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Brendan Rodgers; "I was born into Celtic"
Topic Started: 20 May 2016, 05:06 PM (2,287,854 Views)
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Max Power
10 Jan 2018, 08:34 PM
Our Scottish core in 2000-04, the best Celtic team since the Lisbon Lions, wasn't too strong.

Clubs shouldn't set limits, in any direction, on nationalities when it comes to footballing progress.
They weren't necessarily the star players, but Lambert, Boyd & McNamara were important parts of those teams. Douglas, Maloney and a few other Scottish youngsters (Smith, Crainey, Wallace etc) all played their parts too.
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10 Jan 2018, 08:54 PM
if you look at a fair number of the successful teams around Europe, they usually have a core of home grown players in their teams.
Yup. Real Madrid being an obvious exception to the rule.

Most great sides have a strong selection of homegrown players.
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10 Jan 2018, 10:11 PM
Max Power
10 Jan 2018, 08:34 PM
Our Scottish core in 2000-04, the best Celtic team since the Lisbon Lions, wasn't too strong.

Clubs shouldn't set limits, in any direction, on nationalities when it comes to footballing progress.
They weren't necessarily the star players, but Lambert, Boyd & McNamara were important parts of those teams. Douglas, Maloney and a few other Scottish youngsters (Smith, Crainey, Wallace etc) all played their parts too.
I'd say Lambert was a star player for us.
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Jimmy_mac
10 Jan 2018, 08:54 PM
if you look at a fair number of the successful teams around Europe, they usually have a core of home grown players in their teams.
Yup. Real Madrid being an obvious exception to the rule.

Most great sides have a strong selection of homegrown players.
I remember a Barca-Levante game where Barca had 11 players from their YT on the pitch.

ATM I don't think there are many strong Scottish players about, realistically Gordon and Armstrong won't be here next season and I don't think they'll be replaced with Scottish players. No decent Scottish RB's or CB's about either so I don't see us having many Scottish players in our first choice XI next season. Probably just KT, Brown and Forrest.
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10 Jan 2018, 08:34 PM
Our Scottish core in 2000-04, the best Celtic team since the Lisbon Lions, wasn't too strong.

Clubs shouldn't set limits, in any direction, on nationalities when it comes to footballing progress.
They weren't necessarily the star players, but Lambert, Boyd & McNamara were important parts of those teams. Douglas, Maloney and a few other Scottish youngsters (Smith, Crainey, Wallace etc) all played their parts too.
I'd say Lambert was a star player for us.
I wouldn't argue with you :thumbsup:
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So now people are defining a "core" by being 3 or 4 players from the same country.... I still don't think he had an English "core" at Liverpool.

He Gerrard in the middle and he managed to get a lot of minutes out of Sturridge.
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damoceltic
11 Jan 2018, 09:29 AM
So now people are defining a "core" by being 3 or 4 players from the same country.... I still don't think he had an English "core" at Liverpool.

He Gerrard in the middle and he managed to get a lot of minutes out of Sturridge.
And Johnson, Sterling, Henderson and even Flanagan played a lot. You’re talking pish.
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damoceltic
11 Jan 2018, 09:29 AM
So now people are defining a "core" by being 3 or 4 players from the same country.... I still don't think he had an English "core" at Liverpool.

He Gerrard in the middle and he managed to get a lot of minutes out of Sturridge.
And Johnson, Sterling, Henderson and even Flanagan played a lot. You’re talking pish.
Edited by macfleeto, 11 Jan 2018, 08:03 PM.
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10 Jan 2018, 08:34 PM
Our Scottish core in 2000-04, the best Celtic team since the Lisbon Lions, wasn't too strong.

Clubs shouldn't set limits, in any direction, on nationalities when it comes to footballing progress.
They weren't necessarily the star players, but Lambert, Boyd & McNamara were important parts of those teams. Douglas, Maloney and a few other Scottish youngsters (Smith, Crainey, Wallace etc) all played their parts too.
I'd say Lambert was a star player for us.
Absolutely. A class act.
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BRENDAN RODGERS has hit back at criticism of his Celtic defence.

The Hoops manager is unhappy with suggestions he should be signing a new centre-half in this month’s transfer window.

And Rodgers points to how Celts failed to make the Champions League even with £75million Liverpool defender Virgil van Dijk in the side.

He said: “There’s a lot of focus on our boys defensively, but there has to be a bit of respect and reality as to who they are playing against.

“Celtic didn’t qualify for the Champions League and they had Virgil van Dijk and Jason Denayer at centre-half. Who do people want Celtic to get? If we can’t qualify with those two…

“I hear a lot of talk about ‘get a new centre half’. But defensively our team I think is very, very good — albeit we could always be better.

“I think there is always a light shone around our central defence but we are a collective.

“We defend as a team and press as a team.”

Celtic’s long unbeaten run ended when they crashed to a 4-0 defeat to Hearts at Tynecastle before Christmas.

But since then Rodgers’ side have taken ten points from their next four games — and not conceded a goal in the process.

He added: “The response from the players to when we lost to Hearts has been great.

“Defensively, to get four clean sheets…they can be tricky games, especially on the back of the run we’ve been on.

“But what we have within our team is a happiness as to where we are at as a group.

“That allows us to reflect when things don’t go so well to go away and be better.

“There will always be criticism but it’s okay. We look to improve in all facets of our game.”

Rodgers, meanwhile, has revealed Patrick Roberts will NOT be rushed back to action.

The winger has returned to training as he battles back from a lay-off due to a hamstring injury.

But Rodgers warned: “Pat’s timeline was the end of February. We were told three months.

“He’s here in Dubai and doing straight line running but February remains the aim. If it’s earlier than that, then great.”

Australian midfielder Tom Rogic is expected to return from injury by the end of the month.
https://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/rodgers-criticism-defence


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HE might not be playing his best but he is certainly giving it.

That is good enough for Brendan Rodgers where Scott Sinclair is concerned.

The Celtic star has struggled to hit the form he enjoyed throughout last season.

As the country’s Player of the Year, Sinclair was sensational and lived up to the expectations of a £4million player in his debut season in Paradise.

There is no doubt his standards have dropped this term.

Maybe one of the biggest reasons for that is the fact that opposition teams now double up on him defensively.

But Hoops boss Rodgers points to the facts and figures he gets from the former Manchester City man and is happy enough with his contribution.

More than that, though, he is happy in the knowledge that conscientious Sinclair is grafting as hard as he has ever done for him.

Speaking from the club’s mid-winter base in Dubai, Rodgers said: “Let me tell you that Scotty has scored 15 goals and had 12 assists.

“If you actually look at it, we’ve got James Forrest who has been absolutely brilliant for us this season — maybe Player of the Year — and he’s got 12 goals.

“The guy on the other side, who is supposedly having a disastrous season, has scored 15 and created 12.

“Again, maybe it’s about the level people expect Scotty to be at. But he’s contributing.

“His job is to press the game defensively, to work hard up and down the line, and to create goals and score goals.

“Is he doing that? Yes he is.

“You can maybe ask if he’s being marked tighter with the space blocked out a bit more. He’s maybe missing chances too.

“But he’s still a real valuable asset for us and he’ll be fresh and ready for the second part of the season.

“Could he explode in the second half of the season? He’ll do his best. That’s what I know I’ll get from him. He just had such an incredible first season but I expect him to do something similar this season.

“He has contributed very importantly for us. He has been fantastic.”

End product is the key thing for any attacking player so it is maybe not surprising that Rodgers is happy to point to Sinclair’s stats.

He added: “There aren’t many wingers who give you the end product Scotty gives the team.

“You think of last season and then this season, it’s incredible really.

“He is virtually a striker playing in from the side.

“But he’s been absolutely great for us. Like I say, he’s only human. Sometimes he won’t be at his best but what I know is he always gives his best.

“There are times when he’ll come off in a game because I’m having to change it and look at something else.

“But in terms of what he’s asked to do for the team — create and score goals — he can’t do any more.”

The problem Rodgers has in general is maintaining the standards his team have set. They have dominated Scottish football from the minute he arrived as Ronny Deila’s replacement.

From a domestic Treble last season to a long, historic unbeaten domestic run, Rodgers could not have asked for any more.

The manager has wrung every ounce of effort possible from his players.

It has not always been easy and there is little doubt Celtic were running on empty before the end of the year.

But they have just had a good week training and relaxing in Dubai and will be refreshed for the second half of the campaign.

That must be a daunting prospect for the rest of the teams in the country.

Maintaining their standards, though, is the key for Celtic, although Rodgers insists it is asking way too much to expect his side to go on a long unbeaten run again like their last one.

If you are talking realistically then that is just not going to happen.

Rodgers said: “It’s impossible. I don’t think you can, that is why it was a one-off, historical season.

“But I still think we’ve been very good. There have been some brilliant performances this year.

“And to cope with the games that we’ve had has been great.

“It’s not just the games, remember, but the pressures that come with them. What the games do to the players physically and mentally.

“That’s why I have such an admiration for the group itself.

“We put things in place to try and cope with disappointments along the way but the players have been absolutely superb in terms of dealing with that.

“No one can really imagine the pressure a player is under.

“When you play in the Champions League it’s six big games but we also had big qualifiers.

“Domestically teams are after you too. But to be eight points clear, doing what they’ve done, has been great.”
https://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/sport/sinclairs-15-goals-and-12-assists
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Bet that's not what's said when the dressing room door shuts.
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“Celtic didn’t qualify for the Champions League and they had Virgil van Dijk and Jason Denayer at centre-half. Who do people want Celtic to get? If we can’t qualify with those two…“

That’s up there with our most infamous transfer window excuses. Sounds like some of the shampoo I read on here.
Edited by Jozo67, 13 Jan 2018, 01:34 PM.
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I'll say something for Brendan Rodgers. Although he is quite capable of uttering the usual managerial bullshampoo he never, ever slags his players off in public. What goes on behind closed doors is another matter perhaps.
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13 Jan 2018, 01:32 PM
“Celtic didn’t qualify for the Champions League and they had Virgil van Dijk and Jason Denayer at centre-half. Who do people want Celtic to get? If we can’t qualify with those two…“

That’s up there with our most infamous transfer window excuses. Sounds like some of the shampoo I read on here.
Not an excuse its a fact, lets judge the club when the window closes.
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13 Jan 2018, 01:32 PM
“Celtic didn’t qualify for the Champions League and they had Virgil van Dijk and Jason Denayer at centre-half. Who do people want Celtic to get? If we can’t qualify with those two…“

That’s up there with our most infamous transfer window excuses. Sounds like some of the shampoo I read on here.
He's not going to say the opposite in public, though. The fact that he's signed another centre half says more than his comments to the media.
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13 Jan 2018, 03:46 PM
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13 Jan 2018, 01:32 PM
“Celtic didn’t qualify for the Champions League and they had Virgil van Dijk and Jason Denayer at centre-half. Who do people want Celtic to get? If we can’t qualify with those two…“

That’s up there with our most infamous transfer window excuses. Sounds like some of the shampoo I read on here.
Not an excuse its a fact, lets judge the club when the window closes.
Rodgers (or any decent manager) would have got that team to the CL. It is BS.
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Rodgers is correct. It's the collective that defends. Of course Boyata and Simonvic have made a few errors but air of goals lost can be tracked to slack midfield play and wide men not tracking runners. It's the nature of the style of play we have. VVD isn't going to solve Liverpool's defensive issues and I gsurentree they will still lose soft goals until they sort their midfield oitb
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13 Jan 2018, 03:42 PM
I'll say something for Brendan Rodgers. Although he is quite capable of uttering the usual managerial bullshampoo he never, ever slags his players off in public. What goes on behind closed doors is another matter perhaps.
I think Leigh Griffiths might argue with that when his professionalism was called into question by BR.
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13 Jan 2018, 04:34 PM
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13 Jan 2018, 03:42 PM
I'll say something for Brendan Rodgers. Although he is quite capable of uttering the usual managerial bullshampoo he never, ever slags his players off in public. What goes on behind closed doors is another matter perhaps.
I think Leigh Griffiths might argue with that when his professionalism was called into question by BR.
Uh oh! :boxer:
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talks some amount of pish sometimes does our brendan.
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