The Ronny Deila Thread

Coming from The Sun, I bet that's about 5% what Ronny actually said, and about 95% embellishment.

 

The quotes will be accurate. Everything else is just the Sun's spin on it.

 

The thing I like about Deila is his focus on nutrition as well as fitness. A lot of people fail to realise that what you eat greatly affects how your body and mind can perform on a daily basis.

It's impossible for me to comment what view Lennon and his staff took on nutrition but when Deila came in and, according to the media, cracked down on players eating junk, then it suggests Lennon had a more laid back attitude towards it. In other words, he trusted his players and controlled less and his methods brought success, now we have to hope Ronny's methods will do the same.

I like this quote from Ronny, "For me, to be professional is to be a 24-hour athlete. If not, then you can go and start working outside football. That’s not so hard. You can be amateurs again."

Source: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/fo...ennon-right-demand-higher-fitness-levels.html

 

Agrees mate, Lenny's said that it's a players own responsibility to look after themselves. Whereas Deila makes sure they do so.

 

http://www.celticquicknews.co.uk/ne...Feed:+co/IRuC+(Celtic+Quick+News)#prettyPhoto

 

Deila insisted he has heard nothing of a £7million bid from Southampton but bristled at the potential of an offer in that bracket.
He added: “When £7m was mentioned I said we would not consider it.
“That is not even close and there’s been nothing in terms of offers yet.
“We know what our players are worth and first of all it’s about creating a team and achieving things for Celtic.
“It’s very positive that clubs are interested in our players – that means we are doing something right. But we don’t think about that right now.
“My dream for Virgil and all the other players is to get into the Champions League, play good football there and show they can perform at the highest level.
“Then they can go to the biggest clubs in Europe if they’re going to leave us.
“That is a step up. But the clubs from six downwards in England, like Southampton, are not bigger than us.
“They have more money than us but they’re not bigger clubs.”


great to hear the manager come out and say that publicly

 

Yeah the top paragraph is just supposed to change how you interpret the fairly straightforward quotes

 

* brilliant Ronny! That's what I like to hear.

 

wait a minute, everybody believes the press when ronny is saying something good, but a few pages back no one believed a word the press said, we cant have it both ways

 

The quotes you can believe. It's the bullshit and spin around it you don't.

 

He's * 100% rifht though, they ARE NOT bigger than us. Period!

What yhe likes of Southampton et al can offer though is maximum exposure in the league that is widely regarded as numero uno - auch is footballing snobbery across the world that those operating withon that particular league are thought of as better than those outwith it - for the most part.

Do people SERIOUSLY believe that (example) John Stones is 5x more valuable than the reported £7m valuation of van Dijk? No * chance.

Unfortunately for us, players like van Dijk have slim chances of international opportunities because of the perception of Scottish fitba.

Therefore, it's Champions League or we can say bye bye to van Dijk, and - I suspect, shortly followed by Johansen.

 

I know, should have happened too.

 

Quite right about that £7m and good to hear. We all know Virgil is for sale, but not at that price, * that.

 

Especially with a 20% fee to Groningen.

£5.4m to us for Van Dijk? Suck ma baws.

 

They're not so different in that respect, I think both Ronny and Lenny were/are both all about personal responsibility. I think where Ronny scores over Lenny is he seems to demand much more from the support staff (medical staff, nutritionists, etc) and he is more strategic in dealing with his players.

Lenny's weaknesses were also his strengths. He was a good man and that both inspired his players to play for him and, equally, allowed some of them to be less responsible than he expected of them (and himself). Example: I can't imagine Ronny putting up with some of the performances Lenny had to deal with from Sammy, he'd be out the door; but look at some of the European performances Sammy gave us in return for Lenny's standing by him. We currently have no player in our front four who is capable of some of the things Sammy was when he was in the mood (which he often was in Europe) and I still wonder about that Juve game at CP if Sammy had been available.

I think they would have maybe not got on that well, but they'd have been a * of a team and both are professional enough to have got on with it. Lenny may have learned a thing or two about being more hands on with the fitness/nutrition side of things and IMO Ronny would have learned how important tiny details are when setting up tactically in Europe and that sometimes players reward your loyalty all the more when they didn't in fact deserve it

 

That's a very good way of putting it mate. The one thing that frustrates me is tactically, he's inflexible. He puts that much stock behind his way of football that he's unwilling to change it when he needs to.

Something Lenny never had a problem with.

 

Let's not beat about the bush, Ronny has an ego. I love Ronny and the positivity he's brought, I love what he's doing and I love the team celebrations/Ronny Roar, etc; but he does. Lenny didn't have that problem.

Me, I see them both as quite inspiring (I'm not just talking Celtic or even football here) but in different ways.

 

I wouldn't say he has an ego as such. Just confidence along with being sure of himself and wants to play football the right (Celtic) way.

I do agree with his tactical inflexibility though. You gotta do what you gotta do sometimes. We wouldnt beat Barca with Ronny imo, but we have more chance of pumping teams domestically.

 

Not the first time he's said something like that either.

That's true mate, an ego is not necessarily a bad thing either to be fair but that's true,