BRENDAN RODGERS insists there is “absolutely no chance” of him walking out on Celtic.
The manager is in the final 12 months of his three-year contract and has nailed the rumours suggesting he might be about to quit the champions for a second time.
Rodgers, of course, sent shockwaves through the Hoops support in February 2019 when he abruptly left his post to take over Leicester City after winning seven successive domestic trophies following his arrival in June 2016.
There has been growing all is not well in the background at Parkhead with discontent over the lack of quality recruits in this window which will close at at 7pm a week on Monday.
The frustration among a section of the crowd spilled over in midweek in the disappointing goalless draw against Kairat Almaty in the first leg of the Champions League play-off with the board targeted for verbal abuse.
As he prepared his players for the visit of Livingston tomorrow afternoon, Rodgers addressed the so-called lack of harmony at the club.
Asked about the possibility of leaving the Hoops before the expiry of his deal, the Irishman answered emphatically: “Absolutely no chance. No chance.
“We’ve done that one before. It didn’t go down well! Listen, I said from the first day – and there are no hidden messages and there’s no this and that – I’d be here for three years.
“People try and look to find that that conflict between me and the board or me and whoever.
“It really isn’t the case. You know, the board here at the football club of over many years managed the financial side of the game and run the club to an impeccable level.
“My job here as the football manager is to really drive and demand and for us to live in a cycle where we understand that we will lose some players, but that it doesn’t have this massive impact that it seems to sometimes do.
“And that we can just lose big players and then bring in other ones rather than to wait.”
Rodgers, speaking to Sky Sports, added: “So, that cycle I want us to be in, but there’s certainly no conflict.
“Everyone at this club from the board to myself we want the very, very best. Longer term I don’t think so much as the manager.
“I had, we had the chances over the summer, but I said, now the season starts, I only want to think of the football
“I don’t want to think of the contract. Just think of the football and that will come away later on if it does.”
🍀 “No chance. We’ve done that one before and it didn’t go down well!”
Brendan Rodgers insists he won’t walk away from the Celtic job ⤵️ pic.twitter.com/3SmumzdKyC
— Sky Sports Scotland (@ScotlandSky) August 22, 2025
