Tony Mowbray has no interest in comments from former players on how he is managing the club. The Celtic boss is not going to lose any sleep over comment attributed to Barry Robson suggesting Mowbray wanted to make the squad his own rather than use the one he inherited. There have been a number of changes since Gordon Strachan leftin the summer. However, there were some eyebrows raised in January when players who had won titles and trophies with Strachan, such as Gary Caldwell, Scott McDonald and Barry Robson, were allowed to leave, while club captain Stephen McManus went out on loan. Earlier in the week McDonald was reported as saying that he was puzzled at some of the decisions Mowbray had made during the short time they had worked together. Robson has claimed that midfielder Aiden McGeady could be next to leave.
However, Mowbray said: "The bottom line is that it's not worth commenting on, is it, really? It is just an ex-player who thinks that something might happen. I am not interested in what an ex-player thinks may happen. With all due respect, it doesn't matter what a player thinks. The club and I will decide what changes are made in the summer and I would suggest that Aiden isn't going to be part of those changes."
Mowbray is adamant, though, that he has no problem with Robson who was sold to Boro for a fee thought to be around £1.2million. He said: "I had a very good working relationship with Barry Robson when he was here. Barry was injured for most of the time I was here yet when he got himself fit he did very well for us. The offer came along both for Barry and for our football club and we thought it was the right thing to do. Barry has started his Middlesbrough career and I hope he continues that. I hope that they get promotion. I am not sure Barry totally has his eye on what his happening here. I am quite sure that some journalist, probably from Scotland, went down there and asked him a leading question and he answered it. No-one is going to put a wedge between me and a lad that I got on very well with. I wish him well in his career."
Robson had been quoted as saying: "It was evident to me that Tony wanted to do his own thing. He wanted to break up Gordon's team and build one of his own. It was pretty obvious but that's fair enough. That's his prerogative. I look back on the start of this season as an end of an era. Naka (Shunsuke Nakamura) had left, Big Jan (Vennegoor of Hesselink) had gone and then the likes of Gary Caldwell and Big Mick (McManus) moved on in January. I knew myself it was time for me to move on too. There's a good chance that Aiden will leave in the summer as well because he wants to try something different so it will be completely Tony's team soon."
Tony Mowbray has no interest in comments from former players on how he is managing the club. The Celtic boss is not going to lose any sleep over comment attributed to Barry Robson suggesting Mowbray wanted to make the squad his own rather than use the one he inherited. There have been a number of changes since Gordon Strachan leftin the summer. However, there were some eyebrows raised in January when players who had won titles and trophies with Strachan, such as Gary Caldwell, Scott McDonald and Barry Robson, were allowed to leave, while club captain Stephen McManus went out on loan. Earlier in the week McDonald was reported as saying that he was puzzled at some of the decisions Mowbray had made during the short time they had worked together. Robson has claimed that midfielder Aiden McGeady could be next to leave.