While Rodgers looked to kick on from Munich Nicholson’s target was very different, he decided to cash in as the vendetta between the decision makers and the manager kicked in, a relic from the 2018/19 season.
“There’s conditions we want to be able to improve because I’m not the type of manager that’s good at maintaining anything. If there’s just something to maintain, I’m not the manager for Celtic.”
I think we all, every player, every coach, manager, wants to work at the highest level of club football, and for us that is the Champions League.
Absolutely no chance. We’ve done that one before. It didn’t go down well. I said from the first day and there’s no hidden messages and there’s no this and that. I said I’ll be here for three years, I’m here for three years.
I think that we need to improve the squad. There’s clarity around that for a long time and we see that, you know, I think supporters see that. We certainly do in football. We need to improve.
As a football manager and coach, I would want it now because I’m going into games here that mean everything for this club going forward. But if we don’t have it in the building now, then we have to work with what’s here.
There’s obviously negativity around Arne and some of these guys, but for a manager, we’ve put a really good player in, we took a really good player out. And then I can change it and it’s great for the squad. So his attitude is great.
Lamont has spent his entire career at BBC Scotland for two main reasons- he detests Celtic and wouldn’t last five minutes with the demands of the commercial sector, the same could be said for Kenny Macintyre with BBC Scotland offering a protective shield for others that can’t cut it commercially.…
Nygren’s pace, power and technique was crucial to Celtic’s win against Aberdeen on Sunday as the Swede scored his first goal and set up Reo Hatate for the second.
Rodgers tentatively discussed ambitions and aspirations, Michael Nicholson opted to consolidate the Bank Balance further while the goals of Kuhn and Kyogo were removed from the managers options.