Brenda

[Misteral 2,932]

6 hours ago, Bad Robot said:

That’s me right off Leicester and now hope they get relegated  

That Maddison's getting kicked out of my fantasy team now.  😄

[Bluetiful 64]

Brenda exits....

[harlands plater 16,975]

They’ve really turned on him big time. Mhedia wankers like Jackson who had his head firmly up his arse, fans, “ celebrities “ like old Big Nose Rod.

Hypocritical bastards the lot of them.

[folkestoneger 8,135]

10 hours ago, DBBTB said:

Leicester is a good fit for him IMO. Anybody who can look at it purely from a footballing perspective should be able to see that even if they don’t really like him.

Why the hell would we waste it by doing that?

[BlueKnight87 17,282]

32 minutes ago, harlands plater said:

They’ve really turned on him big time. Mhedia wankers like Jackson who had his head firmly up his arse, fans, “ celebrities “ like old Big Nose Rod.

Hypocritical bastards the lot of them.

It's hilarious mate. 

You could actually see tears coming down their face typing. 

[hawkeye 1,039]

Michael Grant is hurting and affronted , which is nice :

 

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/brendan-rodgers-has-tarnished-legacy-by-fleeing-his-dream-job-at-celtic-8f9pwjrcq

february 27 2019, 12:01am, the times

Brendan Rodgers has tarnished legacy by fleeing his dream job at celtic

In a common theory on the five stages of grief, they are listed chronologically as denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance. As the vast celtic support tried to get their heads around Brendan Rodgers running out on them they accelerated straight to stage two. Anger. Anger writ large, with hurt and a sense of betrayal thrown in too.

At a stroke it felt like the man they had lionised for two and a half years was a stranger. Rodgers didn’t only mention his upbringing as a celtic supporter when he joined in 2016, he laid it on thick. When he was linked with the England job only weeks after arriving in Glasgow, he chuckled about how inconceivable it was that he would leave. “I’ve just landed my dream job, the team I’ve supported all my life, imagine me as a celtic supporter having walked out on the job at Parkhead.”

He used the “dream job” line again when there was talk of going to Arsenal last year. He has used it again since. It plays well with fans, this sort of stuff, but it is a dangerous game to play if you know you will be leaping for the exit door one day when a vast and insatiable support thinks you are one of them.

Many regard it as an affront that he would consider Leicester City at all, let alone defect when celtic are 14 games from winning another clean sweep. So much for Brendan the celtic man bringing home a treble treble and eventually ten in a row. “The timing of it absolutely stinks,” Chris Sutton, the former celtic striker, said. Other fans offered far more savage hot takes.

While they constantly chanted “Brendan Rodgers, here for ten in a row”, fast-forwarding to 2021 when they expected him to be around to make Scottish football history, Rodgers always gave the impression of making sideways glances to England and taking the temperature about when the time might be right to return south. He nearly won the title for Liverpool in 2013-14 and his ego dictated that he never stopped seeing himself as an elite manager who should be rubbing shoulders with Pep Guardiola, Jürgen Klopp, Mauricio Pochettino et al.

The English Premier League is where it’s at, where the serious money is, and where he sees himself. celtic could have lived with him going to Leicester and the more perceptive figures around the club sensed he would be away in the summer but to go immediately rocked them. This is football and Leicester told him it was now or never, that they wouldn’t let him see out the season and come in May. That put him in a tough spot when they made contact at the weekend but his response was unsentimental and brutal: cheerio, celtic.

His contract until 2021 was broken by a £6 million release clause and when celtic initially tried to obstruct Leicester’s approach, he dug in to make sure he got his way. The timing of his exit will take a lot of heat off the celtic board.

Had he left on a high in the summer, and maybe talked about the club not matching his personal ambition, there would have been understanding for him and anger towards chief executive, Peter Lawwell, and the other directors. But doing so now, at the King Power Stadium, sitting in a Leicester City tie, will go down like a lead balloon with supporters who feel left in the lurch.

Rodgers has been high class and high maintenance for celtic, his wages costing around £45,000 a week on his first contract before he signed an improved one worth considerably more in 2017. He raised standards around the club and pushed for investment to improve the training ground and the celtic Park playing surface. But last week, after going out of the Europa League in Valencia’s Mestalla Stadium, he was asked about recent incidents of sectarianism in Scottish football and his reply broadened to include the poor quality of some pitches and refereeing standards in the SPFL. “You start to question it and say, ‘Well, what is the attraction?’ ” he said.

For all the times he has spoken with real enthusiasm and positivity about the Scottish game in general and celtic in particular, that aside spoke volumes.

He has been a brilliant domestic manager in Scotland. He had Rangers and everyone else in his pocket, which is why their fans’ heads are so scrambled about his sudden exit. His team was domestically invincible in his first season, followed that with an unprecedented second consecutive treble and are now on course to do a third clean sweep. Central to their alchemy was the sheer relentlessness of their march through the league and especially the cups, where he leaves with the breathtaking statistic of having managed 24 cup ties and won every one of them.

Europe was always a different story, with club-record home and away defeats — 5-0 at home to Paris Saint-Germain, 7-0 at Barcelona — and no real signature victory. His initial ambition to make celtic regular participants in the last 16 of the Champions League always sounded like hot air.

Still, back-to-back qualifications for the Champions League group stage were not to be sniffed at and celtic held their nerve through the qualifiers in his first two seasons. That brought in about £60 million.

When only £2 million of that would have landed John McGinn from Hibs last summer and celtic dithered over the fee, the first cracks appeared between manager and board. Other targets were identified but not delivered. There was a risk they would let “the rot set in” and go backwards if they didn’t invest, he said. And if he thought celtic were standing still? “Then my job is done. Terminado. Gone.”

That was the day the long goodbye began, a manager and board not only at a crossroads but set on different directions. Selling top scorer Moussa Dembélé to Lyons on the final day of the summer transfer window — which helped balance the books after failure in the Champions League qualifiers — further undermined his ambitions.

January offered further evidence Rodgers was running down the clock, as three more loans arrived. As it stands Filip Benkovic, Dedryk Boyata, Oliver Burke, Timothy Weah and Jeremy Toljan are all heading out of celtic in three months. Where was the team building?

Rodgers is such a loss to celtic because while his record with signings was underwhelming, he has inspired many of the players he inherited to some of the best football of their careers. The sudden crash of Rodgers’s popularity with supporters is profound — in time his achievements will recover some of their glow — but he might still inflame celtic even more by attempting to take Kieran Tierney, Callum McGregor or James Forrest to Leicester.

There is real substance to Rodgers as a manager and coach but he is also a master of charm and presentation. While the cameras were allowed in for their allotted 15 minutes’ access at Monday’s training session he giggled and laughed around his players. “All smiles and hard work in training,” said an official club tweet with pictures of the fun. It was all made to sound like an act, a performance, when it was reported that after the session Rodgers told some staff and senior players that he was on his way to Leicester. Some were so taken aback they assumed he was joking.

From day one in Glasgow he has exuded a sense of calm and control. His post-match analysis would often mention some half-time or second half tactical changes he had made which apparently reshaped things, sometimes to the private amusement of rival managers who saw far more humdrum reasons for games going the champions’ way. But his football was positive, fast and attractive, and he was tactically astute, albeit inflexible in Europe.

He lorded it over Scottish football and the game will be poorer without him. But there were two things Rodgers could not control: who would offer him a route back to England and when it would come.

Leicester making their move now has given him what he wanted but took a flame-thrower to his reputation when no team in Scotland could ever land more than a flesh wound. He got a new job but lost “his” people.

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[Sparkle 53,572]

28 minutes ago, hawkeye said:

Michael Grant is hurting and affronted , which is nice :

That’s a poor article,  The Times is usually better than this.  MG has used it to purge his own tears, there’s no balance at all.  What I took from it,

No mention of their domination being underpinned by what was handed out to us

Ra cellic have a “vast” support  (he mentioned it twice)

brenda has a huge ego 

the players he inherited are better than the players he signed 

the cellic board ARE NOT TO BLAME (the referees, the pitches and sectarianism are)

 

[BlueSuedeSambas 53,775]

9 hours ago, Misteral said:

That Maddison's getting kicked out of my fantasy team now.  😄

Should have kicked him out weeks ago mate. He’s been shite recently

 

[Malvern 11,329]

1 hour ago, Sparkle said:

That’s a poor article,  The Times is usually better than this.  MG has used it to purge his own tears, there’s no balance at all.  What I took from it,

No mention of their domination being underpinned by what was handed out to us

Ra cellic have a “vast” support  (he mentioned it twice)

brenda has a huge ego 

the players he inherited are better than the players he signed 

the cellic board ARE NOT TO BLAME (the referees, the pitches and sectarianism are)

 

So much of a VAST support they have had to close the top tiers of the stands several times.

[Bad Robot 21,148]

10 hours ago, Misteral said:

That Maddison's getting kicked out of my fantasy team now.  😄

Sell him while you can as the value of the  Leicester team are only going to go the one way ⬇️ 😂😂

[backup 4,724]

😂

[MacBoyd 5,438]

Is it just me that thinks the foxes are quite an attractive job? They have a good squad, spend plenty money on transfers, gives him a chance in the epl. As much as the scum told us different, no big club was interested in brenda winning up here with 50 times the budget of Rangers. 

I see alot of tarriers are calling them a tin pot club, less fans etc. But they sell out every week so have more fans in their ground than celtic in nearly every Scottish fixture. They are world renowned after winning the title and the tragic death of their owner.

[The Specky Forum Organiser 64,528]

1 hour ago, MacBoyd said:

Is it just me that thinks the foxes are quite an attractive job? They have a good squad, spend plenty money on transfers, gives him a chance in the epl. As much as the scum told us different, no big club was interested in brenda winning up here with 50 times the budget of Rangers. 

I see alot of tarriers are calling them a tin pot club, less fans etc. But they sell out every week so have more fans in their ground than celtic in nearly every Scottish fixture. They are world renowned after winning the title and the tragic death of their owner.

wit

[Zulu 981]

Did he get out in case the law came calling?

[MacBoyd 5,438]

16 minutes ago, Jeffrey said:

wit

Tarriers only get 20 to 30k most home games it's very well known

[The Specky Forum Organiser 64,528]

2 minutes ago, MacBoyd said:

Tarriers only get 20 to 30k most home games it's very well known

lmao no they don't  

[Paisley Blue Loyal 11,158]

1 hour ago, Zulu said:

Did he get out in case the law came calling?

BBK, Big Brendan Knows 😂😂😂

[BlueSuedeSambas 53,775]

4 hours ago, MacBoyd said:

Is it just me that thinks the foxes are quite an attractive job? They have a good squad, spend plenty money on transfers, gives him a chance in the epl. As much as the scum told us different, no big club was interested in brenda winning up here with 50 times the budget of Rangers. 

I see alot of tarriers are calling them a tin pot club, less fans etc. But they sell out every week so have more fans in their ground than celtic in nearly every Scottish fixture. They are world renowned after winning the title and the tragic death of their owner.

It’s a decent job for him. 

He was never going to get a top six club and Leicester fall into the category below that along with the Newcastle, West Hams and Everton’s of the league. Leicester have decent owners (unlike Newcastle) decent fans (West Ham fans are very demanding), a relatively new stadium and a good infastructure (something Everton need) and quite a lot of decent players who he will hope to bring on and develop.

I don’t know what this whole he could have got a bigger club talk from followers of the filth is all about because it’s a load of shite.

[MacBoyd 5,438]

3 hours ago, Jeffrey said:

lmao no they don't  

U believe they get the 58k the rebel tells you they do Jeffrey?

[harlands plater 16,975]

He won’t be expected to win the title, he won’t be expected to make the Champions League, would he even realistically be expected to make the Europa League, Leicester probably belong around 12th to 16th in the Premiership. 

They got unbelievably lucky once and nothing like it will ever remotely happen again, all he has to do is keep them out the bottom three, presumably on a lot more money than the tarriers were paying him.

[The Specky Forum Organiser 64,528]

30 minutes ago, MacBoyd said:

U believe they get the 58k the rebel tells you they do Jeffrey?

Yeah mate. Because there is no in between with 20k or 58k. None at all.

Making up that they only get 20k is pretty odd and I'm not sure why you would decide to do it

[MasterD 7,435]

37 minutes ago, MacBoyd said:

U believe they get the 58k the rebel tells you they do Jeffrey?

Against the shit teams they get about 35k, the bigger games outside us are generally just under 50k.

[james_85 656]

mark guidi stating on clyde 1 he is now getting paid £7m a year 

[Wullies_bowly_legs 3,800]

17 hours ago, james_85 said:

mark guidi stating on clyde 1 he is now getting paid £7m a year 

Mark Guidi is never worth that money.