It has all worked out for Brendan Rodgers. He could have fallen on his face at Leicester, instead, he sits second in the league, above Pep the Perfect, and is talked about for jobs in Manchester and North London. As far as career development moves go, you have to hand it to him. His next contract, which will come soon, is likely to be four times his rate at Celtic.
None of this justifies what he did. Not the problems of his own creation in August last year, when he jeopardised our Champions League qualification efforts to create a faux exit narrative, nor leaving us with indiscreet haste, two days before a Premiership visit to Tynecastle and a weekend Scottish Cup-tie at Easter Road. The move was right for him, which is all that mattered.
Maybe I’ve seen too many of them come and go to be bothered by it anymore. Jock Stein knocked back Manchester United to remain at Celtic, but they are all careerists now, all of them. It takes more than talent to make it to the top of the game. You also need incredible commitment and a level of self-sacrifice that only comes if you are motivated to achieve personal success. You will not go through the daily pain of training until your lungs burn and your body aches for thousands of people you may never meet, and who will occasionally shout abuse at you.
Yesterday he spoke to the press about his exit from Celtic. I am happy to listen to his story but it is clearly too soon for him to be frank. I’ll listen when he tells us why he was happy to throw away our Champions League qualification campaign to engineer an exit.
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KINGLUBO on 13TH NOVEMBER 2019 10:36 AM
Never forgiven Paddy Crerand for leaving us, I was seriously unchuffed. Great player though, love the guy.
KINGLuB
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From memory .
Last game ?
4-0 loss at Ibrox on N.Y. day.
The story at the time was……..
Well, you can guess.
How much would backing Rodgers have cost.Easy to play with sound bites,but reality a lot different.Are we talking £20 million players, £15 million players 3 or 4 of these £70 grand a weekIf so he was at the wrong club in the wrong country,in the wrong league.As is anyone who thinks this way.
Doing very nicely without him
Bumping your gums in the days when there was no social media –
# 1
https://youtu.be/CqkXQkWej0Y
# 2
https://youtu.be/S7KtNvjhpPg
A few £9M players may have made the difference in CL and income, any half decent manager will keep the books balanced
Turkeybhoy
Hopefully we learn a bit and take br best bits
HH
CANAMALAR IT LOOKS LIKE OCD OBSESSION on 13TH NOVEMBER 2019 11:27 AM
Timaloy29,
I look at it from the idea of how much shite did he have to put up with to drive him from his dream job?
I also doubt very much it is/was his dream job but I suspect had he been backed he would likely still be at Celtic
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I disagree that BR’s motivation to leave was based on football matters.
His personal ambition came first. Now he is trying to manage his personal brand through the media. Trying to reframe his time at Liverpool & Celtic.
He has a habit of deflecting blame for any of his failures. Here’s a couple of snippets from fourfourtwo articles:
“At least one of his bosses at Anfield was “fighting the urge to call up and tear him a new asshole”, according to one internal missive, after fingers had been pointed at “the money men” over failed signings. Ultimately it was that friction which cost him his employment. ”
An article from yesterday:
“At Liverpool of course we were very good going forward, you have to ask did I have the players to defend how we’d want to defend? I think now at Liverpool they obviously invest a lot of money to get those types of players in.”
https://www.fourfourtwo.com/features/brendan-rodgers-leicester-elite-level-coach-manager-champions-league-celtic-liverpool#GSZ0eWFuq2xRMGv3.99
https://www.fourfourtwo.com/news/brendan-rodgers-leicester-liverpool-suggests-he-wasnt-sufficiently-backed-transfer-market#K2yk1GZXl2VVmyvh.99
Blaming the board for a lack of ambition is his modus operandi
Paddy Crerand
My last sighting of him was the 4-0 humping at Ibrox at the start of 63 . Celtic were woeful . That said -Celtic were denied a stonewall pen at 1-0 . First goal came from a deflection off Crerand …
Walk back home to Queens Cross with my old man . Freezing cold and miserable . Bung this on the wee Dansette .Feel much better ! And it did –
https://youtu.be/qw9RVjEN9OI
SOUTH OF TUNIS
I read somewhere that at half time Paddy had said to then manager Jimmy McGrory the need to “get stuck in” (or industrial words to that effect) Didn’t go down well with gentleman Jim and Paddy’s days were numbered.
Emdy?
new article posted.
Timaloy29,
I simply don’t believe he was he only one to blame as many on here spout.
Personally I don’t give a funkeys muck about him,
The issue for me is the main protagonist remains in place to do the same to the next successful manager, and I’d hate to see how that will affect Lenny to get stitched up again.