Celtic Banter Archive June 04 2014

04 Jun 2014 23:29:49
Finally after all of this nonsense talk of Keane, Clarke and Coyle, it looks like we have our new manager - Ronny Deila. Always wanted the club to go down the route of a foreign manager again and to plump for someone that was going to bring a totally different approach and exciting style of football. Hopefully Deila is the man to do it! His track record at Stromsgodset in the last few years has been tremendous and he is also used to working within his limits and has developed a few gems in his time there, such as Stefan Johansen. Really hope our new manager receives the full backing of the support and there are hopefully some exciting times ahead for the club!

Lots of reports in the ether about the guy, all very good.Seems he favours the modern approach of pressing high when you don't have the ball and attacking quickly when you have it.

Gotta say this excites me! I think we all agreed we needed a fresh wind through the club and this guy may be it.He also seems to be a proper coach, bought Johannsen as a winger and turned him into the player we all rate in midfield.

If, as expected, he signs I would hope the stay aways get their fingers out and start turning up to give the guy a flying start.

Know absolutely nothing about the guy; however there is no doubt we need a fresh perspective at Celtic from youth level right through to transfer strategy.
We are never going to attract a high profile candidate with our cash restraints and SPFL league status, so whoever gets the job will probably join us as a big step-up from his current job or experience level.
He will get my full support - as long as it's not Coyle.

JJ

04 Jun 2014 21:29:56
Lets be honest it's that time of the year again where we get linked to absolutely everybody, obviously with John Park being John Park we will be scouting a lot of players, but without a manager sorted yet there will be no signings. Whoever the new manager is, is going to want to come in and put his own stamp on the team, not have to suit players the board have bought, unless it's an exceptional talent.

04 Jun 2014 19:02:05
Never heard of Ronny Delia and know nothing of the Norwegian league or how it rates. Is it the same as Scottish Premier or more Championship?

I know some wanted a foreign coach, was this what they had in mind?

I'm not sure at all

Heard its a done deal with John Collins

He's certainly what I had in mind, the only slight concern I can see is his lack of European experience

It's a massive gamble in my opinion. With who is currently available how can they say this fella is the outstanding candidate for the job. I honestly can't see this happening

I would imagine its a mixture of both mrs e, this will either be a master stroke by DD/PL or an absolute howler god forbid.

It is a massive gamble, but at least he has won the title in the premier league in his country (and on a threadbare budget) and not been sacked for failing like the names thrown at us ie coyle, keane, etc

{Ed007's Note - Winning the Championship in England is by far a tougher task than winning the Norwegian Premier League DRB. The Norwegian league is a very poor standard of football, probably equivalent to our Championship.}

I'm thinking is it the equivalent of the job Jackie Mac did at Partick Thistle or is he bigger than this?

No doubt about the gamble - think you have it right, either a masterstroke or mega howler!

We have Champions League qualifiers in a few weeks, whoever it is needs to be on their game and attract players.

Forgot to say bc2109 - John Collins?

I realise that ed wasnt comparing it like for like , but as the saying in football/sports in general goes .( you can only beat what's put in front of you) . and he has taken a small club with little funds to league champs, in saying that they got pumped in the cup tonight

{Ed007's Note - He sounds perfect - with that cup result it's like the board have found a NL clone ;) Stromsgodset have tonight refused CFC permission to talk to Deila and I'd imagine the club will be looking to get the manager's position sorted ASAP, I'm sure Pedro goes on holiday this weekend.}

I just don't know what angle Celtic are coming from here. a few bad results or even no group stages and he'll be offski, this guy won't get two years to build a team if it's going all wrong.

There was always debates on who signed our players (or who had the biggest say) between park and lennon, has park seen something when scouting johanson ie deilas, team set up, tactics, the teams shape, athletisim that he liked and informed pl, if so we've got to hope park signed our good players and not the duds, also read on another site we are down to 3 names for the job is this the case?

04 Jun 2014 16:29:15
Everton are being given the place of some ukrainian team in the champions league subject to 1 play off game. We finished as champions of our country and MUST play 3 qualifyers. I'm actually so angry I can't see straight. I hate fifa but now I actually don't want to be part of their money grubbing tournament.

{Ed007's Note - No they won't, Darren, that's garbage being made up by the English press and hit-whoring websites, if a Ukrainian team is removed then they will be replaced by another Ukrainian team, for an English team to be brought in it would need to be an English team that are ejected. And it's UEFA that run the CL, not FIFA}

Ed's right Darren mate, it'll go to the team next to them in that associations league. The way Fenerbahce have been replaced by runners up Galatasaray + 3rd place Besiktas due to the Turkish sports corruption scandal and the way Juve + Fiorentina got kicked out the competition and replaced by Inter + Roma due to Calciopoli in 2006.

No country can have more than four teams in the champions league Darren.

05 Jun 2014 19:49:22
Ah thank God lol, thanks for clearing that up.

04 Jun 2014 11:38:23
Right Ed, Ronny Deila?