Q: There’s been mitigating circumstances this season, but do you accept there’s a spotlight on yourself as well now to see how you’re going to get through this and how you can get the team through this?
Brendan Rodgers: “Yes, I think so. Listen, when you’re at a club like Celtic, it’s always on you. It was on me when I first came back. We got through that. It’ll be on us now when we’re not at our best level, and we’ll get through this as well. But ultimately, we need to be better. We’re not playing with the speed and fluency that this team has done before, and I have to find a way to get us back to that level.”
Q: At times like this when you see the dressing room at full time, do you take a wee eye on how certain players are reacting and how they deal with it, if there are opinions, if there’s obvious emotion, just to give you indicators of the team?
Brendan Rodgers: “I know the players care. I know that they care. For the new guys coming in, it’s a real eye-opener to the pressures of being at a huge club. You never know that until you’re in and you go through the demands of what is required. But I’ve got no doubt that the guys want to do well and we have to find a way of scoring the goals and creating the goals that increases the confidence level in the team.”
Callum McGregor. Dundee v Celtic. 19 October 2025. Photo Vagelis Georgariou (The Celtic Star)
Q: You made a couple of changes at half-time. Did you feel that you picked the right team to win the game today?
Brendan Rodgers: “If you lose a game you’ll always be criticised. That’s all a part of it. We’re trying to get goals. I’m playing a boy in Benjamin Nygren in midfield who’s the highest scoring midfield player that we have at the club. He’s coming in from last year, we’re getting 16 goals. In a team that is suffering for goals, you want to try and look to your goal scorers. We’ve got Yang coming in on the side. It’s an area we know what we’re suffering in. He’s coming in to try and make an impact. It didn’t quite work for him and that’s on me. As you say, hindsight’s a great thing. You lose a game, you take the responsibility as the manager. I accept that.”
Q: Just on the protests Brendan, what’s your message to protestors to avoid that going forward?
Brendan Rodgers: “I’m not going to tell the supporters what to do. They’re frustrated. They’re the heart of this club. I just say that after that, we had still a long, long period of time to put a performance in and we didn’t do that. It was at the beginning. The fans are the heart of this club. The passion is here. It’s their life. It’s their love and they want to see the team doing well. We had enough time in the game and enough ball in the game to do better for them and we didn’t do that. So it’s on us.”
Brendan Rodgers. 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.