Greg Wallace is set to quit Celtic to join Brendan Rodgers at Al Qadsiah.
Wallace joined Celtic from Spurs in the summer of 2022 as Head Analyst and First Team Coach.
A year later he was wanted to return to Spurs by Ange Postecoglou but decided to remain at Celtic.
Wallace has been a crucial part of the Celtic coaching team under Postecoglou, Rodgers and Martin O’Neill but has now decided to reunite with Rodgers at Al Qadsiah.
Celtic appear to have partly pre-empted the move by bringing in Ross Grant to join O’Neill’s coaching team.
Grant is described as a coach with ‘a particular focus on set piece analysis’.
That doesn’t cover the complete Analysis role that Wallace has headed up over the last four season.
RODGERS RECRUITS CELTIC’S HEAD OF ANALYTICS
Following Rodgers’ departure last October Celtic announced:
Celtic Football Club can confirm today that Assistant Manager John Kennedy, coaches Adam Sadler and Jack Lyons, and Head of Performance Glen Driscoll have left the Club with immediate effect.
We thank each of them for their contribution to Celtic and we wish them all well for the future. Â Â
We are pleased to welcome former Celtic Captain Stephen McManus and former Celtic player Mark Fotheringham into our first team coaching set-up, where they will join Martin O’Neill and Shaun Maloney on an interim basis, alongside coaches Stephen Woods, Gavin Strachan and Greg Wallace.
Wallace will now link up with John Kennedy and Jack Lyons who moved to Al Qadsiah with Rodgers in December.
With Gavin Strachan joining West Brom there will be a different look to Celtic’s backroom staff in the season ahead.
The addition of Grant with an emphasis on set-pieces is a very welcome addition.
When Ben Nygren scored directly from a free kick against Hearts at Tynecastle in January it was the first goal scored directly from a set-piece since Jota scored away to Real Madrid in November 2022!
After O’Neill’s Saturday morning interview for Celtic TV it is unlikely that there will be any media work in the week ahead.
Celtic’s first pre-season friendly is away to Shelbourne on July 7 with the SPFL opener against Dundee five weeks today.
Vil Sinisalo and Liam Scales are expected to start pre-season training later this week. But it will be at least a fortnight before some of the World Cup players are back with Celtic.
Kieran Tierney, Tony Ralston, Sebastian Tounekti and Yang Hyun-jun were all knocked out at the group stage. Four others remain in the Knock Out phase including Alistair Johnston who helped Canada into the last 16 by beating South Africa.
