{"id":453308,"date":"2025-09-26T17:32:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-26T17:32:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/453308\/"},"modified":"2025-09-26T17:32:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-26T17:32:11","slug":"brendan-rodgers-tells-daizen-maeda-the-dangerous-territory-he-must-avoid-in-clear-celtic-message","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/453308\/","title":{"rendered":"Brendan Rodgers tells Daizen Maeda the ‘dangerous territory’ he must avoid in clear Celtic message"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Daizen Maeda is at the centre of plenty of Celtic conversation.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Japan forward was named Celtic\u2019s<\/a> player of the year last year \u2013 but an awful lot has changed since then. <\/p>\n

His form has been questioned since the start of the season, and after a difficult first half against Red Star Belgrade on Wednesday, Maeda was hooked at half time.<\/a><\/p>\n

This leaves him in a difficult position in the pecking order, given the form of new signings Sebastian Tounekti and Kelechi Iheanacho.<\/p>\n

Speaking ahead of Saturday\u2019s match against Hibernian, Brendan Rodgers sent a clear message to the 27-year-old.<\/p>\n

Brendan Rodgers sends clear message to Celtic\u2019s Daizen Maeda<\/p>\n

Rodgers has admitted that he feels Maeda\u2019s<\/a> pain, having been unable to facilitate a move away for him despite the player\u2019s desire.<\/p>\n

\"DaizenPhoto by PREDRAG MILOSAVLJEVIC\/AFP via Getty Images<\/p>\n

Speaking ahead of the match at Celtic Park, Rodgers said: \u201cYou can\u2019t underestimate how difficult it\u2019s been for him. This is a guy who\u2019s given absolutely everything for this football club.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd even if you want to give your best, there\u2019s a subconscious thing that can hold you back a little bit.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut like I say to any player in this situation, it\u2019s so important that you don\u2019t get caught up in this sort of mentality that \u2018it\u2019s not fair.\u2019 Because when you get caught in that it\u2019s a very dangerous territory. And it\u2019s hard to move on from.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo you have to really look forward, do it for your teammates, do it for your family, do it for your supporters and eventually you get confidence back.\u201d<\/p>\n

Will Daizen Maeda leave Celtic in January? <\/p>\n

Knowing the way that Celtic operate in the transfer market, Maeda\u2019s situation is likely to be revisited in January.<\/p>\n

His transfer value will decrease with every transfer window, so it would be in the best interests of the Parkhead board to maximise his value given the player\u2019s desire to leave.<\/p>\n

But in order for that to happen, the club must prepare. Kyogo Furuhashi<\/a> departed the club in the most recent January transfer window, but no direct replacement was forthcoming.<\/p>\n

So it\u2019s impossible to tell what it will look like with Maeda \u2013 Rodgers\u2019 focus will be on his form between now and then.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Daizen Maeda is at the centre of plenty of Celtic conversation. The Japan forward was named Celtic\u2019s player…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":453309,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4100],"tags":[2352,2353,94,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-453308","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-brendan-rodgers","9":"tag-celtic","10":"tag-football","11":"tag-sports","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115271798025116533","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453308","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=453308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453308\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/453309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=453308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=453308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=453308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}