Celtic Boss Linked With Leeds? Give Us All Peace For God’s Sakes.

Ange Postecoglou is not linked with the job at Leeds United. The board down there has a shortlist and his name is not on it. Unsurprisingly, their former manager Bielsa is, and a couple of names from the continent. Brendan Rodgers (soon to be a title winning boss with Liverpool) is one of the people they are talking about at the club.

Carlos Corberan, of West Brom, is the guy they are believed to favour. Rafa Benitez and Mauricio Pochettino are also in the frame. Celtic sites ought not to waste their time on this subject. The media will do that on their own. It is pointless, and somewhat ridiculous, to write about how Ange is amongst “the bookies favourites.”

The bookies will not pick the next Leeds boss. So their view on this is utterly irrelevant.

Leeds are one step above the relegation zone in the Premiership. If Everton get their act together-not a given, I still think over the course they are candidates for the drop – then Leeds might well take their place. It’s another club which has panicked at the first sign of a blip, and that alone is a troubling thing for most managers to consider.

Managers are sacked ten-a-penny in that league.

I refuse to lose my mind any time another of them bites the dust.

It’s ridiculous.

Does Ange, who is talking about renewing the contracts only of players who can convince him of their commitment, sound like a guy waiting on a call from Elland Road?

Please, enough already. Give us peace with this. The media should be ashamed of itself in its drooling rush to see this man move south of the border. He enhances our game.

Of course, he also enhances Celtic which is why they can’t wait.

Notice that The Mooch isn’t mentioned? Why not?

He was only at QPR for 22 games and he’s been at Ibrox for half that now and if you believe Keith Jackson he’s matched Ange blow for blow. The league has already made him a manager of the month and you can believe they will be hoping that he doesn’t slip so they can give him another.

Most importantly, he’s shown no loyalty whatsoever to the one club he managed before this.

It doesn’t even bother him if there’s someone in the job.

All this represents to us is another attempt to unsettle the club. Leeds United’s board of directors have very clear ideas about who they want, and Ange will not, at this moment, be amongst their runaway candidates.

Look at how the media is covering this. “Leeds manager latest as Celtic boss Ange Postecoglou among favourites” screams the headline in The Evening Times. As said, the day we have to worry about the bookies reckon will get it is a bad one indeed.

But read the text of the article; “Ange Postecoglou has emerged as a possible candidate for the vacant Leeds United job,” is how David Irvine starts his piece. Has emerged as a possible candidate.

Shit, by that token Derek McInnes could get it. He also is a “possible candidate.” He won’t be on the shortlist, they won’t even look at him but it’s possible, right? And that’s where some of our fans need to calm down when they see this stuff.

It is garbage. I am no more going to lose sleep over this than I am about the Ibrox club catching us in the title race. It is the press doing whatever they do when someone is making a success of it at Celtic Park. This is not the preening, arrogant Rodgers whose profile in that league was already sky-high on the back of his Liverpool (title winning) exploits.

Nor is it Steven Gerrard, with a famous name. And how they love a famous name down there, to their detriment. Rodgers had already fallen out with the Celtic board by the time he scuttled off to Leicester. Any signs that Ange is unhappy with his lot?

So seriously, it’s a joke and this is the last response it’s going to get from me.