Celtic’s next permanent manager

Rodgers was a coup, the disdain of his departure does not detract away from that.

Have you ever seen a manager before receive a reception of 10,000 people or thereabouts at CP? No, I haven't either.

 

I do 100% agree but history tells us this board doesn’t work like that mate.

Unless Desmond gets * off and steps in.

There’s been silence from him on the matter.0

 

Aye, some * went overboard but he could have easily got another mid table job in the Premiership. Just as he has when he’s left us.

 

An anomaly. Pretty sure the Deila years and Lennons last season probably had more to do with it than Rodgers reputation.
And if social media was more of a 'thing' back in the day O'Neill would have got a better welcome (and if we also paraded managers back in those days).

Rodgers had been sacked twice and had won 0 trophies. Maybe i wasn't quite as excited as some (and he done a brilliant job to be fair), but he wasn't a top tier manager and still isn't.

 

Of course mate, it's always a risk spending such a huge outlay on staff recruitment, but ffs look at the success we've had the last two times Desmond has interjected - we ended up with O'Neill and broke the domestic dominance in Scottish football and took it for our own, then obviously with Fraudgers.

Took a massive gamble the first time on Lennon, and it worked. Gambled even moreso on Deila, and we had to gamble big on fixing that.

This wouldn't be so much of a gamble this time considering the fee we received in compensation for the Leicester Lot now.

 

Not a chance.

 

Aye, saying that, 2nd last time he stepped in Roy Keane told him to * off. Thank * for that

I do agree with you, I just can’t see it happening.

 

Fair point, and although it may have been a double-edged sword as it most likely added to Rodgers' (now known) already huge self-inflated ego.

What cannot be argued however is that it paid off handsomely, and I for one was delighted and excited to get him in as manager.

 

First time we could have had either Gus Hiddink or Martin O'Neill, took Martin obviously. I'll accept that type of vision anyday of the week.

Aye, forgot about Desmond wanting Keane, we'll just overlook that wee blip shall we?

 

Rodgers appointment should be the new standard for managers we're looking for, the fact that for years we were looking at the owen coyle's of the world and handed the job to an unknown guy from Norway who was supposed to be assistant manager to Lennon was bordering on negligence for a club that's supposed to have European ambitions.

 

Even the shrewdest have blind spots, Keane’s a footballing hero of his, can see why he’d be into that.

* that but

 

People keep saying we should be targeting a top level manager without making any realistic suggestions

What top level managers are we talking about here? Cocu? Benitez?

 

To be fair though when we were supposedly rumoured with Owen Coyle, he was doing a decent job with Burnley in the Premier League at the time.

The one thing that I think puts the heirarchy off going for managers who are attached to clubs is the whole debacle with Mowbray. We spent £2.5m on him and Venus after a tug of war with the WBA chairman, and that ended up in a complete disaster.

But aye, Ronny's appointment was both panic and sheer penny-pinching.

 

Cocu’s not by any means a top level manager. The managers at the top are the likes of Zidane, Pep and Klopp.

 

I can see why he'd be after Keane - a legendary leader who took zero bullshit.

As a manager though, he's an *, clueless and a bully.

 

I'd argue with Zidane being a top level manager mate. Has won things that a top level manager should, but for me he's not at the level of yer Klopp or Guardiola, Ancelotti etc.

I think though aside from top managers, what is a TOP manager for us at our level though? That is the question...

 

Coyle actually said he accepted the job after Strachan but then turned it down to go into the epl with Burnley and we went for Mowbray instead, * knows how that would have worked out.

 

So would I but he won the CL 3 times in a row so I don’t have an answer of why I think that

Honestly? I think it was Brendan Rodgers. What we can attract now, that’s up to the board. There’s no reason we can’t go out and get somebody like Rose (before his BMG move) but it takes a combination of luck, good timing, ambition and backing. Approached with a lack of caution.

Under our current board I can’t see it.

 

Same here Would probably say he's not very tactically-astute maybe, landed on his feet with the Real job, and was probably hi remit more than anything to manage the egos, and basically just let the players play their own game?

Agreed about the likes of Rose et al, the board have shown they have vision and commitment, the money is there to fulfill this approach for us to AT LEAST go and speak to other potential managers on the level of Rodgers.

Who is available and willing, of course, is another story...

 

See Rose is probably a level under Rodgers, he’s an up and comer, whereas Rodgers is all the manager he’s ever going to be.

I think I’d rather those who are still evolving though.