Brendan Rodgers Discussion Thread

It didn't happen because their clueless dinosaurs who are entirely reactive.

They clearly expected Rodgers to come in wipe the floor domestically, and keep results respectable in Europe. Hence the summer window. It was the same old board attitude of "you've more than enough to win the league and get the odd result in Europe".
They expected a feel good factor from performances and the Ange factor to keep on steaming ahead with Rodgers and the current squad. You could even see their reactions before and at the AGM, still telling us, like the Tory * they are, we know what's good for you, sit down and be silent you plebs. We've spent x
We're not gonna make the CL every year.

The only thing that motivates that Dr Robitnik egg headed * is embarrassment and poor media coverage of HIS tenure.

In the space of weeks there's been a sharp U-turn on the * coming out from them.

Rodgers has been made to believe he's playing peacekeeper in this situation. But Desmond has his hand up his * playing him like a puppet. Now it's quality quality quality, that was always the plan. The board are behind me.

Patchy domestic form, out of the LC, Sevco closer than they should be, and a humiliating CL have them scrambling, and not for the first time. The fans have once again spotted and called them out for their lack of ambition, the media is calling them out too, with Celtic pundits and neutrals questioning the job they're doing. Throw into that the GB debacle, and this is what is always turns out to be.... Throwing us a bone to keep us shut for a season and a half. Then back to point zero again.

The common cycle with these * is always the same. Never changes.

Rodgers can yap all * day about getting quality in all he wants. He may even believe it, and think he's getting it.
But whilst we're operating a 25 year old transfer policy and wage cap, we're going nowhere. In fact we're sliding down the pecking order in European football fast.

 

We don’t have the wage cap anymore, and the transfer policy is anything but consistent it changes on a whim and a thought rather than a thoroughly planned out strategy, with built in targets to be able to grow that strategy onto greater things. Like, say Brighton or that. They do that.


We’ve changed ours about 5/6 times in ten years. My favourite strategy was the one where Ange would boot them straight in the baws if they didn’t bring his players he wanted in immediately with zero * about.

The wage cap thing but, that went Rodgers first season first time round. And with all the contracts start of this season, nobody has a clue about our wage structure at all

 

How far should the Huns be behind us anaw btw? Think it’s what 8/9 points the now? And we’ve got most of the more difficult away games out the road, with them having the more cushty home ones. With the second round of games switched about, that gap will grow as well. 8 points of a gap being deemed not enough in * November/December is bullshit, how many times have we gained that gap by now we usually pull away December start of Jan

 

So you don’t think our summer window was down to a lack of ambition? Rodgers is as much as telling you it is as well.

The board are the ones causing the division in the club ya rocket. Fans are fed up with them. Well most fans are anyway.

 

No I think it was one of those windows where we missed out on our top targets. We didn't just not try. It happens.

The point is though, this incessant need for absolute uproar by fans like yourself is making the teams path back to top form more difficult. Sure if we make an * of it in January there will be cause to question the club, but when the team are struggling the last thing they need is division within the support.

 

Just one of those windows? It’s not just one of them though, this is why the fans are fed up. We’ve had many windows like the summer one. This one just felt worse because of the position we are in financially.

The Uber Celtic pish is pretty pathetic in my opinion by the way. Why do we need to wait to the next window to question the board? Guaranteed if we do have a poor January, fans like you will just then say wait until the summer. Rinse and repeat. The horse has already bolted come January as well. We were handed our best ever CL draw this year. A very kind draw where with some ambition in the summer we could have maybe even got through it. Instead, we have a dead rubber to come in our last game.

 

I tried my best, but it's a pointless endeavour. Fans like yourself will believe what they want regardless. Finer detail is overrated anyway

 

Name one player we've paid over 40k a week to in the past decade? That's a wage cap. Unofficial or not.

Name a player we paid over 10m quid for in the past 20 years, or even over 8m without a loan deal first? That's a fixed transfer policy. Unofficial or not.

We're paying the same wages and transfer fees we were 20 years ago.

NOTHING has changed.

Zero idea why you would try to nitpick and present a counterpoint to the reality that the fees we receive for players have skyrocketed, but the fees we spend on players have stayed static. Or that we don't have an official wage cap, when one is clearly in place, and one that quite possibly prices is out of players signatures.

 

I’m not making things up. It’s in black and white in the accounts. I’m not the one doing all sorts of mental gymnastics as to why we can’t be better.

 

No you just don't want to acknowledge reality in that, as hard as we try to bring good players to the club, sometimes it just doesn't happen. Legitimate reasons for that get ignored in favour of accusations of the club lacking ambition and penny pinching. Lazy thinking or addiction to outrage, maybe a bit of both.

 

It doesn't happen sometimes, but most often. Too often to be a coincidence, and cannot be explained by poor finances either.

 

Be gone by Christmas

 

If boys like Yang are the best we can do then we have major problems.

 

Slow Boring and predictable football. The exact same type of football Leicester was playing before he was sacked .

And all this nonsense about we will see Rodgers real team after the next transfer window is a lot of pish .... Rodgers has never really been great recruiting and identifying players .

Under ange the players mindset was we don't stop . Under Rodgers the players mindset is we don't want to be here.

He betrayed celtic and stopped our chances of 10 in a row when he left .... now he's back he is ruining the type of football the fans were enjoying

 

They are not the best we can do, don't try and change the goalposts.

 

The exaect reason why we shouldn't have brought him back. His football is * and he couldn't organise a * up in a brewery.

 

It’s you that’s defending the recruitment neeb. Who the * is scouting boys like Yang and Kwon?

 

The *'s neeb? There's a difference between legitimate anger and criticism over shocking performances, and greeting constantly about recruitment and bashing the club. Was a cert * like you were goanny try and use this bad run of form to try legitimise your own toxicity. Could smell it coming a mile away.

 

Hope so.

 

Sack this loser