Lets have a look at this statement docco as I feel it's an emotional response and your personal opinion (which your entitled too). My personal opinion is that Celtic need a manager that has a record of turning things around (only lucky managers get to take over a team at the top) and WINNING trophies. I like the thought of Eddie Howe so here goes....
Managerial Stats Overall:
Chris Wilder - Win 43.7%
Eddie Howe Win 41.3%
Paul Lambert Win 37.3%
Roy Keane - Win 38.7%
Managerial Stats in the EPL (probably same stress level as managing us:
Eddie Howe Win 30%
Chris Wilder - Win 27%
Roy Keane - Win 28%
Paul Lambert Win 25%
Honors:
Eddie Howe
Football League Championship:
2014–15
Roy Keane -
Football League Championship:
2006–07
Chris Wilder -
Football League Two:
2015–16,
EFL League One:
2016–17
Paul Lambert
Football League One:
2009–10
Honestly after just looking at the stats I tend to agree with with you, however non of them had the chance of taking a job at a top 5 down in England to win the EPL. I would say that Howe and Wilder are very similar, have a lot of experience with clubs from different levels so they wouldn't be cutting it at Celtic.
Wilder has managed nearly 1,000 games and is the only one that has gone up levels that seems to have got better:
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I really don't envy the board at the moment having to pick a manager who really might not even want to come to Celtic (might be the usual we wanted number 1 would had to settle for number 4 or 5 on the list). It's a shame we didn't back Brendon.
So if I had the choice of
Eddie Howe
Roy Keane
Chris Wilder
Paul Lambert
I would go for Howe or Wilder, I'm actually think Wilder would be slightly less of a risk. Managing Sheffield United in a city with big rivals and old industrial city like our would be a easier change than taking Howe from down south.
But actually reading up on them all..... maybe they're all too risky, but who isn't. Another is Steve Clark.... who on the face of it only did well at Killy.
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Fair play CR for doing your research on stats, but sorry I don't buy into them to much either.
Let's look at achievement.
Is taking Bournemouth through the leagues and keeping them within the EPL on the lowest budget available, holding there own against teams that were ripping up the cream of Europe on a regular basis some achievement?
I would put that on par if not better than us trying to hold down a regular CL spot.
Oh so Bournemouth got relegated because of injuries to key players on the last day of the season, does that now make klopp shite if Liverpool miss out on CL football next season? Due to the same reasons.
So cause Howe hasn't won any big prizes in the most competitive league in the world, that makes him unsuitable because he has never won trophies is just nonsense.
We need to take stock of where we are as a club at the moment.
We all hope for a top class manager that can rebuild a team not only to reclaim back the dominance in Scotland but also to become competitive in Europe again.
In only a 2 horse race in Scotland its hardly going to take a top manager to turn that around with just a far better managerial skills than what we have had of late should be enough to do that.
Been competitive in Europe may well take a bit longer as to make a team than can preform at a much higher standard than we are use to of late.
We also need a manager that can deal with the corruption of the cheating mib's by making them irrelevant in matches.
We need a manager that can get a team to try and play on some of the shocking surfaces like an all weather pitch that gets games called off for been frozen and waterlogged, and even our own surface hasn't been up to much for large parts of the season.
A manager that needs to try and transform what looks like a toxic changing room at present, and has to do so on a relatively low budget as well.
All of this has to be done with an expecting support demanding for the success of the last number of years to be restored instantly.
Stats at present would make slippy look like a world beater at present I suppose, and surely we can still get someone who is far more appealing than a scouse git that took 3 seasons to be handed his first trophy.
European football will be the desire for any new manager to succeed in, is that also the desire of this current board? We have seen nothing for the past 3 seasons to say it is.
Eddie Howe for me would tick most of the boxes we need to get the success back imo but I also don't believe we could attract
him either sadly.
At a guess with doing stats, I would say duffy would possibly still have the best stats for headed clearances in our biggest weakness at set plays, so would that make him our best defender? I think we all know the answer to that