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this article  Deila: Pre-season schedule is proving too costly
Ronny Deila, the Celtic manager, last night questioned the
Scottish champions' rigorous pre-season schedule and admitted
that the build-up to a new campaign will be markedly different
should he still be at the helm next year.  Ronny Deila: 'I want
to train without travelling too much'  Deila is already facing a
mammoth test of his managerial mettle tonight as his Celtic side
try to overturn a 4-1 deficit against Legia Warsaw in the second
leg of the Champions League qualifiers at Murrayfield. Celtic's
pre-season involved four games in 12 days during a trip to
Austria before the Parkhead club embarked on a series of hops
around Europe that also took in Germany and Finland, with
Champions League qualifiers in Iceland and Poland thrown in.
Deila was left cursing his team's lack of "energy" and
"commitment" during last week's calamitous collapse in Warsaw
and the Norwegian believes the pr