Paul, not only has he managed before, which gives me comfort, he knows what it’s like to be in the shoes of a manager, but he also understands the business side.
If he’d sign I’d pay the €3m to Barca for Valle over bringing back Tierney. Valle would be the better long term prospect.
Everyone in employment has to follow the party line, on Friday the Celtic manager went a little too far defending the Chairman’s son, the question had been put to the CEO but Rodgers knows how uncomfortable and unconvincing Nicholson is outside of his comfort bubble.
The interview with Premier Sports was illuminating, rather than usual gaggle of keyboard warriors Rodgers related to Charlie Mulgrew and Michael Steward as he explained his thinking after joking about his ridiculous booking from Kevin Clancy.
He still has a discomfort there, not as bad as what it was for the Bratislava game, but we don’t think he’s too far away from being where he wants to be.
There are times when it does feel as if Rodgers labours under his very own Messiah complex and that he’s on some sort of mission to educate and enlighten the mere mortals with whom he happens to come into contact whilst carrying out his missionary work. Which, of course, is…
Rodgers managed to turn the media conference into a discussion that suggested the only alternative to Celtic’s approach was to park the bus. There are far more than two ways to play football. Emery treated Bayern Munich differently to Ipswich, their weekend opponents in the EPL.
It’s a beautiful game, but it’s ruthless. And Celtic were exposed to name. There’s still lots of mileage in this group for them to go, but they’ve got to analyze and say themselves. We can’t do this away from home against top teams.
The loss of Carter-Vickers will clearly be a big blow to Rodgers and his plans for the match but unlike a year ago he has a defined template with eight or nine starters known for the match- with some quality options on the bench.
Yeah, not bad for a team that doesn’t play good football. I think that’s what we were told last year, wasn’t it? I think that was the accusation. We were too slow and we didn’t play football and we didn’t score enough goals.