What Ange to Liverpool paper talk really means

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It was inevitable that Ange Postecoglou was going to commencement drafting attention from different leagues, and successful peculiar the EPL, specified has been the dominance of his Celtic team.

And, arsenic expected, erstwhile Brighton's manager Graham Potter was snapped up by Chelsea, the seaside nine loomed arsenic a cleanable acceptable successful presumption of doctrine and goals for the Australian - but determination was conscionable 1 problem.

Postecoglou inactive has plentifulness of unfinished concern successful Scotland.

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After the team's year-long undefeated tally came to an end a fewer weeks' ago, it served arsenic a timely reminder that the home rubric contention is acold from a foregone decision - though you'd expect arsenic the play progresses, Celtic volition propulsion good and genuinely distant from the pack, including Rangers.

But it's connected the continent wherever Postecoglou genuinely wants - and needs - to marque his mark. The changeless disapproval of Celtic managers implicit the past decennary oregon truthful is the inability to marque important in-roads successful European competition, successful the Champions League oregon otherwise.

But portion determination haven't been immoderate benignant of signs that Postecoglou volition beryllium moving connected successful the adjacent future, 1 nonfiction successful a Liverpool work - the Liverpool Echo - has floated Postecoglou arsenic a successor to their existent manager, Jurgen Klopp.

There person been nary credible suggestions that Klopp's occupation is nether menace successful immoderate mode - but it's a determination that would marque sense, perchance successful a fewer years' time.

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Some impatient fans are discontent with 'only' finishing 2nd to Manchester City past season, coupled with a dilatory commencement to the 2022-23 campaign, but the German established himself arsenic 1 of the apical managers successful the satellite a decennary agone with Borussia Dortmund, and has stayed successful that stratosphere ever since.

In presumption of playing style, Postecoglou would beryllium a creaseless modulation - some men covet high-pressure, high-energy systems that suck the beingness retired of their opposition, with the operation of the squad ever the priority, alternatively than the deference to prima players.

It's bully to imagination astir an Australian coaching 1 of the biggest teams successful the satellite of men's football, but it's inactive conscionable a speck connected the horizon. However, the information that these links beryllium astatine each are a acold outcry from adjacent 2 years ago, erstwhile Postecoglou's assignment astatine Celtic was met with derision.

One thing's for sure, if Celtic tin spell connected a European tally - which continues with a lucifer against RB Leipzig coming up connected Thursday greeting - much and much chunks of the shot satellite volition beryllium up and instrumentality notice.

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