The Offical Glasgow Celtic thread

[Main Street]

Ronny Deila and Cruyff looked after that team too... No doubt there will be many more

Ronny hit his peak with Celtic and probably his excuse for taking on Israel´s most racist club was that he had  hit rock bottom along with a loud thud (the empty bottle), however he managed to dive even lower than that while in Israel, Imagine that stain on his cv, 'regarded as not moral enough to manage Israel's most vile club'

[tonto1888]

ONeill by the looks of it

[bennydorano]

Good luck to Martin, I hope he gets the support he deserves from the board / club.

[illdecide]

Glad its sorted and we can at least look forward to shipping in and out...Gonna be a busy summer both ways.

[AustinPowers]

Where now for  Robbie Keane?

Ajax? 

[Baile Brigín 2]

Where now for  Robbie Keane?

Ajax?

I feel a little bit sorry for him here. He was clearly manipulated in a bigger game.

He has potential as a manager, but he isn't big job ready.

He offically lives in Dublin, his son is in the Rovers acadamy. But the LoI is a step backwards. I assume a L1 or SPL job next?

[bannside]

Safe pair of hugely experienced and respected hands versus a total (p)unt that would have devided the supporters from the start.

The obvious choice has prevailed. Up the Hoops.

Now sort our Osmand Oxy Saracchi Ajauro and Kelichi.

[JimStynes]

Illdecide always gives off about my glass being half full when it comes to Celtic, so naturally I'm not as excited about MON as others. Love Martin but my only fear is that he doesn't win the league and ruins last season which was a complete fairytale ending to a great career.
Hopefully he gets full backing from the board. All the fans will be behind him anyway.

[bannside]

Look, we all know what we are getting. A steady hand on the tiller. Sort out three or four of that quintet, get AJ and CCV fit too from the start and we should be looking at much more quality in our performances that would be hard to peg back in Scotland.

[marty34]

Look, we all know what we are getting. A steady hand on the tiller. Sort out three or four of that quintet, get AJ and CCV fit too from the start and we should be looking at much more quality in our performances that would be hard to peg back in Scotland.

Always knew it was going to be O'Neill. Board are useless. I'd say they had no planning done this past 6 months. Totally inept.

Unless they've promised O'Neill £30m.

The problem with your statement Bannside is it's looking at Scotland only. I don't really care about that. Who cares?

Celtic should be looking at Europe and driving on there. Collecting the big coin there but Board are totally inept. Happy to beat Hearts and Dunfermline etc. FFS.

Celtic need to show a bit of vision.

[Main Street]

Considering where Celtic are now, facing the need to fill 5 or 6 or 7 starting positions, probably MON can just about manage a functional transition to next manager, keep the team competitive, get into the CL league,  despite being subject to the deep Celtic culture of extreme board dysfunction.

 It's all the sweeter because I suspect Robbie thought the position was his or was led to believe that he be served it on a platter therefore he resigned his position in Hungary with haste. Then MON  out of the blue won the title and that put a spanner in the works. Desmond probably had to go through some process with Robbie, consider the wave of protests and pay him off to some extent. Otherwise MON would have been propositioned in the showers after the cup win.

[GTP]

I would be concerned about who is in charge of transfers with MON remaining. January was very much a swing and miss with the transfers and unless something has changed it is going to be the same people making signings. For all his qualities as a manager MON is unlikely to have kept up with the players available to Celtic.
And we have to be able to dominate Scotland before Europe, so a necessary start to improve in SPL.

[RadioGAAGAA]

Then probably Shaun Maloney next season.

It should be the whole senior staff looking at the transfer market, not just MON.

[Main Street]

If Shaun has a new position does that mean he's away from the training pitch and if he's not on the sideline  who can the captain run to and ask for playing instructions?  
MON will need a bespoke assistant manager.

[From the Bunker]

We all love MON. But him getting the job might not be all rosey.

He is an old man facing a Full Season this time.

The bounce a new manager gets can fade.

Rangers can't be as bad as they were last year.

Board can stay lazy with investment as they think Martin did the business with this lot last season.

Martin finished on such a high last year - it'd be a shame to tarnish that.

Successful or not - this is still a short term fix.