Deila, Ronny – Quotes

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Quotes

2014/15

“He’s the right man because he’s intelligent, modern, good track record.”
Celtic Chief Exec Peter Lawell on Ronny Deila (June 2014)

“Without development, you won’t get results. The board will see what I’m doing with the club. If I do well and make people happy, push the right buttons, we’ll get results.”
Ronny Deila (June 2014)

“He [Ronny] could combine William Wallace with Andres Iniesta – the qualities of Braveheart and Barcelona….You can see the potential.”
David Nielsen the interim boss of Deila’s old club Stromsgodse (June 2014)

“I will never say that – never.”
Ronny Deila on whether he’d sacrifice style on the pitch for results (July 2014)

“You have to learn from your mistakes because players who don’t want to learn and get better won’t be at Celtic.”
Ronny Deila (Aug 2014)

“He was a very intelligent player at Viking, who studied the game and spent a lot of time thinking about football and tactics. He’ll develop players at Celtic the way he did at Stromgodset, but more importantly he’ll develop the players to play together as a team. He’ll be a very good coach at Celtic.”
Roy Hodgson (England manager, 2014)

“Ronny Deila keeps talking about progression but he’s only papering over the cracks. There’s no pace or invention.”
Chris Sutton (2014)

“I listened to what he said after losing to Hamilton Accies [0-1] at the weekend [at Celtic Park] and thought to myself ‘you don’t have a clue.’ It’s like he doesn’t have the first idea of what being the Celtic manager is all about.”
John Hartson (Oct 2014)

“There are many roads to Rome but I must believe in my way.”
Ronny (Oct 2014)

“Until I win something I will be questioned. That just motivates me and I have one goal — to win everything in Scotland.”
Ronny Deila

“There are many roads to Rome but I must believe in my way.”
Ronny Deila Oct 2014

“It was orgasmic, if I can say that. Maybe even better than that! I am very proud of the team. To celebrate today with the players and the fans was fantastic.”
Ronny Deila after the last gasp 2-1 win over Aberdeen finally took Celtic to the top of the table (Nov 2014)

“When you put the Celtic shirt on you must give 100%.”
Ronny Deila (Jan 2015)

“I have been many times to England and I’m bored compared to what’s happening here sometimes.”
Ronny Deila on the English leagues (Feb 2015)

“Lisbon is the best memory in Celtic history and this is going to be a huge game. But I have to make history, not watch it.”
Ronny Deila before first leg of UEFA Cup Round of 32 match v Inter Milan (Feb 2015)

“When you stand behind your team when it’s 2-0 down it means so much to us and it’s what the club is about – the supporters.”
Ronny Deila after first leg of UEFA Cup Round of 32 match v Inter Milan (Feb 2015)

“I’m sensible and wise enough to see he has turned it around – I’m on the Ronny Deila bus.”
John Hartson on Deila (Mar 2015)

“Ronny Deila has an opinion on everything but I don’t really read too much into what he has to say or who he puts pressure on.”
Dundee Utd player Paul Paton. Follows a spat after a series of games v Celtic where up to six players were sent off in the matches v Celtic

“We should win every game at Celtic Park & it should be frightening for opponents to come here”.
Ronny Deila

“I am only here to build the club and form it in the right direction.”
Ronny Deila

“I want people to come to the stadium & enjoy what they’re seeing.”
Ronny Deila

“I’ve enjoyed this year. It’s been an unbelievably good experience for me. It’s been tough at times. I’ve been very happy at times and that’s why you love football. It’s hell or heaven. You have to be used to it and you have to love having sh**** times and turning it around to be happy. It’s never something in between. It’s always very good or very bad.”
Ronny Deila (May 2015)

“I wanted to play attractive football, develop a culture and win everything. Only later I realised this was also the Celtic way!”
Ronny Deila (2015)

2015/16

“Where are the other Scottish teams? I don’t know, I haven’t seen them in Europe. The national team? No!”
Ronny Deila

“We want to be in the Champions League. That’s the goal, I’ve said that since coming to this club.”
Ronny Deila, he failed from his own benchmark there, and so it was the beginning of the end from there…

“This club is driven in a fantastic way, we don’t use money that we don’t have but when you build things you have to be patient”
Ronny Deila

“Celtic Park is our castle and we need to be kings of that castle. That is what we are aiming for, to make Celtic Park the hardest place for other teams to come. This game is important in terms of what we can show as a team and to make the atmosphere better.”
Ronny Deila (2015)

“If you were to cast Ronny Deila in a movie, he’d have to be Bill Murray’s character in Groundhog Day, a man who lives his life in a loop, waking every morning to the realisation that everything that happened yesterday was about to happen all over again today. That was Hollywood and a piece of fantasy. This was Glasgow and too much reality.”
Journalist Tom English after Celtic’s humiliating defeat v Molde at home 2-1 (Nov 2015) (BBC)

“The message to all the fans is that we’ll be ready next year and that’s the task I have.”
Ronny Deila after 2-1 defeat at home to Ajax in Europa League, out of Europe with one game to play. So far 2 draws, 3 defeats in Europa League Group stage.

“In the final months I could feel the pressure. My quality of sleep was poor and I had headaches and sweats. I was going to work without any joy. You could see it in the dressing room. There was only relief when we won. The debate about my future influenced the squad. I felt I was a burden to the team. The players were terrified of losing and, after the loss against Rangers in the Cup I said to the team this was my last season. It liberated them and released energy into them. From then, we went on to win the league.”
Ronnie Deila (June 2016)

“I don’t think I am going to get such a big club like Celtic again.”
Ronnie Deila (2017)

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