Enzo Maresca holds Celtic continuity key and big names don't matter if you've got coaching chops - Chris Sutton

Continuity is key. Celtic have built themselves into a brilliant position and there is no reason to go pulling it apart.

What is needed for the manager’s job is not someone to come in and basically start again as Ange Postecoglou had to do. They need someone to continue his good work. Someone who has the same philosophies and ideals, plays the same way and can deal with a mixture of cultures. Celtic went to the City Football Group to get Postecoglou. People scoffed about it. Scoffed about his appointment and they were wrong.

So, for my money, it would make a lot of sense to go down the same route. CFG are a footballing power in their own right. Postecoglou went into Celtic and adopted the style of football used by Pep Guardiola with the inverted full-backs, the high press and the fast-paced approach. With that in mind, I can see a lot of reasons why Enzo Maresca would appeal as a viable candidate. He is, after all, Guardiola’s assistant.

Now let’s get the cards on the table right away. I don’t know the guy at all. I’ve no idea whether he could handle the environment in Glasgow, or whether he’s cut out to be a manager in his own right having not done so well in his last attempt at Parma.

But the fact Guardiola got him back into the fold to be his assistant after the job in Italy didn’t work out for him suggests he rates him. And let’s face it, if Pep phones you up and says he’s got a guy who’s pretty damn good at coaching players, you are going to listen.

I read somewhere that Guardiola said he is going to make an extraordinary manager in his own right like Mikel Arteta. Guardiola got it right with him. He went from being his assistant to making his major mark at Arsenal. No one came closer to taking the Premier League