The Celtic Thread

On the plus side, Ibrox will self-combust if Lennon takes Celtic to 10 in a row!

I can’t help but feel that the thought process behind this is fairly straightforward. 1.Leave with Celtic 8 points clear, and therefore gets credit for the title when it is won. 2.Join a former Premier League champion with a brief to get them back to winning titles. For BR it’s win-win.

Obviously only a small set of people would see it that way. Leicester’s win in 2016 was remarkable due to the events that contrived to permitnit happening. Although it’s an uncomfortable fact the mass failures amongst the usual suspects in title races played into it. My point is, as fantastic a story as it was, it won’t be repeated, and Leicester have gone through a corrective period since, and losing Mahrez and Kante has been pivotal.

I would have thought given the nature of this year’s SPL, it would be the best win yet, and also he has managed to have Celtic in and around the Champions League over the past four years. That won’t be nearly as achievable with Leicester, especially with the Top 6 becoming its own cartel, even with the likes of

Chelsea suffering the difficulties they are.

pre Madonna wrote:

On the plus side, Ibrox will self-combust if Lennon takes Celtic to 10 in a row!

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Het-field wrote:

I can’t help but feel that the thought process behind this is fairly straightforward. 1.Leave with Celtic 8 points clear, and therefore gets credit for the title when it is won. 2.Join a former Premier League champion with a brief to get them back to winning titles. For BR it’s win-win.

Obviously only a small set of people would see it that way. Leicester’s win in 2016 was remarkable due to the events that contrived to permitnit happening. Although it’s an uncomfortable fact the mass failures amongst the usual suspects in title races played into it. My point is, as fantastic a story as it was, it won’t be repeated, and Leicester have gone through a corrective period since, and losing Mahrez and Kante has been pivotal.

I would have thought given the nature of this year’s SPL, it would be the best win yet, and also he has managed to have Celtic in and around the Champions League over the past four years. That won’t be nearly as achievable with Leicester, especially with the Top 6 becoming its own cartel, even with the likes of

Chelsea suffering the difficulties they are.

The nature of this year’s SPFL is arguably down to Rodgers though! Celtic’s away form seemed to be a by product of his bizarre tactical thinking. There was constant tinkering away from home that lots of it inexplicable.

In saying that, Celtic and Rangers are both roughly on the same points as they were at this stage last season. I think we all got carried you after the result at a Ibrox, where he played Callum McGregor at left-back!

If his brief is to win titles at Leicester, then it is absolute lunacy to go. I doubt it is. In the exciting world of the EPL, the aim will be to qualify for the Europa League and then fail in it as the league is the priority.

Het-field wrote:

Honestly, my thinking is that it would be BR’s thinking that he has been brought in to win titles.

Ah come off it man! LOL

In that case, I give him six months. Tops!

Who chose Mulumbu and Izzy? Surely Rodgers was having some input to the signings. It wouldn't have taken a football genius to know that Izzy was done when he left Celtic.

Edited by Roberto Baggio - 26 Feb 2019 at 10:58am

Roberto Baggio wrote:

Who chose Mulumbu and Izzy? Surely Rodgers was having some input to the signings. It wouldn't have taken a football genius to know that Izzy was done when he left Celtic.

Maybe there lies the problem decisions being made over Rodgers head?

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It happens at a lot of clubs these days. I would still say Rodgers would have to say yes or no to every signing though.

Don't think its the reason he's leaving Celtic at this stage of the season. Its money motivated IMO.