Who would be your replacement for Ronny?

Correct on your first point. To play the way Ronny wanted and many others do play -Spurs, Liverpool, Dortmund, in fact most of Bundesliga - you need players who are prepared to do a shift from the 1st to the 90th minute. They have to be prepared to defend as a unit and attack as a unit. On top of that the pace of play has to be fast otherwise you give the opposition time to build their defenses and then catch you on the break. Now either we don't have those players or we do but too many are not prepared to buy into it. I hope it's the former because if it's the latter it doesn't bode well for the future, whoever comes in with whatever strategy.

 

Bielsa's Chile team was insane at that, never seen a team as fit as that in my life.

 

Sampaoli...I'd take him anaw

 

Heard from a mate he bumped into murdo mcleod in a bookies yesterday and he told him he was at a golf function on tuesday and was told moyes will be the new gaffer, my mate would have no reason to lie about this hes a diehard tim.

Edit: moyes was also at the golf function

 

:smiley-laughing002: get on talksport and torture the * out of them.

 

Moyes looks lined up to me and i hope so for 2 reasons 1. Good manager
2. Wouldnt take it unless given a decent budget

 

Vital we get them in before the euros.
1) we should be scouting the Euros for bargain players
2) any targets we do have will have their values doubled if they perform well at the Euros.

 

The Scottish Tony Pulis. No thanks.

 

The views of Darren O'Dea, not that anyone needs them


Roy Keane has the attributes required to succeed Ronny Deila as Celtic manager, according to former Parkhead defender Darren O'Dea.

Keane turned down the Celtic job in 2014 following Neil Lennon's departure, and is reportedly in the running again following Deila's announcement that he will leave the club this summer.

"He's a very good manager," O'Dea said.

"At a club like Celtic he would be under massive pressure, something he's lived with his whole career."

After moving on-loan to Ipswich in 2010 from Celtic, the Irish defender sampled first-hand how Keane operates.

"I was very impressed with him in my time at Ipswich," O'Dea told BBC Radio Scotland's Sportsound programme.

"He's portrayed in the media as a real tough guy which he certainly is, but he's got a very articulate manner about him as well.

"He's a very witty guy, he's funny. He's good company and he's a very good manager. All the sport science in football, he's very clued up. Probably the most knowledgeable guy I've come across in football. He knows football inside-out, watches all types of football.

Darren O'Dea
O'Dea played under Keane during a spell on-loan at Ipswich from Celtic
"Of course there that's streak, he's a guy you wouldn't want to cross. When you're doing your job and you're doing it well he'd be the first to say well done, but likewise if you're not and he feels that you're not giving 100% he'll be the first to tell you."

O'Dea, capped 20 times by his country, feels Keane will have benefitted from a spell working alongside Martin O'Neill as assistant manager in the Republic of Ireland set-up.

"He wouldn't have done it with many other managers and he's probably learned a lot from Martin O'Neill as well," O'Dea continued.

"I'd imagine if he came back into management he'd have a lot more experience and working with someone like Martin O'Neill will have helped him no end.

"He's got plenty of different attributes he could bring. He's a very good coach. He's a guy that is obviously a big, big character. Would probably be a big enough character to manage Celtic, although it would remain to be seen how he would deal with the pressures of media."

'Rodgers would be a fantastic appointment'

O'Dea has also played under another man being linked in some quarters with the soon-to-be vacant Celtic manager's job, Brendan Rodgers, and feels the former Liverpool boss would also be a good fit at Celtic Park.

"The whole place will feel very comfortable under him," explained O'Dea, who played under Rodgers during a loan spell at Reading in 2009.

Brendan Rodgers
Rodgers has been out of work since leaving Liverpool in October 2015
"As a coach he's meticulous. The way training is run, everything is with a purpose. There's an explanation to everything. He was just fantastic on the training pitch.

"As a guy he was second to none, a lovely, lovely guy. He's not a disciplinarian, but he's certainly got a big enough character. He's gone on and managed a massive club in Liverpool which would be similar to Celtic in terms of the scrutiny he'd be under.

"I would say Brendan Rodgers would be a fantastic appointment for Celtic. I think he ticks a lot of the boxes that Celtic need.

"He's got the character to do it and he likes to play a certain style of football that I think would also suit Celtic."

 

I voted for Moyes I think, no sure. Just because I thought Lenny wouldn't take it.

Having seen now than he would return, I would like to change my vote to Lennon.




Maybe we should update the poll or something???

 

Just done the quiz on the DR to see who im like as a Celtic manager.
It said Lennon.

 

1. Rodgers
2. Moyes
3. Keane
4. Lennon

That's just realistic candidates out of work at the moment but I would * on the spot if we signed someone like Marcelo Bielsa! Some progressive thinking maybe a manager who isn't a dinosaur I suppose that's what I found refreshing about Deila there's too many old school thinking managers out there 4-4-2 playing boring uneventful football at least Keane is a bit of an unknown and perhaps better for being MON assistant for three years or so.

 

Keane would be an absolutely mental choice. He has a similar record to Owen Coyle.

If we are unable to get Moyes or Rodgers I'd avoid British/Irish managers altogether I think. Possibly Lennon but I'm not sure.

 

Moyes and Rodgers double team.

 

Brendon Rodgers with a player coaching roll for Steven Gerrard , wouldn't mind seeing that.

 

Careful with the Bielsa fantasies: his fave system is basically a better version of Deila's ideals. Do we have access to players suitable for it? I don't think so. He is about insane pressing, and will play short, but fast players in defense. Recipe for disaster in Scotland.

 

Think i've yet to hear one exciting or feasible suggestion. Anyone good mentioned so far - they'd have to rip up the entire way we've been operating recently & start again. Or carry on as is & appoint someone cheap & *. Probably be * Mark McGhee or something

 

Quique Sánchez Flores

 

What about the Neville Brothers, "To Me" "To You" comes to mind though ha,

* maybe the Chuckle brothers would be better after all