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.
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dailyrecord.co.ukNeil Lennon has still not found a replacement left-back despite being heavily linked with Charlton's Alfie Doughty. However, it will come as a comfort to Celtic fans that none of the club's big stars - Odsonne Edouard, Kris Ajer, Olivier Ntcham - look like leaving unless a massive bid arrives in the coming days.The Irishman will try to bring a player in if the right man is available but if not he's still delighted with his squad.Lennon said: "We want the week to end as soon as possible, we want to keep all our players, if we can add one then great but if we can't then I'm still very happy with the bunch of players we've got."Things will settle down, there will be a lot more focus on our season after that.
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