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“What I do know is” – Mark Guidi drops interesting backroom claim

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Ange Postecoglou mentioned in his pre match press conference over the weekend that a new backroom team wasn’t exactly high on his list of priorities.

It’s a stance he has maintained throughout his time as Celtic boss and it doesn’t seem as if it will change any time soon.

His focus, has and always was, that the team on the park needs to be fixed first.

What we have witnessed so far this season is that progress, although it is taking it’s time, is happening and the team is starting to gel together better now the more time Ange is getting to spend with them.

But, speaking on The Go Radio Football Show, journalist and pundit, Mark Guidi says he should be looking to strengthen his backroom staff and gave an insight into someone already at the club that the Hoops gaffer really has a high opinion of, “What I do know is that Steven McManus is highly rated by Ange Postecoglou.

“That’s a guy he inherited. But I do know he is very, very highly rated by the manager.

“I agree with the manager’s point. He should go bring somebody else in.

“And I don’t mean that to the detriment of John Kennedy or Gavin Strachan.

“It’s about improving what he has. And it’s not necessarily about somebody he has worked with before.

“But what he should be doing in the UK is casting his net far and wide and finding somebody in the UK that’s going to enhance his coaching staff.

“Bring a bit of freshness. Just as new players walk in the dressing room in January, suddenly current ones up their game.

“That’s the same with backroom staff. He should be looking. Do his homework and finding three or four candidates. 

“Getting them in, interview them because I think that would send a message in terms of what he plans to do.

“But I say, regardless of who he brings in or if he doesn’t, I do know he rates Stephen McManus highly.”

So it seems if Ange does look to hire his own men, at least one man’s job is guaranteed safe.

The other two, the jury is still out on.

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