Unswerving, my plan is to make this a season club at this level where we can go and really hurt big opponents like Bayern Munich.
RODGERS: I thought the crowd were brilliant the other night. I thought they were fantastic, the noise level. Maybe because it was a knock-out game it felt even more than what it normally does.
We didn’t give away too much. I wasn’t overly happy with how passive we were at times. We had our triggers in the game to go and press in the right moments and we didn’t quite execute that. But still, we never gave away so much.
My feeling was always once Kyogo was gone, was to have someone else to come in. So that’s the plan. And hopefully that can be the case, and we execute that by tomorrow night.
Clearly the new set up isn’t working. Tisdale clearly has the contacts, the data and the analysis which suggests that Michael Nicholson isn’t capable of delivering targets.
There’s always that great level of intelligence on our board and expertise and experience. We try to use it to the best of our advantage. So it’s always about planning, looking forwards. Obviously the key people talking about it is important.
Brendan Rodgers was giving little away about his plans to bring in a new striker to replace Kyogo Furuhashi when he met the media ahead of Celtic’s Champions League clash with Aston Villa.The celebrations for reaching the Play Off stage of the competition had barely died down following the 1-0…
There is no question they have made progress in Europe this season — although, given the club’s previous reputation as a punchbag for the continent’s flotsam and jetsam, the only way was up, to be perfectly frank.
So he will get goals. What’s been really nice is to see the numbers that he’s able to get off the side but I still think that we would need another striker in. Definitely we would want to bring in someone else.
Perhaps Sutherland had better things to do that get the first questions in to the home manager for the biggest football match in Scotland this year. Maybe he was just miffed about getting the short straw while Kenny Macintyre and Alasdair Lamont and a cast of dozens prepare for a…