Chris Davies has borrowed Brendan Rodgers’ Big Book of Patronising Cliches to explain his sudden departure for Leicester.
The former Reading youth team player has followed Rodgers throughout most of his career and is now using the same language as his boss.
Davies, Kolo Toure and Glen Driscoll made the overnight move to Leicester last Tuesday after slipping out the backdoor at Lennoxtown as Celtic prepared for a vital SPFL clash with Hearts at Tynecastle.
For close to three years Rodgers told everyone that he was loving his dream job but less than halfway through a four year contract he bolted south to join the club that is currently the 11th best in England.
Davies kept a low media profile during his time at Celtic and was only put in front of the cameras and dicta-phones when it didn’t suit Rodgers to be questioned.
At his media conference on Friday the new Leicester boss made all the usual patronising noises about Celtic, claiming that if it had been a decision of the heart he would have remained in Glasgow and managed Celtic for the rest of his life.
Picking up on that theme Davies told the Daily Record: “I watched both of Celtic’s games against Hearts and Hibs and I was cheering them on. I was hoping they’d win and thankfully that’s what happened.
“Celtic are now in a great position in the Cup and in the league and those were two important games. Hopefully they can now finish the job and win another treble. I am a Celtic supporter for life now. It was a fantastic experience.
“It’s a fantastic club and I had a great time there, with memories that will always stay with me. I really did warm to the club and I had such a great time there.
“I am going to miss being part of the club and I will always be watching their results. I wish Celtic all the best for the future.
“I loved everything about my time at Celtic – the club itself, the players, the fans – and it was a tough week with a big change for us all. It’s been an emotional week overall and it wasn’t easy to leave Celtic.
Those sentiments aren’t reciprocated by Celtic fans, they might go down well in the artificial world of EPL supporters who purchase half and half scarves, where top clubs celebrate finishing in fourth place and the rest and delighted to finish in 17th or above.
According to Davies and Rodgers the offer to join Leicester first appeared last Monday, by Tuesday evening they were all in place at the King Power Stadium enjoying the thrill of life in the middle of the EPL.
The timing and motives of the management move is open to question, Chris Sutton believes that it stinks. Davies and others can patronise all they like but Celtic fans aren’t going to be fooled by their sugar coated words, nor are they missing the management team that did an overnight bunk without batting an eyelid for ‘the club they love’ so sincerely.
This needs quickly resolvedhttps://t.co/QOo1mhXjnb
— Joe McHugh (@videocelts) March 5, 2019
I’d rather be in the shoes of @JohnHartson10 for this showdownhttps://t.co/AuPjXsntjF
— Joe McHugh (@videocelts) March 5, 2019
