It’s clearly not that appealing a job.
If he’s humming and hawing over it for weeks then we should move on. Just hard to read the situation at the moment. It might all just be timing and orchestration of McKay and then maybe Harkin and then a manager. We don’t really know if the delay is at Howe’s end or not.
Why is that?
It’s a tough one to read. He was far from an instant success at Sevco (despite consistent improvement in Europe) and if he starts that slowly again at his next club he might be fucked.
I assume Liverpool is his ultimate ambition and he’s nearly better trying to get that from where he is than muddying his bib with a middling English club.
It’s in Scotland unfortunately. I don’t think it’s beneath Howe or anything but nor do I think we can hope for much better.
Exactly.
Muddying your bib with a midtable English club is not much of an incentive. The only draw to it really is financial incentive in terms of a bumper contract and what kind of financial backing he will get relative to other EPL clubs.
I don’t think that’s much to do with it.
It’s European football and the chance of silverware rather than EPL mediocrity and relegation battles.
That’s true enough.
The new manager should be well considered, but have enough of a track record, or have shown enough promise, that he gets three years to turn it around.
There should be an immediate improvement in organisation and attitude and confidence of the entire first team (as in some have great attitude now, but maybe not all), but beating sevco to the title will take three years I reckon, or, at least that’s a reasonable time span, once the club looks to be moving forward. A few less poor displays in Europe would be a minimum.
Yeah but it sortof depends on other factors.
Rodgers would clearly like a big job and needed to prove himself in England again first.
The likes of Howe would probably be happy out just seeing out his career with the next level down of clubs and might leave for a lesser job.
But that’s going to be a factor with any good coach. Get a good German coach and Bundesliga jobs are going to be the attraction. There aren’t many managers of the calibre we need who will have the Celtic job as the summit of their ambitions.
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Possibly but I don’t think Howe is big enough to have that kind of mentality. There’s other very capable coaches out there at the minute who are without a club.
Howe should be told the terms, you have until the end of the week and look at contingencies in the meantime.
Forrest not even on the bench so assume we’ll go for more of a diamond which we’ve used recently against them.
Johnston injured also?
We’ve all been saying it, but defending set pieces have been a shambles this season. All 4 of the Huns’ goals against this this season have been from them, plus a load of other concessions. That starting team without Jullien, and even a Lustig type as one of the full backs, looks really weak in the air. Welsh is very combative but not very big, Ajer is very big but not very combative. And then there’s nobody else really, although Edouard will cover the front post. I’d say Elyounoussi and Brown are the next best in the air.
I think he had another setback or something. We should just target next season with him now. He really needs to get himself fit.
It’s really disappointing to see his regression lately. Really looked to becoming into his own.
I can’t help but think that Dembele would also be in the first team picture now if Rodgers was still about.
Yeah. And then we don’t have guys on posts which makes less sense when we aren’t winning enough first balls. I think Lennon and then Kennedy haven’t been happy with the fact we aren’t winning the first ball so keep concentrating on that. But at some point you just need to make it less dangerous for us to lose the first header.
We’ve had Christie in particular switching off for flick ons a couple of times that hasn’t helped either but I think we should be better at taking our medicine and recognising that we need to stop conceding every time we lose a challenge and stop letting the ball squirm into the corner.
Yeah, and we need to be smarter not to give away cheap freekicks and corners before it even gets to that point too. Laxalt is game but he’s a divil for recklessly leaving a foot in when the attacker’s going nowhere. We lack a bit of smartness and composure. They play to their strengths, which involves leaning in, taking tumbles, winning attacking freekicks from compliant masons and/or orangemen.
Patterson playing is a disgrace
Doesn’t make any sense at all.
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