He Was Never In Total Control Of His Destiny
With Ronny I got scared early on, and I wrote an article about it at the time.
It started at his very first press conference when Peter Lawwell imposed an assistant manager and a signing on him.
The signing was Craig Gordon; not a disaster, because he’s done well. But no manager should need to put up with that and it was an initial confirmation that the signing strategy wasn’t entirely within his purview.
Far worse was the imposition of Collins, an arrogant egotist who many predicted, from the off, would be a divisive figure.
Few who’ve encountered him or who know his history believed this would work out, and his appointment has been an utter disaster with him contributing not one positive element to the overall strategy except perhaps one; I’ve long suspected he was appointed as somebody’s “eyes and ears” in the dressing room, which undermined the manger from the off and betrayed a lack of faith in his ability at the very top of the club.
Regardless, his appointment was the moment it became clear that Ronny was a guy who’d been brought in to implement someone else’s plan.
From that moment on there were legitimate concerns, and they remain today.
One of the first people to follow Deila out the door will definitely be John Collins.
The only question that remains to be asked was whose idea was the former Hibs boss anyway?
Because that person is also responsible for this absolute fiasco.