Brendan Rodgers Discussion Thread

Is he really going to stay the full season? I don't see the point. I would applaud him if he walked

 

Aye he takes responsibility for some poor results but I find it incredible that on a day like this, there's still people in here digging him out for the state we're in..

 

I wonder if the board still ‘bleed green and white’ them comments look * ridiculous even more so now. I’m still furious with Rodgers about the Almaty tie but I can share with others that he’s been shafted. Would love it if he walked and he come out with an interview. (Like Ronaldo did with that * Piers Morgan)

 

If Rodgers had done his job right in beating Kairat, we wouldn't be in this shitshow now.
220 minutes and we couldn't buy a goal against a team of farmers.
Starts Forrest and Yang in Kairat, and keeps them on the park for a full 70 minutes in that heat and altitude.
It was insanity. £40M down the pan.

 

If he has any balls walk. Send a message to these *.

 

I can agree he should have beat that mob with what we had but he still should have had at least 4 first team ready players in the door for the play offs.

I dont even like Rodgers(just find the football he plays unappealing) but he has been unnecessarily shafted. Like many managers before him

 

Are you * stupid?

We were in the biggest shitshow imaginable prior to any Champions League play offs.

Who else is he going to start?

£40million to add to the other £90million sitting in the account becoming victim to inflation.

Who cares?

Absolutely mental that there are Celtic fans, I’ll give you the benefit of the doubt on that one, on today of all days, that are focusing the blame on him.

 

He could have started either Nygren or Yamada on the right wing, don't make excuses for him.

The Board is equally to blame, but Rodgers carries the can for the Kairat shitshow.

The buck stops with the manager, mate.

 

It doesn't have to be one or the other, you don't have to pick a side, the board have * it with our recruitment and Rodgers has still been massively underperforming as a so called 'elite' manager. Hasn't got a result against the huns since this time last year we're just lucky everyone else took points off them so it didn't matter, the cup final against aberdeen, almaty are weaker than any team we'll face in the league but he can't change a thing to get the best of them, and they were missing their best players second leg.

 

He’s done it diplomatically most of the time, but it’s clear as day that he’s been fighting the board for quality signings all summer and probably going back to January. Whether that’s unwillingness on their part or just plain incompetence makes no real difference, they haven’t delivered and we find ourselves in a situation where things have gone very stale.

The squad is stale, and like 2021 is at the end of its cycle. If we had a functioning recruitment department, players like Hatate, CCV and Maeda could have been sold for profit, because we’d have younger replacements lined up to bring in. I know he walked himself, but for the time he was here I firmly believe that’s what Ange was trying to implement. And why he directly told the support not to get too attached to players. Selling JJ after 1 year for profit and replacing him with AJ being a good example. That’s how a team of our level and finances should be operated in order to continually grow. The key of course is having those replacements ready, which allow you to sell guys on for profit whilst still maintaining the competitiveness of the team.

Rodgers’ tactics are also stale. They’ve been found out and he steadfastly refuses to adapt them. That’s 5 games against the Huns without a win where we’ve played practically the same way each time. Kairat stifled us completely over 2 legs. We created basically nothing against Aberdeen in the cup final. The blueprint is there for just about any competent outfit to carry out. There’s a reason we haven’t won a meaningful match for the entirety of 2025.

Of equal concern is that there appears to be very little energy, enthusiasm or fight in the team. Star players like Maeda last season appear to be almost going through the motions. McGregor seems to have declined. The usually super consistent CCV is having some ropey moments in games. There are question marks over Tierney’s physical condition. The list could go on and on.

We severely lack pace. A front 3 of Maeda-Kyogo-Kuhn was very quick even at Champions League level, and was a big reason for our success last season. They tormented Leipzig in our best win of the season. Replacing those players with a seemingly unmotivated Maeda, an old Forrest, Yang and even Nygren playing wide at times is a massive drop off, not just in quality but in raw speed as much as anything. Our attack has looked far less threatening than at this stage last season.

And then back to Rodgers… how motivated is he going to be after not getting the players he wanted and knowing that he’s taking this group, who are clearly worse than last season into Europe, where it’s highly possible we’ll be on the end of some brutal results? The guy is 99% likely to leave at the end of the season and it’s sad that he hasn’t been given the tools needed to make it a memorable final one or build on last year’s UCL campaign.

I just can’t see anything other than a real slog now. We may well still win the league given how poor the rest of it is, but I doubt it’ll be done in any style. Lots of games like St Mirren at home and Aberdeen away await us I think.

 

I expect him to come out and state he knows how difficult it is to get deals done and how much work was going on in the background and he will work with the squad he has who are a great group of guys and can deliver a great season for the club.
I’d rather he was totally blunt and mentioned how this great club is being left behind due to total negligence from incompetent, greedy * who are money mad and don’t care about the life blood of the club, the supporters.

 

He’s been absolutely shafted, but if he comes out with some birthday card pish and backs the board then I’ve had it with him.

Have a * backbone and say they have * me here, I am going to try my very best to work with what I’ve got. Think every * and their dog would back him and get behind him.

 

Except the players? You really are asking a professional manager to come out and say that the people he's got to manage are absolutely dogshit, useless and then try to get something out of them for the next 3 months... He won't do that! If he did, he'd resign...

His press contact will follow the "disappointed, but tried" lines, but if you follow the specifics of the answers, and the nuance, you'll easily see him smashing the board.

 

This! 100%

 

Its just about retaining the title now for rodgers and lifting the squad.

He will need to recalibrate his ambitions and focus on slogging it out for the next few mpnths.

Im worried his approach isnt going to be effective with is swuad and he wont be willing to adapt.

Last time when questioned he gave the board plenty of cover and they have repaid him with contempt. So he will have to take his medecine there. He also tried to make the sale of idah his line in the sand moment but they * him over there as well which undermined him and made him look weak.

Needs to prepare the squad for a season of discontent and disharmony and make it a test of character for them.

 

How can anyone blame Rodgers for this at all.

The club knew for months before the window that Kyogo was away and he wasn't replaced - over two windows and three if he is not replaced in the next window.

Kuhn we knew was away and we knew jota was injured - time will tell if balikwisha or tounekti is up to it.

Despite missing our main striker in kyogo, we still had backup in idah, who we watched struggle since the start of the season. When rumours of him leaving came up, Rodgers said he couldn't go anywhere until he was replaced - the board made sure he was stitched up with that.

Them 3 players alone must have contributed between 30-60 goals a season for us. The board move them on without adequate replacements. Yet, some on here are scratching their heads as to why we are struggling scoring - REALLY!?

Rodgers has been 100% shafted here, we have been shafted and it's all at the hands of board

 

Hes defo to blame for some of the * especially against kazakh team.

He cant change his tactic, its just a sub for a sub, why he didnt gonwith another striker Ill never know, and hisbstyle of play is mind numbing. There is no way the team is playing that off their own back as every one of them do the same thing.

The board have * him too, no doubt, but he is nowhere blameless in all this, especially that kairat playoff.

 

At this stage I would judge him if he didn't go

If he stays he's clearly not too bothered himself.

 

I actually think walking now would repair the damage of walking the first time. Its the best thing he could do for the future of the club. This season is a disaster waiting to happen and the longer he stays the more the blame shifts from the board to him and he becomes the scape goat.

 

This is why we will never force change at the top too many of the support point the finger elsewhere despite the same failings under different managers and heads of recruitment the evidence is right in front of us.

Every time we've gone out in the qualifiers barring Arsenal it's been to a lesser side.

Tisdale will get sacked and join a list of those gone before him.

There is only 1 constant at the club throughout all the failings and it's not the manager or head of recruitment