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Brendan Rodgers; "I was born into Celtic"
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From 12:00mins, hilarious,
"yellow bib for Broonie, he was awful" :lol: :lol:
"what were you doing in that hotel last night?" :lol: :lol:

"despite that, no one you'd rather have in the engine, the jungle, even if he is having a 'mare" :thumbsup:

He'll be away to Norwich or Sunderland before you know it Timmy :lolhuns:
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Keith praises Rodgers but can't help himself and brings Warburton into it, having a dig at him as if it was his fault that he had to write this.

Celtic boss Brendan Rodgers' first year in charge has been a textbook lesson in astute management - Jackson
Keith Jackson reflects on Celtic's sensational title win and says paying Brendan Rodgers' wages might be the best money the Hoops have ever spent.

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"Brodge": :doh: he probably get's paid more in a month for churnining out moronic guff like that than most of us work to earn in a year
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BRENDAN RODGERS dropped the greatest hint yet that he will stay at Celtic for the long-term in the wake of leading the club to a historic sixth Scottish title in a row.

The Northern Irishman claimed there was “no better place” for him at this stage in his career than the Glasgow club, he presently has a rolling one-year contract, as he spoke of this season being only a beginning and his determination to build a legacy at Parkhead.

Celtic’s 5-0 win over Hearts means they have still to lose domestically after 37 games, they sit 25 points above second-place Aberdeen in the Ladbrokes Premiership and, much to the supporters’ joy, 35 ahead of Rangers in third.

The runaway champions have eight league matches and potentially two in the Scottish Cup, they face Rangers later this month in the semi-final, before a treble and possible undefeated campaign is achieved.

Rodgers is loved by the clubs followers but as many of Celtic's best players have moved to England in recent years there has been speculation that the manager, who came within one game of winning the title at Liverpool, would not stay out of the Premier League for too long.

However, within half an hour of Rodgers and his players celebrating with their supporters at Tynecastle, the 44-year-old stressed he was in no hurry to seek a new challenge.

Rodgers said: “I am very content. I’ve only started in management, really. I’ve had five jobs, so I’m thinking at some point I need to just stay calm. I’ve already worked in the [English] Premier League and I cannot think of a better place for me to be at this stage of my life than Glasgow Celtic.

“I’m very comfortable here and sometimes, with that ambition, you have to be careful. You have to really appreciate what you have and I am a bit older and more mature. In the management game, I feel very, very happy here.

“There is not a place I could be in this world right now where I’d be happier in my football life and personal life. So it’s only the start for us and I have a responsibility for the supporters. Being one of them, I know what they think and what they want, and I want to try and bring them as far to that as I possibly can.

“When my time is up, hopefully, I will have left a legacy here that they can smile about and have enjoyed, and then it’ll be over to the next one. Until that moment comes, which hopefully won’t be for a while, I’m very content.”

Rodgers is already planning for next season. The aim is continued domestic success and successive qualification for the Champions League group stages.

He has money to spend this summer, Celtic are in a better financial position than perhaps any time in their history, and the trick for him to now is to repeat the success of last summer’s transfer window when he got just about all his signings right.

Rodgers said: “Is this a starting point for the team? Yeah, that's what I see it as - the beginning of the cycle. It is exciting to see the growth and the development.

“'The beauty of this group of players is that they are only going to get better. Kieran Tierney will get better, Stuart Armstrong will get better. All these guys are working in a way where they are comfortable in what I am asking them to do.

"We will add the squad but, not very many. But all I want to do is add quality to help them and if I can do that then the cycle will continue.

“You have to spend but the club have been great for me. We could have signed a player I wanted to get in the last window for quite a large sum of money. But for me it has to be the right player.

“There is a ceiling on what you can bring into here and sometimes it’s also a player’s perspective. But the beauty and excitement of it is seeing the development in players that were already here.

“The progress you can see clearly from the first game here to this one in their level in the game. It’s all about availability and affordability. We can’t just sign anyone. That’s not realistic. It doesn’t work like that.

“But if the right player becomes available and the affordability is there, then the club will back me as they have done since the first day I walked into Celtic Park."

Rodgers was calmness personified not long after watching his team win the first league title of his managerial career, happy to focus on what was to come rather than what had only just happened.

He said: “It's nice for the supporters, I'm sure they will be in the bars enjoying it. I have to be thinking of tomorrow, of my preparation for Wednesday's game and the semi-final of the cup.

“We have three league games before that. We have ticked off another target, so that's two. We hopefully have two more games in the Scottish Cup, but there is a lot of work to do before that.”


http://www.heraldscotland.com/sport/football/15198749.Brendan_Rodgers__Celtic_is_the_perfect_place_for_me_to_be_and_I_have_no_plan_to_leave_the_club_I_support/?ref=rss
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Stuart Armstrong will get better.



Hope that means they are close to agreeing a contract.
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we are truly blessed to have a man like Brendan as our manager. I believe he will go down in our history as second only to Mr Stein. And that is some acolade.
Steady on. He's still probably only 4th on the list of Celtic Managers during my lifetime and I'm only 29 :lol:
He said will go down as second to Stein, not is second to Stein. Who are the three managers better than him in your lifetime? I'm 30 and he's the best Celtic manager in my lifetime so wondering who I've missed off of my list :lol: And yes, he is a better manager than MON. He may not have achieved the same as MON did in his time but he has done something quite incredible with what we all thought was a mediocre squad of players.

I doubt many fans would trade Brendan for MON if they were given the option.
MON had a much stronger team during his time at Celtic - but also faced far stronger opposition.

To undo the iron grip Deadco had on Scottish football when he took over was no mean feat - especially as they continued to deploy EBTs to inflate their squad for up to a decade afterwards.

Europe should be the benchmark by which comparisons between the two should be made. At the moment BR's team at that level is still very much a work in progress.

As for BR's quote about making the upper reaches of the Premier League, bear in mind next season a side will return to that division with a comparable fan base to Celtic, huge financial backing and a manager who has won the world's toughest league (twice) as well as the Champions League.

Yet only the most deluded geordies would expect them to finish in the top six..
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He said will go down as second to Stein, not is second to Stein. Who are the three managers better than him in your lifetime? I'm 30 and he's the best Celtic manager in my lifetime so wondering who I've missed off of my list :lol: And yes, he is a better manager than MON. He may not have achieved the same as MON did in his time but he has done something quite incredible with what we all thought was a mediocre squad of players.

I doubt many fans would trade Brendan for MON if they were given the option.
MON had a much stronger team during his time at Celtic - but also faced far stronger opposition.

To undo the iron grip Deadco had on Scottish football when he took over was no mean feat - especially as they continued to deploy EBTs to inflate their squad for up to a decade afterwards.

Europe should be the benchmark by which comparisons between the two should be made. At the moment BR's team at that level is still very much a work in progress.

As for BR's quote about making the upper reaches of the Premier League, bear in mind next season a side will return to that division with a comparable fan base to Celtic, huge financial backing and a manager who has won the world's toughest league (twice) as well as the Champions League.

Yet only the most deluded geordies would expect them to finish in the top six..
Celtic have a much bigger fan base than Newcastle.
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He said will go down as second to Stein, not is second to Stein. Who are the three managers better than him in your lifetime? I'm 30 and he's the best Celtic manager in my lifetime so wondering who I've missed off of my list :lol: And yes, he is a better manager than MON. He may not have achieved the same as MON did in his time but he has done something quite incredible with what we all thought was a mediocre squad of players.

I doubt many fans would trade Brendan for MON if they were given the option.
MON had a much stronger team during his time at Celtic - but also faced far stronger opposition.

To undo the iron grip Deadco had on Scottish football when he took over was no mean feat - especially as they continued to deploy EBTs to inflate their squad for up to a decade afterwards.

Europe should be the benchmark by which comparisons between the two should be made. At the moment BR's team at that level is still very much a work in progress.

As for BR's quote about making the upper reaches of the Premier League, bear in mind next season a side will return to that division with a comparable fan base to Celtic, huge financial backing and a manager who has won the world's toughest league (twice) as well as the Champions League.

Yet only the most deluded geordies would expect them to finish in the top six..
A diddy club with a total support that would struggle to fill the North Stand at Celtic Park won the EPL last year. If they can do it, Celtic certainly can.

Newcastle are also a diddy club in all but stadium size by the way. Your point about only the most deluded of their supporters expecting a top six finish illustrates this - they have no concept of what it takes to be a successful football club and they have no desire to be a successful football club. They don't have the collective mentality to do any better than mid-table, ergo they're a diddy club. Maybe one year they'll do a Leicester and temporarily rise above their usual mediocrity, but it won't last because like Leicester they don't know how to make it last.

That's the difference between Celtic and most of the EPL teams. In the unlikely event we ever joined the EPL, we'd bring our winning mentality with us. Sure we'd all understand that some of the squad would need to be upgraded and that would buy the manager a bit of time, but after a couple of seasons we'd expect to be in the mix to win it all. That's why we shouldn't be compared to pissant clubs like Newcastle, who'd be perfectly happy to finish in 10th place for the next 100 years.


Edit - I genuinely didn't realise it was Ultra Fox I was replying to when I wrote that :lmao:
Edited by SaMule, 3 Apr 2017, 12:46 PM.
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He speaks like a man who is here for the 10 :clap:
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Comparable fan base to Celtic.

Give it a effing rest.

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He said will go down as second to Stein, not is second to Stein. Who are the three managers better than him in your lifetime? I'm 30 and he's the best Celtic manager in my lifetime so wondering who I've missed off of my list :lol: And yes, he is a better manager than MON. He may not have achieved the same as MON did in his time but he has done something quite incredible with what we all thought was a mediocre squad of players.

I doubt many fans would trade Brendan for MON if they were given the option.
MON had a much stronger team during his time at Celtic - but also faced far stronger opposition.

To undo the iron grip Deadco had on Scottish football when he took over was no mean feat - especially as they continued to deploy EBTs to inflate their squad for up to a decade afterwards.

Europe should be the benchmark by which comparisons between the two should be made. At the moment BR's team at that level is still very much a work in progress.

As for BR's quote about making the upper reaches of the Premier League, bear in mind next season a side will return to that division with a comparable fan base to Celtic, huge financial backing and a manager who has won the world's toughest league (twice) as well as the Champions League.

Yet only the most deluded geordies would expect them to finish in the top six..
Newcastle have nowhere near the fan base of Celtic :lol:

We are talking genuine Global fan base here, not 40,000 Geordies showing up with their taps aff.
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Comparable fan base to Celtic.

Give it a effing rest.

Was a belter tbf!!! :lol:
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He said will go down as second to Stein, not is second to Stein. Who are the three managers better than him in your lifetime? I'm 30 and he's the best Celtic manager in my lifetime so wondering who I've missed off of my list :lol: And yes, he is a better manager than MON. He may not have achieved the same as MON did in his time but he has done something quite incredible with what we all thought was a mediocre squad of players.

I doubt many fans would trade Brendan for MON if they were given the option.
MON had a much stronger team during his time at Celtic - but also faced far stronger opposition.

To undo the iron grip Deadco had on Scottish football when he took over was no mean feat - especially as they continued to deploy EBTs to inflate their squad for up to a decade afterwards.

Europe should be the benchmark by which comparisons between the two should be made. At the moment BR's team at that level is still very much a work in progress.

As for BR's quote about making the upper reaches of the Premier League, bear in mind next season a side will return to that division with a comparable fan base to Celtic, huge financial backing and a manager who has won the world's toughest league (twice) as well as the Champions League.

Yet only the most deluded geordies would expect them to finish in the top six..
Newcastle are about 8 times the size of Leicester and they done ok last season.

Newcastle comparable to Celtic. :lol: :lol:
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Quoting limited to 3 levels deep
He said will go down as second to Stein, not is second to Stein. Who are the three managers better than him in your lifetime? I'm 30 and he's the best Celtic manager in my lifetime so wondering who I've missed off of my list :lol: And yes, he is a better manager than MON. He may not have achieved the same as MON did in his time but he has done something quite incredible with what we all thought was a mediocre squad of players.

I doubt many fans would trade Brendan for MON if they were given the option.
MON had a much stronger team during his time at Celtic - but also faced far stronger opposition.

To undo the iron grip Deadco had on Scottish football when he took over was no mean feat - especially as they continued to deploy EBTs to inflate their squad for up to a decade afterwards.

Europe should be the benchmark by which comparisons between the two should be made. At the moment BR's team at that level is still very much a work in progress.

As for BR's quote about making the upper reaches of the Premier League, bear in mind next season a side will return to that division with a comparable fan base to Celtic, huge financial backing and a manager who has won the world's toughest league (twice) as well as the Champions League.

Yet only the most deluded geordies would expect them to finish in the top six..
This is all simply pish.

If a team goes into the EPL, they're allowed to spend money. It happens every year when a team gets promoted. Celtic wouldn't be operating under the financial constraints that we currently do.

Everyone always wonders what this team (whether that's now or MON's team) would do in the EPL. Both would do well, but I'd imagine that MON wouldn't have had the likes of Laursen, Douglas, Vega as first picks and there are a few from our current side who would be on their way. And while the quality of Scottish football isn't great, Celtic would also have to beat some utter tripe in the EPL as well, as it happens.

You have the ridiculous scenario of the guy from Sky asking Brendan Rodgers how to compete with teams in England, given the financial disparity. He should have told McCann live on air that his company should stop ripping the pish out of football in this country with ridiculous money while chucking billions at England, and that would be a start.

The EPL has some massive clubs who would be just that in any era... massive. It also has a load of clubs who have bought their success though dodgy ownership and free money. If it wasn't for the fact that they're the plaything of sheikhs, oligarchs and tyrants some of these clubs would be fulfilling their traditional roles as yoyos, up and down the divisions. And that includes Manchester City, a club famous largely for not winning anything for decades, and Chelsea, whose fans had bucket collections to stop them going bust and, IIRC, were also sold for a quid.

Money makes people's minds turn to mush. Take the money away from the EPL and there's nothing there. The big clubs who have a genuine history and support base will still be there, there rest will be kicking stones out of boredom on the road to oblivion.
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The EPL dont want us for 1 simple reason, they know how huge we are, if we ever got into that league there would be huge investment in the club, huge sponsorship deals, then the TV money on top.

It may take us 4 or 5 years to get up to speed, but then we would certainly be in a position to win it
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For years charlie nicholas has been on sky practically begging for the celtic board to show ambition.
Was exactly the same last summer when deila left. He was as happy as the rest of us when we appointed brendan
so whats he on sky today saying? Rodgers for Arsenal!
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For years charlie nicholas has been on sky practically begging for the celtic board to show ambition.
Was exactly the same last summer when deila left. He was as happy as the rest of us when we appointed brendan
so whats he on sky today saying? Rodgers for Arsenal!
Chick Nicholas has always been an arsehole, went to school with him, he was then and still is now
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Being a big club doesn't mean you'll have any success in the EPL.

Liverpool have 5 European Cups, 3 UEFA Cups, 18 titles, a worldwide fanbase, they haven't won the title since it became the EPL.

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The desperation to see him leave Celtic is delicious.

They know he's building something truly special here and they can't do a single thing to stop him. :)
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The desperation to see him leave Celtic is delicious.

They know he's building something truly special here and they can't do a single thing to stop him. :)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/39480358

This Nosferatu pile of bollocks on the BBC website was being trailed in tonight's Reporting Scotland as 'Brendan answering speculation about a potential move back down south.'

A "potential move" which exists only in the minds of huns and arseholes, and hun arseholes ;)

Mind the effing Gap, William :lolhuns:
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