Skysport Report: Celtic chiefs locked in negotiation with Newcastle United amid uncertainties over Brendan Rodgers future

Skysport Report: Celtic chiefs locked in negotiation with Newcastle United amid uncertainties over Brendan Rodgers future

Hoops Review: Brendan Rodgers and Celtics have reached a mutual arrangement to leave in the summer amid the EPL return.

I’d be astonished if Brendan Rodgers was still Celtic’s manager at the start of the following season, regardless of whether he won the league title in May.

Brendan’s baiting created an uncomfortable listening and watching experience throughout the last week. Resentment, rejection, and retribution: the employer has had to deal with all of these negative reactions in a matter of days. During the public outcry over Rodgers’ verbal altercation with BBC reporter Jane Lewis on Sunday, he must have wondered what happened to him at his Spanish home in June.

That day, he gave up his original plan to take a year off and accepted Dermot Desmond’s offer to return to Celtic Park. Brendan’s press conference on Tuesday, where he explained himself after the post-match interview with Lewis at Fir Park, was startlingly similar to his first as Celtic manager in July. I mentioned at the time that Rodgers seemed to be being interrogated with care. Tuesday’s questioning prior to the Dundee game was another example of interrogation disguised as an interview.

The night before, BBC Scotland’s prime-time news show The Nine requested the assistance of a linguistics professor to provide an academic viewpoint on someone saying “good girl” to a female television journalist. The professor determined that Rodgers’ words were “ill thought out” and  that when misused, words were “as bad as violence”.

Violence? Why push the conversation in that way at the expense of his character? Brendan has, of course, been the target of vitriolic abuse from certain Celtic fans. When he returned to Celtic in the summer, he was dubbed “Judas” and a “rat,” derogatory labels used to condemn him for leaving for Leicester in 2019.

Last weekend’s game at Motherwell demonstrated the degree of the bitterness that still exists. The booing that greeted his substitution of Tomoki Iwata highlighted the manager’s continuous estrangement from his internal critics.

Rodgers’ disappointment at last Tuesday’s news conference was motivated by a spiteful response of this kind. That meeting was attended by a female sportswriter, who had used her newspaper column that morning to insinuate Rodgers had “belittled” Lewis with his “good girl” remark. Okay, fair enough. That’s her opinion.

But she was in Lennoxtown to see if she could extend the story into the following day by interrogating management.

What was the goal of doing that, if not to worsen the debate?

Similarly, the BBC awarded Lewis to Celtic’s rout of Dundee on Wednesday night.

Following the events of four days ago, the two may have been given a diplomatic break from one another.

Brendan is, of course, the highest-paid manager in Scottish football history,

and money may assist to mitigate the effects of constantly dealing with abuse. However, the events of last week,

from Celtic fans to the wider media, and even the hired gunman with a university background, must have prompted Rodgers to reflect.

Brendan is, of course, the highest-paid manager in Scottish football history,

and money may assist to mitigate the effects of constantly dealing with abuse.

However, the events of last week, from Celtic fans to the wider media,

and even the hired gunman with a university background, must have prompted Rodgers to reflect.

You don’t stay anywhere you’re not wanted. We’ll have to wait and see,

but the boss deserves a break today to indulge in some good old-fashioned paranoia.

Conspiracy is typically reassuring to fans. It takes their focus away from the actual world.

Today, they can repeat the old rubbish about Hearts losing to Rangers despite their best efforts against the green and white hoops.

This is of no consequence to Rodgers.

His most difficult challenge is confronting the assumption that Celtic are clinging to the title pursuit by a thread.

It is entirely legitimate to critique Celtic’s results or their perplexing signing strategy. Always professional; never personal.

However, character assassination and criticism from his own followers and those outside of the football-related media are a different story.

Rodgers can mull it over while determining whether his club has what it takes to overcome the Rangers in the league.

What happened at Tynecastle will help answer this question.

The incorrect response will surely result in revenge in accordance with the current difficult situation.

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