Chris Sutton has launched a blistering attack on Brendan Rodgers.
While Celtic’s results have nose dived most attention has been on the board of Directors, the Chairman and Mark Lawwell, the Head of Scouting and Recruitment.
All of those issues are certainly relevant but the bottom line as manager is to put out a team capable of taking full points from Aberdeen, Kilmarnock and the rest of the clubs.
There is no one available for selection to Derek McInnes or Neil Warnock that attracted a January offer from Celtic but both their clubs have taken points off Celtic over the last month.
Tonight Celtic are sitting in second place, even with over £70m sitting in the bank Sutton believes that the manager needs questioned on how a comfortable lead at the start of December has crumbled into second place with a dozen matches left to play.
Picking up on his appearance on Sky Sports today, The Sun reports Sutton saying:
The result yesterday, I don’t think it came as a great shock. Celtic have been bang average this season.
The wins have papered over the cracks – performances haven’t been there – they’re not a good team this season.
Everybody talks about the board, signings and this being a long time in the making this particular moment. Brendan Rodgers has to take responsibility.
I can’t think of one player at Celtic who he has improved – that’s on the manager. You look at the points they’ve dropped domestically in isolation, they’ve been poor.
They’ve been outplayed, I cant remember the last time a Celtic team were outplayed in halves of football by so many teams. That’s on Brendan.
Why is it? We’ve touched on the wide players before. They were playing fast and furious under Ange Postecoglou – the brand of football is slow, predictable.
There isn’t a fear factor when teams go up against Celtic – teams fancy getting a result. The result as bad as it was wasn’t a great surprise.
Celtic aren’t back in action to Sunday, when they kick off at Fir Park they could be sitting five points behind in second place.
While Chris is absolutely correct in what he’s verbalizing about team performances on the park, the facts remain, and frankly, cannot be ignored, that the board are ultimately responsible for this.
They clearly have learned absolutely nothing from the implosion from the covid season when we did almost exactly the same thing.
Clearly starting the campaign with a far superior squad of players, for some unknown reason we failed to perform and after leading a pretty average new team from across the city, allowed them to go through a season unbeaten as we stuttered our way to embarrassment.
Sure, the SFA were never going to allow us to win a tenth title regardless! But we made it easy for them!
We failed to invest while on top.
We did exactly the same thing this year, and this time it will cost us over £40 Million guaranteed money! Worse still! It gives it to a direct competitor meaning it doubles the loss!
That’s a board error! Not Rodgers!
Ted will be gone 321 by next weekend.
The whole Fcukin lot are culpable…
Fraudgers Rodgers – Daddy Lawwell – Lord Nicholson Lucan – Sonny Lawwell –
The whole lot !
It really seems deliberate now. One guy who could have come on and saved the day was David Turnbull so it looked like they needed to get rid of him and keep McCarthy!!
What the hell is going on? It makes no sense unless you look on it as a managed decline.
I also think Strachan senior was warning us, last week, about a lengthy lay off for Carter Vickers and perhaps being injury prone might have been why we got the chance to re-sign him.