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Martin O’Neill returns to Celtic as interim manager alongside Shaun Maloney

Discussion in 'Celtic Chat' started by Notorious, Oct 27, 2025.

Discuss Martin O’Neill returns to Celtic as interim manager alongside Shaun Maloney in the Celtic Chat area at TalkCeltic.net.

  1. RalstonFanClubPresident

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    I voted until the end of the season because that gives us more time and presumably more options in appointing the right full-time manager. It also provides a preseason for him to bed in his ideas. Not to mention a better transfer window to bring in players, although we all know how that usually goes.
     
  2. Notorious Gold Member Gold Member

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    Football insider




    Martin O’Neill has taken over at Parkhead on a temporary basis following Brendan Rodgers’ dramatic resignation last month.

    Sources say O’Neill is increasingly likely to be offered the job until the end of the season, after a brilliant start to life back at the Hoops






    Celtic beat arch-rivals Rangers 3-1 in the Scottish League Cup on Sunday (2 November), following up a 4-0 win over Falkirk in the Northern Irishman’s first game in charge.

    The next few matches will decide the length of O’Neill’s stay with the Glasgow giants, with good results expected to see him remain in the role for the rest of the campaign
     
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    * me off that he has to have this game on his record. It's all well playing the * in Scotland, but we all know how it goes in Europe these days. MoN took us to the Uefa cup final with a team of warriors and nearly beat a CL winning team managed by Mourinho, who had to cheat to beat us.

    Watching half an hour of that today must be killing the man inside.
     
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    Seeing sides like Midgetland and Bodo really compounds the feeling of how badly we have been operating for years now.

    These teams have a tiny budget compared to ours yet look what they continually do to us and other sides across Europe.

    There is absolutely no excuse. It's not his fault though. I'm more saying this in here as it comes back to the root problem...the board. And needing to modernise.
     
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    This.
     
  6. Notorious Gold Member Gold Member

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    Any * that says a bad word about Martin is a *


    Came in at short notice to help out his mate
     
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    There is absolutely nothing stopping Hearts becoming like Bodo or Midtjylland. We need to get our act together
     
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    I don't think anyone thinks this is on him. It was always unlikely we get anything tonight. We're a poor side right now.
     
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    Said it in the match thread, the Danes look more like a MON team.
     
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  10. Notorious Gold Member Gold Member

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    Seen a few on facebook having a go at him


    Mostly the new generation of fans to be honest
     
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    Exactly what I was thinking. If anything, Hearts are about twice their size.
     
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  12. Guchi Gucci Gold Member Gold Member

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    If i had to pick 2/3 of his matches to win it'd be Falkirk and Rangers but that was brutal. Not on him though, he's not a magician.
     
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    That’s not on him in the slightest. Would’ve been a minor miracle going there and getting anything with this squad of players.

    We’ve now just lost the single bright spark we actually had too
     
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    As good as he is, he and Shaun were betrayed by our embarrassing and outdated set up, our poor recruitment strategy. It's been years in the making.

    Hearts are better off the field than we are, and are catching up rapidly. We've been left behind by the like of Brugge, Midtylland,

    When will folk see that the size of you balance is not a measurement of success.

    Need a new coaching set up in ASAP with a view to getting good players in for January.

    All over to the * Desmond. Get the right team in and modernise our of the field set up.
     
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  15. Notorious Gold Member Gold Member

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    All of that was for the players. Not much else he could have said.
     
  17. Notorious Gold Member Gold Member

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    Pretty much aye trying to pick them up
     
  18. thailandceltic From Immigration to Domination

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    You might be waiting mate if its Desmond your wanting to modernised things.. its a sad state of affairs and I have zero confidence in it getting better anytime soon.. as I said..depressing
     
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    martin has the worst mates
     
  20. Notorious Gold Member Gold Member

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    Unfortunately