Celtic boss Ronny Deila says that the supporters have been a major reason behind the club’s trophy laden campaign. After being appointed as the replacement for Neil Lennon only last summer, many were sceptical aboutDeila performing well at Celtic.
Celtic FC sealed their 23rd league victory of the season after defeating Partick Thistle with a final scoreboard of 2-0.
The team of Ronny Deila remains at the top of the Scottish League and now that the season is reaching it’s closing stages, Celtic are making their final charge to win the remaining matches and win the Scottish League for the 4th successive season.
The Europa League generally does not receive as much love and appreciation than what their neighbor competition, the Champions League receives as it’s considered to be a competition where clubs of lesser quality compete in. However, on February 19 there was a match that occurred between Celtic and Inter Milan which could have changed things around as more viewers will want to watch the Europa League in this season.
Ronny Deila is just not ready to admit the fact that his team is not playing as well as it was at the start of the ongoing season.
The manager reckons the Scottish Premiership Champions are progressing well and are on track to defend their title.
If somebody has a look at the table right now, he would support the remark of Deila because the Celts are still two points clear at the top, but, the truth is that in the last two games that they have played, they have just not looked the kind of team that they are known to be.
The Bolton boss Neil Lennon has not ruled out the possibility of going back to his previous club Celtic FC in the coming years.
According to the 43-year old, while leaving the Scottish club, he had let the CEO Peter Lawwell know that he would not mind returning sometime down the line in future.
Lennon managed Celtic for a period of 4 years and made them win quite a few trophies.
With Lennon at helm, the Celts became the winner of the Scottish Premiership thrice.
Celtic’s Charlie Mulgrew says that critics should not be giving a hard time for manager Ronny Deila, who has struggled to get results in his first few months at the club. The Norwegian was appointed as the replacement for Neil Lennon in the summer. He promised vast improvements over the previous regime, which was one of the most successful in the clubs history. The appearance of the Champions League knockout stages is seen as one of the crowning achievements of Lennon during his spell at Celtic. Deila faced with immediate disappointment after being knocked out of the Champions League at the qualification stages.
Celtic have undoubtedly been left disappointed with their poor run of form in recent weeks. A team that was comfortably expected to lead the Scottish Premier League from the start finds themselves in the fourth place after losing a number of matches and dropping points in others. This has led to a lot of speculation about manager Ronny Deila’s future at the club, which may be surprising for many given that he was appointed only a few months ago. However, the Norwegian manager says that he is keen on kickstarting the campaign after a 2-1 win over Aberdeen last weekend.
Alessandro Del Piero, the former Italy international, has hinted that he is interested in making a move to Celtic FC.
Piero played for the A-League club Sydney FC until the last season. At this point of time, he is a free agent. He is approaching 40 now, but, he is not willing to call it a day. He wants to keep playing at the professional level until his body supports him.
There were rumours of Piero being in touch with Celtic FC in the summer of 2012 as well, but, the deal had not got finalised between the two parties back then and the Italian forward ended up landing in Sydney.
Sevilla FC is interested in securing the services of the Celtic goalkeeper Virgil Van Dijk. The officials of the La Liga club are believed to be very impressed with the outing of the Dutchman, both in the Scottish Premiership as well as in the European Cup of late.
According to the reports, Sevilla is ready to spend an amount in the region of 5 million Pounds for Dijk.
Dijk had made his way to Celtic last summer. The Scottish top tier Champions had bought him from FC Groningen after paying 2.2 million Pounds as transfer fee.
Despite almost having no experience of Scottish football in his career, Celtic appointed 38-year-old Ronny Deila as their new manager. After taking over from Neil Lennon, the Norwegian has big boots to fill. However, he is confident that he will be able to live up to the high expectations at Celtic. In his first press conference, Deila revealed that he will now be looking to get the club to more success in the future. However, he does not plan to do so by spending money on new players. Instead, he wants to fine-tune the mentality of the existing players so as to take them to the next level.
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