Celtic banter 5

26 Nov 2025 09:06:25
Buzz,

Can you help out or verify my Quick Look at Nancys stats in Management…. Although only a manager for 4 or 5 years in a poor league…. Is his win % really less than 50%?

Is this accurate?

26 Nov 2025 10:16:45
51% not good enough for a club like Celtic, even penny pinching with their managerial appointments, sitting on a fortune too, they could afford to appoint a top class manager instead of a rookie.

26 Nov 2025 11:39:30
As av mentioned i am totally underwhelmed with the due appointment but is their league any worse than ours, USA are seeded 14th were 36tha dint think its a bad league but this btr work out🤦‍♂️.

26 Nov 2025 12:32:12
Troy national team standings doesn't make league great . most of they're national team play in Europe.

26 Nov 2025 12:42:06
He won mls manager of the year and his team were regarded as the best over there,

{Ed007's Note - John McGlynn has been Scotland's Manager of the Year two years in a row.}

26 Nov 2025 12:46:58
Troy after replying I seen we're linked with guy from columbus crew called rossi he had a 1 in 2 average at la galaxy got a move to fenerbache his avg was then 1 in 9.moved back usa to columbus his record is nearly 1 in 2 again .

not comfortable after move not played in similar role in same position or sign of a weaker league?

26 Nov 2025 12:47:20
Most supporters are willing to give him a chance - as we have no choice in whatever manager we preferred. The problem lies in trusting a Board who have literally declared war on the support and who's decisions have been detrimental and questionable too often.


The appointment reeks of arrogance and blatant disregard for any ambition and progress that may have been better served by holding onto MON until a wider choice of better candidates were available.

26 Nov 2025 13:23:01
I think you need to check previous managers win rate before they joined us.

26 Nov 2025 13:32:20
I'd rather have John McGlynn or even Robinson from st mirren over him at least they know the league and what's expected and wouldn't require any compensation or barely any Nancy comes with a considerable outlay that would be better spent elsewhere.

26 Nov 2025 13:59:31
There would be carnage if that happened, how's this guy any worse than mckenna who got Ipswich relegated and has them lying 10th in the English 2nd tier, and if he'd got the job and had a few bad results the pitchforks would have been out probably the same with this guy right enough.

{Ed007's Note - McKenna took Ipswich from League One into the PL and is seen as one of the best young manager/coach in the UK if not Europe with a provable track record, he's coached at Spurs, coached at Man Utd, was assistant to Mourinho and was kept on there by Solskjaer & Rangnick before he took the Ipswich job, leading them to back to back promotions to the PL- he also won EFL Championship Manager of the Season, LMA Manager of the Year & the LMA Awards: EFL Championship Manager of the Year the same year Nancy won MLS Coach of the Year.}

26 Nov 2025 14:48:44
Only as good as your last rodeo and our fans are fickle they'd have been after him after a few dodgy results and relegation would have been used to batter the guy.

26 Nov 2025 16:10:26
I read he has a 49% win record celtic65.

26 Nov 2025 16:18:39
I read a story that Efrain Juarez was also on the short list, which ended up consisting of him and Nancy.

So I doubt there was any real interest in McKenna, Knutsen or any other Manager the fans wanted.

26 Nov 2025 16:27:31
Yer it was a cheap coach no matter what to behave as PL says sit down accept dross players and take all the blame for our failings it's a yes man they wanted and they have one.

26 Nov 2025 22:48:44
How do you know he's a yes man pure speculation. I hope he comes in wins a treble and all the moaners come back. I've seen some posh managers of this club and great players Liam Brady, John Barnes, Lou McCari, big Tony to name a few people were so happy.

Let's get behind the team the management if you don't like it don't go plenty will take your season ticket.

{Ed007's Note - Yeah, half fill the stadium with happy clappers & tourists, where's the plenty been the last few games? Plenty will buy STs and make sure they're there for Derbies, CL games, trophy day and winning the league, where are they the rest of the season?

26 Nov 2025 07:39:35
{Ed's Note - Ed001 has posted a new article entitled, Matchday 12 - Quick Round Up

25 Nov 2025 21:50:29
He's a carthorse but big Hanley will liss our game he's been sent off.

25 Nov 2025 17:30:14
Given Brendan Rodgers called Beaton out for being incompetent why doesn't
David Martindale do the same.

Even if Willie Collum comes out and says we will learn from these mistakes how many mistakes does Beaton get before his services are no longer required as a referee or Var official.

Its a team of match officials and to get the penalty decision wrong is in my opinion incompetent and as a group some might say cheating.

26 Nov 2025 09:50:03
Incompetent I doubt, corrupt more likely. Hence why he has remained a darling of the Lanarkshire Mafia in black.

26 Nov 2025 15:55:26
The SFA have confirmed that a mistake was made not to award Livingston a penalty last Saturday.

Livingston have reluctantly moved on to focus on their next game against Aberdeen on Sunday.

If I was I was the manager and that happened to my team I'd want Beaton's head on a plate.

25 Nov 2025 15:23:46
Celtic wingers Tounekti and Balikwisha have not delivered despite the upbeat hype we were served in pursuit of their services. Let us hope that the new manager and coaches can get the best from them because there is a long stretch and a lot of hard work ahead of us.

Really looking forward to the return of Jota but that won't be any time soon by the looks of things.

25 Nov 2025 16:23:36
It could be said that both the previous and current management team struggled to get the best out of them, but we will see.

25 Nov 2025 16:44:52
Up till now both are well off it tounekti is talented but there's no end product and balikwisha looks like a rabbit caught in headlights, who scouted them and what were they watching.

25 Nov 2025 22:03:02
Hopefully the leeds rumours regarding tounetki are true.

25 Nov 2025 22:39:48
Balikwisha is a waste of money, Touneki is doing ok and will get better.

25 Nov 2025 11:21:50
Pedro's bank balance could be getting bigger

Read that Marseille want to sign Matt O'Riley on a permanent basis and with Celtic having a sell on clause more coffers into the Boards private accounts.

25 Nov 2025 14:36:33
It could well be the case Tim, I'd imagine it depends of the transfer fee (should it go ahead) and our sell on percentage.

☘️ 🍀 ☘️.

25 Nov 2025 14:57:48
It won't be much if any.
A profit 10% profit over £25M.
Brighton might just want their money back.
If it's £30M which I doubt then Celtic will receive only £500K.

25 Nov 2025 16:32:38
500k is enough to give him a stawner.

25 Nov 2025 16:52:51
What's does pedro have to do with this?

25 Nov 2025 22:00:15
If it;s "only £500K" then I'd be more than happy with it to show Pedro how to make best use of it.

25 Nov 2025 11:05:20
It's just been confirmed that Nick Walsh will be our referee on Sunday at Easter Road.
Rookie Grant Irvine will be doing VAR.

Cheating Beaton has been promoted to Referee duties this weekend.
He has been given the Dundee V St. Mirren match on Saturday.

25 Nov 2025 11:46:36
It's only three domestic matches since Walsh did the semi-final and it re-enforces my suspicions that there is a specific shortlist of honest mistake merchants that are continually allocated our games.

25 Nov 2025 13:47:02
Beaton has made countless huge errors over his time as a Rangers fan with a whistle ( and an etch a sketch) . He deserves the sack yet he is regarded as one of our best. We have wanted foreign officals for decades as our shallow pool of officals has always been pro Ibrox.

25 Nov 2025 07:39:45
{Ed's Note - SamiKewell has posted a new article entitled, Liverpool FC Team Issues and Misjudged Expectations

24 Nov 2025 21:08:49
MON was definitely thrown into the deep end with Celtic falling 8 points behind in the League.
Plus a Derby Semi Final and Europa League games looming.

It looks like Martin will still be in charge for our next two extremely hard away matches and he will then allow our new Manager a better chance of getting a flier.

It will then give our new Manager the chance to play his first 4 games in Glasgow within 11 days.
Three home matches in a week and then the League Cup Final.

24 Nov 2025 21:15:49
3 points at Hibs sets us up nicely👍.

24 Nov 2025 21:17:23
I would feel more confident with Mon staying for those games buzz.

24 Nov 2025 22:24:38
Hibs is a tough one and if we get the points it'll be some result, sun is more important than Thurs imo.

24 Nov 2025 23:07:04
Agreed Mally.

25 Nov 2025 08:43:30
The Europa league means nothing to me and I only hope we don't pick up yet more injuries. Our away form in the SPL has been often disappointing all season and a win at Easter Road would be immense. Winning our next two is a tall order, but it would really help the team's confidence with yet more upheaval on the horizon.

25 Nov 2025 09:56:37
Keep Martin on as a mentor for the new guy, get the fans to stop the toxicity, they know who they are, just get behind the team, put their hate for the board and their love for Hamas to the side till the end of the season.

24 Nov 2025 20:10:59
I am a seriously concerned Celtic supporter these days. We have a Totalitarian Dictator running the club with a Board of pompous yes-men, making questionable and even detrimental decisions regarding the progress of Celtic as a football team. There is currently a volatile chasm between the support some would say are the lifeblood of the club and a very detached and aloof major share holder and his minions.

Add to that a depleted and under-strength squad thanks in part to incompetent recruitment - who are preparing to train and play under their third manager in as many months. A man who has little of note on his CV.
If this works out, I will be very surprised, very relieved and utterly delighted; but keep MON on speed-dial in case?

24 Nov 2025 21:34:06
Agree CM…

This appointment doesn't remotely add up.

Even bringing in an experienced guy in to this toxic environment…. Mid season would be a tough gig. To do this with an inexperienced guy is nothing short of ridiculous.

What is the game plan here? Does DD honestly think this is a good move? What is the logic?

Nancy has done nothing in the past 2 years…. Why is an inexperienced manager even on a long list…. Let along getting the job.

Shame for the players, fans and indeed Nancy.

If DD doesn't want to spend money, give the job to Maloney.

What a mess.

24 Nov 2025 21:46:07
Calm doon, same mob have overseen years of success. , they deserve all the accusations being thrown at them for the recent rubbish show, but some of the entitled tears from fellow fans is over the top, live this site, like people's opinions and Ed's insights but some of the stuff is ott, if you took away the green colour and made blue you'd be fooled this was a sevvy page.

25 Nov 2025 09:36:13
Jaa,

What a load of incoherent, infantile and pathetic nonsense from you.

Could say more but best just to ignore rubbish like this in future.

25 Nov 2025 16:56:36
Oh looks like we have an entitled greeter on our hands, away learn what incoherent means, what is it, if someone says what you don't agree with you revert to that patter, shame on you, keep that for saying to someone's face and not from your keyboard,

25 Nov 2025 22:55:25
Jaa it's not entitled to ask for a board who plan for the future of our club spend some of the money we put into the club on a team capable of winning a game in Europe and not getting battered by teams form Denmark that don't sell our best players without signing replacements and hire managers that are of the relevant standing for a club the size we are instead of a gamble on a bloke who hasn't even been in management 5 years we also just witnessed thi same board who are to blame for all this be voted back in by itself to continue destroying the club from the inside entitled not a chance maybe the vast majority of us can see it for what it is a dictatorship where us the fans have zero say in how the club is being run which is far below standards it should be by people who may have delivered success but have now become defunct not needed and are trying to tell us we can't change anything and to live with how that is i'm entitled to one thing to watch my club be the best it can and ran properly not to fill large shareholders pockets and regress every year from the great club we once were and me and many others want change if u want to continue putting up with this shambles then crack on i'm sure your in the minority of fans saying calm down trust the board they delivered past success the message from the majority is clear the board goes we are ENTITLED to better.

24 Nov 2025 19:27:18
Who's the coach Coming that's well known to Celtic fans .?

24 Nov 2025 20:24:20
I was thinking his former player Victor Wanyama but he only started courses for his coaching badges 6 months ago.

I would love if it was Ronnie Deila who's been out of a job for the last 13 months.
Both were briefly opposing Managers in the MLS.

24 Nov 2025 21:17:54
Neil Lennon? 🤣.

24 Nov 2025 21:22:24
RD had his critics, but he would be a valuable link between the new regime and the Celtic expectation, tradition and support and has experience of Scottish football's pros and cons.

24 Nov 2025 21:44:18
Too far Weejoe😕.

25 Nov 2025 02:34:24
It mentions someone who knows the club and Scottish football, a former player has just left Swansea and will be looking for a job.

25 Nov 2025 07:32:05
The former player stuff annoys me, with calmac, Tierney, Forrest kicking about we shouldn't need a Celtic man type in staff, that being said, what Happens when we lose Forrest and eventually calmac, where the Celtic men then because nothings coming thru.

25 Nov 2025 13:56:52
Eh it's obviously a different skill set between a player and a coach!