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Moyes for Celtic?

Celtic have just lost to Kilmarnock for the first time in 32 meetings and are now 10 points behind Rangers. I predict that Tony Mowbray will be sacked at the end of this season. A few friends of mine say a lot of the Celtic support would love Moyes as their manager.

Our Davey has built a young first team squad, along with an excellent youth set up in his time here, and I believe he can finish the job and take us to the Champions League. The question is... Will he wait?

He is fiercely ambitious, and is almost guaranteed League success, and Champions League football at Celtic. He must be sick of loan signings and having to sell to buy... I fear he may take the easy option north of the border.
Kevin Tully, Liverpool Posted 02/02/2010 at 20:12:08

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Chris Dawson
1 Posted 03/02/2010 at 14:12:20

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It's the same up at Celtic: no money, loan signings, having to sell to buy, etc. The difference being that, whilst there may be a (faint) glimmer of hope in terms of economic recovery for football in England, it will take a lot longer up for the same to happen (IMHO) in Scotland as the popularity of the league outside of the country just isn't the same and therefore can't attract the same levels of interest and investment.

A Champions League place isn't even guaranteed any more for finishing second because the Uefa coefficient for Scotland is down.

To top it all off, Celtic would have to pay a pretty hefty compensation fee to us to prise Davey away, he signed a new contract last year and is on very good money which I am sure they would have to either match or better — money which Celtic just dont have.

To summarise, NOT A CAT IN HELL'S CHANCE WILL DAVID MOYES BE GOING TO CELTIC.

Gavin Ramejkis
2 Posted 03/02/2010 at 14:35:21

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Winning the Scottish Pub League is worth about £1m and it’s almost farcical watching the hoops or Gers in Europe as they usually get pumped and out quickly, they are both potless and falling behind their European counterparts but even more so than the EPL. A retirement move or stepping stone to better things but no real excitement other than guaranteed two horse race title and CL football (however short lived).

James Elworthy
3 Posted 03/02/2010 at 15:26:03

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Why on earth would Moyes want to go to Scotland? It is a big backward step. I saw the Celtic lineup last night, Kamara, Lee Naylor etc, Samaras a huge flop in England is one of the leading scorers. No big clubs apart from Villa have come in for Boyd, and very few jocks in the Prem these days 4 or 5 players compared to 30 or 40 years ago.
Scottish clubs are knocked out of Europe before you can blink an eye.

Mike Allison
4 Posted 03/02/2010 at 16:57:41

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"He is fiercely ambitious" There’s your key phrase. No-one with any ambition would swap the Premiership for the SPL, no matter how many fans they can cram in on a Saturday.

A little cheap shot aside: The situation makes a bit of a mockery of some of the Moyes critics, people who hold up the likes of Tony Mowbray as a manager who ’plays better football’ than Moyes, well...

(If I could remember who it was I’d name names, but it was ages ago)

Simon Gilmovitch
5 Posted 03/02/2010 at 16:55:56

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Not a cat in hells chance of Moyes moving to Celtic anytime soon. When was the last time a EPL manager made the switch to the SPL anyway? never I would guess. Moyes has a long contract & unfinished business here. I would guess he will be here for a long time yet at least as long as BK is in charge.

Anyway FWIW Mowbray will be a good manager for them given the time. Which he will be as Celtic have a good record of showing some faith in there manager.

Gerry Western
6 Posted 03/02/2010 at 19:38:44

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Celtic are skint and face a bleak future. Need I say any more?

Alan Kirwin
7 Posted 03/02/2010 at 19:38:55

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Ridiculous suggestion.

Firstly CL football is not guaranteed. The Scottish League is so shite that they have to qualify.

Secondly, the league is shite — do you seriously think Moyes wants to swap locking horns with Liverpool, ManU, Chelsea, Arsenal etc etc for the same with Hibs?

Thirdly, Celtic have less money than we do. They may get bug gates but gates make up an increasingly smaller portion of income, their TV rights are worth £1.75.

Moyes appears to still have ambition. Any manager with ambition would not go anywhere near the Scottish league, Celtic or otherwise.

Colin Evans
8 Posted 03/02/2010 at 20:00:30

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Unless Mrs Moyes is pining for the Scottish lochs and glens (not many of those in Glasgow anyway), then he won’t be moving north.

It's a backward step in every respect; from managing a top-6/7 side in the best league in the world, to... the equivalent of the Championship

Manure however is another proposition altogether: some day the wasp-chewing old git will finally retire, and then...

Steve Callaghan
9 Posted 03/02/2010 at 20:18:00

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More chance of him going to Kilmarnock. Moyes’s next forray after us is nailed on Man U. Rooney is already paving the way, attempting to bury the hatchet to smooth his passage. I expect within three years, Moyes will be in position and Fergie will move to the poverbial upstairs...

Brian Noble
10 Posted 04/02/2010 at 10:53:33

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Moyes's reported salary at EFC = £3.5M
Current Manager’s salary at Celtic = £700k

Now why do I think Moyesy won't be going north?

Sam Higgins
11 Posted 04/02/2010 at 12:33:00

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There is only one club Moyes would go to. We all know who they are, and we all know that, when Fergie announces his retirement, Bill is going to have to look for a new manager. Simple as.

It's gonna hurt when he does go... but to be honest I personally will not be grudging him one little bit. He’ll basically only be leaving Everton for the biggest football club in the world — taking over from a man you will have reigned for a quarter of a century, and taking the job that every single football manger in the world would give both arms and both legs for. It's hardly an insult is it?

Philip McAvoy
12 Posted 04/02/2010 at 14:37:36

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Why would Moyes want the Utd job?

There couldn't be a bigger poisoned chalice in football. Trying to replace one of the greatest all time managers, straight after his retirement, just as his club runs out of money?

I’m not sure Moyes is that stupid. If all the money's flooding out of football, then Moyes's talent will become even more desirable and here might be the best place for him to progress — at least until a couple of managers have tried to fill Ferguson’s boots and failed.

Jay Harris
13 Posted 04/02/2010 at 15:04:07

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Totally agree with you, Philip, and no-one has yet mentioned Moyes is a man of principle who would want to see his contract out.

He also seems to have come to terms with the lack of financial support from Bullshit Bill.

Dave Roberts
14 Posted 04/02/2010 at 16:00:19

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Personally, I think Moyesey is already at the biggest football club in the world! Or am I being too emotional?

Andy Crooks
15 Posted 04/02/2010 at 18:51:38

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I don’t think it’s a ridiculous suggestion. Glasgow is a tough place to manage and those who disparage Scottish football simply don’t realise the pressure that is there. Paul Le Guen, Alex Mcleish, Liam Brady, Lou macari, John Barnes and many others have found it beyond them. Martin O’Neill and, yes, Walter Smith have used it to improve their careers.

Pragmatism is what is required there and while I have strong reservations about David Moyes I believe he has pragmatism by the bucket load. I think he could use Celtic as a springboard to Old Trafford. Win something, which he will never do at Everton. Gain Champions League experience, which he is unlikely to repeat at Everton and, most important, play in an environment where avoiding relegation is not goal one.

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