{"id":251245,"date":"2025-11-08T12:47:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-08T12:47:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/251245\/"},"modified":"2025-11-08T12:47:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-08T12:47:08","slug":"chris-sutton-doubles-down-on-martin-oneill-verdict-as-new-celtic-manager-search-continues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/251245\/","title":{"rendered":"Chris Sutton doubles down on Martin O&#8217;Neill verdict as new Celtic manager search continues"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Chris Sutton has admitted that he hopes Martin O\u2019Neill will take charge of Celtic for one last time this weekend.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.67hailhail.com\/news\/is-kilmarnock-vs-celtic-on-tv-kick-off-time-live-stream-team-news-referee-var-2\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Hoops face Kilmarnock on Sunday<\/a> in their final game before the international break, where work to find a long-term replacement for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.67hailhail.com\/tag\/brendan-rodgers\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Brendan Rodgers<\/a> will surely step up.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.67hailhail.com\/news\/martin-oneill-responds-to-chris-suttons-celtic-warning\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">O\u2019Neill said he isn\u2019t worried about losing his legacy<\/a> in response to his former player\u2019s midweek comments about the Northern Irishman risking it the longer he stays there.<\/p>\n<p>However, after listening to the 73-year-old, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.67hailhail.com\/tag\/chris-sutton\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sutton<\/a> has doubled down on his verdict.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" loading=\"lazy\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/GettyImages-2244856840-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"Celtic's head coach Martin O'Neill looks on during the UEFA Europa League football match between FC Midtjylland and Celtic.\" class=\"wp-image-334368\" \/>Photo by BO AMSTRUP\/Ritzau Scanpix\/AFP via Getty ImagesChris Sutton says Celtic need fresh ideas<\/p>\n<p>While the former striker-turned-pundit has acknowledged the possibility of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.67hailhail.com\/news\/martin-oneill-is-willing-to-stay-at-celtic-until-the-end-of-the-season\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">O\u2019Neill staying until the end of the season<\/a> is real, Sutton said the club must be decisive in order to get themselves back on track \u2013 both domestically and in Europe.<\/p>\n<p>Sutton also continued to reiterate that he doesn\u2019t want to see the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.67hailhail.com\/club\/legends\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Celtic legend<\/a> lose any credit for his previous work due to the mammoth rebuild required now.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLet me put my cards on the table right now. With my hand on my heart, I hope my old boss finishes up after tomorrow\u2019s game against Kilmarnock,\u201d he wrote in his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailyrecord.co.uk\/sport\/football\/football-news\/celtic-must-decisive-put-cards-36211395\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Daily Record<\/a> column.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMartin O\u2019Neill\u00a0is a legend at Celtic for what he did during my time there as a player.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe walked back into the club in the wake of the Brendan Rodgers departure and he answered the call with Maloney placed at his side.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNow that\u2019s great. It was important to have someone who could unite the club, the fans and bring a bounce into the players.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut let\u2019s be frank. This isn\u2019t a short-term situation. This is a big job to get things back on track and the\u00a0Europa League\u00a0defeat in Midtjylland just summed that up.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>After the international break, Celtic return to action away at St Mirren on Saturday 22 November.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chris Sutton has admitted that he hopes Martin O\u2019Neill will take charge of Celtic for one last time&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":251246,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[18666,218,30905,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-251245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-chris-sutton","tag-football","tag-martin-oneill","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=251245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251245\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/251246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}