Brendan Rodgers is a master of what to say and what not to say. Blame, well, “I can’t fault the players”. So not the players then. He adds, “However, if you want to progress, then, as I said, you need to bring in quality.” Is that pointing the finger of blame? There’s plausible deniability; I’m sure if asked directly, Brendan would wax lyrical about the support he received from Dermot and Michael, but plausible deniability does not cut through publicly in football. You, me and Brendan know that.
Martin O’Neill made it clear at an AGM 20-something years ago. With Dermot Desmond sitting a few seats along from him, he explained that it was not his job to worry about development, finances or sustainability. His job, as he saw it, was to campaign for better players. It was up to the board to hold their line and worry about what they needed to worry about. Martin was always charmingly frank.
The upshot for today is a degree of urgency which means the manager will inevitably get what he wants, just like last summer, when we spent £26m on Idah, Engels and Trusty. Celtic have the money to back Brendan like this again, I fully expect they will.
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I wonder what the weekly salary is for the Saudi boys😮
B78- you should stop asking questions, without acknowledging a reply which suits your anti Brendan agenda, arrogance and ignorance, best avoided,you still giving money to the huns?
Oh dear Tom McLaughlin….is that your only moniker? Remember you got kicked off for that?Like getting mauled by a dead sheep
just seen highlights of nakamura scoring a free kick , when was the last time we even threatened from a free kick
Griff
Goal.
But you’ll get over it.
good goal from a corner, trusty
yaaassss
yes
Lovely goal from corner
McCowan and Bernardo guilty of holding on to the ball a little too long…
1-2 to the Bhoys.
TT
1-1 chalked off
TT
Tillio too slow. Shin scores but offside
Shame….lovely finish by Yamada..
Far better so far
Welsh comes on holding his shoulder, fk me
Some work needed for Inamura but he can fairly jump.
Shin brings energy and aggression.
Gets free kicks, gets us up the park.
Forrest has been excellent
Marco Tilio desperately unlucky with the assist for the offside goal.
He looked up, checked his phone for messages, fed the cat, put the bins out, then stroked a perfect pass to Yamada.
Decent 2nd half.
If Rapid have any scouts in the stadium tell them Tillio isn’t playing. There’s no evidence to the contrary.
Yamada doing ok
Back to basics, exactly, was like watching a shite feed on line .
This ref ismurder
Forrest halfed, ref fixes his hair
Terrible tackle on jamsey
By far they better team this half
that was a red card challenge on JF
Shocker on Jamsie….good midfield enforcer would stiffen that pr**k
Last 10min we should boot fek out of some of these fekrs
Good block by trusty to prevent certain goal.
Inamura tiring now..
A lot of tired legs out there now.
sinsallo missed the cross poor goalkeeping but trusty does really well and blocks the shot
Shin south looks good!
Resorting to name calling because you don’t agree with someone brings the blog into disrepute, and is the mark of an angry stupid man.
Pitiful behaviour which eventually comes back to the perpetrator with a vengeance.
Welsh giving them a bit of steel – good.
Luke unlucky with a sweet shot of the post.