John Hartson has hit out at the campaign to get Brendan Rodgers out of Celtic.
Sky Sports and BBC Scotland can barely let a week go past without linking the Irishman with a move away from Glasgow.
In just over two years as Celtic boss Rodgers has totally dominated the Scottish game handing out lessons in management to Mark Warburton, Pedro Caixinha, Steven Gerrard and Graeme Murty.
With no sign of a challenge emerging from Ibrox it seems trying to unsettle the Celtic boss is the best way of stopping Celtic’s run of success.
Aston Villa are the latest club ‘poised’ to take Rodgers away from Celtic but despite the hoops boss clearly ruling himself out the wishful thinking and the speculation continues.
In today’s Evening Times Hartson states: “I am not an authority, I could be completely wrong and if so you can all take great delight in telling me that you told me so, but I just can’t see Brendan walking away from Celtic right now.
“If I am left with egg on my face then so be it but this is my column and this is my opinion.
“I heard a lot of people going over his comments to the written press in the wake of Sunday’s win at St Johnstone when Brendan said that he “you can’t rule me out because I’ve never been asked”. To me there is nothing there that would lead me to think he is leaving the door open for Villa.
“He is being honest. If he hasn’t been asked then there really isn’t a story. He cannot deny something that has not actually happened, can he?
“And actually if I were in his shoes I think I’d be pretty fed up with it. How many times does he have to say that he enjoys his work at Celtic, that he enjoys his life at Celtic?
Rodgers joined Celtic in May 2016 on a 12 month rolling contract that was upgraded to a four year deal in April 2017.
Thierry Henry is the bookies favourite to replace Steve Bruce as Villa boss.