New manager

This.

I would actually, willingly, sacrifice the league title this year if i thought it could drag us up to 2025 along with every other club our size on the continent.
* it. Id sacrifice the league the year after that too, as long as I could see some * direction.

The real danger is by the time we actually wake the * up, Sevco will have got through their bullshit and start to operate properly, hearts continue their own modernization, and we have to get kicked in the balls season after season playing catch up.
Sounds far fetched? Trust me. It isn't. If the structure is in the place then its just a case of a competent manager and handful of shrewd signings.
We're up * creek, club wise, and Desmond wants us to use our hands as paddles because real paddles are too expensive... because, ya know, european tax law, and other ...."stuff".

Meanwhile, Sevco have just arrived at the paddle shop and hearts have taken their discount paddle home already.

 

So mckenna essentially said he's a Celtic supporter or at least was growing up.

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Kieran McKenna has opened up on reports linking him with the vacant Celtic job, insisting that his full concentration is on managing Ipswich Town.


Celtic are on the hunt for Brendan Rodgers' successor, following the Irishman's resignation on Monday. Since news broke of his departure, Ipswich's manager has been heavily linked with replacing the 52-year-old.

Speaking ahead of his side's match against QPR this weekend, McKenna made it clear that the outside noise surrounding his future has not affected his preparations for Saturday's Championship match.

"It’s not something I’ve given any thought to, or where any part of my concentration is this week, to be honest," he said. "My focus is just on Ipswich. We grow up with affinities to certain clubs, but there's no time to think or look at it.

“I know I’ve got a really special job here at a special club, a massive football club that I’ve built a great affinity with, and we’re in a really important season and a really important stage of the season.

“We’ve got a really big week coming up, three big games starting on Saturday at QPR. So, honestly, anything outside of that hasn’t touched my radar this week; my focus has been 100 per cent on the group here, helping the players get ready for the game.”


Additionally, McKenna confirmed that there had been no approach from Celtic that he was aware of. "I’ve not had any of those conversations or anything of the like. Again, my focus has been purely here," he said.

“I know the size and significance, the history of this football club as well. And I think when you’re in the honoured position of managing this football club, there’s no time or space to think or discuss any other football clubs – other than doing your very, very best in the role that you’re in.

“I work as if I’m always going to be Ipswich manager. I know in reality I won’t be, there will be some stage in the future that I won’t be for whatever reason, but it never detracts from me every day trying to do the right things for the long-term future of the club, and that’s where my focus is.

McKenna continued: "(Celtic) are a really big football club. Growing up, we all have our affinities – I don’t think everyone has to go around and announce what they were, the clubs that we support and the clubs that we follow.

“Of course, they are a really big football club, but again, we’re in a really busy, really important stage of the season, going into the international break with three big games, so I haven’t watched a whole lot of football this week."

The 39-year-old joined Ipswich in 2021, when the Suffolk side were in League One, the third tier of English football. In his first full season with the club, he guided The Tractor Boys to promotion, before repeating the same feat the following year, gaining entry to the Premier League as a result.

Former manager Ange Postecoglou has also been linked with the job in recent days, as has Robbie Keane and Craig Bellamy, who both enjoyed loan spells with Celtic in their playing days.

 

I have reservations over Mckenna , Knutsen and Hayen

McKenna seems to be fairly bang average outside having Jamestown analytics behind him

Knutsen I don't see happening anyway but almost everyone that has left Bodo has flopped. They're clearly a fantastically run club who have progressed each year but the pressure here would be night and day to a side who play in front of 8k max

Hayden again is at a club which runs like a swiss watch and is everything we claim and want to be yet are miles off it's also hard not to draw comparisons to Clement

 

We’re in no position to hire a manager now. The club is in chaos. We need a new board of management with a plan for the future direction of the club. No manager of any decent standing is going to take over at Celtic in its current state. We went toe to toe with Bruges this time last season if we were playing them this week they’d destroy us. Why would the Bruges manager or any manager of that caliber come near us right now with a minority shareholder writing crazy letters about the last manager. I think people are in cloud cuckoo land with the names being suggested.

I’m amazed that MON agreed to a return but he is 73 and wasn’t ever going to be offered a job anywhere as a manager so I suppose he said why not? Let him and Maloney get on with it while the real work of reorganising the club is being done.

 

Seems genuine decent guy mckenna.. having watched snippets of the presser I think he would take it..got real come and get me vibes as hard as he was trying to be respectful to ipswich........

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Brugge manager lost Belgian title to a Bloom inspired JTA side in USG last season and is currently behind USG as it stands this season, that's despite vastly outspending USG, doesn't bode well for a future where you can only assume Hearts will improve further and further every transfer window under Bloom, no thanks to Hayen

 

Agree mate, don't want any of those three, don't want Ange back either, got zero hopes of doing anything in Europe under Ange, yes Ange won the Europa League but that was as favorites and with arguably the best side in the competition at Spurs, when he has to manage with far less resource and quality of player (which is what we are in Europe) his football tactics are suicide

 

Only if they suddenly start generating revenues similar to us and even to the huns. Unless they have millions coming in they will be limited to what they can throw at a transfer window due to financial stability rules. Bloom only put £9.86m into hearts, but that doesn't mean they can spend millions in transfer windows. As it stands they'll still be shopping in the markets they have been for years.

 

Wait till west ham get beat again and Nuno gets the bullet,then we can get him for nothing,save us a few bob.

 

Go look at what USG spend compared to Brugge, a fraction

 

This is exactly the issue for me totally agree.

 

Ange probably isn't taking a break from football. He's not the type of guy to do that and if the right place comes knocking he'll be away. Think he just wanted to categorically rule himself out in the wake of Rodgers "resigning".

 

I do wonder if Kieran McKenna is appointed then Martin O'Neil goes upstairs as Director of Football. Michael Nicholson is replaced before the AGM and Peter Lawell announces his retirement from football to be at the end of the season. Would that be enough to appease the fans?

 

As others have pointed it, its hard to assess how good a manager will be at Celtic given most successful managers these days have a modern set up behind them. We are definitely playing yesterday’s game and that penny is dropping for much of the support even if plenty have been saying it for years. Imo Ange was perfect for our way of doing things as he could identify a player of his liking better than most, our transfer “strategy” since Rodgers came back shows this. With a modern set up we could be a well-oiled machine, we already have considerable structural advantages over domestic competitors which *could* be squandered in a few years if we fail to act. If DD wont appoint the right people to make a change, he will have to sell the club for anything to happen, which carries risk of its own.

 

It would definitely be a start.

 

Coincidentally MON was probably the best at this.

Whether it was spending millions on the likes of Sutton, Lennon, or Hartson or spending £50k on the likes of Agathe, he rarely got it wrong.