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Watch John Kennedy answer Celtic’s Sporting Director question

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John Kennedy has played down speculation that he is a contender to become Spirting Director at Celtic.

The Interim Manager has been in charge of the first team for the last two months while the entire structure of the club appears to be a blank canvas.

Neil Lennon’s decision to resign came soon after Peter Lawwell announced that he was retiring at the end of this season, additionally Nick Hammond quit his role as Head of Football Operations.

Fergal Harkin of Manchester City and Portsmouth’s Richard Hughes seem to be the main contenders for the role of Director of Football but officially there has been no comment from inside Celtic.

That vacuum of information has led to speculation linking Kennedy with both the manager’s job and that of Sporting Director/Director of Football but over the next 48 hours all of his focus is on Sunday’s clash at Ibrox.

It’s been made up, someone’s obviously had a guess at it! I think because there’s so much speculation around the manager and behind the scenes, how it might look, people try to piece it together themselves and put it out there.

But I’ve not had any discussions around that role with anyone here at the club. It’s nothing I can really comment on because it’s not been discussed. It’s not one I’ve really considered or spoken about so it’s difficult to commit to anything. I’ve always been very much about the challenge, for me.

Regardless of when I started out as a youth coach, progression was important in my career. I’ve never been in a massive rush to jump from youth coach to managing at the highest level possible straight away.

It’s always been very much about feeling challenged, being in the right environment and feeling I’m progressing the right way. I’m content with that and I’ll take my time with that. That’s been the case up until now.

I’ve always had, year on year, feeling like I’m going somewhere. I’m in a good environment working with good people and collectively we’ve had something to strive for.

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