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Brendan Rodgers; "I was born into Celtic"
Topic Started: 20 May 2016, 05:06 PM (2,288,127 Views)
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I absolutely love watching teams crumble under our incessant pressure when we don't have the ball. The effort the players are putting in for the manager is incredible. You're basically just waiting to see when they spew up the ball and hope it leads to a counter attack goal. The mind boggles to think once we get a better surface at home and enhance the squad this summer just how far we can go.

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BRENDAN Rodgers is not fooled by big numbers but the Celtic manager does have one figure in mind which would represent the perfect payback for his team’s remarkable season. It’s 50.

That is the points margin which Rodgers would like to see Celtic hold when they finally lift the Ladbrokes Premiership trophy. With a 27-point lead over Aberdeen and Rangers accumulated after just 24 games, nothing is out reach for the

champions as they close in on a sixth successive title.

With 23 victories and one draw, Rodgers’ side return to league business on Saturday at home to Motherwell. Mark McGhee’s team pushed Celtic more than any other, leading twice before losing 4-3 after a 94th-minute winner by Tom Rogic at Fir Park in December.

Such dominance earns only scorn for Celtic in countries such as England, but that does not trouble Rodgers who sees an intrinsic sense of worth in Scottish football – and the clubs he competes against – compared to the wealth Rodgers says has “distorted” the English game.

Celtic’s motivation comes from within Rodgers’ side, as they proved last weekend at St Johnstone by turning a 2-1 deficit into a 5-2 victory on the same McDiarmid Park pitch where Ronny Deila’s side lost last May.

“What I have tried to do since I came in here is raise the standard on every level,” Rodgers said. “I am not saying there were never good standards. Ronny did a really good job, and you had good players here and Celtic over the last five seasons have won the league.

“We’ve tried to raise the bar. To win in the best possible way. So, you can save money and win by 10 points? Or can you spend money and win by 30? Well, I want to win by 50, if I can. I want to keep pushing the bar and keep it being the best we can be on and off the field.

“There are many things to achieve here. Lots. That’s the drive, not just to settle for something. No, it’s to be the best you can be. I said it on the first day to the players and I’ve spoken to them again. It’s about standards.

“Celtic are a winning club. But there are two ways to win. Either you just do enough and win or you do everything you can to win the very best way. My only way is to win in the best possible way. Entertain the supporters, make people enjoy it, make the players enjoy their work and win as often as you can.

“We’ve actually got really good competition in Scotland. There’s some very good coaches here in the leagues. We’ve been at a level which has been consistently really good.

“Clubs up here are not handed money. You have to earn every single penny, whether you are at Inverness, Partick or Celtic. Obviously down south, the television revenue for finishing bottom is about £100 million.

“It’s really refreshing up here. There is a real humility in the club. Everybody wants the club to succeed, so everyone is doing that extra bit, they do that little bit more.”

Rodgers has helped to create Celtic’s impressive new six-month figures posted last week – a £61.2m turnover and £19m profit – by reaching the Champions League group stage, and inspiring an upturn in season tickets. However, the Northern Irishman is wary of being seduced by numbers because that undoubtedly prompted Liverpool’s American owners to jettison him as manager in October, 2015.

Now, it turns out that Rodgers’ successor, Jurgen Klopp, has an identical record after 54 games as Anfield manager.

“When money comes into football it always distorts reality,” Rodgers said. “It’s a wonderful league, the EPL, but when you come away and look at it from afar and look at the development of young players, it’s tough. Over 70 per cent of EPL players are foreign and it’s also difficult for homegrown coaches.

“Homegrown managers will never get that sort of recognition. If we provide any sort of tactical innovation, we’ve stumbled on to it. They think you could not have studied the game or been an innovator. We are brought up in Britain to show humility, not to be brash – but then we don’t get called charismatic.”

Rodgers does not even think that someone like Bournemouth’s Eddie Howe replacing Arsene Wenger at Arsenal, would change attitudes.

“I don’t think so,” he replies. “I was ‘the one’ who went to Liverpool. It [change] is the narrative of football now. Look at Jurgen. You’re brilliant, then all of a sudden you lose and you’re not. Pep Guardiola spends his time doing well in Spain and Germany.

Then he comes here and supposedly doesn’t know what he’s doing. Sometimes there’s a blip and things don’t quite work out right. You can’t just still be good. It seems you’re now either very good or very bad.”

Another of Rodgers’ colleagues at Liverpool, chief executive Ian Ayre, is also leaving the club this week. How does Celtic’s chief executive, Peter Lawwell, compare with Ayre?

“My most successful periods as a manager, at Watford and Swansea, have been when I have had close rel-ations with chief executives, and not too many ‘inbetweeners’,” he said.

“At Liverpool, I had a great relationship with Ian, who’s very good at what he does, that was diluted because there were so many involved. That is sometimes an issue at a big club. I come here and it is simple. I do the football. Peter looks after the rest and is very good at it.”
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In the last two games we have stepped it up. The team is playing the best football I've seen a Celtic team play in my life (over a two game period).
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Considering MON inherited the KOK and spent what was a fortune in his first season, what BR has achieved is all the more remarkable. I say this acknowledging that MON had a genuine threat from Rangers which is no longer prevalent.

Not taking away what MON achieved however all going well this could be the start of something special.

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12 Feb 2017, 10:11 AM
Considering MON inherited the KOK and spent what was a fortune in his first season, what BR has achieved is all the more remarkable. I say this acknowledging that MON had a genuine threat from Rangers which is no longer prevalent.

Not taking away what MON achieved however all going well this could be the start of something special.

The main difference being the standard of opposition. Brendan's had the same impact, it's undoubtedly the start of something special but MON had the harder job and he absolutely tore the huns apart.

Surprised Rodgers mentioned 50 points, cant see us getting there.
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12 Feb 2017, 10:11 AM
Considering MON inherited the KOK and spent what was a fortune in his first season, what BR has achieved is all the more remarkable. I say this acknowledging that MON had a genuine threat from Rangers which is no longer prevalent.

Not taking away what MON achieved however all going well this could be the start of something special.

The main difference being the standard of opposition. Brendan's had the same impact, it's undoubtedly the start of something special but MON had the harder job and he absolutely tore the huns apart.

Surprised Rodgers mentioned 50 points, cant see us getting there.
A bit silly statement IMO to mention a 50 point margin. Even if we win all our remaining games it could just about be done but will depend on what Sheep and Sevco do and that is out of our hands. Just drawing one game would just about put it out of reach.
Edited by brianlara67, 12 Feb 2017, 08:41 PM.
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There's a Celtic supporter in the Managers office. A real Celtic supporter. It feels feckin' brilliant.
To be fair, Sevco have a Celtic fan in the manager's office as well now.
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12 Feb 2017, 10:11 AM
Considering MON inherited the KOK and spent what was a fortune in his first season, what BR has achieved is all the more remarkable. I say this acknowledging that MON had a genuine threat from Rangers which is no longer prevalent.

Not taking away what MON achieved however all going well this could be the start of something special.

The main difference being the standard of opposition. Brendan's had the same impact, it's undoubtedly the start of something special but MON had the harder job and he absolutely tore the huns apart.

Surprised Rodgers mentioned 50 points, cant see us getting there.
A bit silly statement IMO to mention a 50 point margin. Even if we win all our remaining games it could just about be done but will depend on what Sheep and Sevco do and that is out of our hands. Just drawing one game would just about put it out of reach.
I think you've misunderstood what he was saying.
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Well, I want to win by 50, if I can.
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Considering MON inherited the KOK and spent what was a fortune in his first season, what BR has achieved is all the more remarkable. I say this acknowledging that MON had a genuine threat from Rangers which is no longer prevalent.

Not taking away what MON achieved however all going well this could be the start of something special.

The main difference being the standard of opposition. Brendan's had the same impact, it's undoubtedly the start of something special but MON had the harder job and he absolutely tore the huns apart.

Surprised Rodgers mentioned 50 points, cant see us getting there.
A bit silly statement IMO to mention a 50 point margin. Even if we win all our remaining games it could just about be done but will depend on what Sheep and Sevco do and that is out of our hands. Just drawing one game would just about put it out of reach.
He wasn't being serious. It's probably just about mathematically impossible to win the league by 50 points - it would take something like is to win nearly all our games and practically every other game in the league be a draw.
He was just saying he wants the margin to be large.
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He was using the numbers to highlight the fact that he won't allow us to let up and won't just be settling on the basis what we have just now is good enough.

Good news. :rocker:
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Celtic's 101 goals this season:
Dembele 26
Sinclair 16
Griffiths 13
Rogic 10
Armstrong 9
Forrest 6
Roberts 5
McGregor 3
Brown 3
Boyata 2
Lustig 2
Christie 1
Bitton 1
Sviatchenko 1
Henderson 1
Tierney 1
OG 1

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Brendan is doing a fabulous job but let's not get too carried away!
Anyone who watched a Celtic side getting humped 4 going on 7 or 8 at the Bigotdome and then saw the 6-2 game a few months later will tell that took something extra special, KoK or not!

Let's all just enjoy what we currently have and more importantly have to look forward to!
League title, hopefully a treble and then Europe next season :thumbsup:
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Brendan is doing a fabulous job but let's not get too carried away!
Anyone who watched a Celtic side getting humped 4 going on 7 or 8 at the Bigotdome and then saw the 6-2 game a few months later will tell that took something extra special, KoK or not!

Let's all just enjoy what we currently have and more importantly have to look forward to!
League title, hopefully a treble and then Europe next season :thumbsup:
Wasn't knocking MON's achievements, far from it, just enjoying the current status and the feel good factor around the place.

BR gets Celtic, the same way MON did, and we the fans, are the winners. :thumbsup:
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I love how he has always got a few words for the players at the end of matches. He doesn't seem to switch off from wanting the players to progress, even after a 6-0 victory of a team who really frustrated us at the start of the season. Excellent to see.
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Surprised Griffiths has got as many as that, feels like he's not played in ages.
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12 Feb 2017, 10:22 PM
He was using the numbers to highlight the fact that he won't allow us to let up and won't just be settling on the basis what we have just now is good enough.

Good news. :rocker:
Watch the msm quote him though, "Rodgers: We'll Win League by 50!"
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Started reading "50th Anniversary of Lisbon", in the Forward BR writes to the fans "that star on your shirt - it's a real one ,it's not of league titles". It isn't written as a GIRUY to anybody. It's about us fans having pride in our club. I, in my cynicism, hadn't realised just how much he loves this club.
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Brendan tried to sign VVD for Liverpool

It's well known that Brendan wasn't completely in charge of transfers at Anfield

Hopefully the sort of control that he has as Celtic will be a factor in keeping him here for a while
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