Neil Francis Lennon (born 25 June 1971) is a Northern Irish football coach and former player who is the manager of Scottish Premiership club Celtic. During his playing career he represented English clubs Manchester City, Crewe Alexandra and Leicester City.
Lennon moved to Scottish club Celtic in 2000, where he made over 200 appearances and was appointed captain in 2005. Before retiring as a player, he returned to England and played for Nottingham Forest and Wycombe Wanderers. Lennon made 40 appearances for Northern Ireland in nine years, scoring two goals. Lennon was appointed manager of Celtic in March 2010, initially in a caretaker capacity after the departure of Tony Mowbray.
Ivan Toney wanted Celtic transfer as Peterborough chairman lifts the lid on 'insulting' Parkhead bid
dailyrecord.co.ukIvan Toney would have WALKED to Celtic - but deemed the Parkhead club's offer "insulting". The Premiership champions were keen to land the striker in the summer but saw a £5million bid turned down.
Eventually West Ham's Albian Ajeti arrived to bolster the attack, while Toney moved to English Championship side Brentford. He's since hit 14 goals in 16 league games, but Fry insists he could easily have been banging them in for Neil Lennon.
He told the Scottish Sun : "Ivan wanted to go to Celtic. They should have pulled their finger out but they f***** about. “Good job I never waited for them to sell (Odsonne) Edouard because they didn’t anyway.“The boy’s done brilliant for Brentford — and that’s what I expected."Ivan’s different class.
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