The Hoops boss is in the final year of his contract and has yet to be offered an extension by club chiefs
Celtic boss Brendan Rodgers(Image: SNS Group)
Michael Stewart reckons there’s NO chance Brendan Rodgers will be Celtic manager next season.
Rodgers is in the final year of his second stint in charge and has yet to be offered a new deal by the Parkhead hierarchy.
The Irishman is enduring arguably the toughest period of his Hoops tenure with the club severely underperforming domestically and in Europe.
A shambolic transfer window compounded by a humiliating Champions League exit to Kazakh minnows has Celtic diehards warring with an under-fire board.
But Rodgers is now feeling the heat with domestic and European results leaving a lot to be desired and Celts now five points behind table-topping Hearts.
Despite the disharmony at Parkhead, Rodgers openly admitted last month that he’d be keen to extend his stay at Celtic on certain conditions.
But pundit Stewart believes the third most successful manager in the club’s history is destined for pastures new come the end of the campaign.
He told the Scottish Football Social Club show: “At the start of the season and the way things were, I genuinely thought that had things worked out well, I think he’d have been open to staying.
“But the way things have panned out, I don’t think there’s any chance.
“I do think that the way he is at the moment, the way the club are being run and the way he’s now understandably underwhelmed with it all, I think it’s a very, very dangerous situation for Celtic to be in.
“You’ve got all of this campaign where it just feels like they are treading water a little bit.
“There’s no real dynamism and that’s dangerous.”
Asked about his future last month, Rodgers said: “It hasn’t really changed from the last time. I would love to stay here longer, I’ve had informal chats with Dermot (Desmond) and Michael (Nicholson) but no offer to consider.”
Pressed on whether he’d be willing to commit to a new contract, he said: “100 per cent. I guaranteed I would do three years, and if going forward if I do get offered a deal, there does have to be conditions in that, that allow me to work the best I can.”