Brendan Rodgers | Rejoins Celtic on 3 year deal



“We hope you die in your sleep Brendan Rodgers, with a bullet from the IRA”

Such a classy bunch
 


Apparently Leicester didn’t mind if Rodgers waited until the end of the season to sign. It was Rodgers who apparently wanted to sign now, which is why Celtic fans are starting to become angry.
 
Apparently Leicester didn’t mind if Rodgers waited until the end of the season to sign. It was Rodgers who apparently wanted to sign now, which is why Celtic fans are starting to become angry.
I’d heard we insisted he came now
 
Not a surprise really after the top 6 and Everton, Leicester is the biggest job in the PL. Celtic is in a nothing league and is going nowhere winning treble after treble with Celtic is really worth nothing. Winning a Coca Cola cup with Leicester would be a great achievement than 3 trebles with Celtic.
Indeed, as it would involve the invention and use of a time machine.
 
Your typical PL arrogance in this thread.

I'd blame Sky.

Again, this is why you ban non-champions from the CL.

To be honest, if I was in charge of the Leagues, I’d have attempted to combine the UK leagues in the age of High Speed Rail & Cheap flights.

The Premier League has destroyed Scottish football. It’s not PL arrogance. It’s just money.

Most runaway Championship sides would piss the SPL. Most competitive Championship sides would challenge for the league.

The Rangers relegation has shown that a 3-5 year period of adjustment would probably be acceptable for Celtic to equalise into sustainability into a UK league.

The SPL is a European irrelevance now and there’s zero chance that it ever arrests that slide.

If nothing else they could have instigated some form of protectionism in the decade passed and attempted to have a demand for X amount of Scottish players in SPL sides or match day squads.

It’s a monumental mess.

Edit : Shouldn’t need to be said, but Leicester would obliterate the SPL.
 
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"Think people are missing a few details here that might help them understand a bit more.

Firstly media are reporting Leicester were happy to wait until summer. Which means Rodgers pushed for a move in the middle of our season when we have a good deal more to play for this year than Leicester - when that opportunity for next year at Leicester wasn't going away.

Hardly anybody thought he was staying for 10 in a row - many thought he would go in the summer but most thought he'd see the season out for the treble-treble.

Secondly Rodgers spouted a lot of stuff about being a boyhood Celtic fan and loving the club and not seeing it as a stepping stone. He was worshipped. Then he left in one day and pretty much didn't say bye to the fans many of whom backed him strongly against the board in big tifos.

He's friends with people at Leicester and it seems he's been lined up for this and known it was a possibility. At the same time he's plugged multiple gaps within the team with 6 month loan signings who will soon go. We don't have a permanent manager now who can help look at and fix those gaps. It's felt now his mind has been away already for a while and that has lead to short term thinking.

At the same time we have Boyata, Ntcham and other key players who want to go who have at times seemed to be at odds with Brendan over perceived broken promises (see Dembele's twitter ).

Danny McGrain, a Celtic legend and member of coaching staff under Brendan, has come forward to say Brendan made up this story about them for his autobiography.

Its just emerging that he was a bit fake and it's all been coming out over the course of 48 hours while we're preparing for a big game.

I don't think anyone questions that Rodgers delivered value for Celtic it's more about being so careless in how he leaves us when he's claimed to care so deeply."
 
On what planet did people not already know Rodgers is firmly up his own arse and only looks out for himself? I’m more amazed at the shock people have at this.

He spent an entire reign at Liverpool making a complete tit out of himself.
 
On what planet did people not already know Rodgers is firmly up his own arse and only looks out for himself? I’m more amazed at the shock people have at this.

He spent an entire reign at Liverpool making a complete tit out of himself.

As a Leicester fan, I cannot wait - will certainly be more exciting than Claude. Seems we do best under tits (ahem) with the sole exception of Claudio of course...
 
The Danny McGrain story he makes up and then leads the applause for. The man is a complete knob.
 
well this was a fun read...


7-10th and go for it in the cups, be in position to try to nick 6th when Chelsea implode every few years.

well it took us 19 years but paybacks a bitch ain't it Celtic fans

Haven't followed Brendan Rodgers very closely have you?
 
FFS. The return of the uncomfortably dry lips and blindingly white teeth. I'll have to switch over for the post-match interviews on MOTD.
 
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Furious Celtic fans mistake Brendan Rodgers for effigy of Brendan Rodgers
 
"Think people are missing a few details here that might help them understand a bit more.

Firstly media are reporting Leicester were happy to wait until summer. Which means Rodgers pushed for a move in the middle of our season when we have a good deal more to play for this year than Leicester - when that opportunity for next year at Leicester wasn't going away.

Hardly anybody thought he was staying for 10 in a row - many thought he would go in the summer but most thought he'd see the season out for the treble-treble.

Secondly Rodgers spouted a lot of stuff about being a boyhood Celtic fan and loving the club and not seeing it as a stepping stone. He was worshipped. Then he left in one day and pretty much didn't say bye to the fans many of whom backed him strongly against the board in big tifos.

He's friends with people at Leicester and it seems he's been lined up for this and known it was a possibility. At the same time he's plugged multiple gaps within the team with 6 month loan signings who will soon go. We don't have a permanent manager now who can help look at and fix those gaps. It's felt now his mind has been away already for a while and that has lead to short term thinking.

At the same time we have Boyata, Ntcham and other key players who want to go who have at times seemed to be at odds with Brendan over perceived broken promises (see Dembele's twitter ).

Danny McGrain, a Celtic legend and member of coaching staff under Brendan, has come forward to say Brendan made up this story about them for his autobiography.

Its just emerging that he was a bit fake and it's all been coming out over the course of 48 hours while we're preparing for a big game.

I don't think anyone questions that Rodgers delivered value for Celtic it's more about being so careless in how he leaves us when he's claimed to care so deeply."
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Some views from Tims
Highly doubt hes welcome at celtic park ever again.

I hope his hair falls out and his teeth stain

Been said a few times today but the irony of him calling out a young kid after Motherwell 2 days ago on his lack of "integrity" whilst he himself was in the process of * on his own fans by leaving Celtic in the lurch is as rich as it gets....shocking hypocricy and it won't be forgotten

The man is a turncoat *. 2 months and he leaves with everyones blessing as the best manager in recent history. I think his ego is that big that he expected us to be happy and grateful we were blessed with him for this long. the man can go and * himself

Mo Johnston > Brendan Rodgers

I hope Vardy bangs his Mrs

He'll "give his life to Leicester" what an absolute ratfaced piece of *, have never wanted an ex player or manager to fail as badly as him going forward utter * *.

:D
 
To be honest, if I was in charge of the Leagues, I’d have attempted to combine the UK leagues in the age of High Speed Rail & Cheap flights.

The Premier League has destroyed Scottish football. It’s not PL arrogance. It’s just money.

Most runaway Championship sides would piss the SPL. Most competitive Championship sides would challenge for the league.

The Rangers relegation has shown that a 3-5 year period of adjustment would probably be acceptable for Celtic to equalise into sustainability into a UK league.

The SPL is a European irrelevance now and there’s zero chance that it ever arrests that slide.

If nothing else they could have instigated some form of protectionism in the decade passed and attempted to have a demand for X amount of Scottish players in SPL sides or match day squads.

It’s a monumental mess.

Edit : Shouldn’t need to be said, but Leicester would obliterate the SPL.

Rangers were liquidated, not relegated.
 
arrogance doesn't make you a good manager. always thought rodgers was overrated. would a bayern come in and offer him the job?

rodgers just cannot win in europe. his european record is abysmal. neil lennon. for example, is far better at motivating players.


edit after squarez left liverpool were fked, the way they were playing quite literally facing relegation, struggling to beat midtable swiss sides in europe, etc
 
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https://www.theguardian.com/footbal...leicester-watford-grateful-players-angry-fans

During six months in Hertfordshire a decade ago he guided a failing and relegation-threatened team to the safety of mid-table, making them not just more productive but considerably more entertaining, yet he is remembered primarily for boasting about his “loyalty” and “integrity” when dismissing links with the Reading vacancy in May 2009, only to join the Madejski Stadium club a matter of days later.
 
"Think people are missing a few details here that might help them understand a bit more.

Firstly media are reporting Leicester were happy to wait until summer. Which means Rodgers pushed for a move in the middle of our season when we have a good deal more to play for this year than Leicester - when that opportunity for next year at Leicester wasn't going away.

Hardly anybody thought he was staying for 10 in a row - many thought he would go in the summer but most thought he'd see the season out for the treble-treble.

Secondly Rodgers spouted a lot of stuff about being a boyhood Celtic fan and loving the club and not seeing it as a stepping stone. He was worshipped. Then he left in one day and pretty much didn't say bye to the fans many of whom backed him strongly against the board in big tifos.

He's friends with people at Leicester and it seems he's been lined up for this and known it was a possibility. At the same time he's plugged multiple gaps within the team with 6 month loan signings who will soon go. We don't have a permanent manager now who can help look at and fix those gaps. It's felt now his mind has been away already for a while and that has lead to short term thinking.

At the same time we have Boyata, Ntcham and other key players who want to go who have at times seemed to be at odds with Brendan over perceived broken promises (see Dembele's twitter ).

Danny McGrain, a Celtic legend and member of coaching staff under Brendan, has come forward to say Brendan made up this story about them for his autobiography.

Its just emerging that he was a bit fake and it's all been coming out over the course of 48 hours while we're preparing for a big game.

I don't think anyone questions that Rodgers delivered value for Celtic it's more about being so careless in how he leaves us when he's claimed to care so deeply."
Did like none of you look at him or listen to him speak? Just look at his teeth! Of course he's fake.

The sad part is he's probably loving all this extra attention doing this is getting him.
 
Top 20 Quotes (by Lord Brendan of Rodgers):


20. “After that opening 10 or 15 minutes, when they had a bit too much space behind our midfield, it was the near-perfect away performance.” (After losing 2-0 to Zenit St Petersburg)

19. “The last 18 months we have been on a magic carpet ride of development but we still have a lot of growth to make.”

18. “Joe Allen is one of the most courageous players I’ve seen.”

17. “I am the same guy who nearly won us the league, but better. I think I have shown in the early stages of my management – without being arrogant – that with a talented group of players I can compete at the top end of the league.”

16. “I use a quote with the players, “Per aspera ad astra”, which is Latin for ‘through adversity to the stars’.”

15. “We play with 11 men, other teams play with 10 men and a goalkeeper.”

14. “I started coaching for one reason and that was to make a difference for people, not just as footballers but as human beings.”

13. “I will leave no stone unturned in my quest – and that quest will be relentless.”

12. “They don’t have to sell. (Southampton) have a choice. Maybe Southampton’s objectives have changed. They were looking to be a Champions League club, I believe.” (Made in August 2014, with Liverpool finishing two points above Saints come May)

11. “I always say a squad is like a good meal. I’m not a great cook, but a good meal takes a wee bit of time. But also, to offer a good meal you need good ingredients.”

10. “There are two points: the first is I don’t feel any pressure, I can honestly say that. I have never felt anything other than secure.” (Rodgers was sacked within an hour or so)

9. “I’ve always said that you can live without water for many days, but you can’t live for a second without hope.”

8. “If he was a foreign player, everyone would be raving about him by now.” (He was talking about Jordon bloody Ibe)

7. “I believe a young player will run through a barbed wire fence for you. An older player looks for a hole in the fence, he’ll try and get his way through it some way, but the young player will fight for you.”

6. “It’s not just about training players, it’s about educating players. You train dogs.”

5. “When you’ve got the ball 65-70% of the time, it’s a football death for the other team. We’re not at that stage yet, but that’s what we will get to. It’s death by football. You just suck the life out of them.”

4. “If you spend more than £100 million, you expect to be challenging for the league.” (On Spurs after they sold Gareth Bale in 2013, spent £103million and finished 6th. Liverpool sold Luis Suarez the next summer, spent £117million and finished 6th)

3. On a Rangers fan approaching him while he was stuck in traffic: “He said: ‘I just wanted to say thank you for coming up to Scottish football. I’m a Rangers supporter but you are a breath of fresh air up here’.”

2. “It is great for the public here at Sunderland to see us. They must have been wondering what this team everyone is talking about are all about and now they have seen. We were wonderful.” (Sunderland had beaten Swansea 2-0)

1. “My biggest mentor is myself because I’ve had to study and that’s been my biggest influence.”


Source:
https://www.football365.com/news/outstanding-brendan-rodgers-top-20-quotes


Thing is Steve, that's exactly something you'd say when you're trying to take the piss, which further illustrates just how much of a walking parody Rodgers is. The man has a fecking portrait painting of himself in his house too. :lol:
 
One game in and already classic Rodgers, did anyone hear his " apart from the two goals we conceded, we didn't concede" comments!
 
Brentan has got a self portrait? haha, Dorian Gray style? Has he aged since getting the portrait?

More Dorian Orange..

it's gray

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“I always say a squad is like a good meal. I’m not a great cook, but a good meal takes a wee bit of time. But also, to offer a good meal you need good ingredients.”
Honestly if Shakespeare wrote that we'd be in a state of eternal gratitude. Beautiful words by a beautiful human being.
 
Thing is Steve, that's exactly something you'd say when you're trying to take the piss, which further illustrates just how much of a walking parody Rodgers is. The man has a fecking portrait painting of himself in his house too. :lol:
I've just read through that list, and I can't believe all 20 quotes are real. I genuinely thought SteveJ had placed a few parodies in there, but no, all genuinely quotes from Brendan Rodgers. That magic carpet quote:lol:
 
arrogance doesn't make you a good manager. always thought rodgers was overrated. would a bayern come in and offer him the job?

rodgers just cannot win in europe. his european record is abysmal. neil lennon. for example, is far better at motivating players.


edit after squarez left liverpool were fked, the way they were playing quite literally facing relegation, struggling to beat midtable swiss sides in europe, etc

Think it’s pretty harsh to criticise his European record.
This season they lost to AEK, who aren’t a bad side and then managed to scrape through an incredibly difficult group. Salzburg and Leipzig are both very good sides.

Lost to Zenit last year who are also a good side, won a team home. They had a ridiculously hard group in the CL and finished above Anderlecht, which realistically was the best they could expect.

Season before they again had probably the hardest group. Got 2 draws with Man City (who if I remember correctly, won 10 games in a row prior to the first draw)

I do think he is incredibly naive in how he sets his teams up in Europe at times. Realistically though, barring maybe beating AEK, what more could he have done given the opposition? I’m not a big Rodgers fan at all but his European record with Celtic was nowhere near as bad as you made out.
 
I've just read through that list, and I can't believe all 20 quotes are real. I genuinely thought SteveJ had placed a few parodies in there, but no, all genuinely quotes from Brendan Rodgers. That magic carpet quote:lol:


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I can win you the league
Shining, footballing splendid
Tell me Leicester, now when did
You last let your heart decide?

I can open your eyes
Take you wonder by wonder
Forwards, sideways and fowards
On a magic carpet ride

A Bren-dan world
My own fantastic point of view
No one to tell me no
Or where to go
Or say we're only dreaming
 
He'll be devastated if that massive portrait of himself has been nicked.