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Brendan Rodgers; "I was born into Celtic"
Topic Started: 20 May 2016, 05:06 PM (2,288,337 Views)
West End Bhoy
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7 Aug 2016, 08:25 PM
A complete transformation from having to listen to Ronny's pish
You mean you don't miss the "Unbelievable" and "small details" chat?!? :twitch:
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Think we might be witnessing the start of something very special. If he gets to continue to choose his own players then he will be fine.

Also got to trust that he can work with the guys that a lot of us had given up on. Hes signing Forrest again and although i would t touch him with a bargepole Brendan wants him so Brendan gets him and see what he can do with him. Im also interested to see what improvements he can make to Broon as hes talking him up aswell.
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Made some industrious changes yesterday which contributed to secure 3 points for Celtic. Shows a lot more flexibility than Deila ever did. Rodgers is an important reason why I´m still with you guys. If you had appointed Keane instead, I´d be out (apologise to all his fans, but in my humble opinion, the guy is a complete arse).

Doubt you'd have been the only person who would have chucked it. :lol:
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I love him.

Genuinely excited about Celtic again and if he is trusted to spend the cash and bring in his own players it could be something special.

A class manager who is attracting top class talent to our great club.
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We're definitely a work in progress and I'm not convinced by the back three thing. Two good central midfielders and we've got a pretty strong team IMO. Brown can't play as a defensive midfielder, he's too ill disciplined.
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BRENDAN RODGERS last night revealed Scott Sinclair pushed through his £3.5m move to Parkhead by demanding Aston Villa sell him to Celtic.

The champions’ latest signing made a stunning impact on Scottish football by climbing off the bench to net the winner against Hearts at Tynecastle yesterday and Rodgers believes the strike will be the first of many as Sinclair rebuilds a career that looked stellar at one point but has stagnated in recent years.

The duo worked together at Chelsea and Swansea and although Rodgers had to wait six weeks before landing him for Celtic, the Northern Irishman believes Sinclair’s desire to be reunited with his mentor was the clincher in a deal finally being brokered with Villa.

Rodgers said: “Aston Villa didn’t really want to lose the player, but Scott made it clear he wanted to leave.

"Roberto di Matteo’s situation, I respect and understand.

"He has a player that wants to move, but also a player he knows could go a long way to getting out of the Championship.

"So that takes time, but thankfully Scott was very clear he wanted to come here, come in and enjoy his football again.

"Thankfully we got him for reasons like today when you see he is such an important player.

“It was an outstanding goal. You track the speed of his run and once he’s breaking away it’s that hunger and desire that you see from really good players to want to get up and join in.

“His pace to get up there from being so far behind. Leigh Griffiths has done great and then like great strikers, he knows where he wants to put the ball. Scotty has just checked his stride and got a great finish on it.

“He couldn’t have asked for any more considering he’d had just three hours sleep on Friday night to travel up and had a long day yesterday.

“It was a great start for him in front of our supporters as well.”

Rodgers believes there will be far more to come from his new signing when he gets up to speed.

He added: “He can play in a couple of positions I think his home is on that left side. Hes not an out and out winger I’d call him and 11 and a half, he likes to be on the inside at times. He’ll run and be direct, he wants to get goals. He scored 27 goals for me in The Championship for Swansea and he wants to get in there and score goals in the Premier League. His natural habitat is off that left side, coming, joining in the game and getting in the box to score goals.

"Scott has always been about enjoying his football – but the last four years have been really difficult.

"I had him when he was 16 at Chelsea. He played in a really good youth team I had there.

“He went out on loan to a couple of clubs and then I brought him to Swansea where he was outstanding.

“That got him a move to Manchester City. From there really his career stalled.

"So no one has really seen the best of him and probably forgot about his qualities.

"But this was a guy who four or five years ago was scoring a hat-trick in a play-off final under big pressure in front of 90,000.

"He has a big talent.

"He is still young, 27 years of age, physically strong, robust, can play in big games and loves the big occasion and has a lot to learn still.

"So I think he will be really big for us.

“He knows he had to get his career going again, because it stalled a little bit.

“At Aston Villa he always seemed to play full-back.

“I always felt with Scotty you had to get him 50 metres higher up the pitch to help teams and hopefully he can re-create that here at Celtic.”

Rodgers was delighted with the 2-1 win at Tynecastle and admitted that his team’s attitude was as pleasing as the ability they displayed.

He said: “Hopefully people are starting to see a trend. There is a mentality in the team. The football will come later. I need a certain type of player in order to play the way teams of mine are known to play. But while you are searching for that, you have to build a mentality and a resilience in your team.

“We have big games early on and fluency doesn’t come that early but while building it you have to have this attitude that you can keep coming back in games and you are never beaten. I think that’s something that’s critically important for any team and certainly a Celtic team.

“To see that, to see we keep going and the fitness level of the team. We are scoring goals late on and that’s a good starting point for any football team.”

The Celtic manager was delighted with the contribution of James Forrest, who scored the opener - cancelled out by Jamie Walker’s controversial penalty - and hinted that there could yet be a future for the winger, whose contract expires in December.

He said: “He wants to stay. I said to him when I first came in that I thought he’d been on loan for two seasons! I wondered where he was. I remember down in England watching him and I saw this young player who I thought was a real talent, fast, dynamic, could get at people, and for whatever reason it hadn’t worked out for him in the last couple of seasons. I had a joke with him that I’d like to see James Forrest back here because the guy who was here was away on loan for a couple of years!

“Since pre-season he has been absolutely first class. He’s starting to understand that he has to press the game and be aggressive and you saw that a couple of times today.

“And as a winger he has to create and score goals and he created the opportunity with good skill in the first part and it was a wonderful finish. I have been delighted.

"He wants to stay, he pulled me in Slovenia and said he was enjoying the work and he feels an important part of the squad would like to stay. So it’s between the agent and the club now to arrange that.”

And Rodgers refused to be too critical of referee John Beaton, whose decision to award Hearts a penalty when Walker clearly dived, could have had an enormous bearing on the game.

“I don’t want to kill the ref,” he said. “He knows fine well he made a mistake and he admitted it on the pitch. Thankfully it didn’t cost us. The young guy has taken a dive but before that we should have been two or three up. We had good chances to score but we all make mistakes.

“The referee said to me afterwards and he was man enough to do that on the pitch.”
http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/brendan-rodgers-hails-celtic-new-8582494#trcuWsHvJH3L6STK.99
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Could be a special 3-5 years for this club. A manager who adores Celtic and backs up what he says. Knows what he wants from his players and a very confident man and this is already rubbing off on his teams performances.

Even though we had lost our way during the game yesterday, i felt we would create 1 more chance and score. Not felt like that in a Celtic team in a few seasons.

Looks like his call with Broony is the right one and he has brought in 3 great signings so far. Very early days but good first impressions.
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Apparently that's the third game of five under Brendan Rodgers where we have scored a match-changing goal after 75 minutes. Ronny Deila only managed 7 in 117 games.
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8 Aug 2016, 08:18 AM
Apparently that's the third game of five under Brendan Rodgers where we have scored a match-changing goal after 75 minutes. Ronny Deila only managed 7 in 117 games.
I'm delighted that, for the first time in years, we have a manager who can positively change games that are still in progress. I'd be a bit wary though about using stats like the one you used. Deila could argue that we won so comfortably on his last visit to Tynecastle that he didn't need to rely on a late game-changing goal!
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8 Aug 2016, 04:36 AM
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8 Aug 2016, 02:04 AM
Made some industrious changes yesterday which contributed to secure 3 points for Celtic. Shows a lot more flexibility than Deila ever did. Rodgers is an important reason why I´m still with you guys. If you had appointed Keane instead, I´d be out (apologise to all his fans, but in my humble opinion, the guy is a complete arse).

Doubt you'd have been the only person who would have chucked it. :lol:
You wouldn't be missed. Just like the arsehole in your avatar.
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If we only get 2 more players in I would be fine with that. I still think we need more, and I want them just now,but he has already shown he can work magic with the same dross as last season and get so much more out of them.

Get a couple in just now and if we need to get the rest in over the next few windows so be it. He has also brought the excitement back. We all love us but its been a chore over last few years. This feels the start of summat special.
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I need a certain type of player in order to play the way teams of mine are known to play. But while you are searching for that, you have to build a mentality and a resilience in your team.

Mmmnnn, who would this be then?
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8 Aug 2016, 08:37 AM
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8 Aug 2016, 04:36 AM
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8 Aug 2016, 02:04 AM
Made some industrious changes yesterday which contributed to secure 3 points for Celtic. Shows a lot more flexibility than Deila ever did. Rodgers is an important reason why I´m still with you guys. If you had appointed Keane instead, I´d be out (apologise to all his fans, but in my humble opinion, the guy is a complete arse).

Doubt you'd have been the only person who would have chucked it. :lol:
You wouldn't be missed. Just like the arsehole in your avatar.
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8 Aug 2016, 04:36 AM
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8 Aug 2016, 02:04 AM
Made some industrious changes yesterday which contributed to secure 3 points for Celtic. Shows a lot more flexibility than Deila ever did. Rodgers is an important reason why I´m still with you guys. If you had appointed Keane instead, I´d be out (apologise to all his fans, but in my humble opinion, the guy is a complete arse).

Doubt you'd have been the only person who would have chucked it. :lol:
You wouldn't be missed. Just like the arsehole in your avatar.
eff sake, that's harsh! :lol:
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Been a great start. I haven't been so optimistic about Celtic since the early days of MON.
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BR is a top top manager. We are lucky to have got him.


SMSM trying to say Moyes knocked us back like they did last week. That is a complete and utter lie. BR was first choice and first approached and accepted with one or two conditions I was told that on relative at the club. Most notably he will have full and utter say on transfer targets being one and playing side of things.

The IMP's score was embarrasing but will be forgotten should we get into the CL proper. We will lose games this season but his conduct, style of play (albeit early doors looks great) and player purchases all point to good times ahead.

Solid start and hopefully we horse on big style.
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8 Aug 2016, 02:29 PM
Been a great start. I haven't been so optimistic about Celtic since the early days of MON.
Yep same. Feels like we're on the verge of something special.
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Been a great start. I haven't been so optimistic about Celtic since the early days of MON.
This, this & this.

How refreshing to know we have a manager who can see what's happening during a game, react & make changes?

He also knows the score - the performance levels will pick up as we go, but it's all about the results for now.

Changing the mentality of this crowd of players has been hellish impressive in such a short space of time.
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There is a mentality in the team. The football will come later

:worthy:

That is a massive thing so far, the exact opposite of the last manager who thought he could immediately change the football only for it to fail and the players then spent two years hiding
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Good innit?

Nice feeling to be looking forward to the next game. Really looking forward to seeing Sinclair at Celtic Park.

When BR said that it was his job to get the top tier filled I admired the ambition but thought it was unrealistic.

If the Aberdeen game is a sell out that is a remarkable turnaround in a short time
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