Brendan Rodgers Discussion Thread

Rodgers exit 'traumatic for everyone'
Shaun Maloney is already involved at Lennoxtown as the club's Professional Player Pathway manager, so he was asked about the mood in the wake of a dramatic day.

Maloney said, "In terms of Brendan as a guy and our relationship, just really positive. He gave me my first job in coaching so I'm really grateful for that. He's a brilliant guy, brilliant coach.

"The atmosphere in the training ground was good. Obviously today was difficult as you would expect. It was traumatic for everyone.

"Today, as best as I could with the other staff, it was just to bring a bit of stability and normality.

"The club have lost some brilliant people, which happens in football. It's a really difficult moment, but unfortunately you have to move on."












On Dermot Desmond and BrendanRodgers
Desmond's relationship with Rodgers publicly collapsed after an explosive statement on the Celtic website last night.

O'Neill said on it all, "I can't really comment on that. It's something outside my remit. Brendan has done terrifically well in both spells.

"Naturally I think it's the easiest thing in the world to say that when a club is successful everyone is going in the same direction. That doesn't seem to be the case at the minute.

"I wasn't expecting it, I didn't know what had been going on. Since I left 20 years ago, I haven't had that many conversations with Dermot Desmond, but it is quite sad to see. There is very little I can add to that.

 

Aye, so what I said is correct. He’s a liar and has a history of it. The board’s incompetence doesn’t absolve him or criticism.

This is all speculation without foundation. The board * up, but it’s due to incompetence rather than a malicious plot against Rodgers. As I said earlier, Rodgers was allowed to break our transfer spend record in both of his spells as manager so that doesn’t scream malice to me. They made an * of the summer window but it’s not because of any desire to see Rodgers fail.

I fully agree with you here.

 

Grow up. Everyone tells tall tales and lies at times. He told you and everyone else that was listening the truth about what was happening at the club this summer that’s the crucial truth.

We took in record transfer fees as well. The evidence was there that when he was backed even reasonably well within what the club could afford he delivered success and progress in Europe. That progress last season in the CL should have been built on.

Incompetence doesn’t explain what the rat Lawwell and co. did this summer. They didn’t want to work with him but instead of sacking him they just refused to continue to cooperate with him this summer and then when he resigned they could count on the likes of you to blame Rodgers and call him a liar etc.because he didn’t see out the 3 year contract. Incompetence doesn’t cut it, it’s impossible to be that incompetent. Wake up ffs.

Rodgers is gone. I’m not going to agree with you regarding his legacy. I still believe he wanted what was best for the club and he delivered on his remit as manager over most of his time in both spells.

The support in unison now must not rest until Lawwell and co. and their cowardly bullshit is gone.

 

“Grow up”

Get a grip of yourself, you’ve been proven wrong. Rodgers is a well documented liar. He complained about transfer activity over the summer, just like Ange and Lennon did before him. It’s nothing new.

Yep but he was still underperforming this season. The Kairat result was a disgrace. There’s no excuses for it.

Complete waffle. You’re just making * up here. It’s possible to be critical of Rodgers resigning, and also be critical of the board.

He undoubtedly did deliver on his remit, and I don’t doubt he wanted the best for Celtic. But he also ran away twice, leaving us in a state of turmoil. Criticism of that is warranted.

 

We’re not going to agree here. He was fooked over by the board and by Lawwell who in my opinion held a grudge against him from the first time around. It is impossible to be as incompetent as they were this summer. I think they sabotaged the team and put the season in jeopardy because they didn’t want to work with the manager anymore but they didn’t have the balls to sack him and instead went about engineering his decision to quit. They ended up keeping players who wanted to leave, buying players that the manager never wanted and lying about it to the fans.

Yes he quit again, but especially this time, he was entitled to quit given the utter bullshit from Lawwell and co.

Criticise him all you like. He’s gone.

Lawwell is still there. He and his cronies and their bullshit is still there. Going by the statement from the collective which I fully agree with, they will not rest until Lawwell and his cronies and their nonsense is gone.

 

An old man who’s had his feelings hurt

 

Rodgers leaving was the correct thing to do in the circumstances. I dont think he should take flak for that particular action. Its clear his position was intenable with board so either he left or he was getting pushed. Staying on to fulfill a promise was just hurting the team at that point.

 

There’s no logical reason they wouldn’t sack him if that was the case. It makes no sense. I don’t for a second believe there was any deliberate sabotage from the board, fantasy stuff.

Desmond claimed yesterday that Rodgers signed off on all players brought in, Rodgers has said that himself. We can surely take that at face value rather than speculating wildly about sabotage.

Lawwell and Rodgers not getting on is the only thing close to the truth there but I’m not buying that Lawwell would deliberately harm the club, he’s a Celtic fan too even if he is a *.

 

I think you can argue up and down who is telling the truth about what.

But when you boil down to why this happened the way it did - its really because desmond and co are feeling the heat from the support and the protests. They are getting worried about its impact. And they dont think rodgers is being sufficiently self sacrificing to take all the heat off them. Thats it really. Thats all they care about. Not who said what about which signing. They expect rodgers to take the bullets from the support for them.

You dont need to look any further than the difference in treatment of lennon who they let blunder on until the season was gone completely. Simply because lennon was desperate to cling to his job and offer the board unlimited cover.

Rodgers not being prepared to do that is what prompted desmond to step in i feel.

 

Surprised to see so much hatred at Rodgers. I think he done the right thing walking away.

Ironically i feel his success was plastering over the fact the board are not fit for purpose.
And the fact he was in place was the confidence we would still win the league this season.

Yes brendan needs to take a certain % of the blame, but its 70/30 in the boards favour.

The board will be loving this hate fest on Brendan

 

Not caught up with all of this thread, but Brendan was calling for the board to be braver in the transfer market after his second window in January. The issues probably started back then with him.

Don't get me wrong, I thought his time was up, but anyone coming in will face the same problems, unless they are a yes man.

 

Hopefully they won't be liking it for very much longer as now that Rodgers is gone there is no more cover for the fact that Desmond, Lawwell, Nicholson and McKay are a cancer on the club and the pressure and protests against them until they leave will continue and indeed ramp up hopefully.

 

Had Desmond not had his facebook maw rant on the website I think a lot more of the support would be almost back on side with the board. The shift was already happening people were fuming when the window closed acknowledging how poor the squad is that same poor squad went on to play poorly then it became "The manager has to get more out of the players he has" and ended up with folk calling for change.

 

* glee dripping out some of the * on here because our manager is away is sickening tbh. We're not going to get better.

 

Personally I have just as much contempt for Rodgers as I have for the board, just a shame it has ended so acrimoniously as he deserved to walk out with his head held high due to his achievements in the previous 2 seasons.

 

That’s would be a compelling point if Rodgers hadn’t resigned.