Brendan Rodgers Discussion Thread

It’s his normal 3 year cycle and the football is becoming stale while stubbornly holding back the team with his selections.

 

While those tight arsed grey men on the board have fecked our club with their backward thinking approach to running a modern day club, I feel that Rodgers tactics and team selection has been very poor. Yes, he hasn't a lot to choose from but playing both Yang and Forrest from the start was wrong and he should have injected some pace up front earlier when the opposition were clearly tiring. So, he has now been outthought by Ferguson who's previous managerial role was with the likes of Clyde and a guy who was a Junior boss less than 2yrs ago. Not great is it?

 

Brendan Rodgers admits Celtic will need to hold an inquest into the summer transfer window shambles that’s cost the club a £40m Champions League bonanza.




The Hoops boss was left devastated after the embarrassment of crashing out at the play-off stage following shootout agony against Kairat after two goalless slogs with the Kazah champs.



Daizen Maeda, Adam Idah and Luke McCowan all missed from the spot as Celts were sent tumbling into the Europa League.



Rodgers admitted he understands fan frustration at the club’s failure to replace key men Kyogo, Nicolas Kuhn and Jota for the crunch clash.



Michel-Ange Balikwisha and Mareclo Saracchi will check in on Wednesday – but it’s too late as far as punters are concerned.

Rodgers said: “Listen, it's very frustrating. We all know where we want to get to. We showed last year with the strides I felt we took.


But we have to build on that. The last thing you want to be in football is to manufacture your own stress.

“That's what you don’t want to be doing. We now have to look at where we're at as a football club and decide what way we want to go.

"At this moment in time, we can still have a very good season. The Europa League, some would say we deserve to be in that this year, but for me, to go in with this group of players, see what the remaining days in mind will bring, and then we'll go in with the game at the weekend.”






Rodgers was sold short going into a showdown and admitted players had to be in the door sooner.

He said: “I always think that investment is great, but it has to be a timely investment. It has to be at the right time. I think at this moment in time, we've just lost a game. Like I say, this group of players have given everything.

“We're obviously being limited to what we could do in the game at the moment, but like I said, they gave everything.


We just couldn't find good moments of quality to break through. We have to accept that. I’m concentrating at this moment in time on the game. Like I said, it was a poor game.

“Last year we made some great strides, we had a hint of what we could do at that level, and with a great respect this was a great opportunity for us to get back there.

“Sadly, there was plenty of endeavour, plenty of honesty, but the Champions League is a wee bit more than that.


Celtic failed to find the net in two brutal ties with Kairat and paid the price for a lack of a cutting edge in the final third.

Rodgers admitted the games were brutal and lamented the lack of quality.


He said: “It was a real low-quality game, if I'm honest. Obviously the pitch was awful, but still we had opportunities to score, it wasn't a really good level. We can have no excuses from the other two games, we've defended well enough, been strong and resilient in all those things we needed to be, but they just lacked that quality and that precision at the top end of the field.

“We had other opportunities, but we couldn't just make the play through, and if you don't, you risk it going either way.

“It's hugely disappointing. I really feel for the supporters who travelled all the way to be here, the effort and commitment that they have shown to be here.


We're petrified and disappointed for them as well as ourselves, because the Champions League is a wonderful competition."

 

Bullied at home by Barry Ferguson - a guy with not even a full braincell in his cranium, and alsp being a failed blackpool and CLYDE manager.

Elite my *....

 

He got us out the league phase of the CL and then had us going toe to toe with Bayern Munich. Last season was the first time we’ve not been the laughing stock of the champions league in about 12 year. It was clear he learned from the BVB game last season and made the proper adjustments.

Tonight is a black marker against him because even with our pish squad we should’ve had enough to beat him, but I’d blame the recruitment, or lack of, more than I would the manager.

I’ve said it pretty much since he came back, folk couldn’t see past the way he left last time around and I suspect some of our support couldn’t wait for a major * up like tonight so they can get torn into Rodgers.

 

Who do you bring in to change it? Especially when the board won't back the coach? Root cause of issues not fixed

 

Just walk. No sensible fan would blame him.

 

Who will do a better job with our attacking options right now and a board who impose austerity on a manager?

 

See if he GENUINELY hasn't been backed appropriately, that's one thing.

But.....bear in mind this is the same man who has continually told us that HE is the one and only man who signs off on ALL signings.

Therefore, he can't blame the players he has at his disposal on anyone else, unless of course he was telling fibs?

He's a charlatan of a manager.

 

Getting drawn against 3 of the worst teams in the competition helped and even then we nearly * it against young boys.

It's got no so much to do with how he left, a lot of comments at the time of him coming back were regarding the *, turgid, boring, horseshoe of death football we had to watch for his last year or so and for vast majority of the 2 years since he's been back that's what we've been watching.

 

Would actually get a bit more respect of he did and blamed the board

 

He's done. Barring some drastic investment in the next week, it wouldn't surprise me if he walked away again.

Not his biggest fan but it would be a terrible look for a club already in a bad state. We would be scraping the barrel trying to find a replacement as well.

 

Its going to be a long flat season.

 

Same as his 3rd season in his first spell.....

 

He's not immune from criticism btw..

How about a wee change of system , when you don't have the players available..

We were arrogant, boring and easy to play against and a lot of thats on him.

 

Do we still win a treble?

 

I think he is also a big part of the problem. He cant be trusted with money. We are looking at a Carson copy of his last season leaving after a dreadful squad.

His record of signings is insanely bad. We are in a mess and will need to get as lucky we got when Ange joined

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Exactly.

If you cannie get any joy out of a lone striker at CP against a team who sit back, then * change it.

Among a vast array of other catastrophic tactical disasters tonight.

 

Tonight he's absolutely to blame. Better players get beat by worse players. That's on the manager.

Literally not doing his job is why we lost.