One long established Celtic blogger seems utterly terrified by the prospect of Brendan’s return

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There has been one publication defiantly swimming against the tide that Brendan Rodgers is closing in on a return to Celtic as manager.

It isn’t one of the dreaded MSM outlets flying the red, white and blue flag, fearing that Celtic are about to appoint a manager of a similar calibre to Ange Postecoglou.

One of the longest running Celtic websites seems to be dreading the prospect of a high quality appointment, one that instantly transformed the club in 2016 by imposing his standards on every area of the club.

The top tier of the Lisbon Lions Stand reopened, the Waiting List for Season Tickets returned alongside Champions League nights and the novelty of winning trebles.

For some reason Celtic Quick News seems to be dreading the prospect, putting up roadblocks and obstacles at every turn while throwing around completely unproven allegations.

At lunchtime today Paul67 continued his attempt to put a handbrake on momentum, claiming:

If nothing else, the club have been thorough this time. Candidates have been interviewed, including Brendan, who is without an employer, but there has been no rush to appoint.

Despite having a strong offering and good applicants, there is nervousness at board level, these decisions have huge consequences.

All you and me know for sure is that the decision has not been made, despite affirmation to the contrary.  There’s no way Celtic are sitting on a decision.

Nervousness? That will be the board that conducted a managerial review in December 2020 and concluded that Neil Lennon was the best man to manage the club. When Lennon resigned they then took more than 100 days to appoint a successor who had barely a month to prepare for a Champions League qualifier with Liam Shaw and Osaze Urhoghide to boost the squad.

On Monday CQN claimed that it was just noise linking Celtic with Rodgers, apparently two senior club officials had travelled to Mallorca out of courtesy to boost the profile of a former Celtic manager.

It also carried the slightly sinister claim of:

Brendan was a winning Celtic manager. If, as reported, he was interviewed, you’d better believe he has invested some capital in even being considered. The way he behaved at Liverpool, then Celtic, and his lack of structural legacy at both these clubs and at Leicester, means Brendan has a bit of a reputational challenge going forward. Even being considered by Celtic would do him good.

I don’t see it going any further than this, though.  We’ve seen what an actual great manager can do. One that leaves a legacy of a valuable squad.  One that never considered short-term loans as part of his modus operandi. A team player in every sense.

On what application form is a manager expected to leave a ‘structural legacy’? That is the sort of request that you pay £3.5m a year for your CEO to impose.

Celtic Quick News was a breath of fresh air when it first appeared in the middle of the first decade of this century, highlighting how compromised traditional media had become.

Sadly CQN has allowed itself to be completely compromised by their own portions of succulent lamb.

When the noise becomes reality the credibility of CQN will have sunk even further than the influence of a former CEO that Paul67 has never criticised.

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