Celtic have been warned they would be ‘mad’ to consider hiring former Leeds United manager Jesse Marsch after Ange Postecoglou sealed his move to Premier League giants Tottenham Hotspur.
Simon Jordan, the former Crystal Palace chairman, has made his feelings on the 49-year-old American rather clear over the last few months.
Reports suggesting that Southampton were willing to hand Jesse Marsch the reigns just a few weeks after he was sacked by Leeds United in February had the talkSPORT pundit ‘gobsmacked’.
Now, if Marsch was to end up at Celtic after winning just 19 of 58 games in his last two managerial posts, even a man as outspoken as Simon Jordan may find himself lost for words.
“They’d be mad to go for Marsch,” Jordan tells talkSPORT (6 June, 10am).
Who will replace Ange Postecoglou as Celtic manager?
According to Sky Sports, the one-time RB Leipzig boss is one of the candidates under consideration by a Celtic side who lost arguably their most influential head coach since the legendary Martin O’Neil this week; Postecoglou officially unveiled at Tottenham Hotspur on Tuesday morning.
Marsch has his fair share of long-time admirers at Parkhead. The Wisconsin-born coach described reports linking him with the Celtic job back in 2021 were ‘an honour’.
Short-lived spells at Leeds and Leizpig have not exactly done wonders for his reputation, however; Marsch’s rather one-dimensional style of football – high on perspiration but light on inspiration – seeing him fail to build upon the foundations laid down by Marcelo Bielsa and Julian Nagelsmann. A pair of possession-based purists in the Postecoglou mould.
Celtic have also been credited with an interest in the likes of David Moyes, Graham Potter, Scotland boss Steve Clarke and even former Hoops coach Brendan Rodgers.
Jordan, however, wonders if the club’s next head coach may come out of left-field instead.
“I don’t see Clarke leaving Scotland. I don’t see Potter leaving (England). And I don’t see Rodgers going back,” Jordan adds; wondering if Rangers can do to their Glasgow rivals what Celtic did to them when Steven Gerrard left back in 2021.
“Celtic knew this time would come. There was always goi ng to be this situation where there was a desire for Postecoglou to go somewhere else.
“Its an interesting time for Rangers. Maybe an opportunity for Rangers, in the way Celtic took advantage Gerrard departed.”
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