Only a complete idiot would believe that Rodgers returned to Celtic to create the biggest bank balance in UK football resulting in huge Corporation Tax payments to HMRC, Hannah opted not to ask what the strategy is.
What is that strategy? In order to make life as easy as possible for next season’s in-house manager the last thing that is needed is Brendan Rodgers leaving in a blaze of glory, of trophies and European progress.
When print circulation is below 40,000 and dropping at 18% year on year the Record is utterly desperate to grab any sort of digital audience regardless of the content and accuracy.
Old and new, traditional supporters clubs, podcasts, websites and others. Groups with a variety of shades of opinion but drawn together by a succession of issues culminating in the carnage created by Nicholson’s transfer window activities.
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.
Celtic fans are used to missing out on the rumoured targets to push the club on, this time around Nicholson has gone out of his way to weaken the team through the transfers of Nicolas Kuhn and finally Adam Idah.
“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 sometimes hear stuff about there being a disconnect, and that couldn’t be further from the truth, for me, the board and Dermot, we all love Celtic and want the club to be the very best it can be
There’s interest in Adam but, obviously, no one can leave here unless we get players in to replace. It’s as simple as that. There’s been negotiations and chatter around it, but I have to have players in here before I can consider letting anyone go.
A trip to Ibrox is normally one of the diary highlights of the year for the Celtic executives, today they could have met up with Andrew Cavenagh and the new owners of the Tribute Act formed by Charles Green in 2012.