Celtic Rumours Archive June 01 2021

 

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01 Jun 2021 23:24:59
Pep says ange is among the top ten managers in tbe world.

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02 Jun 2021 01:01:15
That's fine but why is he only been in Japan and Australia? Also maybe its the fact that the club he manages is owned by the man City group and pep was being a company man.

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{Ed001's Note - he's not saying it because of that, Pep has a lot of respect for him and he was hired by the Man City group because of that. City go through Pep for almost every football decision, they even chose their club in Spain as Pep's brother wanted to buy it but couldn't raise enough funds. So they stepped in and paid the rest.}

02 Jun 2021 03:58:24
Did it matter that SSevconiansuke Nakamura only played in Japan before he signed for us?

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02 Jun 2021 06:09:23
No he didn't he played in Italy.

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02 Jun 2021 08:05:28
Celtics new manager will be no good, the players that Celtic will sign will be hopeless, the Celtic Fans will not be happy with the Celtic Team, all possible headlines from Scottish Newspapers and Media, before a ball is kicked this season.

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02 Jun 2021 08:35:48
Love the filter on dnn's post 😆😅.

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02 Jun 2021 10:00:00
I made a mess of that one lol. But in hindsight going from Japan to Serie A in Italy, is an even bigger jump in class than SPL and he held his own.

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02 Jun 2021 15:19:37
Like the rest of us, I was disappointed Howe didn't sign, but I would be a liar if I said I was surprised. Then it went to shock over Big Ange, the who the feck is this and here we go again. Well, since that I decided to look into the guy and listen to people who know him and how he works. I have warmed to him. I like the cut of his jib and especially his thoughts on how to play the game. He attacks and that's us, but hopefully he can deliver a defence that isn't a feckin joke too. I am now happy to welcome him and get right behind him. My fear now is that shower of useless barstewards of a board will feck this up too. If you do arrive Ange, welcome to the Greatest Club on the planet and good luck mate. We were all disappointed, but we need to stand behind this guy. I for one will be. HH.

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02 Jun 2021 16:20:01
Some Everton fans seem to want Ange as their new manager.

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02 Jun 2021 18:02:58
Saw that Buzz.
Like most fans I've been pondering the idea of Big Ange coming in.
I've gone through the range of emotions from 'Who is he? ' to 'What the fekk? ' to 'Are You Serious? ' to 'Is This The Level Our Club Has Fallen To? ' and now I'm at the stage where I don't really care anymore if we announce Keano as the new manager.
People talk about him being the best kept secret in football management, which I don't buy into. Football is totally global as far as contacts are concerned and if he was this 'next big thing' then why hasn't his name popped up before now in connection with any British club? He's 55, he's not a young kid and he can't have been kept such a secret unless he's the fekkin Messiah.
Clubs sack managers all the time and if he is that good then surely someone would've taken a punt on him before now.
If he comes to Celtic then he'll get my total backing, because our shytshow of a club have given us no choice in the matter. If he wins the league for us next season then I'll openly admit that my doubts were unfounded. HH.

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02 Jun 2021 19:41:19
That’s exactly it besty. if he’s so good then why at 55 has he not been given a shot in a more established league . I know he got the socceroos job but that was probably based on his performance in the A league.

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02 Jun 2021 22:47:20
We can all speculate as to why he has never managed a team in a league of higher standing, but that's all it is. Speculation.

Who is to say that in the past, he has been offered manager jobs in European leagues but wasn't interested due to family commitments at that time or challenge didn't appeal to him. At age 55 circumstances might be different for him now and less need for him to travel approx 17/ 18 hours on multiple flights back to Australia.

Was travelling back to Australia not one of reasons Rogic was wanting move closer to Qatar?

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03 Jun 2021 00:00:43
I'm thinking/ hoping he's the Aussie Greek manager version of lubo.

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03 Jun 2021 06:49:36
Dnn38 Didn’t he put himself up for the sevco job after Pedro? If so he’s obviously been interested in managing in Europe . I read the other day apparently he’s one of the best top 10 coaches in the world . Lawell must be feeding out these lines to try and convince us he’s a new wenger .

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03 Jun 2021 22:29:14
Look dnn38 I hope your right and iam wrong but it’s definitely a worry that his biggest domestic job has been Yokohama or Melbourne, maybe I’m being disrespectful to these clubs but a lot of fans had doubts about Howe because he hadn’t managed a big team, at least he’d managed in a big league.

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01 Jun 2021 17:06:12
Harkin not getting the DOF job after its been confirmed that he is staying at Man City.
This is turning into a total farce.

Announcement from Celtic coming soon to confirm:-

DOF - LAWWELL

HEAD COACH - BIG ANGE

ASS - LENNEDY.

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01 Jun 2021 17:17:37
No chance LAWWELL.

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01 Jun 2021 17:41:51
The Lennedy should say Assistant.

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01 Jun 2021 17:56:39
I think kennedy will end up dof.

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01 Jun 2021 18:15:48
You were right the first time.

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01 Jun 2021 19:43:43
Again we’ll never know how interested or close Celtic were to getting Harkin in for the DOF role. the club have told the fans absolute zilch. I get the need for privacy during these type of discussions, but it’s went on that long now right into a critical period, you’d think in the 3 months or so since lennon left or was sacked, you’d think the club would’ve came out during that period with something. since lennon went the two prominent names mentioned were Howe and harkin. All it would’ve taken from the club was a short statement saying we’ve numerous candidates for the managers position and the DOF position and we’ll announce it in due course. can’t even get that right.

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01 Jun 2021 20:52:52
The club have used the press to start rumours so the fans buy into it and to spend money, what a club, I am not falling for it again.

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01 Jun 2021 21:00:46
Rejection after rejection for Celtic probably doesn’t help what happened to Lawwell’s motors and house, might not of been our fans but it’s widely speculated across certain pundits and ex players. So who’s going to come to a club if that’s in the back of there mind?

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{Ed007's Note - I don't think what happened at Lawwell's house was entirely football related.}

01 Jun 2021 21:32:07
Just to be clear, I don't want the jib either. Just want that it there before someone ITK starts saying I'm signing a contract on Friday. What an absolute farce our cub has become all because the people in charge are totally inept. We need a clear out of the blazers. They are a disgrace and should be nowhere near the club. I wonder who will be next to tell the b8ard working for them seriously damaged your career.

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01 Jun 2021 21:40:02
I don't know who set up Howe and Harkin but who ever it was should go now Total shambles and Embarrassment and IMO Totally unprofessional and unacceptable. They should have been water tight by now And I am sure if that was one of their employees that made so much mess they would have been sacked by now.

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01 Jun 2021 21:42:39
This is starting to be a complete farce from start to finish. howe not coming in. harkin who everybody thought was coming in as dof and was supposed to have said to celtic about ange. has supposed to have now rejected celtic. we are a laughing stock. I am sorry but with the rumours of maloney, Kennedy and Strachan the whole board need to take good long hard look and really get this sorted. this is one time I am not looking through my green tinted specks. sorry hoops fans.

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01 Jun 2021 21:43:37
I did happen to read an article the other day ed007 about PL and his efforts against high level crime guy's masquerading as agents to get involved with young footballers and eventually launder money, I read this about a week after him and his family were attacked. Scary stuff like.

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{Ed007's Note - There's been a spate of attacks across Glasgow and Lanarkshire where high end cars were getting torched for no apparent reason - it was happening in Fairhill for a while although not high end numbers obviously lol - and I thought it was just the latest Ned craze but I think there's something more sinister about it and it's nothing to do with Celtic/Rangers rivalry or anything like that.}

02 Jun 2021 14:26:04
Ed007 your right, it could be something more sinister. People are too quick to speculate that its something to do with celtic/ rangers rivalry.

Could honestly be anything and PL might not even have been the target, could of been anyone who lived in house.

Thank God no one was killed and hopefully they catch whoever is responsible quickly.

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{Ed007's Note - Definitely 👍👍

01 Jun 2021 16:03:41
Guys IF and so far it is STILL an IF, Big Ange signs he has NO backroom staff so it looks like Kennedy and Strachan will be staying as first team coaches, and IF true the bold Pedro will be getting another bonus for getting us a manager on the cheap and NOT having to shell out on backroom staff.

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01 Jun 2021 16:46:57
It's looking very much like that - although as we know anything can happen with Celtic? I was always wary that Lawell would be pulling strings some way or other (even in a covert role) , in the future, but the thought of Big Nose and WWGS still being involved in first team duties makes me be very disappointed as they failed miserably with far too many shades of NL's mistakes. We need a whole new regime IMO.

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02 Jun 2021 14:16:29
I have to disagree, I reckon board will want to get him in ASAP in a smooth manner to start rebuild. I can see him bringing his 2 assistants.

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01 Jun 2021 13:02:28
Reports that ange doesn't have credentials appears to be nonsense, negativity from the media is a disgrace and our fans are buying into it.

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01 Jun 2021 13:56:17
I said it was bs he has been in continental competition with his current team the licence he has will be of equal value to the uafa one as long as fifa recognise it uafa can't.

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01 Jun 2021 15:38:12
Mally, I’m not sure the fans are buying into the negativity from the press, I think we are pretty much just negative the way the club has behaved in the last year. I am obviously only speaking for myself, but if he hasn’t got his badges I don’t particularly care . We all know, this isn’t the best possible manager we can get, it’s one of the cheapest ones, who they can dress up to look like he has some great cv. Pep may have been positive after a friendly against one of his teams, and now that is getting dragged around like a badge of honour . We don’t need the press to tell us we have fumbled along since before sacking lennon, we can all see it ourselves . If there was a poll now of fans, how many would be confident or turning the league back in our favour next year? I’d presume it would be very low.

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01 Jun 2021 15:43:11
I am sorry but this whole mess with ange, now hearing Kennedy and Strachan are staying in the backroom staff and now maloney could be joining is just a complete f*** up. you could of thought that if howe dropped the ball the hoops would have another top class man on the list. but unfortunately I don't feel it. I could be wrong. and I hope I am or its going to be a complete disaster.

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01 Jun 2021 16:12:32
Quinn who would you realistically say the best manager we could get is?

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01 Jun 2021 16:35:45
Look the press are loving it and it's all negative, keevins on ssb saying he has no European contacts, clearly didn't do his homework as someone close to him says he's plenty as a chunk of his players played in Europe when he was aussie msnager, just negative mince for the sake of it.

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{Ed007's Note - Isn't it more important who the DOF's and Head Scout's contacts are?}

01 Jun 2021 16:54:04
Royjac, obviously it’s only opinions . Favre if we could have afforded him would have been more appeasing to the fans. Tripovsky wouldn’t have cost the earth to get from Prague, rebrov from ferencvaros has a decent record . He may turn out to be decent, and ill hold My hands up, but two weeks before we come back, missing loads from the first team, inc out captain . same flat coaching team, no dof or chief scout and an incoming coach who has no idea of the competition doesn’t fill me with confidence . I appreciate the people I named don’t have much info on our leave either but they all will know players from their respective markets that could improve us. I hope it will work out but I see lawell hands all over this, and it seems to me to be more penny pinching.

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01 Jun 2021 17:00:26
Deffo ed crucial we get that right but some of the stuff being said about the man is just rubbish.

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01 Jun 2021 17:04:08
We don't give a feck what the Sevco press say.

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01 Jun 2021 17:48:09
Quinn no chance any of them are coming to Scotland

Contrary to what many people believe or think the market the likes of Celtic have for picking a realistic manager is very small, the top coaches realistically won't come to Scotland. Most coaches/ managers down south are out of our price range, you won't bring in someone who doesn't speak the language. The pool to pick from is pretty small considering.

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01 Jun 2021 18:51:43
Royjac, we managed to get Rogers, sevco got Gerrard easily enough, admittedly he wasn’t a big name manager but he was world renowned player, so still a big catch for the spfl. I’d have to disagree that we only have a small pool, but like I said it’s about opinions.
Not sure but rebrov may speak english due to being at Tottenham for a couple of seasons . Personally only favre would have been out of our price range, even though he said he was interested .

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01 Jun 2021 19:22:56
I'd much rather we spent a bit more on a top coach than wasting it on projects that won't make the grade at the club. What would Favre have cost? A million more a season than Howe or less? He'd only likely be here 3 seasons tops and I'd rather we lost a million a season off the transfer budget as a better coach will get more out of the players. Rodgers/ Lennon is a prime example of that.

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01 Jun 2021 20:54:38
We got Rodgers because he didn't have a job and he is a fan of the club, his stock was fairly low as he blew the league from a winning position and was dismal in Europe. Gerrard was an under 23 coach with no top level experience, christ we are supposedly about to bring in a guy that has won the league in his homeland and abroad. Has won an international trophy and qualified for two world cups on the bounce with all of his teams playing excellent football and people are saying he doesn't qualify to manage for us.
Favre will never come to Scotland and the guy from Sparta will end up at some German or Italian team.

Come on you have to be realistic guys.

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01 Jun 2021 13:00:48
I may be reading too much into this but i am concerned with the amount of pro Martin O'Neil stories today. Are we being buttered up?

While I love St Martin, i think his time has come and gone and I really don't want roy keane sneaked in the door.

What does everyone else think?

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01 Jun 2021 15:47:27
Straw grasping. Martin's era is consigned to history and it should stay there. Gave us great times but the game has changed and we don't have the money to fund the players he woukd want. I don't think he woukd want his legacy tarnished either. You would need to trust our board and only a fool would do that. Our main 8ssue isn't gett8ng a good manager in, it's getting the pricks 9n the board who landed us here out. That won't happen so the manager whoever he turns out to be needs to be aware they haven't a clue and they will carry the can for their lack of ambition. Its a rubbish show.

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01 Jun 2021 17:15:30
Let's be serious here its not the press that's being negative its our club, now am not saying this aussie guy won't be good but if you have put him in a list of managers to pick from most fans wouldn't of picked him. Am all for trying to put a positive spin on it and I will back him but the board have fell asleep and if this doesn't pay off there has to be a clear out in that department.

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31 May 2021 23:52:46
Keith Jackson reports Maloney being targeted for big roll at Celtic while he claims Harkin not getting dof roll dun dun dun oh and he says deal for new manager done just waiting for his club to get a replacement then big Ange can come over start his isolation.

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01 Jun 2021 06:53:07
This is becoming more of a farce every day, the way it’s going at the minute, the players will be turning back for pre season to be greeted by strachan and Kennedy again. For months now, Harkin’s name has been the main name mentioned, and now just over two weeks away, maloneys name is thrown into the ring, and he will be involved with Belgium for another two weeks. We heard over the weekend, that it was Harkin that had put forward the Aussies name, as he had links through the city group . To have no manager dof structure in place is completely amateurish, we have basically handed sevco next seasons title, and with it the champions league pot of money. Today’s report is that lawell is pulling the strings, who supposedly is off in a few weeks, I don’t believe he is going anywhere, why would a man that’s retiring still have so much pull? He was meant to be aiding a handover, yet he’s still making the major decisions, which the club will have to live with for the following season and beyond. The board have, all season acted slowly, and ignorantly, it would seem they still haven’t learned their lessons . After the ticket deadline we will then find out that we don’t have a decent budget to replace the outgoing first team players . I think we are in for a rough ride for a couple of years unfortunately .

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01 Jun 2021 08:39:10
Well we brought this on ourselves. We were miles ahead of sevco in every dept, but we let them overtake us its our own stupid fault.

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01 Jun 2021 08:59:57
They also reported that, one of the reasons the Howe deal collapsed was the firebomb at Lawwell’s house.
He was concerned about security.
Maybe Howe just didn’t have the stomach for the challenge after all.

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01 Jun 2021 11:20:35
Years of complacency and going cheap and hoping have caught up. Now they are going for another cheap punt to get us out of the hole cheap punts and hoping dug for us. The whole board need chased. It should be now, but it's coming. Because with all the money lost by never being prepared for the CL now sees us without a lot to piss in. That's down to Bonus Ball and his disastrous leadership. He seems to be actively putting a last spoke in our wheel before he fecks off. Cheers for that, don't ket the door hit you in the arse in the way out Peter.

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01 Jun 2021 11:33:13
Buzz, the firebomb was Howe's final get out ticket if all else failed.
I don't know if he actually said it although it has been reported on various websites. There could be a hundred reasons for the breakdown in talks with fault on one side or both sides. As you say, maybe he just didn't have the balls for the challenge when it came down to it. HH.

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01 Jun 2021 14:15:10
Besty,
There’s now reports that Howe could be the favourite for the Everton job,
If Real Madrid get Ancelotti.
Everton is the club he supported as a boy and now it’s all starting to make sense.

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