Hoops Review: Brendan Rodgers and Celtics have agreed to part ways in the summer, just as the Premier League returns.

Hoops Review: Brendan Rodgers and Celtics have agreed to part ways in the summer, just as the Premier League returns.

I’d be surprised if Brendan Rodgers remained Celtic’s manager at the start of the next season, regardless of whether he won the league title in May.

Brendan’s baiting made for an uncomfortable listening and watching experience throughout the past week.

Resentment, rejection, and retribution: the employer has had to cope with all of these unpleasant reactions in just a few 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 villa in June.

That day, he abandoned his initial decision to take a year off and accepted Dermot Desmond’s offer to return to Celtic Park.

Brendan’s press conference on Tuesday, in which he explained himself following the post-match interview with Lewis at Fir Park,

was strikingly similar to his first as Celtic manager in July. I mentioned at the time that Rodgers appeared to be interrogated with care.

Tuesday’s questioning before the Dundee game was another example of interrogation disguised as an interview.

The night before, BBC Scotland’s prime-time news show The Nine asked a linguistics expert to offer an academic perspective on someone saying “good girl” to a female television journalist.

The professor found that Rodgers’ comments were “ill thought out” and that when misused, words were “as bad as violence”

Violence? Why push the conversation in such a way that it undermines his character? Brendan has, of course, been the recipient of vicious abuse from certain Celtic fans. When he returned to Celtic in the summer, he was branded “Judas” and a “rat,” harsh terms used to criticize him for leaving for Leicester in 2019.

Last weekend’s game at Motherwell underlined the extent of the bitterness that remains. The booing that greeted his substitution of Tomoki Iwata demonstrated the manager’s ongoing isolation from his internal critics.

Rodgers’ disappointment at last Tuesday’s news conference stemmed from such a vicious attitude.

That meeting was attended by a female sportswriter, who had used her newspaper column that morning to suggest Rodgers had “belittled” Lewis with his “good girl” remark. Okay, fair enough. That is her opinion.

However, she was in Lennoxtown to see if she could carry the story into the next day by questioning management.

What was the point of doing that, if not to exacerbate the debate?

Similarly, the BBC credited Lewis with Celtic’s victory over Dundee on Wednesday night.

Following the events of four days ago, the two may have been separated diplomatically.

Brendan is, obviously, the highest-paid manager in Scottish football history.

Money may also help to lessen the effects of frequent misuse. However, last week’s happenings

From Celtic fans to the wider media, and even the hired shooter with a university background, Rodgers must have been pushed to reflect.

Brendan is, obviously, the highest-paid manager in Scottish football history, and money may assist to mitigate the effects of constantly dealing with

However, the events of the previous week, from Celtic fans to the larger media,

Even the hired gunman, who had a university education, must have led Rodgers to reflect.

You do not stay where you are not desired. We’ll need to wait and see.

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

Conspiracy is usually reassuring to fans. It draws their attention away from the real world.

Today, they can spread the old lie that Hearts lost to Rangers despite their best efforts against the green and white hoops.

This is of no concern to Rodgers.

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

It is completely legitimate to criticize Celtics results or their perplexing signing strategy. Always professional; never personal.

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

Rodgers may mull it over while deciding whether his team has what it takes to beat the Rangers in the league.

What happened at Tynecastle will assist us answer this question.

In light of the current challenging scenario, an improper response will almost certainly end in retaliation.

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