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Keeping it Civil Old Firm fans, who do you want?

Owen Coyle?

Your thoughts on Strachan's reign pls

Strachan linked with Sunderland

You Beauty!!!!!!

Coyle is still unproven IMO

If he wins today, will he want to leave EPL so soon?

Best news this season anyway!

they can have mark mcgee if they want just hope they dont get tony mowbray

Delighted with this news.

Names in the mix are Coyle (unlikely now), Mowbray, McGhee & Curbishley but its still early days, the Glasgow rumour mill is going into overdrive!

lol hopefully its peter grant

Cant see Coyle going anywhere.


Sven needs a job ;)

Yeah if Burnley had lost I think it would have been more likely. Liked his interview after the game, came across very well not getting carried away and showing respect to Sheff Utd.

If Coyle gets offered the job he would take it imo. Need a big name with track record tho and clear the deadwood out

Burnley boss Owen Coyle: "We deserved the prize, but my heart goes out to Sheffield United. I was relaxed and I trust the players - if it wasn't to be, we'd have accepted that. But we've earned what is happening right now.

Just oozes class that man.

Mowbray would take it wouldn't he? Might be more achievable than Coyle now

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Mowbray or Coyle would both take it, i'm fairly certain of that.

Not sure either are the right person for the job though.

mowbary would build a team that would pass us off the park, stay where you are tony!

Which manager would want to work for a board that still seethe at the thought of opening the biscuit tin?

fk me, the penny has just dropped... Sunday, Jimmy Calderwood leaves Aberdeen, Monday strachan leaves Celtic.

gg Celtic.

Haha, straight swap.

Hope you get Mcghee cause i don't want him for the dons.

Think Rangers have taken over the biscuit tin lately & in the future. Even the CL money won't pay for a lot or keep the current squad, Lloyds'll be taking most of it.

celtics coffers might be full but the biscuit tin mentality remains the same, cost yous the league this yr

Correct

Can't argue too much with that - only question is who decided not to spend? Board claim money was there & Strachan said he didn't need it.

The board will say whatever they have to say to try and shift season tickets.

Have you seen the seedings for the CL qualifiers? Looks like the Europa League is the best we can hope for!

http://www.xs4all.nl/~kassiesa/bert/uefa/seedcl2009.html

Good thing is the Europa League looks to be worth similar to the CL to us when share of audience/ amount of home games etc is taken into account, so not the huge financial problem that the poodles wll no doubt be proclaiming.

Just heard on Talksport that David O'Leary might be in the frame, now that would be a quality appointment.     rotflmfao

LOL just heard on 5 live that they want Moyes .... gonna be a good fun rumour mill working overtime for a while.


Moyes wont go surely ??

poodles? ? ?

The rumour mill won't have long to run. Our first CL qualifier is in 8 weeks I think.

In that time we need to get a new manager in, plus backroom staff, clear out as much deadwood as possible (upwards of ten players if I had my way), and find replacements.

To be fair to Strachan, he did a very good job in rejuvenating an old squad left by Martin O'Neill. The problem was he lost his way very quickly after that and now we are back to square one.

As for Moyes, I can recall discussing him as a Strachan replacement 18 months ago after we dropped points at home to Hibs. Back then he was feasible I think. Now it seems he is more likely to be in line for the Man Utd job?

I don't think any manager would come to the club without knowing the transfer budget they are expected to work to. O'Neill obviously insisted on a big budget. Strachan came knowing he'd have a small budget.

I think the next manager can expect a Strachan type budget, which means it's more likely to be another low key appointment.

Of course if Dermot Desmond (the man who bought London City Airport for £23.5m and sold it ten years later for £1.2 BILLION) decides to get his cheque book out, all bets are off!!

The press.

So funny. The guy wins three titles on the spin, is highly regarded everywhere, and you are delighted he's gone. Amazing, and what's more aamzing is cambo hasn;t pulled you on it, yet we should have been delighted to have Calderplank?

He did fine in the first two seasons. Gave us some great nights in Europe, but it's been a steady deterioration from then on.

Saying he won three titles on the spin is all well and good, but we won them against a pile of dross. I said elsewhere that winning the league on the last day this season would be like getting a split decison after 12 rounds vs Stephen Hawking. As it happens, we lost. So how bad is that?

As for being well regarded elsewhere, I've just heard a Sunderland fan on the TV saying they are dead against him as next manager. So he is hardly the new Mourinho.

Ive heard today that Curbishley might be offered the job, I have backed him on betfair @ 42 although he was 9/1 on hills

That story has been doing the rounds up here from before Strachan left.

Unlikely.

Just looking at the market on Betfair and a few made me laugh that they are even on the market:

Graeme Souness @ 350.0
Mo Johnstone @ 260.0
Michael Laudrop @ 170.0

Get a grip FFS! lol

Would be a good signing IMO

Best one I've seen so far was on Paddy

The Pope - 200/1

John Barnes - 250/1

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lol the pope

looking on betfair just now the pope has come in on the betting to 13/2!!!!!!

Perhaps for you's mate

Once a Ranger always a Ranger IMO, i mean just look at Kenny Miller lol

Martinez eh, out of the blue a bit...

lol, yes please mr liewell

Maybe but Michael Laudrup has never been a Ger!!!

Dunno so much Cambo I think Martinex has quite a few contacts within Spanish football so he will know the up and coming players over there

Martinez appears to be one of a few we are speaking to. He would obviously be a huge gamble but he has Swansea playing very attractive football. For his own sake he would probably be better staying there for a year or two.

Martinez is a top manager.

Intelligent, articulate and a great tactictian.

You could (and probably will) do ALOT worse.

gg Celtic, Tony Adams  rotflmfao rotflmfao

if carlsberg did closest rival's managerial appointments......

Apparently they do

http://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/02062009/58/scottish-premier-league-adams-makes-shock-celtic-claim.html

I'm thinking Adams is back on the cookiing sherry......

http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2009/jun/02/tony-adams-celtic-wim-jansen (http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2009/jun/02/tony-adams-celtic-wim-jansen)

Fook me running, Adams is a bigger walloper than I thought, he went to say how he wanted to be Arsenal boss as well  ;dingdell;

I know these have been done before but still funny

26/05/09
HR Department
Celtic Football Club
95 Kerrydale St
Glasgow
G40 3RE

Dear Sir/Madam,

I am writing to you today in response to the recent resignation of Gordon Strachan to not only inform you of my intention to apply for the role as First Team Manager, but also to request that I am shortlisted for the position.

Although my name is not widely known in football circles I am sure I have the relevant experience, enthusiasm and drive to take Celtic Football Club to new heights.

My love of the beautiful game started around 7 years old when I was selected to be striker for St Fillians primary school “B” team, a position I held until leaving said school 4 years later. I never went for trials in Secondary School. I have maintained my low level of fitness with the odd game of ‘fives’ since then.

More important of course than my footballing ability is, of course, my tactical knowledge. I have been playing various football manager games for many years now, starting with Football Masters on the ZX Sectrum right up to more recent incarnations like Football Manager 2009 on the PC. In fact in the most recent version Football Manager 2009 I have not only recently completed a treble winning season 08-09, but reached the quarter final of the European Cup. Only last week as I was in my bedroom donning my suit to play the Scottish Cup Final I was dreaming of how it would be to lead the real team out on the Hampden surface. I can assure you when this is the case I will not only be wearing my suit but I will probably put a flower in the button hole.

I am aware that zonal marking has been an issue in recent years and can assure you that I have a full knowledge of this particular tactic mainly due to being forced to play it in my many games of Subbuteo as a child. It is unlikey this will be a tactic I will employ but if I do I will ensure I have explained it fully to the team to ensure they are not running around like headless chickens at set pieces.

I am also fully aware of the financial constraints clubs are under these days and Celtic in particulars insistence on balancing the books. I have therefore included a first class stamp with this letter so that you can forward my interview date at no cost to yourselves.

In the unlikey event that am I not placed on the shortlist for First Team Manager, I would also like to point out that I have bar experience and would be available for functions.

I look forward to your reply.

Yours Faithfully


They never even took me up on the bar work offer

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Tony Adams quoted in paper - "It works for me and Celtic is an unbelievable club, you have a 50 per cent chance of winning something up there."

I'd say more like 5% with an alcoholic donkey in charge!

Sean, I have merged the posts as its the same subject as an existing thread

just seen .

PSV buying JVH back is not gonna be a popular move with the PSV supporters. He was tez for us and we were delighted to flog him to you guys for that much dosh. Keep him, please...we don't want him.

the quicker he goes the better like celtic psv used to b better besides he will probly go to twente , they seem ambitious with mclaren in charge i just hope celtic get this managerial position filled sooner rather than later , i would like to see someone with a celtic heart in charge someone who knows what it means to the million of fans to succeed the likes of tony adams n co couldnt give a shit about celtic really they just want salary bring in roy keane or tony mowbary or magee get all these english rejects of the shortlist asap !

I wouldn't expect anyone special taking the Cleltic job. Whats to gain? Any EPL team is more attractive for managers. Having a big following don't mean shit these days.

QFLF

Champions league football, perhaps the Europa this year, but CL next again.

Thats the major draw for Players and Managers to the Old Firm, that and winning trophies......only a select few teams win anything in EPL (The Big 4 + Everton, Villa, Spurs etc)

I agree in a way, but players are not attracted to the big two unless they aren't good enough for the EPL.

For medicore EPL players and home grown ones playing for Celtic or Rangers still has a huge draw. What is the actual value of winning the league or cup in scotland to Celtic? if you win the double would it prevent the manager from getting abuse from sections of the fans and media?

If the only thing a Celtic manager can do is bring in shite players he knows are not good enough to compete in Europe then what is there to possibly gain for any manager worth his salt taking the position? It's hardly a gateway to bigger and better things.

I would like to see Celtic do what Barca did and promote from within, a recently player who is hungry to succeed and knows everything there is about the club..Fans will be more patient..

Oh FFS......

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I know how you feel its shit when people tell me the truth about Leeds too :( ;nemesis; ;bumwiggle;

Well by your rationalle Leeds should just chuck it as a bad job.

I thought they had ??

We got a manager from a shit Championship team, no shit sherlock :)

Jock Stein had already saved Dunfermline from Relegation & won the Scottish Cup with them (beating Celtic 2-0 in the final). He'd even had a bit of joy in Europe with them, putting Everton out of the Fair Cities Cup & only losing to Valencia in a 3rd game play off.

He won the Summer Cup (then a fairly well fought trophy) with Hibs, and was their manager not reserve coach.

Dalglish shows how much attention he paid to his job as Director of Football as part of the "Dream Team" with Barnes. We lost our second league game 2-1 to Dundee Utd, so I don't know why he claims Barnes won his first 11 games. The loss of Larsson DID badly affect Barnes' team, BUT as even Larsson was singing "if you hate John Barnes clap your hands" on a team night out in Albufeira during the winter break I think he was losing the squad whoever was fit.

To summarise, Kenny, STFU you clownshoe. You were a great player, but you've not helped your rep since.

Its looking more and more like you are getting Tony Mowbray ... you cant be happy with him .. can you ??

Not my first choice, but he'll certainly try to get us playing a better passing attacking game.

probably not even on my top ten...imho there is a lot of dewy eyed nonsense talked about Mowbray  because he suffered some personal tragedy during his time in scotland. he was a fairly limited player, and has a reputation for playing 'attacking' football as a manager.

but of course he will have my full support. he has a hard act to follow in that our last two managers have maintained us as the dominant force in scottish football in the last decade.