Speaking the the Football Insider, ex pro and now pundit, Gabby Agbonlahor has said that Celtic will not renege on their stance of giving prospective Hoops managers too much power at Celtic Park, especially current favourite for the job, Eddie Howe.
This could be the reason why Eddie Howe is so reluctant to come out and accept the mantle of the Celtic managers position as it seems Howe’s power demands maybe too much for the Celtic board to handle.
Although Agbonlahor didn’t name his Celtic manager ‘sources’ he was pretty adamant when he said, “I’ve heard from different managers before at Celtic that Celtic are very strong with this, you can bring in maybe two coaches and that’s all you get. You don’t get to change the whole system.
“Celtic are very strong in not giving managers too much power. ‘Bring in a couple of coaches, we’ll sort out the director of football, we’ll sort out everything else.’
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“I reckon Celtic are being stubborn on that. Eddie Howe is probably thinking ‘I want to change a lot of things. I want my director of football, I want somebody to help me with transfers.’ They’ve probably said ‘No’ and that’s all it is.
“Eddie Howe’s probably thinking, with the job Celtic have got on their hands with Scott Brown leaving, Edouard probably leaving, ‘How much money am I going to be promised?’ There’s no point in signing a contract with Celtic, jumping the gun and being told you’ve got £15million in the kitty.”
There is no way of knowing who the Agbonlahor has spoken too or even to verify if he is close to ANYONE connected to Celtic but are these revelations the reason why Howe is reluctant to commit to Celtic or should the Celtic board give and take a gamble on the former Bournemouth man?
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