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Those results have prompted criticism of Barnes' tactics and the contribution of Dalglish who is the club's Director of Football

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Those results have prompted criticism of Barnes' tactics and the contribution of Dalglish, who is the club's Director of Football. Now Dalglish, through Celtic's official club newspaper, Celtic View, has defended Barnes and has asked the disgruntled fans to be patient "I don't think it's the right time for a knee-jerk reaction. Kenny Dalglish has urged the Celtic fans to give himself and John Barnes, the head coach, more time to turn the club around and make their Parkhead revolution a reality. The much-vaunted partnership joined Celtic in the summer but Sunday's Old Firm defeat to Rangers at Ibrox followed elimination from the Uefa Cup against Lyon and a dismal home league defeat to a Motherwell side reduced to 10 men before half-time. Kenny Dalglish has urged the Celtic fans to give himself and John Barnes, the head coach, more time to turn the club around and make their Parkhead revolution a reality. There's a choice to move overseas, stay in Scotland, or move down. "I think the majority of the Scottish players playing in Scotland now - apart from those at Celtic and Rangers, that is - would still like to further their careers and move." And why have we never seen a south to north migration in numbers? Nicholas said: "English players look at the fixtures, and, the Old Firm games aside, think: 'What am I going into'?" A sentiment that all sides might agree with this weekend..

And then there's also the Bosman ruling." Andy Gray, a former international team-mate of Nicholas and a current workmate at Sky TV, believes that Bosman has been the greatest facilitator of change. "When Aston Villa gave me a chance at 19 they took a risk," he said. "The Bosman ruling means that English teams can go abroad now and pick up proven talent that's not prohibitively expensive. "For us, it was the natural progression of our careers You moved south That's not the case any more. "There's now a real awareness that youth development is the way forward," he said. "It's taken a long time to change attitudes, but education up here is getting better." Sinclair added that there are other, more fundamental reasons why the promising Scots who are coming through are no longer moving to England in such numbers. "The clubs have taken it on board down south to develop youth teams.

I genuinely feel that the [English] FA are putting in place centres to utilise local talent rather than from further afield. "English clubs are that much better organised and have less need to come to Scotland looking for players. Young players now are not having the same chances and don't have the incentives to wait." Jimmy Sinclair, the youth programme director at the Scottish FA is in partial agreement. In my day a lot of guys waited a bit longer, like Dalglish, who moved in his twenties. A lack of talent, per se, through lack of nurturing, was another reason. "There's not been the talent in recent years, and where there is, there's not the opportunity. There's a feeling of a lack of ambition perhaps, outside of Rangers and Celtic, who are buying overseas anyway. You learn a lot by going away, growing up, getting some responsibility." Such developments were not the only reason that the north to south exports slowed, Nicholas added.

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