Brendan Fraudgers!

i agree with you there but if man city dont want to sell roberts then we dont have the money to change their mind.They obviously still rate him highly and will be wanting to loan him to a epl team to see if he is worth offering another contract for. I honestly think you will see paddy at liverpool in a few years when the inevitably sell salah for £600million

 

Think Armstrong will go, couldn't see him leave for less than 5mil, jozo, bitton, Gamboa, Allan, ciftci, sviatchenko, de vries I would sell and could see us selling. Them plus their wages would easily be another 6-7mil. May have some youngsters going out on loan or released too as we sometimes get most years.

 

I don't think I ever understood the De Vries contract extension. They didn't even wait half a season to give it to him, I would take £500,000 for him but being 37 won't help us shift him. With Ciftci I would hope for £500,000 but he didn't do well when returning to Motherwell.

 

Take what we can get and free them from the wage books. We have a huge surplus of cash. Anything we make and free up from so called deadwood is a bonus

 

Achievements so far ,Invincible season domestically,
11 "OF" Games without defeat , He's not just beating them he's humiliating them two 5-1's a 4-0 and a 5-0 to lift the 7inarow title against the huns , 4 victories at Ibrox.8 victories at Hampden.
2 Champions League campaigns
6 trophies out of 6.
onwards...:brendy: we can get better and have another goal for the team next season , improve in Europe , Skelp the huns and the treble TREBLE.

 

I first have to say I didn't read any replies to this because it involves so much about our place in the world and the misunderstanding of the financially doped teams. Ok, get this out of the way first, EPL commentators say it was easy for Brendan, we have no opposition since Rangers died. I'm sure Wigan reached Cup Finals and Leicester won the league in a league getting paid the best money.

I don't want to get into a rage about technical ability because I understand it too well in all aspects of life but just for one moment I have to say a lot of so called experts are very one dimensional.

I wish our Roberts was like Barca's Roberto, he was offered many times to leave the B team on loan to a team were he would be a name on the team sheet. He said no, I know I am good enough, I will stay with the B team and one day you will see. Denis Suarez made a great loan move to Sevilla, he stood out in the crowd but Roberto was looking far ahead like McGregor, he knew he was brilliant and now it's coming to fruition, Callum went on loan but his heart is Celtic and that is why he has moments of magic, same for Roberto who decided to play in the B team. These are the guys who are special, who play special when they play for the club they love more than money or fame, it's all about being a fan.

Ok so Paddy will have interesting travels and I wish him the best but the best come to Celtic, you think Brendan 45 yr old manager is risking is future here? He is making his future here. Just like Paddy should have done like Roberto.

Brendan is a bigger fan than me, he's in the moment of his life. If we could dream of a manager who could make magic happen it's him but wow he's already done something special at home, imagine if he took us to the last 16? I would not like to be the opposing manager that night

 

Celtic through and through, he's living the dream as they say doing it for Tommy Burns with the style and panache we are known for and if he does the 10 he will be Immortal. the messiah.

 

If we have £30m in the bank we need to start spending it now and buying quality not promising players unless they are cheap and squad players.

We definitely need a leader in the centre of defence to replace Boyata, someone who can keep the shape organised and isn't prone to blunders. I know players like that are in demand but we are demanding one now. If Brendan is here for two more years he's going to have to get the right players together before he sets about teaching them a system which will enable us to compete with teams for a last 16 spot say. That is going to take a lot of training and game play so the players know each others movements instinctively.

This is our big chance, we've been gifted a world class manager and coach and he's going to leave one day and we're not getting such quality again. So let's get things rolling and sort out the defence cause once that is tight our creative and attacking players should see a lot more of the ball. Plus a good defence helps the keeper too. I don't like to criticise any of our players but there is no way Boyata is at the level we need if Brendan's dream team is going to become reality.

 

Promising quality like Dembele and Ntcham would do me

 

Aye I totally agree but I have issues about a main CB. We need a leader, someone who's already proven he can handle pressure, keep the shape in order and generally give us a feeling of assurance that will enable Dembele and Ntcham to flourish. I am convinced it's our defensive inconsistency and Boyata's bottle crashing randomly that is destabalising the team. Ok I know we just won back to back trebles but next stop Europe, we've shown we can raise our game when the pressure is on, now we have to raise it in Europe and we need a strong defence for that.

Promising players we can buy if they are creative attacking types. The defenders can't make any mistakes so we have to make sure they're past promising and are proven. I'm actually quite happy with our attacking players, I think Brendan could get them playing with flair and confidence but confidence starts at the back. No point having Rogic, McGregor and Dembele and Tierney in your team if the opposition find it quite easy to score.

 

THOSE who know him best say that Brendan Rodgers has never been one for late nights.

And as for the demon drink, even as a young coach there was never much danger of him being caught off guard and under the influence.

He does drink, a bit, and according to eyewitness accounts, the Celtic manager sipped away at not one but two while glasses of champagne after the Scottish Cup Final. For him this is the equivalent of drinking the entire carry out.

What Rodgers does is work. All the time. Obsessed might not be too strong a word to describe how he, backed by his coaching staff, operates. He is in at the training ground at first light to plan the day’s training and few are still there when he heads home.


Footballers get bored easily. For a group of people living inside such a luxurious bubble, they actually don’t like a regimented regime, at least when it comes to what happens between the actual matches.

Rodgers knows this. It is why he, Chris Davies, John Kennedy and Stevie Woods have pledged to make sure that training at Lennoxtown is interesting, because interested players tend to be winning ones. Bored ones not so much.

This is the drive, the hunger he so often speaks about. Sure, things have gone well but “a bad time is just around the corner” is his mantra which he’s spoken about so often over the past two years.

Three days after the first treble, he began to worry about complacency. Even before Motherwell were beaten earlier this month, the players were called in and the theme was that standards would not be allowed to drop.


It’s a case not so much of if he knows the club history. It’s more that he’s far more intrigued about making more of his own.

The Celtic manager is not one for looking back when there is so much work to do tomorrow. However, even he, you get the impression, will for a week or so bask in what is history.

Rodgers isn’t a robot, which is why he has enjoyed this success more than the last one. As he said himself, he will probably be long gone when the achievements of these last two seasons genuinely sink in.


But the manager is not immune from allowing himself a feeling or pride and joy at the remarkable job he had done.

“The Scottish Cup final was a special day for everyone,” said Rodgers in an interview which is in today’s Celtic View.

“It will probably take time for me to enjoy it. We’ve got to the end of a really long season and achieved three trophies and created history, so it’s a special feeling.

“It was a great day for Celtic. You think of the whole history of this great football nation, players and managers, and to be the first team to do it back to back is a phenomenal achievement.

“I said to the players beforehand that there aren’t too many days you wake up in your life and you have a chance to create history. We had an opportunity to make it a day in their lives they will remember, along with the supporters, so let’s go and take the opportunity and if we can do that then it will be a really special achievement.

“I grew up with stories of Hampden in the sun and that Saturday it was in sunshine. We had three quarters of the stadium and we’ve given them a number of weeks to really go and celebrate.

“It will go down in history and, for all the people here, this day will stay with the forever.

"My thoughts are with the supporters, the players, all the staff and the board that brought me in a couple of years ago. I'm so happy for them that they can enjoy this.

"It is for the supporters. We can be nothing but inspired by the Celtic support and their commitment to us - wherever we go, they are always there.

"To give them a day like a couple of Saturdays ago and overall a moment in history gives me real satisfaction."

That Celtic were going to make history at Hampden was all-but secured the moment the ball left Callum McGregor's 'weaker' right foot and ended in the top corner of Motherwell's net.

This academy graduate has become some players. Unlike Kieran Tierney, it took a while for him to establish himself. However, Rodgers always knew he had a gem on his hands.

He said: "Callum is a brilliant player and he's just got better and better in the time I've been here with his confidence.

"What he does is he steps up in the big games and gets goals. His right foot strike in the cup final was phenomenal and that set us into a good moment in the game.

"We have played different style and different tactics and Callum is very tactically aware. You only need to tell him something once and he gets it. And he has en eye for goal.

"Callum has come through as a young player into the first-team and in the biggest games, he produces. His job is to score goals, create goals and press the game when he doesn't have the ball and he does all those things to a very high consistency. I'm delighted for him.”









BRENDAN Rodgers has told his history-making players that he will push them even harder next season to make sure they get better.

The Celtic manager once again warned against his double treble winning squad going “soft” and insisted that will never be allowed to happen under his watch.

The players report back for training in mid-June to begin preparations for the start of the Champions League campaign which will begin with a qualifier on July 12 or 13.

Rodgers could hardly ask for more in terms of trophies, having won six out of six, but there is room for improvement in terms of the football Celtic play and, of course, there is a need to better in Europe.




The Northern Irishman said: “We weren’t quite as good as we were last season and so I need to push the players even harder next season, starting from when we come back on June 18 but to secure the three trophies and do it in the way we’ve done it is really special, and I’m just happy for everyone connected with Celtic.

“They are getting their rewards for that focus and concentration on their work. They come in and never have a lazy day.

“We push them and I’m going to push them even harder for next season. It was tough for us this year but, again, it will be tougher next season so we will need to keep improving.

“When you come back off a really successful season like last year, it is so easy to go soft, timid and not have the same aggression. That was something I was very aware of from the beginning of the season.




“For teams like ourselves, it’s not so much the punches to the head and body that stop you, it’s the pats on the back. So we haven’t given out too many of them and we have to continue the work.

“I think the spirit of the team is strong. There is a mentality throughout the team to get better, and that’s important. We can never be satisfied.

“In this cycle, in this era that we’re in, for however long that is, we have to be hungry to succeed.”




Rodgers was keen to stress that such utter domestic dominance wouldn't diminish his hunger to make Celtic as good a club and team as possible while he is around.

He said: "Being the best I can be in my time here drives me. This is a club I have an affinity with a close bond with.

"I understand what the supporters want and you want to be as successful as you possibly can, so that when the day comes that I get moved on from here or whatever happens, at least I know whatever happens I've given Celtic absolutely everything.

"I like to develop players individually and that consequently will improve players, hopefully. It's a constant thing for me."

 

Brendan Rodgers' Swansea were promoted to the EPL on this day back in 2011:



Always been a top manager.

 

first welsh club to do it if im not wrong?

 

Interview saying he knows standards slipped and some players weren’t giving 100%, looks like a few could be gone.

‘Some Players’ Haven’t Been Working Hard Enough – Brendan Rodgers
By CeltsAreHere - May 31, 2018

BRENDAN RODGERS has told Celtic fans that some of the slackness that crept into their game in the double treble season won’t be happening next term under his watch.

The Celtic manager spoke of how great a season Celtic had with trophies but acknowledged that maybe not everyone was pulling their weight all the time.



The Irishman seems ready to weed out any underperformers in his side as he looks to negotiate through FOUR Champions League qualifiers before the season has properly started.

“We didn’t achieve all of our goals but certainly we achieved our main ones, in terms of qualification for the Champions League. That was a good focus for us at the start of the season.” the manager told the Celtic View.



“We had a fantastic season in terms of winning the trophies, but there’s no doubt the effects of last season meant there were some moments when we didn’t defend well enough or run hard enough; not every player, but some players.

“We didn’t press the game as well as we wanted. We were able to find a way to get through the games when it didn’t happen – but it won’t happen next year. We know we need to play at a greater intensity more often.”

 

Be difficult to achieve though, 59 games in 2016/17, 61 games in 2017/18, limited time off in the summers - almost everyone in the squad an International. Players are probably at breaking point and won't be capable of going full tilt all season across all compeitions like we did in 2016/17 when we were 'fresh'.

Tough job, the only way we'll likely get to have a good domestic season would be if we get knocked out of Europe in the qualifiers but then theres the calamity of that, but if we reach the Group Stages of Europe then we have 14 European games before Christmas and the players will be run into the ground and take their foot off the gas domestically.

 

If I was a Celtic player I’d be slightly worried just now looking back over the season, was a fantastic outcome but I can’t imagine Rodgers will be letting them rest at all next season

 

It’s a fair point but if we make the right signings in the correct positions then I can’t see why we won’t be stronger domestically and in Europe. Yes the Champions League was a riot at times but there was glimpses of good performances. The main thing is the qualifying rounds as has been posted the route to the groups is a mine field.