Graham Potter is no longer an option for Celtic after extending his contract as Sweden manager.
Potter returned to Sweden, the country where he began his professional management career, to manage the national team on a short-term basis in October.
He failed to secure automatic qualification for the World Cup, but can still qualify via the play-offs this month, which Sweden entered via the Nations League.
Some, including Johan Mjallby, had tipped Potter as an option for Celtic in the summer, but he has quashed that talk with this extension.
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Johan Mjallby had tipped Graham Potter for Celtic job
Prior to his extension, Swedish Celtic hero Johan Mjallby had endorsed Potter ahead of fellow Scandinavian candidate Jens Berthel Askou.
He said on TNT Sports: “[Askou] has done a remarkable job with Motherwell this season, but is he a big name? He’s not a big name.”
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“Right now, he’s in a quite nice environment, and he’s doing really well with limited resources at Motherwell. Yes, of course, they play great football.
“Can you do that at Celtic? I don’t know. Has he got the name for it? Has he won any medals? Celtic is a club, where if things aren’t going great for you, the pressure is there.
“So I can’t really say if Askou is the right guy. The way they play football? Yes. But is he mentally strong enough to take the Celtic job without being used to winning? I don’t know.
“But if it was Graham Potter, I would [go for] him. Because I don’t know if he’s interested in the Celtic job, but he’s a good name.”
Despite Mjallby’s positivity, TalkingPoints users are less keen on Potter, voting largely against taking him as Martin O’Neill’s permanent successor.
Fans’ concerns are largely rooted in the downward trajectory of the Englishman’s career since he left Brighton.
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Why Celtic fans weren’t having Graham Potter
Potter’s stock was immensely high when he earned the Chelsea job in 2023, leaving Brighton to replace the very popular Tomas Tuchel in the club’s first managerial appointment of the Todd Boehly era.
Of 31 games in charge at Stamford Bridge, he won just 12. A 3-0 home defeat to Aston Villa led to his dismissal after just seven months.
A return to a similar level to Brighton in joining West Ham seemed to make sense, but again, he won just six of 25 matches in charge, being sacked just a month into this season.
With Sweden, he has linked up with ex-Celt Carl Starfelt and current Hoops man Benjamin Nygren, who scored the first goal of the 50-year-old’s tenure.
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