Celtic should have appointed John Hughes as manager before he was snapped up by Ross County. Current boss Neil Lennon is under pressure after a run of poor results, with suggestions that the likes of Eddie Howe could replace him.
But Young feels Peter Lawwell and the board should have looked a lot closer to home for the ideal man to take the club forward.
He insisted on BBC Radio Scotland : "If we take Neil out of the equation for a moment the one man who would have been salvation for Celtic I think was staring them in the face. "And the work he's doing at Ross County has proven that. " John Hughes, where Celtic are at the moment, would have been an absolutely perfect fit." Hearts striker Steven Naismith was a guest on the programme and.
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