Brendan Rodgers: Celtic boss dedicated to ‘driving imaginative and prescient ahead’ as he appears to be like to future with Scottish champions | Soccer Information
Brendan Rodgers is trying ahead to extra success with Celtic and can focus on his long-term future with majority shareholder Dermot Desmond this summer time.
The Hoops boss sat down with Sky Sports activities following the membership’s fourth successive Scottish Premiership title triumph.
Rodgers additionally led Celtic to League Cup glory this season however their treble dream was ended by Aberdeen within the Scottish Cup last.
“I believe having now come by means of the primary spell to the second spell I now know 100 per cent you will lose a few of your greatest gamers, however they’ll all the time get replaced just like the supervisor might be changed,” Rodgers advised Sky Sports activities.
“Celtic’s in an ideal second as a soccer membership each on the pitch and off the pitch and my job is to maintain driving the imaginative and prescient ahead.”
Rodgers will maintain talks with majority shareholder Dermot Desmond, who watched Celtic have fun their newest Premiership title win
The 52-year-old is beneath contract till the summer time of 2026 and has already confirmed he’ll “200 per cent” be the Celtic supervisor subsequent season.
“I made my promise to be right here to make sure that individuals felt the steadiness that I’d be and naturally some noises across the finish of this season, so I simply needed to ensure that there was no distractions there,” he added.
“I am positive sooner or later I am going to sit with Dermot and the board and we’ll have a chat across the future however we’ve not touched on that but.
“The main focus has been purely on being profitable this season after which we’ll arrive into the summer time with actual positivity and an actual constructive power and I believe that is what’s essential.”
Watch ‘Celtic: One other Season in Paradise’ as Brendan Rodgers and Callum McGregor mirror on the membership’s title-winning season from 7pm on Friday on Sky Sports activities Soccer
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Celtic lifted the Scottish Premiership trophy for his or her fourth season in a row
Sky Sports activities’ Chris Sutton on Rodgers’ Celtic future:
“I believe that is very tough [to know if he’ll stay beyond next summer]. I believe there’s loads of issues which come into the equation.
“Domestically he is solely missed out on two trophies in his two spells.
“If Celtic go and win one other treble subsequent season, for instance, and do okay within the Champions League – they must qualify to begin with, which isn’t straightforward, however then in the event that they progress, in the event that they present a little bit of progress, get out of the group stage, I believe Celtic would take that.
“Perhaps he’d take that, however there’ll come a time when he finally thinks, I desire a completely different problem. I believe each supervisor has a shelf life at Celtic or at Rangers, however he is been so dominant. So it is right down to him.
“I imply he is by no means going to chop quick this three-year interval, until the membership cuts it quick. That is by no means going to be the case.”
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