{"id":493330,"date":"2025-10-12T10:18:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-12T10:18:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/493330\/"},"modified":"2025-10-12T10:18:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-12T10:18:12","slug":"peter-grant-sends-michael-nicholson-a-strong-message-about-the-brendan-rodgers-celtic-leak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/493330\/","title":{"rendered":"Peter Grant sends Michael Nicholson a strong message about the Brendan Rodgers Celtic leak"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Brendan Rodgers leak at Celtic certainly took a turn this week after the board meeting with fans on Tuesday.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Brendan Rodgers Celtic leak<\/a> made huge headlines after a story broke in The Scottish Club claiming someone \u2018senior\u2019 at the club believes the Hoops gaffer is a divisive figure and was trying to work his Parkhead exit.<\/p>\n

The story created widespread anger amongst the Celtic fans<\/a>, pundits and former players as everyone connected to the club, apart from the board, condemned the story.<\/p>\n

Celtic CEO Michael Nicholson\u2019s response<\/a> when quizzed about investigating the leak astonished supporters and also caused fresh outrage.<\/p>\n

And now, after Roger Hannah defended his story about the Celtic manager<\/a>, former Parkhead midfielder Peter Grant<\/a> has told Nicholson exactly why he believes the story about Rodgers.<\/p>\n

\"MichaelPhoto by Ian MacNicol\/Getty ImagesPeter Grant tells Celtic there\u2019s \u2018definitely no smoke without fire\u2019 about Rodgers leak<\/p>\n

The Celtic manager<\/a> has had to put up with this story rumbling on for weeks now and Nicholson\u2019s comments have only caused further unrest at the club.<\/p>\n

And now, Grant has told Celtic exactly why there is a leak at the club as he tells the board how he knows the journalists who wrote the story.<\/p>\n

Grant said on The Go Radio Football Show [1h 1m<\/strong>], \u201cI\u2019ve been about Celtic Park and Scottish football for a long, long time. You know, that was the worry for me. <\/p>\n

\u201cBecause if they\u2019re getting a story, they\u2019re not going to go out there with just somebody throwing something, a line out there.<\/p>\n

Cooney: \u201cIt was Roger Hannah, wasn\u2019t it?\u201d<\/p>\n

Grant: \u201cYeah, and Bill Leckie was one of them. So these are senior guys, you know, been in the game a long time. <\/p>\n

\u201cAnd I\u2019d be surprised, as I say, at that particular time, if they\u2019ve not been briefed by someone. And because I know these guys. These guys wouldn\u2019t have just put that story out there.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf it\u2019s a young guy trying to get a name for himself, yes, you can understand it. But when it\u2019s two senior guys putting their neck on the line, I think there\u2019s definitely no smoke without fire there.\u201d<\/p>\n

What Michael Nicholson said about the Celtic leak<\/p>\n

Nicholson has not come off well after the meeting with the Celtic Fans Collective this week. The CEO has only caused further anger with his comments on the Brendan Rodgers<\/a> leak.<\/p>\n

When asked about it by fans, Nicholson said at the meeting, \u201cThe allegation of a senior Club official briefing against the Manager to The Sun was described as \u201cclosed\u201d by Michael Nicholson.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Club was unwilling to divulge much information although claimed a conversation took place between the Board and the Manager.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Club suggested that the allegation was unsubstantiated and did not require further investigation.\u201d<\/p>\n

Quite an incredible admission considering Celtic have not challenged The Scottish Sun on the story. Oh, who to believe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Brendan Rodgers leak at Celtic certainly took a turn this week after the board meeting with fans…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":441710,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4100],"tags":[94,25674,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-493330","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-peter-grant","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115360688065467033","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493330","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=493330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493330\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/441710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=493330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=493330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=493330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}