Brendan Rodgers Discussion Thread

They did this before with Lennon in the Covid season. They were fully prepared to throw the whole season under the bus and left him in the manager position until February of that year. They deliberately harmed the clubs chances of success that season because with Lennon sitting there he was soaking up the flak which was deflected away from them.

Rodgers quit yesterday, if he didn’t quit they would have been happy to leave him there to take the flak just like they did with Lennon. If he had managed to turn things around and win the league again despite them like two years ago, board would then say great what are ye complaining about, if he had failed they’d leave him there long as possible to take the flak. That’s the way they operate.

They (Lawwell and co.) are cowards.

Rodgers quits, Desmond is fuming with him for quitting because now he has to put the golf clubs down or leave his other far more lucrative business operations and actually fookin do something. Celtic and it’s 80 million quid in the bank is loose change for him. This is an annoyance for Desmond and his intemperate quite frankly unprofessional angry outburst belies his arrogance and anger. Lawwell and the cowards on the board don’t even have the gumption to question Desmond on his dictatorial lunacy coming out with that statement last night. Keep deluding yourself about them all you like. Lawwell and co. are done and the collective will see to it that they’re done. Nowhere left for them to hide, Rodgers has exposed them for the cowards that we always knew they were.

 

If he didnt resign i think he was getting sacked. Desmond has revealed in his statement what matters most to the board. I think its killed them having to explain themselves to the rank and file and allow us a glimpse behind the curtain.

 

Still think he deserves credit for cutting the cord. He should have done it earlier in the season but still, better now than just trundling on half arsed like he has been doing.

He's handled the situation badly overall, since January imo, but I think calling him out for not doing the promised 3 years is harsh considering the circumstances.

Issues I have had with him besides that include his moronic man management (slating the squad publicly), his * poor style of football and inflexibility, his political team selections and refusing to give players a chance because of his own petulance.

He absolutely had to go, and fair play to him for finally biting the bullet.

 

I wish Brendan all the best, he’s put the spotlight right on the board and spoke out against them instead of toeing the party line like that gimp Lennon.

 

He's probably * off having to deflect all of the questions why theirs been a lack of investment in the squad among many other things. Boiling point

 

I think any sacking of Rodgers would’ve been purely performance and result related.

 

Not all happy with the Boards recent conduct, DD’s statement, or the manner in which it’s all happened… but I’m glad BR is gone.

Once a rat - always a rat!

A one season wonder. Does well with another managers players… and then turns teams tae dug-* within a handful of transfer windows.

The football has been turgid for well over a year - we can cite ‘club signings’ all we like, but BR HAS bought plenty of expensive players - and few have cut the mustard.

There’s a lot to question about DD’s statement, but I can wholly get on board with his claim that BR is self-serving. The man would eat himself if he was made of chocolate!

Goodbye!

 

Rodgers is a two season manager, it has been proved at Liverpool, Here and Leceister.

• First season - does excellent, wins trophies and everyone at the club is happy.
• Second season - good but not as good as first season although still ends up with a trophy and towards the end of second season the rot starts to set in.
• Third season everything goes to * and he is either sacked/resigns and the club is left in an absolute mess.

In hindsight its maybe best that he is gone and we can now try and fix the mess we've been left in by him, whoever he ends up managing next will no doubt end up the same way.

 

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This is absolute nonsense. They didn’t deliberately harm that season at all. They gave him too long but your claim here of deliberate sabotage is preposterous.

Even after the Hearts defeat we were still heavy favourites for the league. Rodgers winning the league this season wouldn’t have been a miracle story.

I’m no Lawwell fan, but he’s never been a coward. This is unsubstantiated.

Desmond reacting angrily and unprofessionally is one of the few things I agree with in this post.

You have no way of knowing what was asked or wasn’t asked.

It is blindly obvious that I am not the one who is deluded here. You seem to be interpreting my posts as some sort of defence for the board, when they aren’t. I can be critical of the board and Rodgers simultaneously. It’s not a “pick a side” scenario where criticism of one is a defence of the other.

Lawwell and co. absolutely are done. However, quite ironically one of only people coming out of this looking cowardly, is Rodgers for walking away from the challenge and the guarantee he repeatedly offered.

 

It’s the fact some of his comments recently in particular, he seemed to be having a war with the board at Celtic’s expense. We suffered as a team and fanbase because of him protecting himself and his ego. Self preserving indeed.


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Ridiculous


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He delivered success and he delivered a good CL campaign last season that should have been built on. Every manager requires backing but instead this summer we sold 100 goals and replaced it with 28 while leaving 80 odd million sitting in the bank. He was entitled to quit under those circumstances.

Whether you agree or not I don’t care. He’s gone. No more cover for Lawwell. His days are done and there’ll be no comeback for him. * him and his cronies and when the history of Celtic is written Brendan Rodgers will be given credit for exposing that rotten cancer at the heart of the club and the soon eradication of that cancer.

 

I was shocked he resigned but I don't blame him.

Desmond is only speaking out now Rodgers is gone. Hopefully Rodgers lists the truths about the mess we are at boardroom level.

This is some *. Love MON for what he's done for Celtic but he's yesterday's man. Football has changed a helluva lot since MON was a good manager and I don't think MON has.

 

Not for me. I think the statement reveals whats really bothering the board. Its light on performance related issues and heavy on the disharmony.

I think it reveals whats getting to the board. Its the fact they are getting it from the fans. The mention of abuse directed at the heirarchy. The fear that the fanbase is mobilising against them in a way that threatens their status quo.

If Rodgers was fronting up to the media week in, week out backing the board and toeing the line then I dont think they anywhere near sacking him at this point.

I think its come to a head because they see that hes going to be gone end of season and has no desire to take the flack off them. They see we have gone 8 pts behind and they know life is going to be uncomfortable for them. They have hauled Rodgers in after Hearts and said are you going to play ball regarding quelling the unrest in the fanbase. And Rodgers who has already made up his mind hes off end of season has said no chance. Its either play ball or go.

Its ironic that its not botched transfer window after transfer window or humiliation after humiliation in Europe that gets Desmond off his *. Its the fact the support are making things unpleasant for them in a way thats past overdue.

Hes not wrong that Rodgers had totally gone into self preservation mode. It just seems clear to me that its the flak coming the boards way and their "model" being questioned is what has actually motivated them to act here. Self preservation indeed.

 

Folk are always entitled to quit a job whenever they like, but when you spend a couple of years bleating about guaranteeing three seasons, don’t be surprised when you’re called out for not sticking to your word yet again. The timing of his departure stinks, yet again. He’s left us unstable with uncertainty, yet again. He deserves credit for the success he brought and he received said credit in buckets. He also deserves criticism for how he’s left on both occasions. As previously said to you just over a week ago Rodgers claimed he was more motivated than ever to be our manager. He’s a complete * talker and it’s amazing folk are still falling for it.

Rodgers hasn’t exposed a thing. He’s complained about transfers the same way his predecessors have. It’s nothing new.

Replacement of the board will happen through sustained, long term fan action. Rodgers’ resignation has nothing to do with it.

 

Everybody knew when the league finished in May that we needed a striker as a priority alongside other upgrades in numerous positions.. everybody knew we had the funds and plenty of time, they could have brought in quality signings long before the qualifiers that would have more than likely secured us champions league football.
They gambled and then they hung him out to dry by selling Idah on deadline day, the manager said we wouldn't do that and they basically stuck their middle fingers up at him and did it anyway, he was essentially forced to get one of his old strikers who had scored 1 league goal in the previous 2 seasons and pray that would be sufficient.

Looking at that it appears it's the board who went to war with Rodgers knowing that they couldn't fire or force him out until results started slipping, there is a reason Lawwell looked gutted when we scored the last minute winner against motherwell

 

Et tu, Didier?

 

I disagree. He was one of our best managers ever. With any kind of reasonable backing he delivered success and improvement in the Champions League and would have delivered more if he got more reasonable backing again this summer which he publicly called for because behind the scenes it clearly wasn’t going to happen. You keep saying you’re a board critic and Lawwell etc must go but all this anti Rodgers stuff is music to their ears. He’s gone. Nowhere for Lawwell and co. to hide now.

 

That’s an attempt at damage control and written in anger.

I think it’s no surprise that they feel abuse is unnecessary. People tend to want to defend themselves from abuse.

I don’t think he was anywhere near a sacking unless results got worse.

There’s undoubtedly a level of self preservation from the board too, people in charge have a habit of self preservation.

It wasn’t just the support making things uncomfortable that ‘got Desmond off his *’, evidenced by the fact Desmond met Rodgers in Glasgow on the 28th August to discuss issues he had.