| Neil Lennon has confirmed he has handed the Celtic board a list of players he wants out of the club at the end of the season in the wake of performances culminating in Saturday's Scottish Cup semi-final defeat. Caretaker manager Lennon is keeping the name so the list out of the public domain for now but if Lennon's behaviour on Saturday afternoon is anything to go by, Landry N'Guemo, Marc-Antoine Fortune and Georgios Samaras' names may well appear on that list. N'Guemo was subebd before half-time at Hampden, while Lennon singled out forwards Fortune and Samaras for criticism in what was a scathing post-match interview. Asked if he had made his recommendation to the board, Lennon said: "Yes - but I'm not going to tell you who (I nominated)." Saturday's defeat will well have an impact on Lennon's hopes of landing the manager's job on a permanent basis. But the Northern Irishman appeared cautiously optimistic the result had not been the death knell for him, saying: "I'll be judged over the next five or six games and we'll assess it in the summer and speak to the powers that be.I've spoken to Peter and I've spoken to Dermot. They're private conversations and not they're for the public consumption just yet." |