If I’m being magnanimous, Brendan made no secret of the fact that he wanted to return to the English Premier League. When he was here, he won everything available to him domestically and proved that you can please all of the people all of the time. We want managers to be ambitious, honest and successful and that’s what we got.
It rankles that his timing was so poor, a day before we visit Tynecastle on league duty and five days before we visit Easter Road in the Cup. Brendan saw little compensation in Moussa Dembele’s success here, or ambition, when he engineered his exit at a bad time for the manager, the same is true now. Celtic knew nothing of this before yesterday and have a major job on their hands to ensure the quest for the treble treble remains on course.
Neil Lennon is likely to be announced as interim manager. We are fortunate to have as an experienced hand available. If anyone knows how to take a Celtic team to Edinburgh, it’s Neil. Plans for next season will continue in the background, but Neil will be asked to deliver the treble and nothing will be allowed to distract him or the players from that objective.
I have heard from a few CQN’ers who are surprised today, but we should know better. This is football, managers and players are highly paid professionals, all the badge thumping in the world does not change that. Exceptions are rare.
Best of luck to you, Brendan, and thanks for the trebles. You could have held out for better than Leicester, but there’s every chance you’ll keep them in the division for many years.
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BIGCHIPSUK
True but unlike us mere mortals Danny McGrain is a genuine superhero.
On a day of emotional crisis Danny is a true Celtic legend!
I reckon the board will be as shocked as we are. I just happed to be by the posh supporters car-park on Sunday when Peter Lawell and Bankier arrived. Peter looking very relaxed and was very polite and smiley and very willing to do selfies with fans.
Not relevant to todays events but next to arrive was Susan Boyle who also was happy to interact and have pics taken.
Lawwell will be busy,he’s got a team to pick for Tynecastle tomorrow night.
What is it about Celtic that makes their managers so disloyal?
Is there something in the water?
ROBERTTRESSELL on 26TH FEBRUARY 2019 1:10 PM
Right now I’d like Leicester to get on and announce they’ve poached our manager. Get it done with.
Interim manager announced shortly after that at Paradise.
There’s no time for messing around. I’d have Neil in the dugout tomorrow if at all possible.
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Agreed.
Too much pretension around so called progressive football. Its a massive blow to lose BR now but we are still the best team with the best players and someone who has been over the course and wont take any nonsense is a perfect fit, at least until the end of the season.
Neil knows us inside out, and the league.
HH
Managers come and go – Celtic is permanent.
Anyone know if Big Dan Rodgers is available, we still may be able to salvage the song.?
Ádh mór agus buíochas a ghabháil leat Brendan.
PS. Don’t you dare try and take KT, Cal Mac or Tommy R.
Weknowwhereyoulive. Ardoyne CSC
My guess is promises were broken last summer. Otherwise why would BR have spoken so openly about not being on the same page as the board. I think the January window with so many short term signings showed that BR had told PL that he was off at the first decent offer.
A done deal according to the Hun…
Hail, Hail, the Celts are here,
What the hell do we care,
What the hell do we care,
Hail Hail, the Celts are here,
What the hell do we care now..
For its a grand old team to play for,
For its a grand old team to see,
And if you know the history,
Its enough to make your heart go,
9-In-A-Row
We don’t care what the animals say,
What the hell do we care,
For all we know,
Is that there’s going to be a show,
And the Glasgow Celtic will be there.
Why in earth would any Celtic fan want a selfie with Peter Lawwell ?
Eejits!
HH
BR has left something behind — the standard that we need to work at.
He has moved us up a level and we have that to hold onto.
So no more BTM or RD — we need to push for a quality manager.
BAMBOO
But can Susan coach under Peter’s direction?
Looking forward to her belting out I Dreamed a Dream from centre circle at every home game before taking her place in the dugout.
#worksformeCSC
Oh how ive missed the Euro nights…..hopefully the new guy will bring them back…..
Need experienced guys to really step up now,Broonie, KT,and the much maligned Lustig, Levein will smell blood.
It used to be Kremlin watchers.
Then it was Brendan watchers.
What next?
Sadly the bottom line is that our now dear departed manager had a worth in English Premiership.The only way we can stop our very good players and managers being signed up by the English Premiership is for them to be pretty average and occasionally good.
Our football landscape has become completely squeezed out by the money and riches down south.In the past it was only the elite clubs down south that had us by the short and curlies.
Now it is the whole league of teams and arguably the elite clubs from the championship.
Luckily for us we are very good at downsizing and lacking ambition therefore I see no problem in business as usual from the powers that be at parkhead and another nice 6 million in the bank.
KT will be next in the next year or so and basically anyone else outstanding who wants to get get paid what their worth is.
The days of ‘Paul McStay’ style celtic loyalty are ancient history.
Too much pretension around so called progressive football. Its a massive blow to lose BR now but we are still the best team with the best players and someone who has been over the course and wont take any nonsense is a perfect fit, at least until the end of the season.
Neil knows us inside out, and the league.
NFL CSC ?
Wee Gordon on the news, puts quite a different slant on the board than most of us on here:
“If you’ve had such a good time at a club, like I did at Celtic, I don’t think I could re-trace my steps. Unless that’s the only place you’ve felt alive and it’s your club. Others have done it, but I’m onto different things now.
“And I think I would’ve got a whisper of it, as I talk to Peter [Lawwell, chief executive] and Dermot [Desmond, director] quite often. It might have come up. But they only talk to me about golf.”
Strachan does believe there will be a ‘mad rush’ of people applying for the Celtic job now that Rodgers is set to leave, and the onus is on the club’s hierarchy to make the correct appointment.
“It’s a blow to the club,” Strachan added, “but they’ve lost managers before and dealt with it. There’ll be a mad rush around the world now, of people wanting to apply to work at Celtic.
“The people behind the scenes at the club have seen it all before. They’re so good at their job, it’s like working with chess players. They can see problems coming, they’ll have prepared for this – they would’ve known it was coming.
“There’ll be a lot of great managers they talk to. They’ve hired people before with links to the club, but also without links – my only link to Celtic was getting booed every time I played there with Aberdeen.
“The next appointment will say a lot about how Celtic see themselves. Do they keep playing the same way that Brendan had them? Which might be a good idea. They have the means to buy players better than the rest of the division, so it’s a great job.”
MADMITCH
With a smidgeon of luck it might be the Madmitch watchers?
@ NATKNOW on 26TH FEBRUARY 2019 1:50 PM
Not if they feel like they have been let down badly by management.
The whole situation stinks.
Beyond the obvious in-house after-shocks that are likely to be experienced over the next few days, I’m already worrying about what might happen in the next 6-12 months:
Lots of variables now at play: e.g. Can the team retain focus for the rest of this week? Will (some) current players feel less affinity for the club? Will the next manager (pro tem or permanent) be up to the task? Will he be able (or allowed) allowed to strengthen the squad? During the next close season, will Brendan make moves for any of our squad’s top talent?
One thing’s for sure: this is the wrong sort of shot in the arm for this point in the season …
fingerscrossed.csc
Working in Edinburgh tomorrow…..
I’m hoping some buses leaving early might have some spare.
But if anyone knows of any spare already……
Well, that’s the inevitable just been announced on CelticFC.net….
Yup, the new DVD “The Brendan Years” is now available at the Superstore for £19.67 – while stocks last.
I only joking of course…No, wait a minute!!
Rod Steward on the radio earlier found it hard believe Brendan would leave us in the lurch
– at this vital stage of the season
– with a historic treble treble so close –
” it would be like me pulling out of a world-wide tour leaving thousands of fans with tickets very distraught !! “
CORBYN-CELT
Neil Lennon with a similar remit.
Good post Kev ?, eh sorry Corbyn Celt ???
NatKnow on 26th February 2019 1:50 pm
“This is football, managers and players are highly paid professionals…”
Real professionals don’t just walk away with little or no notice. They see out the job at hand and then are in a position to look around for their next one.
Disappointed.
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Err yes they do continuously in business. Piss someone off often enough they will leave regardless of the position they hold within a company. Sometimes leaving with as short a notice period as possible is the only way an employee has of telling his employer to GTF. Almost 3 decades of being in the Oil industry taught me this. Also to the best of my recollection most if not all professionals who quit abruptly have absolutely no difficulty in finding employment elsewhere with experience being at a premium. Football is no different to the oil industry or any other industry I guess. A company / football team would happily sack / make you redundant when it suits them. Its only when an employee turns the table is loyalty / professionalism mentioned.
Latest is Neil will be in the dugout tomorrow, FWIW ,i don’t think he will see himself as a stopgap for anyone, i think it will be a permanent deal.
Bada Bing
What no ” dithering “?
LD @ 2.02
Why should anyone with ambition want to stay at the club if we are not showing a similar desire to grow and move forward?
Then you have the issue that the club has pushed players out the door when it has suited them — AMcG being a prime example of this in the recent past.
We have had a great opportunity to move the club up a gear.
The hiring of BR was one step along that long road but it was never followed up.
In that environment if any of the players or the coach want to move on then who are we to say no? Regarding BR and this season — it was a question of when and not if. All the hints and the pointers had been in place that this season was going to be his last. He owes us nothing so we have to move forward — thanks for the memories but don’t expect a Christmas card.
BR should not be the target of our hurt and disappointment.
The board — DD and PL — need to respond to this situation.
They have allowed this situation to develop and it was no surprise.
Consequently what are their plans to take the club forward?
BSR
Some will be glad to hear he was out buying suits this morning…
HH
Nobody comes out of this potential catastrophe with any credit.
There is strong evidence that the current Celtic Board of Directors either reneged on assurances given to the manager in respect of player budgets generally, or failed to deliver on specific targets. Whatever the specific facts are, they do not change the reality that yet again, our club have handed our detractors and enemies a boost, at a time that will have them scarcely believing their luck. To coin a phrase Paul would use, “You and I have seen this movie before”, and our “Custodians” have displayed a classic Celtic behaviour of shooting both of our feet off when we are atop the Eiffel Tower. For the avoidance of doubt, the word Custodians has been placed between quotation marks to confirm the irony of calling these people Custodians.
I don’t think the club Board, screwing up a strong hand, will have raised a ripple of surprise amongst a Celtic support who has seen this self harm tragedy many times before.
The Manager saddling up his horse and riding off into the sunset with around a dozen games remaining to clinch two trophies – that scenario was much less predictable. It is a course of action that reeks of self-absorption, narcissism and conceit, and one I find irreconcilable to the actions of a principled man. The Board? well they seldom fail to exhibit behaviour that confirms their avarice, so their transgressions, whilst no less damaging, are seldom surprising, or shocking. Capitalism does as Capitalism is. Brendan Rodgers does not go with this Celts’ blessing. His actions have jeopardised our clubs achievements both this season and in a historical context. He has treated the Celtic Support with disdain, and I for one, will never forgive or forget.
As recently as Sunday this man tried to occupy some high moral ground, when pontificating as to what was honourable behaviour or not, on a football pitch. Astounding hypocrisy displayed by this egomaniac. He is well suited to the shallow moral vacuum that he has chosen to operate in, in the EPL. His actions today have tarnished his entire time with Celtic in my eyes.
If any Board members are lurking in here, I echo a previous poster’s warning… Do not even think about approaching David Moyes.
If any players, or their friends or family, are lurking in here, go and finish the job. It is you guys who have taken us to the brink of history, not Mr Chocolate, you can do it. The Celtic support are with you all the way.
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Like so many if not all I am gutted with today’s news however I ask myself if I had knew a day like today was going to happen before Brendan joined would I have still went for it ? The answer is yes. The more you love the more you hurt when it ends.
Brendan gave me so many memories, 5-1, 5-1, 4-0, 5-0 V them, two trebles, the open bus to Celtic Park, 2 Champions League Group stages, endless joy. Of course it was a team effort but it seemed with Brendan at the helm it was sweeter
Unlike history these are memories you cannot buy, we lived it, it’s the days we will look back on with pleasure.
I look forward to many more.
“cups are not won by individuals, but by men in a team who put their club before personal prestige”
From a humble man who was one of the greatest football managers the world has ever seen, a man who knew what it meant to manage Celtic
HH
gsu
Corbyn-Celt
You don’t happen to know a Celt70 do you? Asking for a friend, Kev….
Let there be no doubt about it Brendan Rogers has behaved appallingly to leave Celtic fc at this critical time plus take his backroom staff with him as well shows a lack of care & selfishness that is unforgivable towards our Club & players who must be shell shocked at these developments
Really disappointed in BR actions this news will galvanise our enemies like nothing else would have done & has now made our task of 8 in a row even tougher
I just hope our players can put this behind them & continue to display the qualities that have us with an 8 point lead
Bada Bing
Re Lenny
Read something earlier saying it was on an interim basis initially but with a chance to get the job permanently .
HH