Brendan Rodgers Discussion Thread

Needs tae get the tap aff first

 

In the summer of 2016, Brendan Rodgers first walked through the doors of Paradise as Celtic manager and his opening task was to lift the first silverware available to create a bit of club history – it would be the Hoops’ 100th major trophy.

A few months later on November 27 of that year, that first task was completed, and the Irishman’s first trophy of his managerial career wasn’t only the club’s 100th, it was the springboard to an unparalleled Invincible Treble.

And when his Celtic team followed that up with a legendary back-to-back Treble success 12 months later, Brendan Rodgers created a second special piece of history that would forever mark his first time in charge at Celtic Park.

Now, the man who steered the club on that path to glory is back at the helm and aiming to increase the silverware tally even more after leading the club to seven out of seven domestic trophy wins in his first period in charge of Celtic.

Brendan Rodgers told Celtic TV: “I’m very proud and obviously very happy to be here, I want to say a massive thank you to Dermot and the board for taking me back, and everything feels so natural, I’m really pleased.

“The nostalgia is great, but it’s the past and hopefully from that period, what we achieved is set in concrete and will always be there.

‘But I’m here again to win, and look forward, and continue with that mentality, and to look to see if we can do something in Europe.’

“But there’s no doubt that happiness of being here played a huge part both professionally and personally,

“From a football perspective, we achieved and created history while I was here and the aim will be to continue with that mentality going forward.

“But also outside of the field, my family and everyone associated with me had great happiness of their time here, so that made it pretty straightforward in terms of wanting to come back. Our life outside of football was incredible, and Scotland and Glasgow was amazing for us.

“So from a professional perspective and from a personal perspective there was a real happiness for us to come back.”





The manager added: “It will be the first job that I’ve come into where the team and club is on a high. When I’ve gone into previous roles, it’s been different situations. So I think Ange has done a fantastic job here over the last couple of years, culminating in finishing with the Treble. It’s a fantastic achievement.

‘What you have is a young hungry squad who, if they keep that mentality, then they can continue to achieve.’

“And I think Europe is always a big factor for this club. Can we develop the team to do something in Europe? Domestic football is always important, it’s the bread and butter, being dominant here in Scotland, but, of course, it’s transferring that into Europe and seeing if we can achieve something in there.”

Hoops fans know the brand of football that Brendan Rodgers delivered before, and the success it brought, and it looks like they can expect more of the same stylish, attacking football this time around as well

The manager added: “What my commitment has always been is to attacking, aggressive football. In my last time here we were able to achieve that, especially playing so many games.

“So I think my commitment is always to be an attacking team, to be an aggressive team and to be a winning team.

“That’s always the promise I make.”




And in the middle of all that, helping to turn defence into attack will be Callum McGregor – a hero of that magnificent run of trophies under the Irishman the first time around.

Brendan Rodgers said: “He was pivotal back then, just seeing a young player develop. I’ve obviously seen him when I left and just seeing him continue to make that growth was really pleasing.

“And I have to say he was a big part of my decision to come back as well, because I had a lunch with him for a few hours in Majorca, and just understanding the squad and where it was at and what he felt the club was at, he gave me some great feedback that the group is hungry, it’s young and ready to keep pushing forward.

'And for me Callum’s an absolutely brilliant player on the pitch, his brain, his view of the game is right up there with the very, very best I’ve ever worked with.'

“He’s robust, he plays many games, he’s the ultimate professional, but within that he has a great humility. So I’m absolutely delighted that coming back here, he’s the club captain."

 

Ma wee Granny would be all flustered if she was still here

 

Directly cites the transformation of our scouting/recruitment system under Mark Lawwell and Michael Nicholson compared to his previous time here.. in that interview.

 

Callum going out to Majorca is very interesting. Much more positive in the longer interview talking about how the recruitment team has improved massively since his last time and saying he's not here to be nostalgic

 

Noticed that. Also just how highly he rates Calmac and how influential he was in selling where we're at as a club.

 

Is it not more likely Cal was on holiday in Majorca and met up with Brendan?

 

He managed us well when we had CL qualifiers to play, I'm hoping he will have us set better when we don't have them and he has more time to spend wit hthe players and hopefully bring them all up a level.
Honestly think we could win a European trophy with BR if we spend well

 

Greg Taylor told me the other day that Callum says he's brilliant, so he's buzzing to work with him.

He also said "I hope Brendan sticks with the inverted fullbacks."

 

Strategic excursion.

 

I like the way he talks about the players like they are actual people and not pieces on his chess board.

 

The aims that he outlined directly align with the reporting by McGowan..

Obviously maintain domestic dominance as the bread and butter of the club, but strides need to be made in Europe.

 

Hope you warned him of the dangers of Western propaganda and microscopic silicone chips.

 

This, for me, is why he needs to come out and give some sort of response to it, then say nothing again about it.

I think he does owe the support a sort of "sorry" even if not an actual "apology".
But he needs to do it in a way where he comes off well, doesn't show any disrespect, but is firm at the same time to have a line drawn under it.

Then move on.



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TC needs a dislike button for posts like this.

 

Not sure why, but I like the long interview a lot more. Feel quite positive about that. As others have noted, it's very interesing that CM flew out to have lunch with him!

 

That exact destination in the exact 1 week we were trying to persuade him to rejoin?

 

Well he's more or less confirmed James Forrest will be out the door in that interview

 

Cal was on holiday the week after the cup final, we know that. So he either interrupted his holiday to fly out to another holiday destination to have lunch with Brendan or he happened to be on holiday somewhere close by and met up with him.

edit he also said recently, Cal was on international duty from last monday.