Reporter Pete O’Rourke has delivered a significant update regarding Brendan Rodgers’ future as Celtic manager.
Rodgers backed to leave Celtic
The 52-year-old has enjoyed a superb second spell in charge at Parkhead, winning the Scottish Premiership title last season, adding to the two that already came his way in 2016/17 and 2017/18.
Celtic are again on the cusp of title glory this term, with the Scottish League Cup already coming their way and the Scottish Cup also still on the table, with a treble feeling very possible.
Despite things going so swimmingly under Rodgers, however, there is always the risk of losing him and his head being turned by a return to the Premier League, with former scout Mick Brown admitting as much earlier this year.
“If Rodgers was offered a Premier League job, he would take it. He’d be interested in coming back to England and I think he’s not entirely happy at Celtic. At the moment, Celtic are dominant in Scotland, there’s nobody challenging them. They’ve got to build on what they’ve got in the transfer window, they’re ruling the roost and they want to keep it that way. But Rodgers wants more than that – he’s thinking about European football.”
New update on Rodgers’ Celtic future
According to Football Insider‘s O’Rourke, Rodgers “could quit” as Celtic manager at the end of this season, amid interest from Premier League clubs. A return to the English game appeals to him, and although it is also stated that he is “content” in his current role, he wants more backing after a lack of it in the previous two transfer windows.
Losing Rodgers would be a significant blow for Celtic, considering what a talented manager he is, bringing so much stability to the club and continuing to win trophies at the same time.
Former Liverpool and Real Madrid midfielder Steve McMamanan has always been an admirer of the fit in Glasgow, saying in 2017: “I’ve heard people say ‘it’s only the Scottish league’, which I feel is quite arrogant really, quite ignorant. Whenever you’re breaking records that have stood for a long, long time in football, you’re doing something marvellous and I think it takes it away from himself, or the team in general, of what they have achieved.”
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The lure of the Premier League is great for any boss, however, and as Brown alluded to, there isn’t the same level of competition in the Scottish Premiership, making it harder for the Irishman to truly test himself.
Hopefully, Rodgers still feels that he has plenty to achieve at Celtic, not least making more of an impression in the Champions League, which will persuade him to stay put for the foreseeable future and ignore any potential interest from England. If he does leave, though, he will be a hard act to follow.
