What a week to be a Celtic fan!
As if winning the title in style at Tynecastle wasn’t enough to put a smile on every supporters face the news that Brendan Rodgers had agreed a new four year contract has sent the support into raptures.
Rodgers commitment to the club has been earnest and sincere from day one but getting him to knock for six thoughts of EPL clubs coming up to whisk him back to the land of milk and honey is fantastic news.
With Rodgers there is a much bigger picture than ‘how much will you pay me?’
He wants to push his own ambitions as far as possible, he wants to test himself as much as he can and he enjoys the control that he has over all matters Celtic. No manager in England has the same degree of control, every manager in the EPL has boardroom pressure to do things certain ways. Within an already agreed budget Rodgers calls all the shots.
With title number six done and dusted the countdown is underway towards number 10, a well run Celtic will take some displacing, cup competitions can be decided by honest mistakes but it will take a combination of self implosion and incredible good fortune elsewhere to stop the ten.
Celtic have never been an insular club, success has always been judged in terms of Europe with the focus very firmly on making an impact rather than being the place the big names have on their bucket list.