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Celtic choose Tony Mowbray as new manager

Celtic were last night on the verge of reaching agreement with Tony Mowbray to become the club’s new manager, 13 days after the resignation of Gordon Strachan. The Scottish club hope to unveil the West Bromwich Albion manager as their new man in charge at a press conference within the next 48 hours. Peter Lawwell, the Celtic chief executive, has been involved in an exhaustive and sometimes fruitless quest over the past two weeks in trying to tie down Strachan’s successor. Owen Coyle was originally lined up for the job, although many within Celtic Park have said that Mowbray was the club’s No 1 target all along.

Despite official denials from the club last week, Lawwell had already established contact with Mowbray, who was a Celtic player from 1991 to 1995 and knows the Scottish scene from his time as manager of Hibernian, from 2004 to 2006.

Compensation will remain an issue to be settled between Celtic and West Brom, who have just been relegated from the Barclays Premier League. It is believed that Celtic will pay the Midlands club at least £1.5 million for the release of their manager. Mowbray is expected to hand in his resignation at West Brom over the weekend.

If the deal is clinched over the next 48 hours, the vast Celtic support will be preening themselves at the news. On top of the wide respect Mowbray has built up in England, his Hibernian team played a stylish brand of football under him, including putting Rangers and Celtic to the sword. Celtic will regard it as a coup in landing their pre-eminent target.

News of Mowbray’s impending arrival is also a welcome break for Lawwell, who had been under increasing pressure from an agitated Celtic support and Scottish media to deliver his target. Celtic are in the middle of arranging their pre-season schedule, after which the club will face two stiff Champions League qualifiers at the end of July and beginning of August.

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CELTIC are on the lookout for a new manager after Gordon Strachan stood down on Monday — one day after relinquishing the SPL title to bitter rivals Rangers.
While he has been under criticism from some sections of the Celtic support the timing of the resignation surprised many.
Strachan guided the Bhoys to three consecutive titles but this season a four-point gap separated them from the new SPL champions.
With the rumour mill in full operation former Celtic striker Mark McGhee is the early favourite to succeed Strachan. The current Motherwell manager is highly rated though wouldn’t be universally welcomed by all Celtic supporters.
Others mentioned include out-of-work Alan Curbishley and Burnley boss Owen Coyle.
While Curbishley could be a possibility it’s highly unlikely that Coyle, who has one cap for the Republic of Ireland, will opt for the position having guided Burnley to the Premier League with a play-off final win over Sheffield United on Monday.
Coyle may be convinced to manage again in Scotland though having had relative success with both Falkirk and St. Johnstone in previous seasons.
Undoubtedly many will wonder whether or not Roy Keane would have gone for the Celtic job had he not signed up to Ipswich Town and some wonder if he can get out of his contract with the Tractor boys.
Last year the odds of David O’Leary becoming the next Celtic manager inexplicably tumbled to 2/1 with some bookmakers, though there’s nothing to suggest the former Leeds United and Aston Villa boss will return to football at Parkhead.
On announcing his resignation Strachan said: “It has been an absolute honour and privilege to be the club’s manager for four years.
We have done all we can to bring success to the club and we were delighted to deliver three SPL titles, other domestic silverware, as well as making some great progress in Europe. It is just disappointing that we did not manage the fourth Championship.
However, the players can hold their heads high in terms of what they have done in recent years.”

Courtesy of The Irish Post

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Website Worth a Visit!

If you haven't already tried it, take a look at the Carling website by following the link below. I've been in it a few times and during the footie season they appear to have regular competitions for Celtic stuff (tickets, shirts etc) plus load of other competitions...... so definitely worth a visit.

Please note the website is for over 18s only, and clicking on the link will take you away from the 6s site.

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