Neil Lennon

Och cheer up

 

I completely agree with your sentiment; however, I don’t think the board will see it that way. Except from Deila, they never have.

I think next season requires wholesale restructuring from the top down and that might lead us to look at more talented managers from the continent.

 

I don't disagree, but we won't.

 

Don’t know why we’re discussing managers when they don’t matter.

Just use the money saved on a player or two.

 

In the close season yes. Casting the net far and wide at this stage in the season with all its historical significance would be madness.

If Lennon was to go in the next few weeks, brining in an up and coming manager with no knowledge of Scottish football would not be a good idea.

 

It's a difficult one but I would take the risk immediately. It has to be changed. We have to win the 10.

 

My point was more why is there a next Celtic manager market... as much as I prefer a different manager to Lennon the bookies can go * themselves with that *..

 

Not saying that there doesn’t need to be a change, just that bringing in an unknown quantity at this stage of the season is risky.

 

I’m happy pumpkin.

 

Don't get this whole idea of having a knowledge of Scottish football, I'd expect any quality coaching team to do painstaking research into every domestic opponent we face and find ways to beat them thats bare minimum stuff, the challenge is getting their message across to our players so that they buy into it and perform well.

Deila didn't fail because he didn't know Scottish football he failed because we had too many players who didn't give a * about his methods and had no respect for him. At the moment whatever message lennon is putting to the players they're not buying into it in the same way they did last season.

 

We aren't 3 points off the top of the league though, it's 6 with a game in hand, which with the way we've been playing of late is a very different thing. The players already look like the pressure of the 10 is getting to them, add trying to claw back a defecit to that and we really can't assume the game in hand is a certainty.

Regardless, I genuinely hope you are right about him turning it round and bringing us the 10, even if I'm not so confident about it myself.

 

Not having knowledge of Scottish Football shouldn't be terminal to any applicants prospects, if they are outstanding in other areas and thorough in their preparation but if there was to be a managerial change then it would be a bonus credential.

It's all hypothetical just now but if Lennon were to leave and a new manager came in, there will be very little margin for error for this guy given that we're already trailing and that the rest of the League don't seem to be taking points off the huns.

From that perspective any points dropped while a manager tries to implement a new playing style could potentially be terminal to the 10.

Many previous foreign players and managers have talked about a lack of understanding about how crucial it is, to win every single game. That concept is alien to many guys that haven't experienced it before.

At any other club a manager would be able to come in, shake things up a bit, take time to find his best XI, drop some points in the process and then go on a run hopefully.

Rightly or wrongly, 10 in a row dominates everyone's thinking at the club just now. If a new guy came in and it looked like we weren't achieving that goal then the pressure would be huge and arguably unbearable for most.

There's no guarantee with any appointment but I do understand why an understanding of the unique circumstances we find ourselves in is often favoured.

 

Good point about deila mainstay British players didn’t take to him because his lack of English can tell by mulgrews stories on si ferry channel


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Rafa let's break bank get him in

 

Sounds so delusional man, has he not been watching the same games we have this season? Willing to try and put a positive spin on things and that he's showing a bit of fire that might ignite our season.
Few big weeks ahead...

 

Genuinely don’t know if he’s that out of his depth he actually sees nothing wrong with the performances or he’s just trying to save face because he knows it’s been awful.

 

Respect and the lack of. I can’t think of anything else.

He had a public outburst about players leaving which by going by his words had been festering for some time.

I was shocked and even I cringed when I heard him saying it publicly. Tones like that send a message of deep rooted problems.

He just doesn’t strike me as someone the players have enough respect for or perhaps have enough belief in him as a manager anymore.

What was the other comment, some players think they’re better than they are?

Now he’s banging on about protecting players from unfair criticism and him taking flack regarding his position, total hypocrite.

Too many mixed messages and a return of the confrontational angry wee man - no control by the looks of it.

All this public chat he’s belching out can’t be doing any good for his standing with the players, nor the players mentality. * sideshow at times.

 

If we do replace him, it's not the time for a risky project..

We would need someone who can come in and get instant respect.. Which isn't easy to attract or cheap, PLs worst nightmare...

 

He's hardly going to come and say we're * right now. He's already had numerous howlers in the media recently.

 

Defiant Neil Lennon has launched a vehement defence of his Celtic management.

The Parkhead boss is adamant there is absolutely “no justification” for him to be sacked as he blasted back at scalding recent criticism of his work.


Lennon is also deeply irritated at his players being hammered individually and collectively after a three-game winless run where the squad has been decimated by key absentees such as star striker Odsonne Edouard.

The under-scrutiny Celtic gaffer didn’t hold back as he:


Savaged disrespectful online polls taking votes on whether he should be axed.

*Hammered brutal criticism from ex-players such as Kris Commons.


Rounded on individuals singling his players out for personal attacks and abuse.

Insisted he has the full backing of Celtic’s hierarchy.



Before jetting to France today for Thursday's Europa League tie against Lille, Lennon roared back through the noise and said: “It’s nonsense. It’s completely over the top.

“You have got two newspapers running polls on whether I should be sacked. Where did that come from?

“I haven’t seen that in 20 years. It’s completely disrespectful to me. It is really poor.

“We go through a little spell and conspiracy theories come out about dressing room break ups, fall outs, all that nonsense.


All of a sudden there is this groundswell after a tough week. When we went into the international break we had won eight games in a row and kept four clean sheets.

“What happened afterwards was the squad was disrupted and a little bit disjointed and we were playing good teams.

“Players are coming back, players are getting fitter. We have got a lot to look forward to. This knee * reaction stuff? You need to get used to it.


But it is well over the top. Some of our ex-players haven’t covered themselves in glory either.”

Lennon’s reference came after ex-Hoops winger Commons annihilated Shane Duffy and called him rank rotten.

The boss added: “Players getting singled out and abused, it is absolutely shocking.

“If that’s the way of the modern world. I am glad I am not a player any more.



“I am not happy with the treatment he is getting from certain quarters. I think it is hysterical. Comments that he is rank rotten and he is a bombscare. I find that ridiculous.

“I looked at that, in particular, because of what I saw from Kris Commons.

“I remember in Kris’s second season, he had hardly kicked a ball for Celtic that year. Now he’s digging out players and personally calling them out, which I think is wrong."

Lennon admits he delighted to have the backing of majority shareholder Dermot Desmond and chief-executive Peter Lawwell through this sticky period and says their support shows unity within Celtic.



He said: “Absolutely. I speak to Peter every day. We had a board meeting on Friday and that went pretty smoothly. I’m not out here on my own.

“I have got great support from Peter and the board, I have got great support from my backroom team who are really strong at the minute. That shows the inner strength we have here at the club.”