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Eddie Howe is the closest thing that Dermot Desmond can get to Brendan Rodgers and the club's principal shareholder will demand a return after losing their grip of the league title to rivals Rangers

There was no way for Celtic to bring back Brendan Rodgers. The best they could strive for was a chip off the old block. And in Eddie Howe, they’ve found a manager cast from the same mold.

As boss of Burnley, Howe once accepted an invitation from Rodgers to travel to Liverpool and spend a couple of days watching how he did things.

The training sessions were an eye opener. And when the work was done, the pearls of advice proved priceless.

Eddie Howe is in talks to become the next manager of Celtic to replace Neil Lennon
In Howe they would have someone cut from the same mold as former boss Brendan Rodgers

‘You need people to help you along the way,’ Howe told the Coaches Voice website.