The Ronny Deila Thread

So you would think that he can no longer manage Celtic because of his stint with Bolton?

 

If for one moment we suppose there is the possibility of Lenny coming back, why would he? If the stories are right, The Board said something like, "we don't have the money and are downsizing even more". What's changed between then and now - if anything it's worse than 2 years ago, so why if Lenny didn't fancy it then would he say "yes" now? On top of that, and I'm not a fan of Ronny, if The Board sacked Ronny, there's all his backroom staff as well as the 2 Johns - presume Lenny would want Gary Parker + A N Other, maybe Steve Walford.Then he would want money to bring in his players. So if at some time in the future, it's Ronny gone and A N Other in, it will cost mega bucks. Until Ronny walks or fails to meet preset targets, - and one of them could be winning the Double - he's here to stay.

 

I wouldn't want Lenny back - he made his decision and we should all move on, however your comments about Bolton are unfair. That Club was in dire financial straits for the time he was there - this year especially - with periods where players went unpaid. If he thought he had no money here, then it must have been a culture shock down there. He saved them last year, much to everyone's surprise, but couldn't do it again.

 

Ranieri shouldn't be top of the premier league going by that rationale considering he's failed in his last few jobs. Most managers fail at times, it happens.

 

It was those reasons I was wondering about. He didn't cite anything when he left btw, he's never came out publically and gave his reasons.

I wouldn't * ourselves over just for that wee bit of pride, him leaving doesn't wipe out 14 years of service to us being subjected to stuff that no other manager/player has went through in our history.

Safety net is a weird way to put it for me but fair enough.

 

Let neil bring back the thunder

 

Neil Lennon's football was boring and predictable. Ronny is just inconsistent...

I give up.

 

The same could be said for WGS maybe not you I cannot know that but there were a lot of complaints. The only 2 managers since Jock to get us to the last 16 of the CL. Perhaps both were victims of their own success by raising our expectations.

 

Good point about expectations, because as a Bhoy of the 60s that's how I judge us. I know it's 50 years ago but the stuff we play now it could be 500 years ago.

 

I just can't see the boring football aspect argument for Lenny, I loved his football, particularly his last 6 months and his first season. The worst football was our last 16 season, when he went entirely more defensive and lost the partnership of Stokes and Hooper due to injury.

The amount of goals we scored in the league his last season was incredible. Loved the diamond formation.

 

The football in Lennon's first full season was absolutely superb. Really boring by the end tbh. Tactically in Europe he was superb as well, using Samaras as a far wide left player/target man was a stroke of genius. You had a large percentage of fans saying "play Hooper and Stokes ffs!!" when he first did that, but Samaras was so clearly our most dangerous player in Europe, and Lennon used him perfectly.

I really don't think Lennon deserves any criticism for tactical choices, whereas Deila most certainly does.

 

And Deila could have brought big Sammy back!!!