I Love Celtic

Ronny Deila, the Celtic boss, has said that weariness was one of the reasons of his team’s heavy defeat in the European Cup qualifying match against Legia Warsaw the other day.

Celtic was beaten by a big margin of 1-4 in the first leg of that qualifier against Warsaw.

The Celts can come back and still win the tie on aggregate if they do something magical in the return leg on their home ground, but, that doesn’t seem to be likely.

The Celtic FC squad has made its way to Austria to play a few friendly matches. They will be taking on some very good teams on that tour which is good for them from preparation point of view.

The Celts have a different coaching staff for the upcoming season. A couple of new guys i.e. Ronny Deila and John Collins have been appointed on the posts of manager and assistant manager respectively. So, the fans are a bit excited about how the team starts the season.

Celtic recently appointed Ronny Deila as the replacement for Neil Lennon, who left his post as the manager a few weeks ago. Just winning the Scottish Championship alone will not be enough for Deila and he has been the first to recognise that. In his first press conference as the new Celtic manager, Deila stated that he plans to make Celtic’s achievements bigger in the next few years, but not by spending money on new players. Instead, he wants to exploit the existing facilities at the club and turn them into a club that develops young talent.

Celtic manager Neil Lennon has admitted that he would like to spend a significant amount of money in the summer in order to help the club which the knockout stages of the Champions League. In the season before last, Celtic reached the knockout stages of the competition and they were ultimately sent out by Juventus. After the demise of Rangers, Celtic have been left as the sole big club in the Scottish Premier league. As a result, they have been experiencing little competition for the title.

Celtic manager Neil Lennon has once again been linked with the Norwich city managerial role. The Premier league outfit recently sacked Chris Hughton from the role after a run of poor results, which has left the club just a few points above the relegation zone with only five matches left.

Further, the club have matches against top clubs like Chelsea and Manchester United in this remaining matches. Hence, the pressure is high on the club to survive in the Premier league. Lennon has been consistently linked with the managerial job ever since Paul Lambert left.

Neil Lennon has once again talk about the possibility of managing in the Premier league, which is unlikely to reduce any rumours linking him with Norwich City. The Premier league outfit are heavily linked with a managerial change in the coming weeks, as they are thought to be unhappy with the performances of Chris Hughton.

The team has found it difficult to get results under the former Newcastle United assistant manager. Lennon has had a fantastic record of managing teams at the top end of the table.

After the relegation of Rangers to the third division of Scottish football recently, Celtic have been the overwhelming favourites to win the league title. They currently lead the table by a massive 19 points that only appears to confirm this notion.

As a result, the club’s main challenge has been to do well in the Champions League and also the Scottish cup. However, this campaign Celtic appear to have failed in both aspects. They have been knocked out of the Champions League at the group stages itself, while they suffered an early exit in the Scottish cup.

The manager of Celtic FC, Neil Lennon, has denied the reports that he is a bit upset with the club board because they are not providing him enough money to spend during the mid season transfer window.

According to Lennon, the relationship between him and the members of the board is quite good and they are always ready to provide him the cash to land the player he wants at the Celtic Park.

Holmbert Fridjonsson, the Iceland striker, has said Neil Lennon that he would be set to be pitched in action when he finished his move to Celtic next year. But the twenty year old footballer stated that he confronts a tough fight to get in the first team of the Scottish champions.

Celtic came extremely close to getting a famous win at the San Siro in the Champions league when they took on a similar in the group stages. The Scottish club had several opportunities to win the match, but they failed to take be opportunities.

In the end, they were punished by two goals from Milan in the last 10 minutes. There is a feeling that Celtic would have taken a victory from the match had they possessed a striker of Champions league quality. Instead, Celtic only had Anthony Stokes up front who was making his first appearance in this competition.