Chris Davies Hired As Rodgers Assistant

Missed all this...quick summary what happened with Magee..please.

 

McGhee wasn't happy with the Celtic players using the proper goals to practice into so he came over and told them to move. Davies obviously thought he was a * (which he was) and so didn't shake his hand at full time. Seems like McGhee took offence and tried to kick off. He then said in the post match presser that he didn't know Davies' name until he was told beforehand (which was a lie). Said Davies wasn't "Celtic class". Rodgers said McGhee's behaviour wasn't befitting of a Scotland assistant manager.

Then you have the Davies interview on the last page.

 

Cheers mate...lots of hand bags then ha

 

Loved Davies since his celebration at the full time whistle in Hapoel.

Was running and jumping about like a mad man

 

Mad that a comment from a daft, bitter * has led to people analysing an interview from our assistant manager. Pure madness.

 

I think McGhee was trying a bit of gamesmanship but its all hullabaloo about nothing from what Ive heard. It gives the media something to write about instead of celtic just pumping everyone every week.

 

I hate McGhee.

 

Great interview with Chris Davies in The Times, with this the standout:

Here's the entire interview:

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‘Brendan always stood out — it was the way he treated people’
Chris Davies, Celtic’s assistant manager, tells Graham Spiers how he has applied science to his craft

There is something a little bit different about Chris Davies. For one thing, the Celtic assistant manager has a first-class honours degree in sports science. In 2015, aged 30, he became the youngest first-team coach in the history of Reading FC, Now, aged 31, he surely qualifies as the youngest ever assistant manager in the history of Celtic.

The son of a Welsh father and English mother, the road of Davies’s coaching life began in classic fashion: his football career was cut short by injury at the age of 20. But he yearned to stay in the game. “I was devastated by my injury but I knew I wanted to stay in football,” says Davies. “Like my dad, like my brother, I lived for football. The question for me was: could I become a coach?”

He soon found his answer, and it lay partly in the mind of a new, up and coming coach at Reading called Brendan Rodgers. As a young player Davies was wide-eyed at the Rodgers way of coaching: his training ground methods, his ideas, his care for his players. Rodgers had made Davies his youth team captain at Reading and the two would go on to form a strong bond, with Rodgers very much the mentor.

“I was given confidence by the people at Reading after injury finished me as a player,” says Davies. “Brendan, for one, convinced me that I still had a career in football. I felt confident that, with my personality, and my understanding of the game, I could develop into a good coach. I felt, whatever I had lacked physically to be a top player, maybe I had the technical and tactical knowledge to develop as a coach.”


In 2002 Davies started attending college one day a week. The PFA in England then helped him get a place at Loughborough University where, after three years, he would graduate with first-class honours in sports science.


“That was a big thing for me, because coming from football, you are not really respected academically,” he says. “But I put everything into my studies. I wanted a complete understanding of the body: physiology, bio-mechanics, nutrition and the rest. I wanted to know everything about that, plus I wanted to know everything tactically that there is to know about football.”

The Davies coaching career was now unfolding. At the age of 22 he went to New Zealand in 2007 to spend three years coaching there, and then returned to England in 2010 when Rodgers, by now on the rise himself, made him one of his first backroom appointments when Rodgers was appointed manager of Swansea City.

It has been a repeatedly bold move by Rodgers — handing someone as young as Davies key roles at Swansea, Liverpool and Celtic — and Davies is unashamedly admiring of his mentor’s methods in football.

“It was while at Reading as a young player trying to make it that I first realised what a fantastic coach Brendan is,” he says. “There were other good people around Reading at that time — coaches and managers — but Brendan was the one that stood out. You saw it in the way he treated people and young players. You saw it in the way he developed you as a player and in the way he cared about you. The whole way that Brendan approached coaching was different to anything I’d seen before: the care, the attention, the quality of it.

“I knew how good he was. I knew he was going to fly in football. When I finally left Reading I said to anyone I met in the game, ‘look out for Brendan Rodgers; he’s going to make it.’ He combined a high technical knowledge of football with a good way of treating people. His players wanted to play for him. They wanted to do well for him, they loved the environment he created.”

There also takes some explaining to understand what it was Rodgers saw in Davies, who was such a young, untested, albeit ambitious coach.

“In me, I think he saw someone who was very determined to be the best that I could be,” he says. “I think Brendan still wants that from me to this day — he wants me to be the best I can be at Celtic. It is all about having that mentality, and I think I earn Brendan’s respect in that regard. I still try to have that mentality every day — to be the best I can be as a coach.”

Moving to Glasgow has proved a profound experience for Davies. With his wife, whom he first met at primary school, and two young children, he has settled in Bearsden, to the north-west of the city, and is still coming to terms with what he calls “the phenomenon of Celtic”.

“Culturally, Brendan knew much more about the club than I did. I had always respected Celtic and the powerhouse that it is, but coming in here and becoming a part of it is something I have loved.

“I find Celtic unbelievable. I am not exaggerating — you have to witness it and be inside it to believe it. There are a lot of clichés thrown around about football clubs — this club, that club is ‘special’ — but ‘a club like no other’ is so true of Celtic. What this club means to people here is more than I’ve ever seen at a football club before. It is their whole life.

“I was at Liverpool with Brendan. That is a massive club, with an incredible support worldwide and some great traditions. But Celtic has got this real emotional draw and feeling from the fans which you’ve got to see to believe. It is incredible.”


Davies and Rodgers have been hitched in football for nearly seven years now, coming on for tackling 350 games of football from the technical area, from English Premier League to Champions League. The two men, he says, have a deeply-established modus operandi.

“We prepare, we study our opponent, we play the game, we study the match, we go back to the players, we take it onto the grass, we try to develop and improve the team,” he says. “My job is to support and help the manager. I’ve got to try and help Brendan in any way I can, and fill in the gaps as much as I can.

“I think we have a very clear model in terms of what we do. We don’t just turn up and say, ‘right, let’s try this this week.’ I’ve been with Brendan for six or seven seasons now and every week it is the same process: our training details, our game model, looking at the next team we are going to face.

“I would say Brendan is more about ‘people over process’. He wants people to feel valued — that has always been his way. My role is to engage with him and the other staff, and make sure we are all as one. I help in the recruitment too: who can we bring in to help make us better? So it is all-encompassing. I try to help in any way I can.”

 

Think he is is very underrated. Impressed anytime he talks.

 

Class from a classy guy..

Did someone on here no say something similar about his family settling and him saying he's seen nothing like it here, even though he's been at Liverpool. Could've sworn it..

 

Really see him as our next Manager.

 

Really like him.

 

CD on goals of training camp: 'Hoping to improve base fitness levels. Had a very good 1st 6 months & comes at a good time.'

CD: "Played 44 games, a real intense period, got through it and finished it on Hogmanay with fantastic performance & result."

CD: "Players had a wk's rest to recover physically & mentally & now want to top up fitness, good opportunity to work on coaching elements."

CD on Kouassi Eboue:" Hoping everything goes well. Completely respect work permit appeal and process."

CD: "A talented young midfield player but until that's official we completely respect that process."


CD on speculation over bids for @MDembele_10 "Definitely well below his valuation that's for sure. No formal bid."

D: "Message has been pretty clear from the manager, we know this is the best place for Moussa to develop & improve."


CD: "Had a fantastic first 6 months & he's loved it and so much more to come from us as a team and @MDembele_10 at Celtic."

CD: "When you are doing well, especially as a striker, will be big money & talk thrown around a lot especially in transfer windows."


CD: "We can't control that and we just need to concentrate on helping him develop as a player and focusing on the next game."

CD: "It's all paper talk and speculation. Moussa is happy and we are working hard, and that's that."


CD: "We are looking to build a squad that can continue to dominate domestically and can compete well in Europe."


CD: "There will may well be activity but it has to be the right build for the club."

CD: "Dedryck & Nads haven't played as much as they would have liked so logical to think there might be a move away for them."

CD: "If there is not, there is not and we will carry on working with them.


CD on reports of @StuArmstrong16 signing a new deal: "That's something would be a positive for the club."

CD: "@StuArmstrong16 has done fantastically well over the past few months, really developed in the way we would like."


CD: "Been really impressed with his development and personality so that would be really positive news if that could be done."


CD on whether talks have started with @StuArmstrong16 :"The manager has made it clear to the player that he values him."


CD on Kouassi Eboue: "Travelled out (to Dubai) but won't be doing anything with us until hopefully he gets a work permit organised."

CD: "It's important that we make it clear that we respect completely the appeal and the process."


CD: "Efe Ambrose isn't going (to Duabi), immigration issue, but @kierantierney1 will come out and progress his rehab.


CD: "Hopefully @kierantierney1 will build into full training over next few weeks, done great and credit to all science & medical staff."

 

44 games.

44.

Jeepers.

 

That's nuts man

 

44 games is a season, wild.

Really hope KT is back, sounds like he will be. and Armstrong has earned himself more than £10k a week this season.

See the fuss about the goal posts? Aren't Mothewell supposed to proved them before training? I mean the opposition side are hardly expected to go into their store room and help themselves to what they want are they?

 

a guesstimate to wot stu should be on wages wise ,i would be happy to see him double his wages and sign for another 4/5years .