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Brendan Rodgers; "I was born into Celtic"
Topic Started: 20 May 2016, 05:06 PM (2,288,411 Views)
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John McGlynn, former Hearts manager, a surprise addition to Brendan's backroom team
He's been a scout for a while. Change of role?
Looks like he will be Brendans opposition analysist
Enjoy relegation :ph43r:
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BRENDAN RODGERS will lead his Celtic squad to Slovenia tomorrow, warning his players to expect an intense experience as the build-up to the Champions League qualifiers steps up.

The new Hoops boss was charm itself at the 2016/17 league season preview event organised by the SPFL and sponsors Ladbrokes, laughing and joking along with Rangers counterpart Mark Warburton.

Yet, as appropriate a setting the Kelpies may have been to publicise what some already predict will be a two-horse title race between the Glasgow rivals, it is the trip to the continent that is more in tune with what is currently occupying the mind of the former Liverpool manager.

His first competitive fixture in charge of the reigning Premiership champions will be away to either Estonian side Flora Tallinn or Lincoln from Gibraltar on July 12 or 13 with the return the following midweek.

As predecessor Ronny Deila discovered, as happy as the directors and fans on their terraces are to cheer domestic triumphs, success in Europe is a modern-day prerequisite for any Celtic manager.

At least for anyone who wishes to stay in his job for any length of time.

Such problems are in the future, should they arise at all, for Rodgers. For the present, he is 100% focused on working his magic on a bloated squad that came up short against Malmo, Molde and Ajax last season.

“It is early yet. But I am doing my assessing and, so far, what I’ve seen has been very positive,” said the Northern Irishman.

“The attitude of the players has been very, very good, which is always refreshing. We have taken a great first step and now we go to Slovenia for what should be a very valuable couple of weeks for us.

“When you’re away on trips like these, you get to know the players better, you understand more about them, you talk to individuals more. There we will start to form that special togetherness as a group that you need, because you can’t do anything without that.

“You can have the best team but if you don’t have that spirit and togetherness, you won’t succeed.

“It also gives me a chance to assess how the fitness is coming along, and time to work out what the most-stable system and shape is going to be for us.

“I like my teams to be flexible tactically. But that’s going to take time.

“Physically, we’ll work on the fitness. Tactically, we’ll give them a better idea of the game and socially, it’s a chance for us to be together and get closer.

“It will be good but at the same time it will also be intense.”

Not least because of Rodgers’ stated intention to quickly whittle his large squad into a tight training group.

Seventeen midfielders competing for five places in the side is not a situation that will be allowed to continue.

“The need to reduce numbers is something I am very much aware of and will work very hard to achieve,” said Rodgers.

“I had this situation when I went into Liverpool. I know you can’t click your fingers and make it happen straight away.

“However, in order for us to work with quality in the squad, the training group will be a small one.

“I will tell them you don’t have to be a name to play for me. In the first quarter of last season no one would have heard of Kieran Tierney, for example. But by the end of the season they certainly had.”

It is a situation which should guarantee intense training sessions under the blazing Slovenian sun as players scrap it out to see who makes the cut, with the chance to work with Rodgers persuading even those players whose future is uncertain to at least have a go at winning over the new man.

Chief among them is Scotland internationalist James Forrest, whose contract is up in the winter.

“James is one I am looking forward to analysing,” said the Celtic manager.

“He has obviously had a run of injuries and maybe some that have held him back. But he is a big talent.

“Over the past couple of years, he has dipped from where he was at. But, hopefully, over the next six months he can get back on track and see Celtic as the club for him.

“From the few days I have worked with him, he looks fit and fresh and hopefully the way I work will suit his aggressive style.

“You have to be able to defend but you also have to be able to attack and he has got great attacking ability. So let’s hope he can stay clear of injury and recapture his best form.

“Like with every player, though, we want people to want to play with Celtic, who want to be here.

“If they don’t want to be at the club, that’s absolutely fine.

“It’s a huge club, one of the biggest in the world, playing in a great league, and the chance to come and play every other week at Celtic Park is a wonderful opportunity for any player.”

Opportunity knocks – but for only so many.
https://www.sundaypost.com/sport/football/scottish-premiership/celtic-stars-hope-to-impress-as-boss-brendan-rodgers-warns-cuts-to-the-squad-are-on-the-way/?
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Oor Brendan must have really similar tastes to the club.....

Kennedy
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I really expected the changes to be huge at the club but it seems he is happy to go to with what the club have in place already or have reccomended to him. I know he says he always looks within the club before bringing his own people in, maybe hes just seeing if theres any worth there. I thought after his Liverpool experience he would want his own scouting network and Park papped out on his arse.
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Oor Brendan must have really similar tastes to the club.....

Kennedy
Brown
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Forrest
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The Scouting Department

I really expected the changes to be huge at the club but it seems he is happy to go to with what the club have in place already or have reccomended to him. I know he says he always looks within the club before bringing his own people in, maybe hes just seeing if theres any worth there. I thought after his Liverpool experience he would want his own scouting network and Park papped out on his arse.
Think you are being a wee bit unfair to BE.

The way to maintain success while improving the squad is evolution. He cannot be expected to walk in the door and get rid of people in an unplanned chaotic way. He will have his ideas and he will bring in his own men. He is allowed to disagree with you on certain individuals..... he may even have some more information than you do about them and the club as a whole.

Whatever you think about his actions he is agreeing with you about change needed but clearly states that "it takes time"
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i allways got the impression John mc Glynn hated us with a passion when involved with hearts and killie
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26 Jun 2016, 08:53 AM
Oor Brendan must have really similar tastes to the club.....

Kennedy
Brown
Mulgrew
Forrest
McGlynn
The Scouting Department

I really expected the changes to be huge at the club but it seems he is happy to go to with what the club have in place already or have reccomended to him. I know he says he always looks within the club before bringing his own people in, maybe hes just seeing if theres any worth there. I thought after his Liverpool experience he would want his own scouting network and Park papped out on his arse.
Think you are being a wee bit unfair to BE.

The way to maintain success while improving the squad is evolution. He cannot be expected to walk in the door and get rid of people in an unplanned chaotic way. He will have his ideas and he will bring in his own men. He is allowed to disagree with you on certain individuals..... he may even have some more information than you do about them and the club as a whole.

Whatever you think about his actions he is agreeing with you about change needed but clearly states that "it takes time"
So you expected Br to come in and say I get rid of team and club captain who has years left on a contract, while your at get rid of the full scouting set up and John Kennedy, He is giving Mulgrew and Forrest a chance like everyone else in the squad to assess what he has, Brown Forrest and Mulgrew have all performed well and help win titles under 2 previous managers, hopefully his first focus is on the defence, by the looks of it, it is. It will be over 3 seasons before Rodgers will have his full team and backroom staff, he is the team manager he has not signed as the ceo of Celtic.
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Oor Brendan must have really similar tastes to the club.....

Kennedy
Brown
Mulgrew
Forrest
McGlynn
The Scouting Department

I really expected the changes to be huge at the club but it seems he is happy to go to with what the club have in place already or have reccomended to him. I know he says he always looks within the club before bringing his own people in, maybe hes just seeing if theres any worth there. I thought after his Liverpool experience he would want his own scouting network and Park papped out on his arse.
Think you are being a wee bit unfair to BE.

The way to maintain success while improving the squad is evolution. He cannot be expected to walk in the door and get rid of people in an unplanned chaotic way. He will have his ideas and he will bring in his own men. He is allowed to disagree with you on certain individuals..... he may even have some more information than you do about them and the club as a whole.

Whatever you think about his actions he is agreeing with you about change needed but clearly states that "it takes time"
Not really meant as a dig at him more an observation. The consensus was he wasnt up to the task at Liverpool and some sensed that early on and used it to get him out the door. As he said himself there was a campaign to have him out. A lot of that was down to the money spent on transfers that werent all his doing. He had a similar set up to how Park runs our managers.

I find it difficult to believe the one thing he wouldnt want to work with again he wouldnt just say at interview or contract signing....im not working under that. Now would have been the time to rip that up had he said it and it will get harder to do the longer he is in the job.

I understand he is giving Forrest a chance (christ knows why) and Brown is already captain but is Brown really the man to lead us on the park through a new era, i doubt it but again its harder to take the armband from him as time goes on. Brendan may give him a wee kick up the bum but when the chips are down, Brown doesnt pull us or the team out a hole.
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26 Jun 2016, 09:51 AM
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26 Jun 2016, 08:53 AM
Oor Brendan must have really similar tastes to the club.....

Kennedy
Brown
Mulgrew
Forrest
McGlynn
The Scouting Department

I really expected the changes to be huge at the club but it seems he is happy to go to with what the club have in place already or have reccomended to him. I know he says he always looks within the club before bringing his own people in, maybe hes just seeing if theres any worth there. I thought after his Liverpool experience he would want his own scouting network and Park papped out on his arse.
Think you are being a wee bit unfair to BE.

The way to maintain success while improving the squad is evolution. He cannot be expected to walk in the door and get rid of people in an unplanned chaotic way. He will have his ideas and he will bring in his own men. He is allowed to disagree with you on certain individuals..... he may even have some more information than you do about them and the club as a whole.

Whatever you think about his actions he is agreeing with you about change needed but clearly states that "it takes time"
So you expected Br to come in and say I get rid of team and club captain who has years left on a contract, while your at get rid of the full scouting set up and John Kennedy, He is giving Mulgrew and Forrest a chance like everyone else in the squad to assess what he has, Brown Forrest and Mulgrew have all performed well and help win titles under 2 previous managers, hopefully his first focus is on the defence, by the looks of it, it is. It will be over 3 seasons before Rodgers will have his full team and backroom staff, he is the team manager he has not signed as the ceo of Celtic.
Im guessing you meant to reply to me and not Tubbytubthumper who is agreeing with you.

The answer to that is as ive detailed, i wouldnt expect him to work under a transfer system/scouting ideals that have already let him down at another huge club. He is right to give people a chance but no matter how much Forrest is given a chance ultimately he will let you down due to injury.

Ill ask you though, how many times have you seen Broony dig us out of a hole when we are down? Lets not let his form at Hibs, a season or two with us and a game where he wound The Spitter up hide the fact he has underperformed for us. Weve had our money worth out of him but i thought him being captain would be a change, granted i have no idea how Brendan would go about it.

As for three years, seriously? You dont get three years to build at Celtic and if he does aswell as i think he might then we wont have him in three years. Dont know how you would do it but when you are the manager you want your people and systems implemented from day one.
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In my opinion he has been a good captain and won us plenty of games, by organising the team driving the team at forward pushing the team to perform on the pitch, The transfer window is not open yet, he has not made a signing, he may add a his own scout to his backroom staff in due course , I don't see this as a priority at the moment, getting the current players performing and sorting out the defence, signing a CB and settle defence for the qualifiers,
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I think he'll be in for a shock, if he thinks these players can get through the champions route.
I see that he needs to give people a clean slate, but I'm hoping that he has a clinical ruthless side to him.
Bonding & positive feedback are all very well, but these players turned on their last manager & walked all over a nice guy.
Get your bastard on Brendan & don't suffer any shysters.
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I think he'll be in for a shock, if he thinks these players can get through the champions route.
I see that he needs to give people a clean slate, but I'm hoping that he has a clinical ruthless side to him.
Bonding & positive feedback are all very well, but these players turned on their last manager & walked all over a nice guy.
Get your bastard on Brendan & don't suffer any shysters.
Was one of the complaints of Deila's first crack at CL qualification not that he tried to change too much though?

Not that this side is perfect but not sure you want to go through the overhauling process with the most important games of the season just weeks away.
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I think he'll be in for a shock, if he thinks these players can get through the champions route.
I see that he needs to give people a clean slate, but I'm hoping that he has a clinical ruthless side to him.
Bonding & positive feedback are all very well, but these players turned on their last manager & walked all over a nice guy.
Get your bastard on Brendan & don't suffer any shysters.
Was one of the complaints of Deila's first crack at CL qualification not that he tried to change too much though?

Not that this side is perfect but not sure you want to go through the overhauling process with the most important games of the season just weeks away.
I suppose the thing is this team couldnt kick its own arse in Europe since theyve been together. Theres been llenty of teams lining up to do it for them though.

I agree though that there must be players within the team that could improve with a few top class additions around them.
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i allways got the impression John mc Glynn hated us with a passion when involved with hearts and killie
Was never involved with killie :ponder:
Maybe confused with Billy Brown
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i allways got the impression John mc Glynn hated us with a passion when involved with hearts and killie
after we beat hearts at tynecastle (might have been jarosiks late winner) he was picked up off camera screaming abuse as strachan was interviewed :lol:

always held a grudge against him since then but im sure he is actually a celtic fan despite that
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Oor Brendan must have really similar tastes to the club.....

Kennedy
Brown
Mulgrew
Forrest
McGlynn
The Scouting Department

I really expected the changes to be huge at the club but it seems he is happy to go to with what the club have in place already or have reccomended to him. I know he says he always looks within the club before bringing his own people in, maybe hes just seeing if theres any worth there. I thought after his Liverpool experience he would want his own scouting network and Park papped out on his arse.
Why would any experienced manager come in and make wholesale changes? :ponder:

Rodgers hasn't had enough time to make big decisions. Even if he was stupid enough to come in and decide Mulgrew and Forrest are no use to him after a week of training and a few DVDs, he'd be even more stupid to let them go immediately.
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Oor Brendan must have really similar tastes to the club.....

Kennedy
Brown
Mulgrew
Forrest
McGlynn
The Scouting Department

I really expected the changes to be huge at the club but it seems he is happy to go to with what the club have in place already or have reccomended to him. I know he says he always looks within the club before bringing his own people in, maybe hes just seeing if theres any worth there. I thought after his Liverpool experience he would want his own scouting network and Park papped out on his arse.
Why would any experienced manager come in and make wholesale changes? :ponder:

Rodgers hasn't had enough time to make big decisions. Even if he was stupid enough to come in and decide Mulgrew and Forrest are no use to him after a week of training and a few DVDs, he'd be even more stupid to let them go immediately.
See Deila against Legia.

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i allways got the impression John mc Glynn hated us with a passion when involved with hearts and killie
after we beat hearts at tynecastle (might have been jarosiks late winner) he was picked up off camera screaming abuse as strachan was interviewed :lol:

always held a grudge against him since then but im sure he is actually a celtic fan despite that
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i allways got the impression John mc Glynn hated us with a passion when involved with hearts and killie
after we beat hearts at tynecastle (might have been jarosiks late winner) he was picked up off camera screaming abuse as strachan was interviewed :lol:

always held a grudge against him since then but im sure he is actually a celtic fan despite that
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i allways got the impression John mc Glynn hated us with a passion when involved with hearts and killie
after we beat hearts at tynecastle (might have been jarosiks late winner) he was picked up off camera screaming abuse as strachan was interviewed :lol:

always held a grudge against him since then but im sure he is actually a celtic fan despite that
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