astonishing. These 2 played a big part in that against mostly potent backed and resourced rivals.
To do this against the backdrop of the challenges faced and a miserable entitled bunch of experts / consumers in our own so called support is beyond incredible.
Of course they may not be perfect for now. Almost certainly not. I am not advocating that. I am advocating a modicum of respect. Not the booing WGS had in 08 after defeat to Motherwell prior to winning that league. Or the booing of Neil Lennon v Blackburn in the Seville season. Scum like behaviour.
My old man and his would have loved to have the joy Celtic has brought me in my 63 years, never mind that my son has had in his 29. As for the misery it seems to bring many on this blog that is a shame.
As for the money this misery and projecting it brings to those bloggers who seek to perpetrate it …..those who sponge from the gullible sheeplike so called fans I wish there was a way of diverting every penny to the Foundation. These leeches will get their comeuppance.
Of course the club is miles from perfect but ffs show me one which is ? Show me one which has come from where we were in the 40s and 50s to now.
Closing a manager / coach who has the skills to win domestically and to modernise our football operation is a hell of a task TBB. I think you just illustrated it.
Chairbhoy
More revisionism.
Please get help.
https://media.invisioncic.com/g326913/monthly_2018_07/IMG_20180729_020149.thumb.jpg.fd256dbbd31e981e93e42c4c5e9464ec.jpg
So Lawwell was the Celtic manager, not Brendan??
So modernise the football operation of Celtic would be the remit of the Manager, really? Has any Football Manager/ Coach ever had responsibilty to do this, Ancelloti Guardiola Tuchel any of them, and why if the board you work for can pull the roof down and blame you and as we have seen, and use the Official Club website to severely criticise you.
The problem, for me would be attracting someone with enough experience and the “quality” to compete in Europe to Scottish football. Not to say it cant be done, Eddie Howe would have made an excellent Celtic manager, but we struggle with players, it would be even harder with head coaches/managers in my opinion.
And I’m not sure that all “experience” necessarily prepares you for a job where you can win over 67% of the games you play and still leave having failed and with your reputation damaged as with Lenny and Brendan. It’s a unique challenge, even to the Huns, personally I’d be more interested in the candidates personality. Impossible to judge it against any metric, and it will always be a bit of a guess but we do have people who understand what’s needed having faced similar challenges for so long themselves. The new Sevco owners probably understand a little better now than they did in the Summer but theyve still got years of experience to catch up with.
I’d be wary of a coach who has come through a system like Brugges where they have development pathways for their coaching staff, I’d be more inclined to go with someone who has proved himself at a club that he was unfamiliar with.
It’s a bit like asking for directions and being told that you’re starting from the wrong place but I hope we’re looking at clubs like Brugge who have development pathways for coaches that they bring in. Scout the best young talent for all parts of the football operations.
And, most importantly have a structure where the responsibility for success and failure is spread across the organization.
DESSYBHOY on 13TH NOVEMBER 2025 1:58 PM
So modernise the football operation of Celtic would be the remit of the Manager, really? Has any Football Manager/ Coach ever had responsibilty to do this, Ancelloti Guardiola Tuchel any of them, and why if the board you work for can pull the roof down and blame you and as we have seen, and use the Official Club website to severely criticise you.
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I don’t see any manager coming in and changing things up, structurally speaking. It won’t happen and any manager that tried to- would be DomMcKayed fairly quickly.
Ronny has spoken of being completely unprepared for the pressure cooker of Celtic. BR is on record as saying it’s the highest pressure he’s worked under.
We need experience and a winning mentality.
Our problem in Europe hasnt just been that our players aren’t as good as the opposition, our managers haven’t been.
To really compete in the champions league we need a coach who has been as good as Europe’s elite coaches or could be. An experienced mediocre manager won’t make us any better in the CL
I don’t see anyone suggesting the new manager should be responsible for a change in “structure” whatever that is
TBB @ 1:21pm (and yesterday)
Hadn’t given this much thought before you raised it.
Fair point.
If he is likely here for 3 years maximum .. why bother about his development as a coach?
One factor – I assume – is it is easier to persuade a developing coach to come rather than a top man?
The trouble with someone who’s had success at a club like Brugge is it’s hard to judge how much of it was down to what was already at the club and how much was down to the difference thr manager made
You might end up with a top coach like De Zerbi or a poor one like Potter.
We’re not on a position to be able to make that judgement, but while the decision makers at Celtic will be better informed than us there are still a hell of a lot of unknowns to be working with
some talk of entitlement, others talk of we just want to be the best we can be,
but
catching up on podcasts last few days there is another narrative that just has me scratching my head
the bloggers continually talk about domestic dominance and getting back to winning trebles.
like it is the new normal, and simple to do.
the last two seasons of “doubles2 are a bit underwhelming to these guys, even when scoring record numbers of goals.
god help them if this seasob we actually do have a title run-in
The Bored
BSR
Looks more like ‘the pished’.