Brendan Rodgers has opened up on a difficult couple of weeks for Liel Abada.
Being 22 years of age with a medium term injury in a foreign country is tough enough but the conflict in Israel has brought in a factor not covered by most coaching manuals.
With no club matches to report on there was plenty of space in newspapers to speculate on the future of Abada who recently signed a new long term Celtic contract.
For the best part of a decade the Green Brigade has expressed their backing for Palestine with Celtic’s next home match likely to be played against a backdrop of the Palestine flag.
Rodgers has had to deal with a variety of issues during his time in management, today he was required to touch on an international crisis in amongst chat about Sunday’s match away to Hearts.
I went for a meal with Liel last week just to see what he was thinking and where he was at. He’s fine. Naturally he is sad, like us all really by what is happening.
It’s a really divisive subject in terms of what is happening. But he knows he has the support of every true Celtic supporter, every person here at the club – we are all backing him and here with him.
Like I said, for he and those people very close to it, it’s hard as a father to see some of the images of what’s going on, but if you’re so close to it and from his country then of course it’s even harder. But he’s okay, he’s concentrating on getting himself fit and that’s all he is concerned about.
That’s the whole idea of taking him out and having a bite to eat, just to think where he was at. You forget that although these guy are professional footballers, they’re young men. He’s 22 years of age in a foreign country, learned the language and he’s done great for Celtic and we’re here to support him and help him.
Liel Abada ‘finished’ at Celtic declares Israeli insider as winger told Green Brigade will BOO him on injury returnhttps://t.co/nVZkqRPofg pic.twitter.com/WtQSb3IGQX
— Daily Record Sport (@Record_Sport) October 13, 2023
For Israeli insider read Israeli snider. He’s been sought out by the SMSM zombie fanboys in the Scoddish meedja.
Ignore and move on.
Record judges all by their own standards, which they cannot rise above!
Brendan is a pure fab human being as well as a pure fab football manager…
The Daily Record are The Hamas / IDF equivalent of Scottish Journalism –
The flag of ‘Palestine’ is a provocation to all Jews, especially since October 8th. Would the club tolerate Nazi or Isis flags ? And, yes, they do equate. The Arabs were allies with Hitler and were persecuting Jews long before the modern Israel began.
Have you got that?
You are playing the
“Victim Card”
John S.
And so, I have no sympathy for you or your position!
Isis is not Hamas and Hamas are not Nazi’s as Prime Minister Netanyahu has said. He is telling lies and it betrays the weakness of his moral position.
Isis and the Nazis are confined to the dustbin of history.
But the Israeli’s are the aggressors in this conflict. They are the ones who are using Deadly Force as a means of pressing their position. Just as the Nazis and Isis did!
Israel is winning the war but the moral position they hold is untenable and they should realise this! They are the ones who will have to shift their position.
And so support for the Paesinian People is a just cause!