Q: Is this as concerned as you’ve been at this stage of the season, Brendan? You’re going into a big period, and for that kind of display…
Brendan Rodgers: “Yes, there’s absolutely no doubt it’s been a struggle from the beginning of the season. However, we have to stay together and we have to find a way to get the results and get the confidence in the team. We say the speed in the team. We’ve lost a lot of speed and a lot of goals out of the team, but it doesn’t matter now. I need to find a solution.”
Q: Hearts asked a big question yesterday. The team couldn’t respond, and of course Hearts will get a major opportunity next weekend. Is this where you really want to see what the players are made of now?
Brendan Rodgers: “I’m not even thinking about Hearts. We’ve got to recover from today. We’ve got to analyse and see where we can be better, and then we get a massive game on Thursday. Clearly, we’re not at the levels that we’ve been in the past, but it’s such a long season. It’s still very early. We haven’t performed today, and we have to be honest about that. It’s nowhere near the level of what we’d expect.”
Yang sums up our day at Dens Park. Dundee v Celtic. 19 October 2025. Photo Vagelis Georgariou (The Celtic Star)
Q: Is it a problem motivating the players? You’ve said you need to find solutions as well. Does that come back to you as well, sending out the team and motivating them and getting the guys up? Because there’s been a lethargy since the start of the season, hasn’t there? You said there’s been a struggle.
Brendan Rodgers: “It’s confidence as well. When you’re a team that’s flowing and scoring goals, then of course the confidence is there. We haven’t really had that throughout the season, so then you can be a little bit tentative on the ball and overthink it so much. We always felt there were goals in the team, so when you can’t, you don’t look like you’re going to score the goals, then that can affect you.
“We’ve got a great bunch of boys at the club, good guys that work hard every day. It’s all self-motivating as well. It’s that drive and desire. Like I’ve said before, this was a period I was really looking forward to because it’s the challenge, and you want to show how good you are as a player and how good you are as a team. Today we didn’t do that, and we’ll have to regroup and go again on Thursday.”
Dundee v Celtic. 19 October 2025. Photo Vagelis Georgariou (The Celtic Star)
Q: Is some of the noise around the club off the pitch having an effect on it? I mean, we saw another demonstration today, they held up the start of the game. Is that having an effect on players’ mentality and performances?
Brendan Rodgers: “I don’t know, but what I know is that it was right at the beginning of the game and we’ve still got a long way to go after that. It doesn’t stop you giving the ball away and losing a goal on a counter-attack. It doesn’t stop you getting blocked off on the pitch, so we can’t use that as an excuse. We really can’t. Of course, there’s been a simmering really all summer and into the beginning of the season. However, we can only focus on the pitch and we can be better on the pitch, for sure.”
Q: What can you do to be better as well? I know you’ve talked about players, but personally?
Brendan Rodgers: “You’re trying to look at the different ways to set the team up. Obviously, we change the structure at half-time and try to find different solutions that way. I’ll always look at myself first and analyse myself and where I can be better. Like I said, it’s my responsibility to try and find a way to get what I can out of the players that we have at this moment. That’s always the first protocol.”
Kieran Tierney. Dundee v Celtic. 19 October 2025. Photo Vagelis Georgariou (The Celtic Star)
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What a load of garbage from Rodgers!
Saying he accepts responsibility for the defeat “after” the game when he just spent a full news conference stating how he was expected to drive a Honda Civic like a Ferrari?
This constant gamesmanship from Rodgers is gettIng to be embarrassing!
As a top manager, he’s lost his edge, and now all he has in his armoury seems to be excuses. Next weekend we will effectively lose the league to Hearts. Credit to Hearts. They are on a great run of their own, playing with confidence and unlike us, have fans who really support their team and club. REAL FANS.
They also have a manager who is more likely to talk to his board, not backstab them like Rodgers has been doing since he came back.
You can blame the Celtic board all you like, but how can you be expected to back a manager who acts as stupidly as Rodgers did on the weekend? Then he claims he’s open to staying on after his contract expires!
Rodgers is a liar! He proved it in 2019, and he’s doing it to us all over again!
But this time, shame on US!
Rodgers doesn’t take responsibility for his own failings, especially when he is currently doing nothing more than playing the blame game at present imo?
Been allowed to get away with it since the summer window, yet what is the excuse before then?
All year now, we haven’t been able to win any of our bigger matches, now we are struggling badly within the SPFL.
The decline is alarming, and not even 1 player on show for ourselves, able to get close to producing what they are capable of doing?
To much emphasis been placed upon blaming the board, where it’s becoming clearer in each passing week, that the biggest culprit for the decline is within our manager imo.
Change will happen, when Rodgers is no longer having any influence whatsoever, and believe it will be for the better for ourselves at this stage also imo.
Always felt this run of 7 games could determine as to what should happen regarding Rodgers. After yet another shitshow again yesterday, and no sign of players actually playing for Rodgers, then just how much longer can we wait, in the hope of things actually turning around with Rodgers calling the shots?
Personally given up listening to his bullshit a long time ago.
If the board have got anything about them, then think we will possibly need Change by the end of the next international break at the latest imo?
Don’t believe Rodgers any longer can get anything more from our team sadly.
Whatever has or is going on within the background has become way to toxic to be resolved, without casualties in positions of power taking place.
In the footballing world, that starts with a manager.
The credit Rodgers had built up is eroding rapidly at this stage, to the degree that I’m becoming more convinced that Rodgers has no intentions of putting right what he has helped to dismantle within the club at present.
I don’t believe Rodgers should be the only casualty within his position either, but the process of changes will possibly have to start with him.
There was always going to be a potential rebuilding of the squad next summer in the offering.
No longer do I believe that we can wait that long, when we still haven’t managed to even get our season started yet. And this on the back of not able to get the majority of our squad motivated to clinch another treble last season.
The decline has been ongoing for way too long now at this stage, to continue to do nothing about trying to resolve matters.
And that will always be upon the field of play within a football club, where the first changes are required.