09 Apr 2016 15:57:29
Big rumour in Glasgow Martin O'Neil and Roy keane after the Euro, s is a done deal. Dermot Desmond is bank rolling it.


1.) 09 Apr 2016
09 Apr 2016 17:00:24
They were talking about that in Ireland about 6 weeks ago. The story then was Desmond and Dennis O'Brien would be paying the wages, similar to what they've did with Trappatoni and are doing just now.


2.) 09 Apr 2016
09 Apr 2016 17:01:14
More chance Scott brown finding a Celtic player with 3successive passes.


3.) 10 Apr 2016
10 Apr 2016 09:16:39
Aye, and Mourinho is coming in as trainee to take over after two seasons. behave lol.


4.) 10 Apr 2016
10 Apr 2016 13:50:09
Great comparison TinyTim, especially considering Keane was approached fairly recently, O'Neill's already been manager, - he might fancy another full time job before he retires, who knows, I don't, and like I said, Desmond and O'Brien, who as you'll know is also a shareholder at Celtic currently pay their wages with Ireland, but yeah like you said there's more chance of Mourinho getting it. For the record - I was only saying what they've been talking about in Ireland for a while, not whether I agreed or anything else. There's been talk though that O'Neill misses day to day involvement in football and doesn't fancy another 2 years of qualifying games and friendlies and then potentially not even making the World Cup.


5.) 10 Apr 2016
10 Apr 2016 13:52:59
His other 2 assistants (Guppy and Walford) have obviously also been with us.


6.) 10 Apr 2016
10 Apr 2016 15:10:40
Would be great if they did it and bankrolled them but I agree not much chance of that happening with Peter Lawell around.


7.) 10 Apr 2016
10 Apr 2016 15:45:35
Can't see Keane taking the assistant managers job after knocking back the managers role.


8.) 10 Apr 2016
10 Apr 2016 16:32:54
He'd struggle to achieve any sort of success given how little credence a lot of Celtic fans give domestic trophies. He already got Celtic to a European cup final- so short of winning a European trophy, how could he possibly succeed?

Not that I give any real credence to such rumours but joking aside, MON coming back would be a disaster in the long term.


9.) 10 Apr 2016
10 Apr 2016 19:33:29
How would it be a disaster. Pure pish talk mate. One of our most successful managers. A get your point on he took us as far as he could but I think that was as far as anyone could take us so I'd welcome home back with open arms.


10.) 10 Apr 2016
10 Apr 2016 20:46:02
You seriously can't see why his (hypothetical) appointment would be a disaster in the long term? Are you forgetting the state he left us in? He's a good manager, and he was a great manager for us back when he could spent 15/ 20 million quid a year on players. Our youth suffered, and we were lumbered with huge contracts. Strachan was faced with a much more difficult job than MON, and a lot of it was tidying up his mess.

He's a short term appointment and even then, he's a throwback. But by all means, open up your arms and cover your eyes and ears.


11.) 10 Apr 2016
10 Apr 2016 21:11:23
I don't think mon is the kind of manager we should be looking at, he was good first time but he had plenty to spend on top players, I think we should be looking for someone with a track record of working with young and youth players but someone with more experience than rd who looks to be well out his depth and go more down the ajax route of bringing young players through and selling them on down the line.


12.) 10 Apr 2016
10 Apr 2016 21:23:27
Utter pish talk. Martin o Neill took over a club with a mental block when it came to facing rangers and winning leagues. We had won one league in ten years and finished 20 odd points behind a free spending rangers the season before. Strachan did do a good job but he took over Celtic team who had lost the league by a point and who were still a better team than rangers at the time. yes there were big contracts but we were no longer inferior and had a mentality of success which O'Neil instilled in us.


13.) 10 Apr 2016
10 Apr 2016 22:16:17
Three things:

One, it's impossible to have any sort of sensible debate with someone who's primary argument (and opening statement) is "utter pish talk".

Two, we'd won a league (and two cups) across the two seasons previous. Our mental block was already on it's way out. In fact, you could argue that Wim Jansen started that.

Three, he inherited Larsson, of whom all of our success was built.


14.) 11 Apr 2016
11 Apr 2016 07:50:53
I put up this rumour as its a rumour page . And also to get away from the normal moaning about the tribute act on the other side of the city as that's all the folk on here want to talk about. can't we debate with out arguing leave that to the other side Hail Hail.


15.) 11 Apr 2016
11 Apr 2016 09:24:14
For me both would be wrong choice.
Oneill had his time and was EXACTLY what we needed at the time.
He inherited a lot of good players and spent a good bit bringing in a few more.
I don't like bringing back old players or managers but if that was road we were going down I'd bring Strachan back before oneill


16.) 11 Apr 2016
11 Apr 2016 14:58:46
I don't think it would be a total non-starter. MON's stock has fallen over the past few years since he left Villa so he surely wouldn't command the same funds as before. I can't see it happening all the same, but it's probably possible if the intent to invest was there.


17.) 11 Apr 2016
11 Apr 2016 19:22:45
CMCelt

Saint Martin left strachan a hell of a mess. The majority of the squad were out of contract and the ones still around had zero sell on value or weren't worth the contract they were on.


18.) 13 Apr 2016
13 Apr 2016 16:24:01
Would be hard for MON to replicate the same success on the budget we offer now he'd be better going to Rangers with the "warchest" that's being promised there.