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.
Kristoffer Ajer.The Italian giants are hunting a centre-back and the Parkhead star is amongst the names on their potential list of options.However, sources in Italy last night insisted the No.1 target for Milan is £40 million-rated Milenkovic.San Siro chiefs are attempting to thrash out a deal with their Fiorentina counterparts with the 22-year-old Serbian their top target.Milenkovic’s position should be cleared this week with Ajer a back-up plan.Celtic boss Neil Lennon is adamant he does want the Norwegian to go and scoffed at the figures which were quoted by Italian media at the weekend as he said: “We don’t want to sell him.
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