Brendan Rodgers Discussion Thread

Players need a system to thrive.

Shankland scored 9 goals last season playing in a crap Hearts team. Hes scored 7 already this season with a better manager and more direct style of play.

I dont think Miovski has had a shot on target since he signed for the huns because their set up is rank.

Our squad for SPL level is more than good enough to be putting in better performances and scoring more goals than what we are seeing at the moment.

 

A manger needs players for his system. When you don't back the manager, sell your top scorers and don't replace them makes no difference what your system is, its inevitably going to be worse. Shankland and Miovski are better strikers than Johnnny Kenny. Both of them will likely outscore Iheanacho. As I said in my original posts, stop looking at games on an individual basis. No one cares if we have a better team than Livingston. Basics of a Celtic squad are to play twice a week including Europe and challenge on all fronts. We're woefully short.

 

I was being sarcastic

 

I do think Rodgers is not blameless in all this. It feels to me as if he has checked out essentially and feels he has probably done enough to secure his legacy as it stands. We will win the league but it is going to be a far harder slog than it needed to be. He is wedded to 4-3-3 despite being pretty tactically adept in his first spell. Recruitment has been abysmal. How much is down to him is hard to say, but he certainly signed off the likes of Engels, Trusty, Idah and Bernardo which is appearing like a colossal waste of money in Scottish league terms.

The summer transfer window was utterly unforgivable though. BR has one hand tied behind his back for sure. He has been royally shafted. If someone had told me in January that by September we would have sold Kyogo and Kuhn for the guts of £27 million and replaced them with a £5 million player from the Swedish league and Iheanacho I would have laughed you out of the place. I know we signed Jota which was massive but he then gets a long term injury so we are left with Yang and Forrest on the right wing. I would have said you were mad. But the Celtic Board have managed to achieve it.

 

I agree he's not blameless. Not sure I agree with the mentally checking out though. I think he's proved beyond doubt that he wants to be here and would have been entitled to walk. Can understand that he doesn't want to abandon his formation and tactics, but he may be forced to with what's available to him.

Can also understand why he's signed off on those targets with a view to improving in Europe. And we did improve in Europe last season and had our most enjoyable campaign in a long time. Both Engels and Trusty played well in the Champs League I thought. They look expensive signings on paper for us but let's be honest in modern footballing terms its still peanuts. We could also sell them at any point and recoup the money back if needed so I don't see them as a big issue.

Totally agree in regards to where we're at now. If you had shown any Celtic fan the scenario we'd end up in every one of them would be fuming, which is why I'm so baffled that there are so many on here ignoring the recruitment fiasco and using the failed "Ah well Brendan has enough, look at the trophies we've won in the last 20 years" argument. Its a pathetic situation to be in and folk thinking a new manager could walk in tomorrow and start smashing teams with that squad is laughable.

 

Helps when half our squad hasn't got their eyes elsewhere but.

 

Sorry

 

Right first things first. The board are scum and have never came close to maximise our potential since Martin O’Neill’s days. But if Brendan is our manager in the summer it will stay exactly the same. I think they will loosen the purse strings a bit with a new manager. Think they see his bigger signings , Idah, dud, Engels, dud, Trusty, doesn’t get a game, Bernardo, doesn’t get a game, Balakwisha already under suspicion. That’s nearly £40 million with very little return. They won’t spend under Brendan Rodgers

 

Rodgers best signings are his notebook free transfers.

 

Neither Idah or Engels were/are duds.

 

What’s done is done, we have what we have, so it’s up to manager to get a tune out of them and he’s not doing it. At the end of the day, players we have should be blasting away every spl team but we are a one trick pony team side now and have been for past 9 months, so predictable that every manager has us figured out. And all that’s on Rodger’s and them so called coaches. Way too ridged or stubborn to change things up when things not going to plan, never has a plan b