Who Will Be Our Next Manager?

If we identified a prospect as a player we would not broadcast. Why should it be any different for a manager?

 

All seems very elaborate, don't see what the need for a smokescreen would be. Are you saying Keane and MON were in on this smokescreen type deal to do a favour for Celtic.

 

Andy Walker is dour faced * *.

 

Because when everyone knows what your doing the price goes up or in the case of managers someone else jumps in and takes your prize.

 

At this moment, untill someone reveals the details of the discussions with dd and pl, there is nothing to suggest roy keane was anything other than a strong candidate..

Even mon's comments were, we(they) they should know more of what was happening, as it happened he asked to left out of the running, so we carry on..

 

I know what you mean, but when I say I don't know, I really mean that. He might have been, I can see why our board would find him attractive.

 

Mon,wgs and lennon had never managed in the CL until they came to celtic.
IF we get this guy, to take any team from the very bottom of the league and build them up to winning it takes football know how and brains.
No matter what the league you still have to beat those above you and know a player when you see one.
I had not heard of him before today but out side of celtic i don't really follow much football, but reading what people have said on here i would take him before any on that media list we have been working on.

 

But is was implied earlier that Celtic may have leaked misleading stories about Larsson and Keane taking the job. I see absolutely no reason/benefit for Celtic to do that.

As I said before, I think if you join up the dots and look at the comments (and the timing of them) from Larsson, O'Neill, the statement from Celtic, and the rather bizarre comments from Lawwell the other day I'd say it's quite clear Deila isn't the first choice. That doesn't mean he's *, and in my opinion I would much rather someone like him than the likes of Coyle or MacKay.

 

A month apparently. Still has about 3 weeks to go.

 

I think that Lawwell and Desmond have a list of candidates that they are talking to and that Delia seems to be one of them. It's not about smokescreens or diversion its business, about finding the best candidate and to do that you need to talk to a few options.

Keane was if we are to believe what has been floating about in the media circus was never offered the job. There 'may' have been a conversation about the job with DD. Keane though seems like the type of guy who would be arrogant enough to rule himself out of a job that he has never been offered and will never get the chance of getting again now.

MON suggested him as a good candidate again in the media and having been made aware of said 'conversation' wanted stability in his management team with Ireland so was looking for some sort of quick resolution.

None of the other alleged candidates Clarke, Coyle, Laudrup etc have never been offered the job so the guy that gets the job isn't 3rd/4th choice. It is the media and bookies that have made people favourites not the board. We will never really know who they have spoken to or offered the job to. Delia might actually be the first guy where we have allegedly talked to a club/agent/candidate.

 

Lets be honest, they've got good candidatees in, interviewed them and asked how you'd improve. "Id invest a few million in.." next... "i work on free transfers and dont believe in spending money" HIRED!!!

 

To me the simplest explanation is that Keane was, exactly as Lawwell said, one of 8 or 9 candidates being considered at that very early stage. MON then leaked this for his own purposes (i.e. put pressure on Keane) and Lawwell's statement was damage control.

I see no reason to doubt what Lawwell said about not, at that stage, having a preferred candidate.

 

I keep changing my mind on this, the fact he was being spoken about publicly by mon etc, carried weight on keane being the man in ours and the medias eyes but genuinely.i think he was just a candidate who we wanted to speak to..

Either way i glad how it's hopefully turning out with this norwegian appointment..
I don't think keane could have offered us anything over all our other candidates other than more high profile exposure, due to how outspoken the man is..

 

It is very elaborate,but and i can see celtic making a list of 10 names for the press to sniff around but only really having 2 or 3 targets.
The bookies have changed their favourite more times than their underwear.
I still don't think keane or larsson were even in the first 5.

 

So Celtic leaked false and misleading information, in collaboration with Larsson, Keane, O'Neill and the FAI as well as others, in order to stop other clubs poaching Ronny Deila from a small Norwegian club and/or to limit the compensation Celtic would have to pay to Stromsgodset?! I don't buy it I'm afraid.

 

The real truth may never be known but it is possible Celtic made overtures to both Larsson and Keane with no intention of appointing them. Is there any evidence that Celtic done anymore than sound these two out? PLs comments would only help to sell the ruse.

How many times have you read that a player was to sign for Celtic only to find we have signed some unknown guy that no one suspected? The managerial saga seems to have followed along these lines.

 

I dunno, it sounds pretty believable......

 

I don't know why there's this assumption from some that Lawwell was lying when he said there was no preferred candidate. He's known for spinning things but a direct lie to fans and shareholders is another matter. It simply looks bad because Keane was the only candidate whose name was leaked (I stress again, not by anyone at Celtic!) and the media immediately latched onto that, forcing Lawwell to make that statement as damage control. Keane then decided to withdraw from the process at a very early stage and the media span it (based on absolutely no evidence whatsoever) as him turning the job down.

There's absolutely no reason to believe that Deila was behind Keane at that point.

 

As I said, Heath Robinson would be proud of that kind of thinking.