Celtic CEO Michael Nicholson at Rugby Park, Kilmarnock v Celtic, 14 September 2025. Photo Vagelis Georgariou (The Celtic Star)
Q: How did your meeting with Michael Nicholson on Friday go? Were lines being drawn?
Brendan Rodgers: “No, listen, Michael’s a good man. He’s a good man. I have a really good relationship with him and Chris McKay, because they’re the guys that I deal with day to day. We all know what it is we need to assess and look at and be better at. You look at Sebastian, you know today, if we have him in when we wanted to have him in, then it could be a different sport for us, you know, outstanding he was. So these are all things that we need to find clarity on and be better at. But in the meantime, the concentration’s on football.”
Marcelo Saracchi at Rugby Park, Kilmarnock v Celtic, 14 September 2025. Photo Vagelis Georgariou (The Celtic Star)
Q: How impressed were you with Marcelo Saracchi’s influence in the game? He got the assist, he was also playing a little bit inverted as well?
Brendan Rodgers: “Yeah, I liked him. He’s a player of experience. He can do that role coming in on the inside. He hasn’t played for a little while, so the plan was to give him an hour, and he did that very well. Just again, getting used to the adaptation to the system, he’s coming from maybe fractionally slower play.
Kieran Tierney at Rugby Park, Kilmarnock v Celtic, 14 September 2025. Photo Vagelis Georgariou (The Celtic Star)
“So for us we want to get the ball more progressive and get it forward quicker. In the second half he’s up there and it’s a brilliant cross from that half space, because we talk about that against back fives when you’re switching it and you’re working the ball. Making those crosses, it’s difficult for the other team to defend, and he made a great ball, and then that allows Kieran Tierney to come in and play the last 30 minutes or so.”
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