Fan fury, Gaza backlash and the ghost of the Nancy fiasco hang over Celtic’s next move - and whoever gets the job must be backed or risk total collapse.
Personally, with the current state of the club, I don’t think it would be a bad idea to engage MON for another year to work with the team. Plan to engage the younger manager for the longer term project at the end of next season when we (hopefully) have rebuilt the squad to a certain extent. In the meantime, the club could recruit personnel and put in place all the structures we need for effective, modern player recruitment, ready to work with the new manager when he arrives. As regards Desmond and his apparent preference for Keane, I can’t help asking myself what might be his motivation for that appointment. He obviously knows the level of resistance to it but still seems hell bent on getting his way like a truculent teenager - which is entirely consistent with the speech delivered by his son at the last AGM. It looks for all the world like hubris and arrogance related to his position as “owner” of the club when he is not actually the owner. I wonder whether the club can move forward with Desmond in his current role and a board filled with lapdogs who allow him to do whatever he wants? I suspect not no matter who is in the dugout.
Celtic need to get this managerial appointment spot on, they cannot afford another Nancy Fiasco or grievous disconnect on the terraces again.
Hearts and Rangers, and the others will pose a growing threat to Celtic's dominance on the home front, the last thing we need is another dummy manager who does not know what he is doing, or a lackey for the Celtic Board, with no live connection to the fans.
I'm not sure either Keane or O'Neil are the right candidates for the job. O'Neil because of his advanced age and the grueling prospect of the demands and rigors of another pressure packed domestic and hopefully European campaign, and Keane because of his lack of real managerial success at a high level, with all due respect Israeli and Hungarian football are not the doyens of football in my considered opinion, and of course the political baggage which would inevitably come with his appointment, certain to inflame the Green Brigade and Parkhead terraces again, and the inevitable re-opening of a deadly wound between Board and Club..
I would far rather go with a safer appointment, someone in the mold of the rising star Brian Barry Murphy who has done an incredible job with Cardiff City getting them promotion to the EFL, and he is a good Cork man and Celtic supporter, so he also knows what makes Glasgow Celtic tick and the auspicious history of the club.
Of if not equal importance, is who is going to be responsible for identifying potential players. It doesn't matter if it's Keane or O'Neill, he can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear. If the January window is anything to go by, the future fills me with dread.
If the rumour mill is correct then it looks like Shaun Maloney is being given the role that Tisdale vacated when he was booted out along with his pal Wilfried Nancy.
No-one seems to have taken responsibility for the January debacle. If it was SM, which I suspect, along with a photocopy of PT's notebook, then he has no place anywhere near that job
Personally, with the current state of the club, I don’t think it would be a bad idea to engage MON for another year to work with the team. Plan to engage the younger manager for the longer term project at the end of next season when we (hopefully) have rebuilt the squad to a certain extent. In the meantime, the club could recruit personnel and put in place all the structures we need for effective, modern player recruitment, ready to work with the new manager when he arrives. As regards Desmond and his apparent preference for Keane, I can’t help asking myself what might be his motivation for that appointment. He obviously knows the level of resistance to it but still seems hell bent on getting his way like a truculent teenager - which is entirely consistent with the speech delivered by his son at the last AGM. It looks for all the world like hubris and arrogance related to his position as “owner” of the club when he is not actually the owner. I wonder whether the club can move forward with Desmond in his current role and a board filled with lapdogs who allow him to do whatever he wants? I suspect not no matter who is in the dugout.
Celtic need to get this managerial appointment spot on, they cannot afford another Nancy Fiasco or grievous disconnect on the terraces again.
Hearts and Rangers, and the others will pose a growing threat to Celtic's dominance on the home front, the last thing we need is another dummy manager who does not know what he is doing, or a lackey for the Celtic Board, with no live connection to the fans.
I'm not sure either Keane or O'Neil are the right candidates for the job. O'Neil because of his advanced age and the grueling prospect of the demands and rigors of another pressure packed domestic and hopefully European campaign, and Keane because of his lack of real managerial success at a high level, with all due respect Israeli and Hungarian football are not the doyens of football in my considered opinion, and of course the political baggage which would inevitably come with his appointment, certain to inflame the Green Brigade and Parkhead terraces again, and the inevitable re-opening of a deadly wound between Board and Club..
I would far rather go with a safer appointment, someone in the mold of the rising star Brian Barry Murphy who has done an incredible job with Cardiff City getting them promotion to the EFL, and he is a good Cork man and Celtic supporter, so he also knows what makes Glasgow Celtic tick and the auspicious history of the club.
Of if not equal importance, is who is going to be responsible for identifying potential players. It doesn't matter if it's Keane or O'Neill, he can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear. If the January window is anything to go by, the future fills me with dread.
If the rumour mill is correct then it looks like Shaun Maloney is being given the role that Tisdale vacated when he was booted out along with his pal Wilfried Nancy.
No-one seems to have taken responsibility for the January debacle. If it was SM, which I suspect, along with a photocopy of PT's notebook, then he has no place anywhere near that job