According to recent reports, Celtic are eyeing up Gordan Strachan to replace Neil Lennon if the club decide to part ways with their manager.
The Transfer Window Podcast state that Celtic want to get in an ex-manager or a former player who manages due to the fact they’ll know the club and understand what winning a 10th league title in a row means for the club.
Strachan certainly understands the task that would be ahead of him at Celtic, but we have to question whether or not he’s the right man for the job.
Gordon Strachan may have been a success with Celtic in the past, but has he got what it takes to wrestle back control of the title race this season?
Is this not the exact same thing that they did when they replaced Brendan Rodgers with Lennon? And look at how that has turned out.
Lennon was again, a former manager who knows the club, but his actual managerial acumen is nowhere near what Rodgers was offering, and slowly but surely, Celtic have declined under him.
The Glasgow outfit need a modern tactician who will be able to outwit Steven Gerrard’s Rangers side and pip them to the title this season, not an old head like Strachan who hasn’t managed at club level for over a decade, whose only standout qualities are that they know the club.
This is no way for a club to operate in the long-term, dragging former managers back to instil a small feeling of goodwill, before ultimately coming undone because modern football has passed them by.
Appointing a fresh-faced hungry young manager like Gerrard was probably the best thing Rangers have done in the past decade, and appointing Strachan at Celtic is the exact opposite of what they need to do.
Celtic need to tread carefully when they’re weighing up who should replace Lennon.
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