“I’ve spoken to Jamie Carragher” – pundit gives next Celtic manager update

As John Kennedy got his first game under his belt yesterday in the 1-0 win over Aberdeen at Celtic Park, all the talk was still about who will become the next manager at Paradise, should Celtic decide that Kennedy is not the man to take the Hoops forward.

Speaking to Barry Ferguson on The Go Radio Football show, Si Ferry reckons Celtic should forget about Rafa Benitez and focus on a more realistic target that would have better knowledge of the Scottish game.  This will not go down well with the Celtic fans as they are determined to have a “Brendan Rodgers” type appointment and anything else would be seen as going for the cheap option, “With Benitez mentioned, if you’re going to go down the Director of Football route, I don’t think Benitez is your man. I spoke to Jamie Carragher and Matt Ritchie who’ve worked under him and I think he only really cares about the first team, I don’t think he worries about the reserves or the youth team. 

“Celtic need a longer term plan. And I think when he (Benitez) does do a first team he picks the players.  At Liverpool he picked a lot of the Spanish players and is he going to listen to David Webb or a guy that hasn’t coached before in terms of transfer targets? I didn’t think so.

“And then if you do a let him and pick his targets, dies he know enough about Scottish football to go and pick players that are suited to play here?  I think Eddie Howe would be a better fit for Celtic right now.”

With season ticket renewals due to be sent to supporters in the near future, some say the wrong decision could cost the Celtic board £30m  if the powers that be do not come up with that “star” appointment that would tempt fans to part with their hard earned cash again.

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