After weeks and months of speculation on Eddie Howe becoming the next Celtic manager, it has sensationally collapsed.
The deal looked in the bag with many media journalists close to the club reporting it was a matter of when and not if. Celtsarehere.com were fully behind this narrative because we were told reliably that Eddy had accepted the job and it was all down to his backroom staff coming in.
We have spoken with the club directly this afternoon and we can confirm the deal is OFF.
From the club’s point of view, this is what we’ve been told:
- Eddie Agreed to be the next manager of Celtic
- Wanted his team in place before signing
- Asked the club to hold off until after the Championship playoffs.
- He was offered a blank canvass with regards to his backroom staff
- After the playoffs, Eddie tried to assemble his team.
- Some of them didn’t want to relocate to Glasgow, others can’t get away from Bournemouth.
- He was unwilling to take the job without the team he wanted and pulled out.
A club spokesperson told CeltsAreHere – ‘The club acted in good faith that Eddie would sign a deal to become the next Celtic manager and they’re frustrated at the collapse.’
We have also been told Celtic always had a Plan B and they have taken action today and are now in ‘advanced talks’ to sign the next manager of the football club.
I am not surprised it was taken 2 long for eddie howe 2 sign a contract lets c who celts r in advanced 2 good luck eddie.
A joke it really is. Why were his back room team not approached months ago and asked if they were on board or not. For me his heart wasn’t in it so that being the case we’ve dodged a bullet. This is one of the biggest jobs in football, Howe might just have felt he didn’t have what it takes, time to move on and get an appointment made now, surely there is a plan B
For me the manager at ST Johnston would be a great addition to the coaching team.
Don’t believe that pish .
Who wrote this piece? Desmond or Lawwell? you are as bad as those running the club, total joke.
Why wait until this week before approaching his back room staff. If ta king the job was totally dependent on them they should have been sounded out weeks ago. The whole thing stinks.
Sounds to me like he’s had second thoughts. I can’t believe the club waited so long without having something concrete in writing. Amateur time at Parkhead yet again. A shambles of a board. Less than 8 weeks from the Champions League qualifiers and nothing in place in terms of management team or players in place. And they expect folk to stump up for season tickets on blind faith.
Don’t believe a word of it for a second,surely they would’ve decided weeks ago it wasn’t for them.this smacks of Celtic deflecting blame from their own incompetence