John Collins has suggested that Jesse Marsch of RB Salzburg should be a leading candidate to become the next Celtic manager.
Within 36 hours of Neil Lennon’s resignation being confirmed dozens of names have been linked with the vacancy although very little is known about the recruitment process and job requirements.
What role Dom McKay will play and whether the club is about to appoint a Director of Football are two of the unknowns but that hasn’t prevented a variety of candidates from the UK and continent being put forward.
So far the United States hasn’t yet produced a top flight coach but with Marsch progressing through the Red Bull empire he clearly has something in his favour.
After three and a half years in charge of New York RB Marsch switched over to Europe for a season as assistant at RB Leipzig before crossing the border to RB Salzburg where he won last season’s Austrian title.
Picking up on his interview with TalkSPORT, The Sun reports Collins saying:
Who the new manager will be is a big question. To be manager of Celtic you’ve got to have experience, you’ve got to have played a certain brand of football and been successful with it – so they’re looking for an attacking, offensive-minded coach.
We all know what the fans want – they want victories but they want winning in style.
“Steve Clarke did a terrific job with Scotland and Kilmarnock but has he produced attacking, entertaining football? “The answer would probably be no. I don’t know if he fits the profile of a Celtic manager.
“He’s been organised, his teams are hard to break down and they defend deep. That’s not really the basis of what Celtic are looking for. They’re looking for three and four goals and victories with style.
“The names in hat include Robbie Martinez, who’s a very similar style of manager to Brendan Rodgers – his teams play attacking football on the deck. Eddie Howe – no matter what anybody says, the job he did at Bournemouth was outstanding. He came up against the big boys trying to play good football and being creative. He’s proved he can make players better.
“But a name I’d throw in the hat would be Jesse Marsch, the American at Red Bull Salzburg. Sometimes you see a team in the Champions League turn in a performance that sticks in your mind.
“I remember seeing them play at Anfield and they were 3-0 down after 36 minutes, they got it back to 3-3 and lost 4-3. I thought ‘Wow!, that’s a good football coach’.
Tonight RB Salzburg are in Europa League action away to Villarreal looking to turn around a 2-0 defeat from the first leg in Austria.
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