{"id":421815,"date":"2025-09-13T19:14:13","date_gmt":"2025-09-13T19:14:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/421815\/"},"modified":"2025-09-13T19:14:13","modified_gmt":"2025-09-13T19:14:13","slug":"brendan-rodgers-remaining-in-celtic-dug-out-is-baffling-half-of-glasgow-can-see-who-is-perpetrator-of-cowardice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/421815\/","title":{"rendered":"Brendan Rodgers remaining in Celtic dug-out is baffling – half of Glasgow can see who is perpetrator of cowardice"},"content":{"rendered":"

Our man Hugh Keevins has had his say on the situation surrounding the Hoops gaffer at Parkhead\"Hugh<\/p>\n

Veteran sportswriter and broadcaster with a distinctive style. A boxing expert as well as a football writer and columnist for the Daily Record and Sunday Mail, Hugh also presents Clyde 1 FM\u2019s Superscoreboard show.<\/p>\n

\"CelticCeltic boss Brendan Rodgers<\/p>\n

I must admit I\u2019m baffled why Brendan Rodgers<\/a> will be in the dugout when Celtic play at Kilmarnock.<\/p>\n

The manager admitted at his pre-match press conference on Friday<\/a> that he knew a newspaper story had been planted last weekend to discredit him.<\/p>\n

And he revealed it isn\u2019t the first time someone at the club he works for had briefed against him.<\/p>\n

On the first occasion it happened, Rodgers felt so let down he left for Leicester City.<\/p>\n

This time he accused the perpetrator of cowardice but then spoke about his willingness to extend his contract with Celtic<\/a> beyond this season.<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t follow the logic behind that line of thinking.<\/p>\n

I need a behavioural psychologist to advise me why you would want to work for an organisation where a senior member of the hierarchy suggested, incorrectly as it turns out, that you were trying to engineer a way out of the club.<\/p>\n

Rodgers might claim not to know the identity of the person who did the dirty on him \u2013 but half the city of Glasgow would, I imagine, be able to tell him on request.<\/p>\n

The manager also used his press conference to catalogue a series of mistakes made with regard to transfers during the summer window that ended with Celtic signing two players, Michel-Ange Balikwisha and Seb Tounekti from Royal Antwerp and Hammarby, respectively.<\/p>\n

But they only cost a combined total of \u00a310million after an understrength Celtic had gone out of the Champions League<\/a> at the hands of Kairat Almaty in Kazakhstan, costing the club four times that amount of money in lost revenue<\/p>\n

Rodgers went through Celtic\u2019s Greatest Hits when it came to maladministration as it applied to recruitment and the treatment of players like Daizen Maeda<\/a>, who has apparently been trying to get out of Celtic Park for the last six months but is suffering from the recruitment department\u2019s dilatory response to finding a replacement, saying the cumulative effect of those failings had left him \u201cempty\u201d.<\/p>\n

But not so empty he wouldn\u2019t accept a new deal after the insertion of conditions that would allow him to work the best he can.<\/p>\n

Presumably those conditions would involve the manager having a more hands-on approach when it came to transfer windows.<\/p>\n

And the removal of the negative influence who has been spreading non-truths about him.<\/p>\n

All will become clear in the next couple of weeks, apparently, which might mean there\u2019s a high-profile removal on the way.<\/p>\n

Perhaps Dermot Desmond, Celtic\u2019s principal shareholder, will heed the advice of former director Brian Dempsey and get here quickly to explain what the hell is going on.<\/p>\n

Ex-Celtic Director Brian Dempsey alongside Hugh Keevins <\/p>\n

Where all of this leaves a mutinous support, set to break new ground in the field of toxicology at Rugby Park today, will only be known once they get there and stage their pre-planned forms of disruption.<\/p>\n

They might, I suspect, have thought Rodgers could have been more supportive of them in their fight against whoever wrote what they described as last weekend\u2019s \u201ccold and clinical\u201d statement concerning transfer policy.<\/p>\n

The fans say the relationship between club and supporters has to be more than \u201ctransactional\u201d.<\/p>\n

Rodgers, though, gave them platitudes about coming together and fighting for one cause because that is the power of Celtic<\/p>\n

It sounded like propping up the club\u2019s current regime, regardless of how he has been treated on a personal level.<\/p>\n

Nobody mentioned the football.<\/p>\n

They will get round to that subject pretty quickly if Kilmarnock win on Sunday afternoon.<\/p>\n

If you think the internal warfare is bad just now, you will have seen nothing yet, pandemonium-wise, if Killie deliver another humiliating blow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Our man Hugh Keevins has had his say on the situation surrounding the Hoops gaffer at Parkhead Veteran…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":421816,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7826],"tags":[2352,748,2628,1614,115919,918,4884,139567,139568,712,1638,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-421815","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-glasgow","8":"tag-brendan-rodgers","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-celtic-fc","11":"tag-champions-league","12":"tag-dermot-desmond","13":"tag-glasgow","14":"tag-great-britain","15":"tag-michael-nicholson","16":"tag-peter-lawwell","17":"tag-scotland","18":"tag-scottish-premiership","19":"tag-uk","20":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115198588797075903","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=421815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421815\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/421816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=421815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=421815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=421815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}