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Brendan Rodgers; "I was born into Celtic"
Topic Started: 20 May 2016, 05:06 PM (2,288,133 Views)
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I think much will depend on whether he can keep any team long enough to build European success.

The money down south is at it's craziest, and all it takes is one successful season for us to see even 2nd/3rd tier EPL teams being able to offer large sums, and now the like of VVD, Wanayana and Forster have proven themselves it is less of a gamble.

Next season we will likely be without Roberts and Dembele, and perhaps a few more. We may even need a bigger rebuild than we did at the start of this season if Griffiths is sold on too.

I would love to see him stay for the next 4/5 years, but if he has to rebuild each season because offers arrive that neither Celtic or the player can refuse then progress in Europe will remain inconsistent.

I'd even say it was imperative that we kept Dembele for a full second season regardless. How much further some of our players will think they can develop in the SPL after such a dominant season will remain to be seen.
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Today's press conference: https://vimeo.com/203308412

Mikael Lustig: http://streamable.com/rc3mp
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Brendan Rodgers has revealed his sacking by Liverpool has ensured he will never make any projections about the length of his tenure as Celtic manager.

Sky Sports pundit and former Celtic winger Davie Provan this week expressed doubts over whether Rodgers would remain motivated long enough to remain at the club for their pursuit of a record 10 consecutive league titles and claimed the 44-year-old would be on the short-list of most English Premier League clubs for their next managerial vacancy.

Rodgers remains unbeaten domestically in his first season at Celtic, which is already all but certain to bring them a sixth successive title and sees them resume their quest for a first treble since 2001 when they entertain Inverness Caledonian Thistle in the fifth round of the Scottish Cup tomorrow.

Having signed a 12-month rolling contract when he succeeded Ronny Deila in the post last summer, Rodgers insists his experience at Anfield – where he was dismissed in October 2015 just 18 months after almost leading them to the Premier League title – means he will make no pledges about how long he will remain in Glasgow.

“I never worry about that now,” he said. “Listen, when we took over at Liverpool they were eighth. In my second season we finished runners-up. The club wanted to be in the Champions League, they were desperate for it. We scored 54 goals more than we did the previous season, over 101 goals. We reached the Champions League, we were at the top of Europe because of our level of football and I signed a new deal for four years in the June. By September, people were saying I should get the sack. That’s modern football. So, it’s a lovely thing [for Davie] to say, but I never think of things like that any more.

“I will never sit and promise I will be here for 10 years, five years or six months. I just do the very best I can for however long that is. If that’s for the next six months or another two years, let’s see what happens. Modern football can change very, very quickly. You can make all the statements you want. As a manager, you’ve just got to win games. I like to win them in a certain way.

“The minute I’m not wanted here I’ll be gone. I will never sit about at a club that I love getting in the way. If people don’t want me here, I’ll be gone. So I can never promise either way. All I can promise is to fight to give Celtic the best I possibly can. I think we have made a good start and the exciting thing is it’s only a start.

“I love being here and I enjoy my life up here, so let’s see what happens. I can only be what I am – which is super ambitious. But my ambition is for the club. I want us to be the very best we can be in every competition, in every training day, and that is something that is inherent in me. When you are at the club that you love it is a different feeling, you feel an even greater responsibility.”

Rodgers was speaking in a week which saw Celtic announce half-year profits of £21.4 million and a revenue increase of almost 95 per cent, to £61.2m, as a consequence of him leading them back to the Champions League group stage after a two-year absence.

He says it will not change his approach to player recruitment or increase his demands to the club’s board, although he believes it may again be possible for Celtic to pay transfer fees in the region of £6m – still the club record which was set with Chris Sutton’s arrival back in 2000.

“I’ll always be the same,” he added. “I meet the board regularly and speak to [chief executive] Peter Lawwell just about every day. The best time to improve is when you are successful. As a football club you can’t sit and glorify about what you have done, on or off the field. You have to have one eye on today and one on tomorrow. We’ve made a nice start here but there is a whole load for us still to do. That’s the exciting part – because we have only just started.

“I’ll always look to bring the best possible players here and give my reasons why I want to do it. But I won’t bring anyone in for the sake of it. We’ve had players offered here who might sound great in terms of names but they aren’t going to help Celtic. I need players who are coachable, who are hungry and have quality, whether they are experienced or not.

“The model has been to develop and move them on. I just think that will happen naturally. If someone gets offered a load of money then there is a timeline on it. But we need players who want to take Celtic forward. Whether they are a million quid, £6m, £7m or whatever, the club know I will bring that to them. Those figures this week demonstrate a really solid model of management, in a difficult climate.

“There is risk and reward but you have to ensure the risk is worth it. We are very fortunate at Celtic with the intellect of the board.”
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Brendan Rodgers has revealed his sacking by Liverpool has ensured he will never make any projections about the length of his tenure as Celtic manager.

Sky Sports pundit and former Celtic winger Davie Provan this week expressed doubts over whether Rodgers would remain motivated long enough to remain at the club for their pursuit of a record 10 consecutive league titles and claimed the 44-year-old would be on the short-list of most English Premier League clubs for their next managerial vacancy.

Rodgers remains unbeaten domestically in his first season at Celtic, which is already all but certain to bring them a sixth successive title and sees them resume their quest for a first treble since 2001 when they entertain Inverness Caledonian Thistle in the fifth round of the Scottish Cup tomorrow.

Having signed a 12-month rolling contract when he succeeded Ronny Deila in the post last summer, Rodgers insists his experience at Anfield – where he was dismissed in October 2015 just 18 months after almost leading them to the Premier League title – means he will make no pledges about how long he will remain in Glasgow.

“I never worry about that now,” he said. “Listen, when we took over at Liverpool they were eighth. In my second season we finished runners-up. The club wanted to be in the Champions League, they were desperate for it. We scored 54 goals more than we did the previous season, over 101 goals. We reached the Champions League, we were at the top of Europe because of our level of football and I signed a new deal for four years in the June. By September, people were saying I should get the sack. That’s modern football. So, it’s a lovely thing [for Davie] to say, but I never think of things like that any more.

“I will never sit and promise I will be here for 10 years, five years or six months. I just do the very best I can for however long that is. If that’s for the next six months or another two years, let’s see what happens. Modern football can change very, very quickly. You can make all the statements you want. As a manager, you’ve just got to win games. I like to win them in a certain way.

“The minute I’m not wanted here I’ll be gone. I will never sit about at a club that I love getting in the way. If people don’t want me here, I’ll be gone. So I can never promise either way. All I can promise is to fight to give Celtic the best I possibly can. I think we have made a good start and the exciting thing is it’s only a start.

“I love being here and I enjoy my life up here, so let’s see what happens. I can only be what I am – which is super ambitious. But my ambition is for the club. I want us to be the very best we can be in every competition, in every training day, and that is something that is inherent in me. When you are at the club that you love it is a different feeling, you feel an even greater responsibility.”

Rodgers was speaking in a week which saw Celtic announce half-year profits of £21.4 million and a revenue increase of almost 95 per cent, to £61.2m, as a consequence of him leading them back to the Champions League group stage after a two-year absence.

He says it will not change his approach to player recruitment or increase his demands to the club’s board, although he believes it may again be possible for Celtic to pay transfer fees in the region of £6m – still the club record which was set with Chris Sutton’s arrival back in 2000.

“I’ll always be the same,” he added. “I meet the board regularly and speak to [chief executive] Peter Lawwell just about every day. The best time to improve is when you are successful. As a football club you can’t sit and glorify about what you have done, on or off the field. You have to have one eye on today and one on tomorrow. We’ve made a nice start here but there is a whole load for us still to do. That’s the exciting part – because we have only just started.

“I’ll always look to bring the best possible players here and give my reasons why I want to do it. But I won’t bring anyone in for the sake of it. We’ve had players offered here who might sound great in terms of names but they aren’t going to help Celtic. I need players who are coachable, who are hungry and have quality, whether they are experienced or not.

“The model has been to develop and move them on. I just think that will happen naturally. If someone gets offered a load of money then there is a timeline on it. But we need players who want to take Celtic forward. Whether they are a million quid, £6m, £7m or whatever, the club know I will bring that to them. Those figures this week demonstrate a really solid model of management, in a difficult climate.

“There is risk and reward but you have to ensure the risk is worth it. We are very fortunate at Celtic with the intellect of the board.”
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"The best time to improve is when you are successful."

Something the club has failed to do in the past. With Brendan in charge though he won't stand for anything less.

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Brendan Rodgers insists he would have no hesitation in smashing Celtic’s record transfer fee if he felt a player was right for the team.

The Parkhead club this week published accounts for the last six months of 2016 which showed a 94 per cent surge in turnover to £61.2million.

This was largely due to Rodgers guiding them to the group stages of the Champions League after a three-year exile.

The manager only signed one player in January – Eboue Kouassi for £2.8m – and is expect to recruit more extensively before the qualifiers for next season’s tournament begin in July.

Reflecting on an impressive set of financial figures that showed a pre-tax profit of £18.6m, Rodgers was adamant there is no set limit to the price tag on any target’s back – and that exceeding the £6m paid to Chelsea for Chris Sutton is a possibility.

‘No, I have never been given a ceiling,’ he said. ‘Sometimes the market, depending on where you get them from, can be over-inflated. But if a player we feel is worth it I will always look to convince the board because the Celtic supporters deserve the best players. I will always strive to bring the very best players here. Then it is the decision of the club. But I am also realistic as well.’

On target to win the Treble in his first season and still unbeaten domestically, Rodgers’ success has already given rise to speculation on how long it may be until a return to England catches his imagination.

This week ex-Celtic winger Davie Provan cast doubt on the Irishman being in Glasgow for a potential tenth title in a row, but Rodgers said he’ll never waste time fretting about timescales.
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The record books show it was mid-July when Celtic melted in the heat of Gibraltar's compact Victoria Stadium. As far as the style of football now being produced by Brendan Rodgers' side is concerned, it might well have been in the middle ages.

While most who witnessed it all going so horribly wrong that opening night against Lincoln Red Imps felt sure the damage would be repaired back in Glasgow the following week, few could surely claim to have envisaged the progress Rodgers' team has made up until this point.

Not only was Champions League qualification achieved, Celtic welcome Inverness in the Scottish Cup on Saturday still to taste defeat domestically.

The naked facts offered by the Premiership table tell their own story: 23 wins from 24. Just one game drawn. A lead of 27 points. A goal difference of plus 49.

More than any numbers, however, the aesthetic beauty of the fifth goal Rodgers' men scored at Perth last Sunday succinctly summed up what they have become; Some 25 passes were strung together.

A rabona from Mikael Lustig preceded a back-heel from Callum McGregor before Moussa Dembele completed a hat-trick by wrong-footing the goalkeeper.

A sure sign of a side at the very top of its game. A move, Rodgers freely admits, that would have been way beyond them in the early weeks of the campaign.

'I don't think so, no,' he agreed. 'When your right-back is doing rabonas you know it's a team in good confidence. Also Callum McGregor's little nick round the corner as well.

'What this team are developing now is this priceless quality of staying calm under pressure and in pressure moments and finding a way.

'Back then we couldn't have done that. Back then there were fundamental things within the team we had to improve. Now you look at it and we make the passes but they are not slow passes.

'It's that speed and tempo. It's aggressive. If you can do it in one pass you do it. But if it's not on you've got to keep it and move them about.

'The beauty of us is if you look at the last 15 minutes of games, teams in that period are mentally and physically tired because of our counter pressing.

'When you press the ball and win it back so much, it tires out the other team because they've got to chase the ball and mentally it's a constant.

'The spaces then start to open up. It's great credit to the players in terms of understanding this patience in the game now. If we don't break a team down in the first half hour it's okay.

'That last half hour is when our fitness, conditioning and game model can really come into it. That's work. That's why we're here – to improve that level of game and hopefully the supporters enjoy it.'

It's fair to say that can be taken as read. For the Celtic support at large, Rodgers is just a man who can now do no wrong.

The degree of trust between the paying public and the man at the helm has rarely been higher. Moments such as those witnessed late on at McDiarmid Park last weekend tend to seal the deal.

Anxious gasps and nervous squeals are rarely heard from the stands when there's a general acceptance that the manager and his players are in control.

'The fans get it when it's not on and we come back out, like when Kieran Tierney recycled the ball they started to clap. They understand,' Rodgers said. 'Lots of teams like to get it forward quickly but when you do that it comes back just as quick.

'Yeah, there has been a change. We want to attack. It's the culture of the club going back many years being an attacking, aggressive side.

'I knew that coming in here. It's about education, staying calm and knowing why we're doing it. It's difficult if you are playing against a side who are sat in with numbers behind the ball, playing a low block.

'You can't always break through with one pass. There's a strategy to it. You want to wear teams down but it has to be quick and dynamic and forward thinking.'

If moments like the one witnessed in Perth suggest Rodgers has already taken Celtic to a place few managers have managed to go, the bad news for the competition is he views his mission as only just beginning.

Frustrated at only being able to sign one player in the January window, the expectation is for substantially more summer recruits.

Exact figures, both in relation to the number of players he covets and the money at his disposal, naturally remain off limits. Yet his desire for all at the club to press their foot to the floor is apparent.

'I'll always be the same. I meet the board regularly and speak to Peter (Lawwell) just about every day,' he added.

'The best time to improve is when you are successful. As a football club you can't sit and glorify about what you have, on or off the field.

'You have to have one eye on today and one on tomorrow. The best time to continue developing is when you are winning and successful. You can't rest on your laurels.

'We've made a nice start here but there is a whole load for us still to do. That's the exciting part - because we have only just started.'

The consequence of seeing of Hapoel Be'er Sheva over two legs in the final qualifier was laid bare this week in figures for the last six months of 2016 which showed a 94 per cent increase in turnover to £61.2m.

In an age where enormous debt at major European clubs is almost looked upon as a badge of honour, Rodgers takes pride in the fact that everything at the club he now manages is bought and paid for.

'You have to give huge amount of credit to Peter and the people here,' he reflected. 'Those figures demonstrate a really solid model of management, in a difficult climate.

'There is risk and reward but you have to ensure the risk is worth it. What Peter has shown is wonderful leadership. We are very fortunate at Celtic with the intellect of the board.

'One of the key things I've seen here is the high level of intelligence at board level.

'They stay calm in moments, there's strategy and trust which is important, and it's all for the common goal, which is Celtic.

'The guys leading the club deserved a huge amount of credit for proving the base to allow the club to move forward.'
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Other than Chris Davies, did Rodgers bring a lot more of his own people to Celtic when he joined in terms of coaches, scouts, fitness advisers etc? I know Deila supposedly had a troupe of Norwegian coaches loitering about but not clear exactly what staff came with Rodgers if any? ta.
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We're only talking a year, but it seems like a whole lot longer.

Twelve months ago only three points separated Celtic from Aberdeen at the top of the Premiership table. That's a trippy thought when you look at that table now and the 27-point gulf that exists between the same two clubs.

Close to this time last year, the Dons beat Ronny Deila's team at Pittodrie, but it wasn't a revelation. Ross County had beaten Celtic the week before and had dumped them out of the League Cup. Motherwell had beaten them a while before that. Rangers would do it months later and remove them from the Scottish Cup.

Everything was in flux then. There was weakness where now there is only strength. On Thursday afternoon, Brendan Rodgers moved from room to room at Lennoxtown on his busy press conference beat.

He's in flying form. When he reaches us he talks about Carnlough in Antrim, where he was reared, and Ballymena, 25 minutes inland, where he was educated. Same school as Liam Neeson, the actor. Same town as Willie John McBride, the rugby icon. "Some big men there," he smiles. "Bigger than me."

Well, yes and no.

YOUR PARENTS ARE YOUR BEST TEACHERS

When doing research on Brendan Rodgers you have to get through some amount of eulogies from his brief reign at Celtic - the players he improved, those he brought in and made stars of, the unbeaten run, the tactical wit, the authority, the positivity, the trophy already won, the league as good as won and the Scottish Cup to play for, continuing at the weekend with a tie against Inverness.

Dig deeper and you find the stuff from before, mention after mention of psychology, self-improvement. The tenets of his philosophy.

"It probably comes from growing up," he says. "My parents were about being the best they could be." He lost them far too soon, his mum, Christina, aged 53 and his dad, Malachy, just 59.

"It was borne out of a childhood growing up with really positive parents who made you feel you can achieve things with hard work. You have teachers at school but your best teachers are your parents, they're your role models. They worked for everything. Five kids, and we didn't have a lot of money, but we were rich in the values they gave us."

Malachy Rodgers was a painter and decorator, a stand-up guy, a rock.

"I remember leaving home as a 16-year-old going to England to start an apprenticeship as a footballer and when I came back at the end of the year I thought I'd be having a relaxing time.

December 2008: Manager Brendan Rodgers celebrates with Watford skipper Tommy Smith after a win over Norwich City
December 2008: Manager Brendan Rodgers celebrates with Watford skipper Tommy Smith after a win over Norwich City
"The next day I had to paint the wall out the front of the garden. It was those little bricks that were out in the 1980s that had all the designs and I had to do one side and then the other side and it felt like that was my holiday gone. But I had to help him.

"He was a worker, he liked his sons to work and I like my teams to work. For me, it's an obligation, it's not a choice. My father loved seeing skilful football. He loved teams that played with that panache, that charisma, that arrogance, but he would reference the best players and say, 'Look at how hard they work'. That was probably something I was picking up on as a kid. It becomes ingrained in you."

It was a life lesson that still has a meaning every day.

At 20, Rodgers' playing career ended through injury. Another massive landmark on his road to Glasgow. He was a father, a man in need of money but with few options to get it.

"That was the making of me. When I was a young player and I had to quit, at the time academies weren't around so there weren't many jobs in football. I always wanted to coach but I had a family and I had to provide for them. So I got a job with John Lewis in their main warehouse in Bracknell while I was doing my coaching badges.

"I'd be up at five o'clock in the morning and doing a 12-hour shift, five days a week and after that I went coaching. I knew what I wanted to do."

DEDRYCK BOYATA? IN THE GYM PAST MIDNIGHT

Brendan Rodgers hopes striker Leigh Griffiths can improve aspects of his game
Brendan Rodgers hopes striker Leigh Griffiths can improve aspects of his game
Last week Rodgers spoke about the psychology of footballers. It was part of a discussion about Leigh Griffiths' plight this season and the things he needs to do to get better. Rodgers is a big fan of the striker, but wants to see him develop a mentality to match his talent.

"With Scottish, and Irish players, it's just letting them know that they've been given a talent and when you're young you can get away with just talent. You can be the quickest boy in school, the strongest, the most skilful, but as you progress into your professional life it's about talent plus the hard work. The talent alone at this point will be no good for you.

"What happens sometimes with young Scottish and Irish players that I've seen and worked with is other things come into their life and they become wasted talents. With wasted talents what you get is they still play but they blame everyone else.

"It's not about Leigh. I'm talking generally. I have a real good relationship with Leigh, he's brilliant for me and he's a big part of what I'm doing here. But I want him to be the best he can be. What I'm challenging him to do is look at how you are in every facet of your life as a professional. If we can change a little that might actually change a lot.

"It's just making players aware that you can improve, you can improve tenfold in terms of what you are and it starts with how you approach your life as a footballer, how you apply yourself to diet and nutrition. We're trying to build a consistent Champions League club here so you have to have a Champions League mentality.

"If you don't, it's OK, I don't lose sleep over it, there'll be somebody else to come and fill your place."

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Dedryck Boyata has worked his way back into the Celtic first team under Rodgers
He tells a story of a conversation he had with a player, a 25-year-old whose identity he doesn't reveal. "I said, 'You've got 10 years left as a footballer. You've virtually only got 120 pay packets left - that's it. And that's if you look after your body. So, OK, it might not have gone quite right for you up until 25 but between now and 35 you've only got 120 pay packets and that's to do you for a lifetime. So can we now apply ourselves better and that'll improve you as a player and you might just get a little hike in those pay packets for you and your family?' It's reality."

The example in all of this is not any of the superstars Rodgers coached at Liverpool. No, it's Dedryck Boyata.

Rodgers has a world of time for the centre-half and the way he knuckled down when he lost his place at Celtic. "When he wasn't in the squad for games he'd come back here (Lennoxtown) and he'd be working in the gym to midnight and beyond so when his chance came he was going to be ready. I always say to them, 'The door will open for you, just be ready to come through it'."

IT WAS LIKE WHEN SANTA BROUGHT ME THE CELTIC JERSEY

Even though he's only 44, Rodgers has known all sorts of different pressure in football management. At Watford, it was the stress of a relegation battle, which he won. At Swansea it was about defying the odds and taking the club to the Premiership. At Liverpool it was about trying to restore greatness - or even relevance - in the Premiership title race.

In all those jobs he was up against bigger opposition, so the burden was different to the one he carries now. He's the big beast these days. So where's the drive coming from?

"It goes back to what I said at the start - to be the best you can be. I need pressure and there's a different pressure here compared to my other jobs, but it's a big pressure. It's a different feeling when you're managing a club that you supported as a child.

"I walked in here on my first day and getting ready to train, I stood and stared at my kit with the Celtic badge. It didn't feel like work any more. This felt like a passion and a dream. So just pulling on the training kit for the first time felt like when I first put on my Celtic kit that Santa brought when I was younger.

"I know what I'm representing here, worldwide. I'm loving every minute of it."

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Luis Suarez was a prolific scorer for Liverpool while Rodgers was in charge at Anfield
He gets asked about his next move quite a bit. Once he's hoovered up everything in Scotland and has made more progress in Europe, is a return to England inevitable? And when does he make that return?

There's always a straight bat applied to that one. He doesn't make those kind of plans any more. "I'm very happy in my life - my personal life and my professional life. I never tend to put a timeline on anything like that.

"I'll never forget when I was at Liverpool. I signed a new deal supposedly to be the architect of a club going forward. That was in the June and in the September people were calling for me to get the sack. So you learn to stay calm. I can never promise I'll be here for the next six months, six years, one year. I just try to enjoy every single day. All I ever think about is how to be the best I can be for Celtic."

His parents' mantra. It's still in him, now and for ever.


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Other than Chris Davies, did Rodgers bring a lot more of his own people to Celtic when he joined in terms of coaches, scouts, fitness advisers etc? I know Deila supposedly had a troupe of Norwegian coaches loitering about but not clear exactly what staff came with Rodgers if any? ta.
Glen Driscoll (performance director/head)came in with the gaffer and Chris Davies

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Other than Chris Davies, did Rodgers bring a lot more of his own people to Celtic when he joined in terms of coaches, scouts, fitness advisers etc? I know Deila supposedly had a troupe of Norwegian coaches loitering about but not clear exactly what staff came with Rodgers if any? ta.
He brought in Glen Driscoll as Head of Performance (worked at Chelsea) and Jack Nayler as Head of Sports Science (worked at Real Madrid). I don't know if he's brought anyone else in, though.
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You could listen to him all day, so positive, I fail to see how any player could fail to be inspired working with a manager like that.
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"I walked in here on my first day and getting ready to train, I stood and stared at my kit with the Celtic badge. It didn't feel like work any more. This felt like a passion and a dream. So just pulling on the training kit for the first time felt like when I first put on my Celtic kit that Santa brought when I was younger.

"I know what I'm representing here, worldwide. I'm loving every minute of it."


That's just.....spot on. Absolutely spot on. I don't think I've heard something so close to hearing my own thoughts and dreams since Tommy Burns. Even Martin (who I loved and whose voice I always heard when playing FM :lol: ) I always felt he'd leave for Man U or someone like that. Maybe because BR has come the opposite way it changes it.
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Other than Chris Davies, did Rodgers bring a lot more of his own people to Celtic when he joined in terms of coaches, scouts, fitness advisers etc? I know Deila supposedly had a troupe of Norwegian coaches loitering about but not clear exactly what staff came with Rodgers if any? ta.
He's still piecing staff together but so far he has made a few changes:

Brought back Tim Williamson in place of Grete Homstol
Brought in Glenn Driscoll(ex liverpool and chelsea) to replace Bard Homstol
Brought in Jack Nayler( ex PSG & Madrid) to replace Ian Coll
He's also brough in Stephen Gormal and John McGlynn in as performance analyst's
Rob Naughton (ex liverpool) has replaced Ken Hallsten in the performance team also

He is also looking to bring in Lee Congerton ( ex Chelsea youth coach, Hamburg sporting director and sunderland sporting director) as head of scouting and football development
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We're only talking a year, but it seems like a whole lot longer.

Twelve months ago only three points separated Celtic from Aberdeen at the top of the Premiership table. That's a trippy thought when you look at that table now and the 27-point gulf that exists between the same two clubs.

Close to this time last year, the Dons beat Ronny Deila's team at Pittodrie, but it wasn't a revelation. Ross County had beaten Celtic the week before and had dumped them out of the League Cup. Motherwell had beaten them a while before that. Rangers would do it months later and remove them from the Scottish Cup.

Everything was in flux then. There was weakness where now there is only strength. On Thursday afternoon, Brendan Rodgers moved from room to room at Lennoxtown on his busy press conference beat.

He's in flying form. When he reaches us he talks about Carnlough in Antrim, where he was reared, and Ballymena, 25 minutes inland, where he was educated. Same school as Liam Neeson, the actor. Same town as Willie John McBride, the rugby icon. "Some big men there," he smiles. "Bigger than me."

Well, yes and no.

Your parents are your best teachers

When doing research on Brendan Rodgers you have to get through some amount of eulogies from his brief reign at Celtic - the players he improved, those he brought in and made stars of, the unbeaten run, the tactical wit, the authority, the positivity, the trophy already won, the league as good as won and the Scottish Cup to play for, continuing at the weekend with a tie against Inverness.

Dig deeper and you find the stuff from before, mention after mention of psychology, self-improvement. The tenets of his philosophy.

"It probably comes from growing up," he says. "My parents were about being the best they could be." He lost them far too soon, his mum, Christina, aged 53 and his dad, Malachy, just 59.

"It was borne out of a childhood growing up with really positive parents who made you feel you can achieve things with hard work. You have teachers at school but your best teachers are your parents, they're your role models. They worked for everything. Five kids, and we didn't have a lot of money, but we were rich in the values they gave us."

Malachy Rodgers was a painter and decorator, a stand-up guy, a rock.

"I remember leaving home as a 16-year-old going to England to start an apprenticeship as a footballer and when I came back at the end of the year I thought I'd be having a relaxing time.

"The next day I had to paint the wall out the front of the garden. It was those little bricks that were out in the 1980s that had all the designs and I had to do one side and then the other side and it felt like that was my holiday gone. But I had to help him.

"He was a worker, he liked his sons to work and I like my teams to work. For me, it's an obligation, it's not a choice. My father loved seeing skilful football. He loved teams that played with that panache, that charisma, that arrogance, but he would reference the best players and say, 'Look at how hard they work'. That was probably something I was picking up on as a kid. It becomes ingrained in you."

It was a life lesson that still has a meaning every day.

At 20, Rodgers' playing career ended through injury. Another massive landmark on his road to Glasgow. He was a father, a man in need of money but with few options to get it.

"That was the making of me. When I was a young player and I had to quit, at the time academies weren't around so there weren't many jobs in football. I always wanted to coach but I had a family and I had to provide for them. So I got a job with John Lewis in their main warehouse in Bracknell while I was doing my coaching badges.

"I'd be up at five o'clock in the morning and doing a 12-hour shift, five days a week and after that I went coaching. I knew what I wanted to do."


Last week Rodgers spoke about the psychology of footballers. It was part of a discussion about Leigh Griffiths' plight this season and the things he needs to do to get better. Rodgers is a big fan of the striker, but wants to see him develop a mentality to match his talent.

"With Scottish, and Irish players, it's just letting them know that they've been given a talent and when you're young you can get away with just talent. You can be the quickest boy in school, the strongest, the most skilful, but as you progress into your professional life it's about talent plus the hard work. The talent alone at this point will be no good for you.

"What happens sometimes with young Scottish and Irish players that I've seen and worked with is other things come into their life and they become wasted talents. With wasted talents what you get is they still play but they blame everyone else.

"It's not about Leigh. I'm talking generally. I have a real good relationship with Leigh, he's brilliant for me and he's a big part of what I'm doing here. But I want him to be the best he can be. What I'm challenging him to do is look at how you are in every facet of your life as a professional. If we can change a little that might actually change a lot.

"It's just making players aware that you can improve, you can improve tenfold in terms of what you are and it starts with how you approach your life as a footballer, how you apply yourself to diet and nutrition. We're trying to build a consistent Champions League club here so you have to have a Champions League mentality.

"If you don't, it's OK, I don't lose sleep over it, there'll be somebody else to come and fill your place."


Dedryck Boyata has worked his way back into the Celtic first team under Rodgers
He tells a story of a conversation he had with a player, a 25-year-old whose identity he doesn't reveal. "I said, 'You've got 10 years left as a footballer. You've virtually only got 120 pay packets left - that's it. And that's if you look after your body.

"So, OK, it might not have gone quite right for you up until 25 but between now and 35 you've only got 120 pay packets and that's to do you for a lifetime. So can we now apply ourselves better and that'll improve you as a player and you might just get a little hike in those pay packets for you and your family?' It's reality."

The example in all of this is not any of the superstars Rodgers coached at Liverpool. No, it's Dedryck Boyata.

Rodgers has a world of time for the centre-half and the way he knuckled down when he lost his place at Celtic. "When he wasn't in the squad for games he'd come back here (Lennoxtown) and he'd be working in the gym to midnight and beyond so when his chance came he was going to be ready. I always say to them, 'The door will open for you, just be ready to come through it'."

It was like when Santa brought me the Celtic jersey

Even though he's only 44, Rodgers has known all sorts of different pressure in football management. At Watford, it was the stress of a relegation battle, which he won. At Swansea it was about defying the odds and taking the club to the Premier League. At Liverpool it was about trying to restore greatness - or even relevance - in the Premier League title race.

In all those jobs he was up against bigger opposition, so the burden was different to the one he carries now. He's the big beast these days. So where's the drive coming from?

"It goes back to what I said at the start - to be the best you can be. I need pressure and there's a different pressure here compared to my other jobs, but it's a big pressure. It's a different feeling when you're managing a club that you supported as a child.

"I walked in here on my first day and getting ready to train, I stood and stared at my kit with the Celtic badge. It didn't feel like work any more. This felt like a passion and a dream. So just pulling on the training kit for the first time felt like when I first put on my Celtic kit that Santa brought when I was younger.

"I know what I'm representing here, worldwide. I'm loving every minute of it."

He gets asked about his next move quite a bit. Once he's hoovered up everything in Scotland and has made more progress in Europe, is a return to England inevitable? And when does he make that return?

There's always a straight bat applied to that one. He doesn't make those kind of plans any more. "I'm very happy in my life - my personal life and my professional life. I never tend to put a timeline on anything like that.

"I'll never forget when I was at Liverpool. I signed a new deal supposedly to be the architect of a club going forward. That was in the June and in the September people were calling for me to get the sack. So you learn to stay calm.

"I can never promise I'll be here for the next six months, six years, one year. I just try to enjoy every single day. All I ever think about is how to be the best I can be for Celtic."

His parents' mantra. It's still in him, now and for ever.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/38925782
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We're only talking a year, but it seems like a whole lot longer.

Twelve months ago only three points separated Celtic from Aberdeen at the top of the Premiership table. That's a trippy thought when you look at that table now and the 27-point gulf that exists between the same two clubs.

Close to this time last year, the Dons beat Ronny Deila's team at Pittodrie, but it wasn't a revelation. Ross County had beaten Celtic the week before and had dumped them out of the League Cup. Motherwell had beaten them a while before that. Rangers would do it months later and remove them from the Scottish Cup.

Everything was in flux then. There was weakness where now there is only strength. On Thursday afternoon, Brendan Rodgers moved from room to room at Lennoxtown on his busy press conference beat.

He's in flying form. When he reaches us he talks about Carnlough in Antrim, where he was reared, and Ballymena, 25 minutes inland, where he was educated. Same school as Liam Neeson, the actor. Same town as Willie John McBride, the rugby icon. "Some big men there," he smiles. "Bigger than me."

Well, yes and no.

Your parents are your best teachers

When doing research on Brendan Rodgers you have to get through some amount of eulogies from his brief reign at Celtic - the players he improved, those he brought in and made stars of, the unbeaten run, the tactical wit, the authority, the positivity, the trophy already won, the league as good as won and the Scottish Cup to play for, continuing at the weekend with a tie against Inverness.

Dig deeper and you find the stuff from before, mention after mention of psychology, self-improvement. The tenets of his philosophy.

"It probably comes from growing up," he says. "My parents were about being the best they could be." He lost them far too soon, his mum, Christina, aged 53 and his dad, Malachy, just 59.

"It was borne out of a childhood growing up with really positive parents who made you feel you can achieve things with hard work. You have teachers at school but your best teachers are your parents, they're your role models. They worked for everything. Five kids, and we didn't have a lot of money, but we were rich in the values they gave us."

Malachy Rodgers was a painter and decorator, a stand-up guy, a rock.

"I remember leaving home as a 16-year-old going to England to start an apprenticeship as a footballer and when I came back at the end of the year I thought I'd be having a relaxing time.

"The next day I had to paint the wall out the front of the garden. It was those little bricks that were out in the 1980s that had all the designs and I had to do one side and then the other side and it felt like that was my holiday gone. But I had to help him.

"He was a worker, he liked his sons to work and I like my teams to work. For me, it's an obligation, it's not a choice. My father loved seeing skilful football. He loved teams that played with that panache, that charisma, that arrogance, but he would reference the best players and say, 'Look at how hard they work'. That was probably something I was picking up on as a kid. It becomes ingrained in you."

It was a life lesson that still has a meaning every day.

At 20, Rodgers' playing career ended through injury. Another massive landmark on his road to Glasgow. He was a father, a man in need of money but with few options to get it.

"That was the making of me. When I was a young player and I had to quit, at the time academies weren't around so there weren't many jobs in football. I always wanted to coach but I had a family and I had to provide for them. So I got a job with John Lewis in their main warehouse in Bracknell while I was doing my coaching badges.

"I'd be up at five o'clock in the morning and doing a 12-hour shift, five days a week and after that I went coaching. I knew what I wanted to do."


Last week Rodgers spoke about the psychology of footballers. It was part of a discussion about Leigh Griffiths' plight this season and the things he needs to do to get better. Rodgers is a big fan of the striker, but wants to see him develop a mentality to match his talent.

"With Scottish, and Irish players, it's just letting them know that they've been given a talent and when you're young you can get away with just talent. You can be the quickest boy in school, the strongest, the most skilful, but as you progress into your professional life it's about talent plus the hard work. The talent alone at this point will be no good for you.

"What happens sometimes with young Scottish and Irish players that I've seen and worked with is other things come into their life and they become wasted talents. With wasted talents what you get is they still play but they blame everyone else.

"It's not about Leigh. I'm talking generally. I have a real good relationship with Leigh, he's brilliant for me and he's a big part of what I'm doing here. But I want him to be the best he can be. What I'm challenging him to do is look at how you are in every facet of your life as a professional. If we can change a little that might actually change a lot.

"It's just making players aware that you can improve, you can improve tenfold in terms of what you are and it starts with how you approach your life as a footballer, how you apply yourself to diet and nutrition. We're trying to build a consistent Champions League club here so you have to have a Champions League mentality.

"If you don't, it's OK, I don't lose sleep over it, there'll be somebody else to come and fill your place."


Dedryck Boyata has worked his way back into the Celtic first team under Rodgers
He tells a story of a conversation he had with a player, a 25-year-old whose identity he doesn't reveal. "I said, 'You've got 10 years left as a footballer. You've virtually only got 120 pay packets left - that's it. And that's if you look after your body.

"So, OK, it might not have gone quite right for you up until 25 but between now and 35 you've only got 120 pay packets and that's to do you for a lifetime. So can we now apply ourselves better and that'll improve you as a player and you might just get a little hike in those pay packets for you and your family?' It's reality."

The example in all of this is not any of the superstars Rodgers coached at Liverpool. No, it's Dedryck Boyata.

Rodgers has a world of time for the centre-half and the way he knuckled down when he lost his place at Celtic. "When he wasn't in the squad for games he'd come back here (Lennoxtown) and he'd be working in the gym to midnight and beyond so when his chance came he was going to be ready. I always say to them, 'The door will open for you, just be ready to come through it'."

It was like when Santa brought me the Celtic jersey

Even though he's only 44, Rodgers has known all sorts of different pressure in football management. At Watford, it was the stress of a relegation battle, which he won. At Swansea it was about defying the odds and taking the club to the Premier League. At Liverpool it was about trying to restore greatness - or even relevance - in the Premier League title race.

In all those jobs he was up against bigger opposition, so the burden was different to the one he carries now. He's the big beast these days. So where's the drive coming from?

"It goes back to what I said at the start - to be the best you can be. I need pressure and there's a different pressure here compared to my other jobs, but it's a big pressure. It's a different feeling when you're managing a club that you supported as a child.

"I walked in here on my first day and getting ready to train, I stood and stared at my kit with the Celtic badge. It didn't feel like work any more. This felt like a passion and a dream. So just pulling on the training kit for the first time felt like when I first put on my Celtic kit that Santa brought when I was younger.

"I know what I'm representing here, worldwide. I'm loving every minute of it."

He gets asked about his next move quite a bit. Once he's hoovered up everything in Scotland and has made more progress in Europe, is a return to England inevitable? And when does he make that return?

There's always a straight bat applied to that one. He doesn't make those kind of plans any more. "I'm very happy in my life - my personal life and my professional life. I never tend to put a timeline on anything like that.

"I'll never forget when I was at Liverpool. I signed a new deal supposedly to be the architect of a club going forward. That was in the June and in the September people were calling for me to get the sack. So you learn to stay calm.

"I can never promise I'll be here for the next six months, six years, one year. I just try to enjoy every single day. All I ever think about is how to be the best I can be for Celtic."

His parents' mantra. It's still in him, now and for ever.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/38925782
*fans self*

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Is Jim Mcguiness still working for the club?
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I hope the Celtic board realise what they have here - not just a very good coach, motivator and tactician but also someone who can make and maintain a real connection with the supporters. This is what gets people to the ground, to buy kits and merchandise, to sign up to Celtic TV, etc. They've managed to secure a man who's as good and natural a fit with Celtic as any I've known in my lifetime. He loves the Club and it should love him back and give him all the support and backing he needs. It'd be unforgivable for them to balls it up this time.
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10 Feb 2017, 10:22 AM
Other than Chris Davies, did Rodgers bring a lot more of his own people to Celtic when he joined in terms of coaches, scouts, fitness advisers etc? I know Deila supposedly had a troupe of Norwegian coaches loitering about but not clear exactly what staff came with Rodgers if any? ta.
He's still piecing staff together but so far he has made a few changes:

Brought back Tim Williamson in place of Grete Homstol
Brought in Glenn Driscoll(ex liverpool and chelsea) to replace Bard Homstol
Brought in Jack Nayler( ex PSG & Madrid) to replace Ian Coll
He's also brough in Stephen Gormal and John McGlynn in as performance analyst's
Rob Naughton (ex liverpool) has replaced Ken Hallsten in the performance team also

He is also looking to bring in Lee Congerton ( ex Chelsea youth coach, Hamburg sporting director and sunderland sporting director) as head of scouting and football development
The ex-Hearts guy?
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10 Feb 2017, 02:10 PM
Is Jim Mcguiness still working for the club?
Read an interview with him a while back where he said he was working mostly with the U19s while he does his coaching badges. Don't think he has anything to do with the first team these days.
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Is Jim Mcguiness still working for the club?
Read an interview with him a while back where he said he was working mostly with the U19s while he does his coaching badges. Don't think he has anything to do with the first team these days.

Edit - no idea if he's still on that supposed six-figure contract btw, sounds like an awful lot to be paying a youth team coach :ponder:
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