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Brendan Rodgers; "I was born into Celtic"
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Topic Started: 20 May 2016, 05:06 PM (2,288,274 Views)
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geezerbhoy
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4 Sep 2016, 10:50 AM
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- 3 Sep 2016, 07:42 PM
Impressed again with his interview yesterday & he seems happy that the board have supported him. I'm guessing from what he said that we were hopeful of getting Mcarthy,possibly on loan,until Everton's replacement for him signed for Spurs. If that is the case then it's been unfortunate,but we will have to look further afield than just the EPL in future Windows as it's difficult to entice many signings from that market. The funds must still be available though & lets hope that they are utilised to Make us a lot,lot stronger on the field after the next 2 windows.
From his quotes on the Celtic Twitter account after the game last Saturday he definitely wanted another player in, but he said that even if we didn't get one he was delighted with the transfer window, which suggests that maybe he was wanting someone like McCarthy but wasn't entirely confident we could get him. That's fair enough. I'm quite glad that we're shopping for the right player these days rather than any player.
My guess (with no info whatsoever) is that we wanted McCarthy and were confident that he wanted to come. Either his groin injury or Everton's reluctance to loan him to us (as opposed to selling him to an EPL club who could afford to pay crazy money) meant that the move became less likely in the last few days. The rhetoric about "one more" definitely dialled down in the last couple of days of the window. i do have info, and you are almost bang on with your post
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4 Sep 2016, 11:00 AM
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My guess (with no info whatsoever) is that we wanted McCarthy and were confident that he wanted to come. Either his groin injury or Everton's reluctance to loan him to us (as opposed to selling him to an EPL club who could afford to pay crazy money) meant that the move became less likely in the last few days. The rhetoric about "one more" definitely dialled down in the last couple of days of the window.
i do have info, and you are almost bang on with your post i think marado and i must know the same people from the southside
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4 Sep 2016, 11:10 AM
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i do have info, and you are almost bang on with your post
i think marado and i must know the same people from the southside Highly likely.
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4 Sep 2016, 11:12 AM
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- 4 Sep 2016, 10:16 AM
Good piece with BR. Liquidation mentioned a few times (not by Brendan) which won't go down well. BR also talk about the players that he knows that are ow at rangers. Looks like Warburton is taking BR's sloppy seconds. Brendan Rodgers wary of danger in Celtic v Rangers clash Spoiler: click to toggle ANDREW SMITH Whatever may be claimed of the first top-flight tussle at Parkhead in four years that puts Celtic up against Rangers, this Saturday’s occasion is certainly not a game between equals. It would insult the intelligence to suggest otherwise; to recall the titanic struggles for domestic supremacy between clubs bearing these names across all previous footballing ages. It is refreshing that Celtic manager Brendan Rodgers has no interest in insulting anyone’s intelligence. In itself that might be a measure of how times have changed when it comes to the biggest box-office fixture this country can serve up. Rodgers’ first such derby pits his Champions League team, built with a budget that allowed the recruitment of players such as Scott sinclair and Kolo Toure and serviced by a £25 million wage bill, against opposition assembled by Mark Warburton with a third of that finance... and that last season resided in the second tier. Forget that Rangers defied expectations against a lame Ronny Deila side to claim a penalty shoot-out victory in April’s Scottish Cup semi-final. The Ibrox men will create a surprise next weekend if they merely avoid being on the receiving end of a dispiriting defeat. The current incarnation of Rangers cannot match Celtic for financial muscle, as the old Ibrox club attempted before suffering liquidation four years ago. Rodgers doesn’t just rest easy that his team are acknowledged as overwhelming favourites for a potentially awkward encounter. He cannot see why it would be any other way. “I would say going into this game, there’s a bit of justification in saying [that Celtic will win]. I think the proof is there for that,” said the former Liverpool manager. “[Yet] they are always dangerous games. It doesn’t matter how well one team is doing and how badly the other team is doing. “I remember an Everton game, they came into it when Roberto Martinez had taken charge and they were on a real high and they hadn’t won at Anfield for so long. It was deemed this was going to be the game for them. We were doing well too, but it was felt this was Everton’s time, it was going to be their day. And we won 4-0. And we were 3-0 up in the first half. We were incredible in that game. “But I think here, with justification, people can look at the team in this very early stage, and there’s a real vibrancy and energy, there’s an aggression, and I’m happy with it.” Rodgers is a boyhood Celtic fan from Northern Ireland. The Troubles meant he was never given parental consent to travel across the water to watch his team face up to a fevered confrontation against the club’s bitterest rivals. He is willing to draw a line between those derbies and the one his team will contest next weekend, even if there is an “Old Firm no more” fixated-faction of the Celtic support. Rodgers is impressively astute in how he handles that issue. A subject proving a monumental bore to outsiders who allow the post-liquidated Rangers to build on the history of the pre-liquidated version simply because they – and football – have had few qualms about doing so with other liquidated clubs such as Airdrieonians, Fiorentina, Coventry City, Luton Town and Middlesbrough, to name but a few clubs that went bust and could not obtain a CVA. “I can respect that there will be different views in terms of how they [Rangers] are held and how they created the club, but for me it’s a Celtic v Rangers game and it’s a big game. It always has been,” said the 43-year-old, who has had derby experience at Anfield, Swansea City, Reading and Watford. “I know what it means to the supporters and I know what it means to us in terms of our objectives this season. It’s important we stay calm – there will be lots written and lots said – but we’ll do what we’ve done until now, which is to work well, focus on the job and be calm on the ball. “Celtic and Rangers games are always big games. I’ll be told during the week by uncles, brothers and relatives. I watched them on the telly and I listened to them on the radio. “Like lots of derbies, this has its own uniqueness. Swansea-Cardiff was a unique Welsh derby, a very intense old-school derby. Liverpool-Everton, they call it the friendly derby. But I don’t think it was that. [Manchester] United-Liverpool is a derby in itself. So, this one will be a separate one, completely different. “I’m really looking forward to it. They are very emotive – as much as you set the team up to play, my experiences in derbies are that they are not always the best football games. We will always have the notion to play well and it’s important for us that we keep this real momentum going. We’ll always ask questions of the players.” Rodgers’ team have come up with all answers required of them as Celtic have returned to Europe’s top table for the first time in three years and proved free-scoring in racking up three straight league wins as well as disposing of Motherwell in the Betfred League Cup. The Rangers’ visit provides Celtic with the opportunity to move seven points ahead of a team expected to be their closest challengers; though, in reality, there will be no serious impediments to a sixth consecutive title. Matters could become a little uncomfortable for Warburton if a Celtic Park defeat leads to his side being nudged out of the leading Premiership places come Saturday evening. Rodgers may have had the Englishman as his academy director as he began his management career at Watford. And Warburton may have told this week how back then his boss would then write his drills in Spanish – which Rodgers subsequently explained was so that they were unlikely to be understood if falling into the hands of opposition. However, the Celtic manager seeks to place professional and personal distance between himself and the Rangers manager, and so lance any suggestion that their status as adversaries at the country’s top drawing clubs has all of a sudden put bosom buddies on a war footing. Instead he presented Warburton as one of the many in the Rangers set-up with whom he has past associations. “We worked together for seven months and before that I never knew him,” Rodgers said. “We’ve had little bits of contact since we worked together, but there are probably closer friendships in the game. He’s a friend and a colleague and in the same profession so I respect that, like I do all managers. “He’s a good fella and I think he’s done really, really well. He’s at a club now where the expectancy is up there. Apart from these games, I want him to do well as a human being. I spoke to him early on when I came up here and then you get into the season. “I worked with Frank McParland [Rangers’ head of recruitment] for a period of time and probably know Frank better than Mark because we worked at Liverpool. Davie Weir came to see me when I was coaching at Liverpool and he was out of the game. He spent a bit of time looking at methods and stuff. I gave Jordan Rossiter his debut, he’s a good kid, Danny Wilson I had [at Liverpool], Rob Kiernan I gave his debut at Watford. [Rangers head development coach] Graeme Murty was the right-back at Reading. “So, it’s funny, the older you get the more people you realise you know from working at various teams.” Read more at: http://www.scotsman.com/sport/football/competitions/premiership/brendan-rodgers-wary-of-danger-in-celtic-v-rangers-clash-1-4220443 Some serious rewriting of history going on there.
Nobody in Scotland considered the team playing in Airdrie with the same strips at the same stadium to be the same club as the liquidated Airdrieonains. Even the SFL had them listed as winners of trophies that Clydebank won on their website.
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4 Sep 2016, 01:55 PM
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Spoiler: click to toggle “IT’S an Old Firm game. Nobody starts as favourites as the form book goes out the window. There’s no doubt Rangers will be our closest challengers for the title this season but Mark Warburton is one of my closest friends and I look forward to catching up with him afterwards for a pint.” In an engaging and revealing 30-minute address ahead of his first match against Rangers as Celtic manager, Brendan Rodgers notably said none of the above.
How devoted he was to the Celtic cause as a boy growing up in Northern Ireland is a matter of conjecture, but Rodgers undoubtedly knows his history. Whether schooled by relatives or having picked up the more pertinent points later in life, he is shrewd enough to appreciate both the past significance of the Rangers fixture and how, in the eyes of many Celtic fans, it has evolved in the modern era. Intentionally or otherwise, not once in conversation did Rodgers use the phrase “Old Firm”. He did not dally long on the perennially thorny matter on whether Rangers are/aren’t a new club following their financial traumas of 2012 but, instructively, he revealed he would not take issue with any Celtic fan taking the stance that Saturday’s game is the first league meeting between the two clubs.
“I can respect that there will be different views in terms of how they [Rangers] are held and how they created the club, but for me it’s a Celtic versus Rangers game and it’s a big game,” he said. “It always has been. Celtic and Rangers games are always big games. I’ll be told [all about it] during the week by uncles, brothers and relatives. I know what it means to the supporters and I know what it means to us in terms of our objectives this season.
“I’ve never been to one. But obviously I’ve watched them over the course of many years. At the time I was growing up you had the Troubles in Northern Ireland, so my parents would never have allowed me to travel over on the boat for clear reasons. But I watched them on the telly and I listened to them on the radio. So, yes, they’re very emotional games.”
Not that Rodgers expects to succumb to the madness that regularly descends whenever Celtic and Rangers go toe to toe. He has stood on the touchline during Swansea versus Cardiff derbies and experienced Liverpool’s local rivalries with both Everton and Manchester United, and insists he has remained a figure of stoic pragmatism despite the mayhem unfolding in front of him. He will not know for certain just how he will react come high noon on Saturday but, from a week’s distance, he hopes not to lose that sense of dead-eyed detachment lest his managerial judgment become clouded.
“No, I’m not that way,” he insisted. “I try to control that on a human level. Of course you jump about and get a bit excited at times. But I don’t think I’ve ever been involved in that way. There have been games like Liverpool versus Everton where Moyesie [David Moyes] and I came in and went 'what happened there?' It’s a whirlwind, it just goes so fast.”
Celtic will start the game as favourites and, refreshingly, Rodgers did not try to wave that claim away or tone it down with false modesty. The gap between the two clubs has stretched since his appointment in May and, combined with Rangers’ sluggish start to the season, most signs are pointing to a Celtic victory. Rangers’ triumph in last season’s William Hill Scottish Cup semi-final will serve as a warning but Rodgers was happy to acknowledge his team’s superiority ahead of this meeting.
“Are we wary of the favourites tag? Not really. I’d say going into this game there’s probably a wee bit of justification in it. The proof is there for that. But they are always dangerous games. It doesn't matter how well one team is doing and how badly the other team is doing. I remember a Liverpool- Everton game when Roberto Martinez was in charge. They were on a real high, hadn’t won at Anfield for so long and it was deemed that this was going to be the game. And we won 4-0. But I think with justification people can look at the [Celtic] team at the moment and see a real vibrancy, an energy, and an aggression in the team. I'm happy with it.”
The outcome of the four Old Firm league games used to regularly decide the destiny of the championship. Now Rodgers isn’t certain that will be the case. In fact, he was unsure whether Rangers would be the team most likely to run Celtic closest for the title.
“I don’t know - we haven’t played all the teams yet,” he said. “I can give you a better idea later. The teams we have played were all in the top four last year. Rangers are coming up as champions of the Championship so they are coming in to a league where Aberdeen are well-organised and strong, where Hearts are committed and have good players, and where St Johnstone are not an easy team to play. I’ll have a better idea over the course of the first half of the season.”
Another part of the narrative this season has been the reunion of Warburton and Rodgers, the pair having previously worked together at Watford when Rodgers was the manager and Warburton was the head of the club’s youth academy. The Celtic manager, though, played down the significance of their relationship, instead pointing out that the peripatetic nature of the professional game meant bumping into former colleagues is an increasingly common occurrence.
“We worked together for seven months but before that I never knew him,” he said of Warburton, while also confirming the Rangers manager’s revelation that Rodgers used to write his training drills in Spanish. “He’s a friend and a colleague and in the same profession so I respect that like I do all managers. We’ve had little bits of contact since we worked together, but there are probably closer friendships in the game. He’s a good guy, a good man and he’s done well since he came up here.
“I spoke to him early on when I came up here and then you get into the season. I also worked with Frank McParland [Rangers’ head of recruitment] for a period of time and probably know Frank better than Mark because we worked together at Liverpool. Davie Weir [Rangers’ assistant manager] came to see me when I was coaching at Liverpool and he was out of the game.
“I gave Jordan Rossiter his debut, he’s a good kid, Danny Wilson I had, Rob Kiernan I gave a debut to at Watford. Graeme Murty [Rangers’ new under-20 coach] was my right back at Reading. So it’s funny, the older you get the more people you realise you know from working at various teams.”
Just three days after facing Rangers, Rodgers takes his team to Barcelona for their opening Champions League group game. The notion that the Nou Camp may also be in his mind was quickly dismissed. “I only look at the next game. That’s always been the mantra for me. I never look too far ahead.” It was the only cliché of an otherwise enlightening conversation.
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7 Sep 2016, 09:40 AM
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Weird that one article has BR basically saying he know's Warburton and that's about it and the other quotes him as saying he's one of his (BR's) closest friends.
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arklys
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7 Sep 2016, 09:51 AM
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Weird that one article has BR basically saying he know's Warburton and that's about it and the other quotes him as saying he's one of his (BR's) closest friends. If you mean the last one there, it's not a real quote - it finishes with "BR said none of the above".
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7 Sep 2016, 10:42 AM
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Weird that one article has BR basically saying he know's Warburton and that's about it and the other quotes him as saying he's one of his (BR's) closest friends.
If you mean the last one there, it's not a real quote - it finishes with "BR said none of the above". So it does
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7 Sep 2016, 12:47 PM
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Rodgers talking about Saturdays game: https://vimeo.com/181773926
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8 Sep 2016, 02:05 PM
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Nanananana Andy Halliday.....ANDY HALLIDAAAAY!!
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Manager of the month
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8 Sep 2016, 02:15 PM
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- 8 Sep 2016, 02:05 PM
Manager of the month 1st of many hopefully
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8 Sep 2016, 02:31 PM
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On SSN...
Says Griff had trained well all week...was sent for a scan to see how his hammy had reacted to this rather than take part in what was a light session.
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8 Sep 2016, 02:38 PM
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but in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.
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Well deserved.
Bit to go yet before he betters MON's league start - first defeat in November with only four points dropped beforehand.
But Rodgers has CL qualification in the bag though, so can arguably better the overall start to the 2000 season
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8 Sep 2016, 03:58 PM
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Billy McNeill - "Mr Celtic"
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- 8 Sep 2016, 02:38 PM
Well deserved. Bit to go yet before he betters MON's league start - first defeat in November with only four points dropped beforehand. But Rodgers has CL qualification in the bag though, so can arguably better the overall start to the 2000 season And he started with a lot more dross and still has a lot more dross than MON ever did plus O'Neill had Larsson.
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8 Sep 2016, 05:04 PM
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Fair comment, but also fair to say he's up against a lot more dross (european excluded )
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8 Sep 2016, 05:37 PM
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Handles SMSM with aplomb. Rightly treats those that deserve it with withering disdain
Suspect Griff is fit and he's playing them with the scan ruse (defusing the Griffiths pulled out of Scotland squad on a whim line which SMSM are clearly trying to spin)
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8 Sep 2016, 05:54 PM
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- 8 Sep 2016, 02:05 PM
Manager of the month First of many to come.
Beat the Huns on Saturday and that's Septembers in the bag!
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8 Sep 2016, 06:46 PM
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Handles SMSM with aplomb. Rightly treats those that deserve it with withering disdain Suspect Griff is fit and he's playing them with the scan ruse (defusing the Griffiths pulled out of Scotland squad on a whim line which SMSM are clearly trying to spin) I hope you are right about Griff. It sounds plausible to be fair, if he has been training and has a scan a couple of days before to confirm everything is ok.' Also plants doubt in sevco team and then we drop the bomb and Griff starts and scores a hat trick! Please let it be true!
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8 Sep 2016, 08:08 PM
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Anyone see what Etims has tweeted about some tabloid paper holding back a story about Brendan until just before sevco game. They seem to think it's pretty bad. According to them the paper have been 'sitting on the story'
Typical. That mob get pictured with loyalist flute bands and nothing in the press about that. I know I shouldn't get annoyed and it's to be expected but still angers me nonetheless
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8 Sep 2016, 08:15 PM
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Typical hope it's a lot of made up pish and he sues said tabloid.
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