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(The Guardian) Brendan Rodgers: "I'm here for three years"
Celtic: The Scottish champions were held to a scoreless draw by the Azerbaijan side Kairat Almaty in the first leg of their Champions League play-off on Wednesday and after the match, Brendan Rodgers sounded mightily fed up by his employers’ lack of effort in the transfer window to bring some new recruits into a Celtic side that looks light in several departments but particularly up front. For all that, his team should already have enough about it to beat opposition few in the UK had ever heard of before the draw was made.
Having had a few days to gather his thoughts ahead of tomorrow’s Scottish Premiership match against Livingston, Rodgers dismissed speculation that there is any sort of “conflict” between him and the Celtic board and insisted he will not be leaving before his contract expires at the end of the season, despite having previous for walking out of Celtic Park midway through the final year of a contract.
“Absolutely no chance,” he said. “We’ve done that before, it didn’t go down well. We had the chances over the summer [of contract talks] but I said, ‘now the season starts, I only want to think of the football’. I don’t want to think of the contract, just think of the football and that will come later on if it does. I said I’d be here for three years and I’m here for three years.”
Celtic host Livingston tomorrow before setting off on their 7,000-kilometre round-trip for the second leg against Kairat Almaty.
Celtic: The Scottish champions were held to a scoreless draw by the Azerbaijan side Kairat Almaty in the first leg of their Champions League play-off on Wednesday and after the match, Brendan Rodgers sounded mightily fed up by his employers’ lack of effort in the transfer window to bring some new recruits into a Celtic side that looks light in several departments but particularly up front. For all that, his team should already have enough about it to beat opposition few in the UK had ever heard of before the draw was made.
Having had a few days to gather his thoughts ahead of tomorrow’s Scottish Premiership match against Livingston, Rodgers dismissed speculation that there is any sort of “conflict” between him and the Celtic board and insisted he will not be leaving before his contract expires at the end of the season, despite having previous for walking out of Celtic Park midway through the final year of a contract.
“Absolutely no chance,” he said. “We’ve done that before, it didn’t go down well. We had the chances over the summer [of contract talks] but I said, ‘now the season starts, I only want to think of the football’. I don’t want to think of the contract, just think of the football and that will come later on if it does. I said I’d be here for three years and I’m here for three years.”
Celtic host Livingston tomorrow before setting off on their 7,000-kilometre round-trip for the second leg against Kairat Almaty.
