{"id":604129,"date":"2026-05-26T04:21:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T04:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/604129\/"},"modified":"2026-05-26T04:21:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T04:21:10","slug":"jackie-mcnamara-names-manager-he-wants-as-next-celtic-boss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/604129\/","title":{"rendered":"Jackie McNamara names manager he wants as next Celtic boss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  O&#8217;Neill led <a href=\"https:\/\/www.glasgowtimes.co.uk\/sport\/celtic?ref=au\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Celtic<\/a> to a league and cup double this season, and McNamara, who played under the gaffer for five years, believes his former boss is the right man for the job.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  McNamara told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/articles\/cq6ppgzj0mqo?ref=ed_direct\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">BBC Scotland<\/a>: &#8220;If he wants to stay another year I&#8217;d be delighted with that.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;Even if he wanted to go upstairs in some capacity, on the board or in recruitment or whatever. He&#8217;s shown how important he is.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  McNamara highlighted O&#8217;Neill&#8217;s success in securing two trophies this season, despite the challenges he faced as interim manager.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The Northern Irishman had little assurances this season where transfers were concerned due to his temporary position.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  He said: &#8220;There was a lot of noise between the fans and the board and I think that noise has stopped the last few months because the focus was back on the team and on winning.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  However, McNamara believes O&#8217;Neill will want a greater say in recruitment if he remains in charge next season.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  He said: &#8220;Anybody coming in would be looking for that.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;Martin knows what he needs moving forward to try and get into the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.glasgowtimes.co.uk\/topics\/champions-league\/?ref=au\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Champions League<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;The recruitment side needs to be sorted with a sporting director coming in or head of recruitment or whatever title they&#8217;ll use.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"O&#8217;Neill led Celtic to a league and cup double this season, and McNamara, who played under the gaffer&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":604130,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-604129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-football","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604129","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=604129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604129\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/604130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=604129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=604129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=604129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}