{"id":399963,"date":"2026-01-31T04:03:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-31T04:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/399963\/"},"modified":"2026-01-31T04:03:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T04:03:08","slug":"shaun-maloney-on-replacing-martin-oneill-as-celtic-manager","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/399963\/","title":{"rendered":"Shaun Maloney on replacing Martin O&#8217;Neill as Celtic manager"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  Now in his second spell as assistant, after Wilfried Nancy&#8217;s 33-day reign came to an end, Maloney opened up on his long-term future at the club. &#8220;No, not for me,&#8221; he said, regarding the managerial position. &#8220;I\u2019ll definitely be assisting Martin. In terms of next year, that loan role is still there, but I think we\u2019ll figure all that out in the summer.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cI think for the next three months, it\u2019s just give everything to try and win a league, go as far as we can in Europe, and then the club will look for someone else. I know Martin\u2019s already said that he doesn\u2019t see himself here. We\u2019ll see at the end of the season.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cI definitely promised the people at the club that I&#8217;d do this season and next season in the technical role. I&#8217;ve actually loved being back at the club, I really have.\u00a0I promised them this season and next, but I actually hope it&#8217;s longer.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;I&#8217;ve really enjoyed being here in whatever role they see me in.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Celtic next take on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heraldscotland.com\/local-news\/falkirk-news\/?ref=au\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Falkirk<\/a> on Sunday in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heraldscotland.com\/topics\/scottish-premiership\/?ref=au\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Scottish Premiership<\/a>, before turning their attention to the closure of the transfer window on Monday evening.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The club will be hoping to add further reinforcements to the squad, following the additions of Julian Araujo and Tomas Cvancara from Bournemouth and Borussia Monchengladbach, respectively.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Now in his second spell as assistant, after Wilfried Nancy&#8217;s 33-day reign came to an end, Maloney opened&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":399964,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-399963","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399963","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=399963"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399963\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/399964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=399963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=399963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=399963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}