Q: Is this as tough and as worrying spell as you’ve known?
Brendan Rodgers: “Listen, it’s not all linear and all smooth right the way through the season, that’s for sure. I think the challenge from the summer now leading into here, we lost a lot of firepower, a lot of goals out of the team. There’s no way you’ll go into a race and be given the keys to a Honda Civic, and as you take off, it’s said, “We want you to drive it like a Ferrari.” It’s not going to happen. So until something changes, I have to find the solutions because, like I said, goals, speed, everything has come out of the team, and we need to find a way to be better.”
Q: You actually feared this could happen deep down? This could become a possibility?
Brendan Rodgers: “However I felt, I still have to find a way. It was clear in the summer, but it’s really in the past now. There’s nothing we can do about it. We had the opportunities to do what we needed to do. It didn’t happen. So now it’s finding ways, whether it’s 4-3-3, whether it’s 3-4-3, whether it’s 3-5-2. We’re trying to look at all these different permutations within the team, but ultimately you need that quality to break down teams that are low on the pitch, and for us this season, that’s been the real challenging aspect for us. But it’s a challenge that I relish. I want to be here to, as I said, to make the difference for the players that are here at this moment.”
Benjamin Nygren. Dundee v Celtic. 19 October 2025. Photo Vagelis Georgariou (The Celtic Star)
Q: Can you expect to be backed in January?
Brendan Rodgers: “My immediate concern is now. Celtic is more than one window. Celtic is not just about January, it’s about the future and what I want to be able to do is make sure that at this moment in time we’re the best that we can be and then obviously planning and preparation is already underway for January. It’s a small window and I hope that we can improve that and then you’ve got the window after that. But at this moment in time, my focus is really trying to get the team, the guys that are here to be at the best level.”
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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.