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Honest Brendan Rodgers listens loudly and transparently to frustrated Celtic fans – and the club may have been “braver” in recruiting him in January.
But the boss suggested punters not let the department rot and reminded them it was a team effort despite a poorly earned moving window. The Premiership champions landed Adam Idah on loan from Norwich on a quiet deadline day, with David Turnbull joining Cardiff in a £2million deal. And Mikey Johnston is heading to West Brom on loan. Idah and Nicolas Kuhn were the only participants in a window that promised a lot but failed to deliver on its promises in the eyes of fans, who expressed frustration with Celtic’s board for not spending big.
Rodgers understands where enthusiasts are coming from. Speaking to reporters ahead of Saturday’s game against Aberdeen, he took pity on him, and the club may have been “braver in signing him. But he also feels punters are “looking for someone to blame” and urges them not to make a fool of themselves. the back of the board.
Speaking ahead of the clash at Pittodrie, the 51-year-old said: “You can’t just label the recruiting team. The recruiting team obviously has a task to do, just like we all have a task to doArray. But it is a collective responsibility. What I would say is that I sense where we were this summer and next. I sense now that you are not there, structurally, where we are. And yes, I would go over the heads with the enthusiasts thinking that maybe we would be a little braver in bringing in a player of some other level.
“But that’s something that’s up to me to try and fix that over the course of the my time here. But listen, you look up the strategy here at the club and you have to be careful. Because in some ways it has worked. You know, you bring in players for a minimal fee and then they go out and they make the club a lot of money
“What I’m hoping to check to balance my time here is that we can still do it because it’s been a vital component of the trendy game, to bring in a player who still has expansion in it. But we also need to be brave, brave enough to hang our hats on a player who is already made.
“So I totally understand the support and where that’s coming from. It’s time, isn’t it? It’s and like i said before, we’ve got to be really carefully here because I get a sense of looking for someone to blame. And that’s not what this club’s about. This club is about being together. The minute there’s a separation, it’s a difficult club.”