Ange Postecoglou is days away from being announced as the new manager of Celtic. The 55-year-old dramatically emerged as the frontrunner in the wake of the Eddie Howe deal collapsing and now it looks as if the former Australia manager will be named as the permanent successor to Neil Lennon this week. The Daily Record have an exclusive report that states that Celtic have had Postecoglou’s name on their managerial shortlist for months and the events that lead to talks with Howe stalling meant that the Yokohama F.Marinos head coach became the favourite for the job.
The Record state that the club have actually had their eyes on Postecoglou for some time, eying him up in the event of a breakdown with preferred candidate, Howe. Whether you believe this or not is another matter. It is likely that given Fergal Harkin’s involvement with City Football Group and is imminent appointment as Celtic’s Sporting Director, he was able to inform the club of Postecoglou’s talents.
For Ange, this is likely to be the appointment of a lifetime, something that he will not turn down but the hope is that he can resist the board’s insistence to use either Kennedy or Strachan in his coaching team and find trusted lieutenants of his own.
The club are due to undertake a colossal rebuild with players expected to come and go; however, the work should have been in place weeks ago, the delay could prove fatal to our Champions League ambitions and already leave the new manager already on the back foot.
Hopefully this radical, left field appoint envigorates the support and we can celebrate success under Ange but it cannot be a case of the Australian having players bought for him that he doesn’t want or that are picked by the outgoing CEO already.
Am i the only one thats feeling totally disillusioned fears the worst for our beloved club. I was a regular through the 90s when we expected very little and sometimes we were lucky to even get that but we seem to have totally imploded and apart from the fantastic results the women’s team have gave us what else is there for us to get excited about?
It’s a NO from me. This stinks of desperation. It’s as if we really do want any version of rangers to be successful, and if needed we will give them a hand. Get Roy and Damien in asap.
Utter shite.
Peddling the Board agenda.
Pravda!
Covering their incompetent arses by saying they’ve been planning it for months.
Joke!
Champions League ambitions.
That’s an oxymoron to this moronic Board.
what a load of b*****ks,i said before when the howe deal collapses DD and the incompetent board will come ouy with a load of cr*p about the new manager,whoever it is, always being our preferred choice.if any of these useless members of the board cared one iota about CELTIC they would resign after making our club a laughing stock.
This guy is a genius; I know you all may have misgivings and understandably so because of his background. But he is truly something special.
If goes to Celtic he’ll be there a few years before his success takes him to bigger pastures (EPL/La Liga). Enjoy the ride folks.