Would you accept Rodgers back as manager?

This is where I'm at too. The style of football is also key for me. If he comes back playing front-foot high pressing stuff like his first 6 months I'll start to get fully on board.

 

Aye tbh, the Maresca chat was the one that worried me the most. He could turn out great, but it's an almighty risk handing this squad to someone who's last job was a failed stint in Italy.

 

What makes ange better? He won a double then a treble and got humiliated in Europe.

Rodgers won every trophy and navigated the qaulifiers with ease, then actually won us games in a harder champions league group.

Ange done very well with recruitment, but to say he's better than Rodgers is wrong. Will ange get Tottenham to 5th? Will he win then a cup? All with a better sqaud. We'll see but we all already know the answer. Better than him have tried and failed.

 

Ange is obviously a better manager, mate. If this question was asked a couple of weeks ago 95% of this forum would rate Ange higher. There's a reason Spurs opted for Ange and not Rodgers.

Don't forget Rodgers took over a team that had recently won the league and got to a CL Quarter Final, almost reaching the Semi's

 

7 trophies out of 7 including the treble two years running- one treble going the whole season unbeaten in domestic competition. We almost take trebles for granted now but Rodgers was the first since O'Neil to achieve it. There is no question whatsoever that Rodgers was a huge success here. His win percentage was 69%. Ange was 73% with almost 40 less games. Some of the football particularly in the first season was brilliant. Up there with Ange this season no question. He did well in Europe. Whilst before we had struggled in CL qualifiers he came in and breezed through them the first 2 seasons. We hadn't qualified for the CL for 3 years before Rodgers came in. In the one year we didn't qualify for the CL we got through our Europa League group and had European football post Xmas. He is far from a lazy appointment. What has Iraloa achieved? What would make him a better appointment? Knutsen there appears to he contractual issues that no club is willing to get around.

I will back him if he is announced as manager. I wouldn't be his greatest fan but I can only hope that he feels leaving as he did was wrong and he wants to make amends. I loved him first time around but as long as he brings success I will cheer and sing but it won't be the same love towards the manager but then who cares as long as Celtic win. If by all accounts he is going to be backed to the hilt financially then it could be a very interesting summer.

 

Ange had the harder job at Celtic. Had to rebuild the team from scratch and was up against a strongrr hun team.

 

Somebody that will produce the free flowing standard of football that Celtic are associated with, ideally similar to the style of the last 2 seasons but take it to the next level.
Who that individual may be, I don’t really know but I don’t the Rodgers is the man to take us to the next level as the standard of football under his tenure at the end wasn’t the standard we all hoped for.
Sorry it’s not the answer you wanted Brendan but this is a forum for people to express their opinions in a reasonable manner.

 

Also Ange had never managed in a professional league before and had to earn all his coaching badges on the job

 

Rodgers, Rodgers, that's the man for me
Rodgers, Rodgers on to victory
He's a fine upstanding gentleman,
I've never said otherwise,
He'll never give up till he wins the cup and the Scottish football league

 

I'd sooner accept Rodgers as manager than Congerton as chief scout.

 

Everybody missing the entire point of this, and that's MOTIVATION.

Plain and simple.

We offer the job to either Knutsen or Iraola, that's a progressive step in their career. It's a move they jump at if the conditions are right. It's a move Maresca literally bites someone's hand off for. Its a move Ange seized by the throat.

Rodgers, at heart, would prefer NOT to be here. If anyone thinks for a second that if he escaped the sack and we came in for him whilst he was the current Leicester manager, that he'd even consider it, your need your head checked.

Once again, Rodgers' reputation in the EPL has taken a battering. He's here to mend it again.

I know I know, fine and dandy some of you will say, as long as he wins this and that.

But what about the long term? What about after two seasons if he gets his EPL * on again, what will we be left with? What's left in the transfer kitty? What sort of squad are we left with this time?

As I've said countless times over the past three days, this move is short terminism, short sighted, myopic, and financially dangerous.

 

See on the matter of not selling Boyata. Having had a look through the transfers again, I can kind of understand why he was reluctant to let him go. How much was he going to get to replace him? Another loan or free transfer perhaps. A million or so to try and replace him?

I know some think he should have let him go and it was selfish to keep him, but at the end of the day, that goes both ways. A manager is judged on results. He needs the best players possible to achieve good results. If a manager simply lets the board sell the clubs best players, whilst getting buttons to replace them, he won’t be able to achieve what he wants to, so you can’t really blame him for being selfish and wanting to keep him when you see what he was being able to spend on the vast majority of players.

 

It reeks of lawell trying to get one over the mls they were meant to be raging about and mind they * the deal season earlier for midfield player Rodgers wanted


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Sounds like he thinks he is too good for us anyway sbd has better options…

good … and fuckim!

 

I have to be honest and say that I plain can’t stand the slimy egotistical * so that affects my opinion slightly!

 

Well said that man.

I can understand some of the negativity towards Rodgers, it's understandable.

But it's yes from me. We played some fine football in his first stint, and he's tactically clever.

Rodgers coming back is the other lot's worst nightmare, which is also fine by me.

 

Yes but a lot would also depend on how Ange does at Spurs. If he flops then it will be more difficult for managers in Scotland to attract attention from England. Rodgers on the other hand has already attract attention from England so he can bide his time until a more interesting position becomes available.

 

If he has offers after 2/3 seasons it likely means we've been winning the league and hopefully made progress in Europe, so I'll take that.

People talking about short sightedness etc. Who do they see coming in that's going to bring us success and is going to be part of a long term plan?