Chris Cowlin strikes me as someone that is somewhat privileged in his role and will not call Levy or the board out.
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Cowling and Ali G are client journalists/podcasters essentially - they get good access but the trade off is you can't criticise.
In the SPL Celtic have 4,5,6 in some cases 10 times the salary budget of the other teams apart from Rangers.
That would be like Man City's competition being Man United and 18 Ipswich Towns.
We need to stop this "well, back at Celtic" shite. This isn't Celtic. This isn't the SPL.
If you look at the current top 3, Arteta was hired having never even worked as a manager before. Slot had never managed in a top league. Maresca had one good season in the Championship.
This snootiness over both the background of both players and managers is silly. There are no rigid rules of selection that will guarantee you get the right manager. Lots of inexperienced or obscure managers have done well at the top level. Lots haven't. Ditto for the more established "elite" names.
Pochettino was the 2014 equivalent of Iraola but he turned out to be the best manager we had for decades. I'm not saying Iraola is the guy but you should analyse the qualities of the individual rather than the club that currently employs them. Their vision of football, their personality, their communication skills, etc. You can't just sneer at a manager because they manage Brentford. Who could have done a better job than Frank with that Brentford squad?
100% the case with him.
People like to accuse Gold and other journalists that cover the club of being paid off. But Cowlin 100% is.
Ali G is increasingly critical, albeit not to the level needed.
Exactly.
My mate used to always say the phrase "if you want to act like a big man, act like a big man to a big man". I don't care about Ange throwing collateral damage players like Werner, Bissouma, Dragusin and Spence under the bus when the fat fraud allows our captain to contribute absolutely nothing for months and the vice captain to be at fault for minimum six goals without him uttering any sort of negative comment their direction.
Bang on. Fit > name, always.
Bang on.
Several pages back some Rangers fan ( baxterboy ) came on here saying don't look at the SPL matches, check out how Celtic performed in Europe when they face decent teams. He was spot on
Passive aggressive twat he is. He lives in his own little bubble where he things he’s seen and done it all. You’ve won a few farmers league mate.
I hate how he always talks down to people in press conferences. He’ll snigger and laugh before answering a question like the person is asking stupid questions. He’s a condescending fool
He contradicts himself all the time and it's getting beyond a joke now how much he does it. There wasn't even 24 hours between that comment and him criticising a player publicly was there?
The guy's arrogance is starting to do my nut in.
Conte and Mourinho were arrogant twats but both could point to storied CVs and a body of work at the highest level. I can't recall either calling out the fans either - in fact iirc Conte's rant was on the message of certain players not trying hard enough as the fans paid their wages.
Fuck me, did you really type this like it's something to be proud of?
That's exactly why it's eventually going to work. We tried appointing managers like Jose and Conte that win at the other clubs who wouldn't have appointed Ange and Levy gave them a bunch of 3 legged donkeys to win the Grand National with.
A successor doesn't need to be significantly better for a change to make sense. The underlying assumption seems to be that change, as a rule, has a destabilizing effect that needs to be taken into equation when making a decision. Therefore, it's not worth going for marginal gains. Is this assumption true though? Is change, managerial change mid-season to be exact, such a big hassle that it's not worth it unless the difference between predecessor and successor is massive? And exactly how massive this difference needs to be?
Club looks quite destabilized to me right now. People wanting change are not solely looking for marginal gains. They see the potential for a turnaround and they want to take that chance before it's too late. And mid-season managerial change is not a such a difficult one to make. As I mentioned above with Emery and Glasner, clubs do it all the time and get better because of it.
Club looks quite destabilized to me right now. People wanting change are not solely looking for marginal gains. They see the potential for a turnaround and they want to take that chance before it's too late. And mid-season managerial change is not a such a difficult one to make. As I mentioned above with Emery and Glasner, clubs do it all the time and get better because of it.
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Fair points.
Think it's clear as day that neither Iraola or Frank turn us down if we make an approach, outside of simply not wanting the pressure.
This team are not being coached properly. The younger players are not being coached properly, we need to get Ange out ASAP before he does any more damage to this team. He is so completely out of his depth. If I was a young player under this manager I would want out ASAP. They will not develop under Ange.
ok hoping that Iraola is somehow Poch reincarnated I get it. baring in mind that Iraola has only won the Cypriot Super Cup whatever that is in his entire playing and coaching career
you konw, I hope it is Iraola just for the predictable incoming he's out of depth, he isn't a winner comments when it fails to yield results in 12 to 18 months.
It will be most amusing for me reading the exact same garbage from the same people because we're aren't fighting for titles with mid table players
It really is'nt about our position in the league for me, its how we have performed to get there. AP sends us out to play like a bloody Sunday league side, minus any tactical input. The bloke is clueless!