Chris Sutton has questioned the speed with which Brendan Rodgers has joined Leicester City.
Around 11am on Sunday it was announced that Claude Puel had been sacked by Leicester, on Tuesday morning Celtic announced that permission had been given for talks to take place with the official announcements completed at around 7pm that day. A turnaround of less than 60 hours.
It isn’t just the most suspicious of minds that are questioning the timing.
Was Rodgers in the dark about the move to Leicester on Monday when he took Celtic training and sent Scott Bain in to face the media?
Was he unaware of interest from Leicester when he took charge of Celtic for the last time against Motherwell on Sunday?
Looking back at Rodgers reign at Celtic in the Daily Record Sutton asks:
The fact the move to the King Power has come about with such speed would also make you suspicious that Leicester’s plan didn’t just come out of the blue.
Rodgers had the Celtic fans eating out of his hands because of the success but if this really was the dream job that he always claimed it was, you don’t walk out of it at this time.
In the future, people will look back on his reign and applaud him for what he has done. A double treble and pointing the club towards the treble Treble is some effort given the shambles he inherited from Ronny Deila.
But bizarrely, in the way he has come to this ending, he is leaving a mess of his own for the next guy in the door.
The short-termism of the January signings said a lot. Three loan signings brought in just to cater for the here and now with no real forward planning put into practice.
It looked clear as day that he hadn’t thought beyond the end of this season and now it seems crystal clear that was the case.
Rodgers signed a 12 month rolling contract when he joined Celtic in May 2016, a year later he signed a new four year contract but less than halfway through that deal he has quit for Leicester City.
A complete lack of respecthttps://t.co/DTLqlCNsTg
— Joe McHugh (@videocelts) February 27, 2019
He’s not quite as smart as he likes to think he ishttps://t.co/n5u7kAtlj4
— Joe McHugh (@videocelts) February 27, 2019
This isn’t getting any better, is it Brendan?https://t.co/JshmAOc2lm
— Joe McHugh (@videocelts) February 27, 2019