Brendan Rodgers Discussion Thread

Still can't bring myself to sing his song. Maybe if we reach the playoffs.

 

Brendan Rodgers has joked he wants the Champions League to end NOW for Celtic to face Bayern Munich in the final.

The Hoops boss watched as his side ripped Slovan Bratislava apart in front of a packed out house in a 5-1 thrashing. There were five different scorers in Liam Scales, Kyogo, Arne Engels, Daizen Maeda and Adam Idah and the manager was chuffed with how his stars performed. Rodgers claims he could feel before kick-off that there was a special evening ahead with the atmosphere rocking from the get-go.


And after his side put their foes to the sword in a high-scoring affair, the Northern Irishman pointed to the table where Celts sit second early doors behind Munich who destroyed Dinamo Zagreb 9-2 in last night's opening fixture


Rodgers chuckled: "Yeah the competition stops now, we play Bayern Munich in the final! But it was a great night for everyone, I thought you just sensed it before the game


The feeling in the crowd. I'm so proud of the team, the intensity we played with and without the ball was so good. It was a great night."

 

Hahhahahahhha he cracks himself up. Love him

 

He’s found his “mojo” again.

Wont lie when I feel like he was just going through the motions last season, Feel like he’s zoned back into being a manager this season.

 

I backed him as a coach from the day he came back; but he has surprised me as a person TBH. Like you, I think he could be earning more money elsewhere and like you, I think he showed real courage to come back. Then, when he was badly let down by last summer's transfers and didn't have enough time to get his ideas across due to the Australia thing, we really made last season harder for him than it needed to be.

He got us through it (I agree that most managers wouldn't have), didn't throw the toys out when he wasn't getting much love, didn't panic when things weren't going well. He must be a Celtic fan to put himself through all that for less money than he could get in Saudi.

 

A few weeks ago, not sure what match it was now, could have been v sevco.

3-0 up & only a few mins left to play & Brendan raging & players arguing over a throw in.

4-1 up tonight similar desire.

When you see that ruthless winning mentality, you know the core is right.

 

Understand the resentment of some , as I have little time for anyone who leaves Celtic just for money.

None of us will likely know the full story.
Regardless, its a fact no matter how thin the mixture there's always at least 2 sides to an omlette.
Very dissapointed but personally never felt that resentment with him, think he was at best naively encouraged & allowed to look sideways by most likely Peter Lawell.

Personally feel , John McGinn not being snapped up before villa came in, was a big let down for him, a lack of ambition shown by board /Lawell. PL who is essentially an accountant, a Good one maybe very good one but an accountant.

Anyway Delighted for Brendan & Celtic.

No great time for him, but in respect well done to Dermot Desmond who by press accounts was the driving force getting Brendan back.

 

Where’s that wee snivelling weasel Patrick Bateman.

 

Aye, I was one of them who resented him, majorly. Absolutely in love again now

Don’t even think he’s been giving the usual “Brent” sound bites, seems a much more serious and focused manager this time round.

 

He's got us playing on a different level..

We just need to be a bit more clinical in our remaining CL matches as we won't get the chances we did last night.

 

You knew at HT he was going to make the right adjustment and say the right thing to turn that first half into a rout.

Like 100% confidence.

In the past we’ve had managers that would go into that HT and not know what to do and the opposition manager would shift things about and come back at us, but you knew that wouldn’t happen last night.

This is how it should always be for us. You get a good manager in and you back him and this is what you get. We did it with Ange and we are finally doing it now with Rodgers.

 

Killed the room stone dead as well

 

What a guy man. He has us off to a flyer so far aswell.
That result really settles the players nerves now for the CL campaign. Our biggest test yet this season and we won 5-1

 

100% wasn’t right last season. I think the transfer window * him off and he felt he was here to babysit for a couple of seasons.

Something seemed to change around January. I think he’s went to the folk in charge and just said things need to change and they’ve backed him, especially by chucking Lawwell.

The renewed champions league has probably helped energise him too.

 

Say it again. He is the best manager we could hope for. We’re just lucky that he is a fan, because I think deep down that’s why he came back. Ange’s swashbuckling style was good for domestic football, but Rodgers is absolutely streets ahead of him tactically in my opinion. A bit of backing, a level of ambition and look what can happen. Back this man and keep him here for many years to come.