Sky Sports News earlier today pretty much ruled Ange Postecoglou out of the vacant Celtic job after Brendan Rodgers left the club earlier this week…
That story had all the hallmarks of Postecoglou’s advisors letting it be know that this is not something that their man is going to contemplate after his sacking from both Tottenham and Nottingham Forest in the past few months.
Ange has never been a manager who goes back to where he has been before and he probably has remaining ambitions beyond the backwater of the Scottish Premiership.
He also will be well aware of the reasons why Brendan Rodgers was unhappy with the Celtic Board and would realise that trying to achieve any sort of impact with Celtic on the European front would be almost impossible with the lack of ambition that any manager looking closely enough would recognise.
And remember Ange has seen under the bonnet and knows how Celtic PLC likes to run things.
So if not Ange then maybe Kieran McKenna and we’ve now heard from the Ipswich boss who became an early favourite and Ange Postecoglou started to drift in the betting. As his Ipswich media conference his afternoon McKenna had this to say, as reported by ITFC Published, about being linked with the Celtic job:
“It’s not something I’ve given any thought to or where any part of my concentration is,” Kieran McKenna said. “My focus is on Ipswich. I’m really privileged to be in the position that I am.”
Not an outright denial, just an admission that he’s given it any though and he’s privileged to be the Ipswich Town manager.
Things could change though by Celtic making formal contact with Ipswich to ask for permission to speak to their manager. That usually happens after two agents have had a discussion to ascertain whether there’s interest in the manager in question coming to the club. If that’s not happened you say exactly what McKenna said today.
Asked if he was a Celtic supporter growing up, McKenna ducked the question: “We all have different affinities with different clubs” and mentioned that the Hoops are a “really big club” he replied acknowledging that Celtic “is a really big club, we all have our affinities.”
So we’ll take that as a yes, then! He continued:
“I don’t think everyone has to go around announcing what they are, the clubs that we support, the clubs we follow. But of course it’s a really big club. We’re in a really important stage of the season so I haven’t watched a lot of other football this week.
“I haven’t watched the Carabao Cup during the week or too much else apart from QPR’s games this season,” Kieran McKenna said.
Meanwhile Martin O’Neill’s odds has shortened considerably today after an impressive start last night in a 4-0 win over Falkirk at Celtic Park where the football played by Celtic was entertaining and attacking just like the Celtic support wants to see.
Kieran McKenna on him being linked to the Celtic job:
“It’s not something I’ve given any thought to or where any part of my concentration is.”
“My focus is on Ipswich. I’m really privileged to be in the position that I am.”#itfc #celticfc pic.twitter.com/QaHenFTFXv
— ITFC Published(@itfcpublished) October 30, 2025
More details on this Ipswich Town media conference as it relates to Celtic comes from reporter Ben Jacobs who has posted the full quotes from Kieran McKenna, as shown below.
“We’ve got a lot of Scottish representatives here today! It’s not something [the Celtic vacancy]I have given any thought to, or where any part of my concentration is. I have a special job here at a special football club. It’s a massive club. We’re at a really important stage of the season starting on Saturday at QPR.
“My focus has been 100 percent on the group here. My focus is honestly just on Ipswich. I know the size and significance of this football club. So there is no time or space to discuss any other football club.
“I have not had any of those [formal]conversations [with Celtic]. My focus has been here. I’ll work here as if I am going to be here forever, and I have done since the day I came here. When I arrived, I always knew it was going to be a long-term project. We are sill in the middle of that.
“I approach this job like I’ll be Ipswich manager forever. I know that’s not always going to be the case, but I’ll always do my best as long as I am here…
“[Celtic] is a really big football club. Growing up, we all have our affinities. I don’t think everyone has to go around and announce the club they support, but of course it’s a really big football club, but we are in a really busy stage of our own season.”
Mckenna also asked about his reported £5m release clause: “In every manager’s contract there are always contractual things. I don’t know what they are, and if I did I wouldn’t tell you anyway!”
🗣️ Kieran McKenna says he’s focused on Ipswich despite being linked with the Celtic vacancy. He goes on to call Celtic “a big club”.
“We’ve got a lot of Scottish representatives here today! It’s not something [the Celtic vacancy]I have given any thought to, or where any part of… pic.twitter.com/xObAfTAxiA
— Ben Jacobs (@JacobsBen) October 30, 2025
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The Australian was getting asked back!! The cheek of it!! Trying to remain relevant get hin to f##k! He worked his ticket loving in Australia I saw how he was hawking himself to ” epl mhate”! ( it’s an aussie thing total sychopants of anything they think us celebrity!) After 6 months at our great club!! He was a utter nobody! Yes he done OK in Japan and the ” a league) no laughing at the back!! As that’s a joke set up!! Saw plenty of it to know! He got found out in ” engurrland ” and must have worst losing ewcord of any manager of a should be top half club there. So no ” big ange” your never getting asked back!! I no fan of Desmond but he never allow! Hail Hail ket battery this poison on Sunday on road to another Treble!! Which were normalised by Brendan!! A real top manger and proven could walk into in league on the planet unlike the charlatan from Melbourne
He was not getting asked! I meant