Former Celtic manager Neil Lennon is ‘actively looking’ to return to management after a brief spell with FC Rapid in Hungary.
The 53-year-old managed the Bucharest outfit for just six games before departing the club in late August.
After spending a few months out of work, Lennon wants to return to the dugout for what he has admitted could be his last-ever managerial role.
Indeed, the next club Lennon joins will be his sixth after spells at Celtic (twice), Bolton, Hibs, Omonia Nicosia, and Rapid.
Most of Lennon’s success in the dugout came during his two spells in Glasgow.
He initially took charge of the Hoops in 2010 before returning to the club, initially as a caretaker, in 2019. Lennon then got the job permanently for the second time after securing the Treble Treble and eight-in-a-row.
Across both spells, he won a decade of trophies, but ultimately, the fabled 10-in-a-row campaign, which was played behind closed doors, was Lennon’s undoing.
Since his second Celtic departure, both of his jobs have been abroad, but it remains to be seen where his next one could be.
Regardless, the former Hoops boss is eager to return to work: “I’d like to get back in, so I’m just waiting on the next opportunity,” he said [OLBG via Glasgow Times].
“It may be my last though, I’ve done it for about 15 years now. I’d like to maybe do a coaching role for another three four years and then you’ll take stock of things.
“I’m actively looking at the minute. There have been opportunities already since I came back from Bucharest, but nothing that’s really caught my eye.
“Having said that, I’m really enjoying the media work, and I’m really grateful for that, but the coaching is in you. I’ve been doing that for a long time, and I’m only 53, so I’m still quite young.
“I would like another three or four years if I could at a decent level. But it’s such a competitive market. There are so many good coaches out there and so many agents out there vying for positions. If an opportunity comes along that I like, then I would like to go back in again.”
Although Lennon was partly responsible for how things unfolded at Celtic during lockdown, fans still accept him as a club legend who more than contributed to some historic Hoops moments both on the pitch and in the dugout.
