Would you consider these two windows a success? Brendan Rodgers put on the spot

The 20 Minute Tims podcast stood up at Friday’s media conference to ask the questions that most Celtic fans wanted answered.

A month of growing frustration expressed online and on-air came to a conclusion on Thursday night when Adam Idah joined Nicolas Kuhn in answering Brendan Rodgers’ call out for quality.

It was the fourth successive transfer window that failed to strengthen the squad and Starting XI, the side at Aberdeen today couldn’t live with the side Ange Postecoglou was sending out a year ago.

Around Celtic there is an attitude of self congratulations, resting on the achievements of the past where being slightly better than a Tribute Act formed by Charles Green 2012 which almost guarantees domestic success.

Next month it will be 20 years since Celtic won a knock-out tie in European competition. The list of clubs to have beaten the hoops in Champions League qualifiers is lengthy and depressing.

No one should know the problems of the club better than Rodgers, why he chose to return is a mystery.

After two more depressing transfer windows masterminded by Mark Lawwell it seems that Rodgers now knows that he is up against it, not from outside influences but from the infrastructure of the club that he has to front up for on a weekly basis.

How do you as a manager measure the success of a recruitment team? Would you consider these two windows a success? pic.twitter.com/m098VaH2xd

— 20 Minute Tims (@20MinuteTims) February 2, 2024

When you came in during the summer one of the things that attracted you was the scouting system and the transfer system and you were quite impressed by that. How do you measure the success as a manager of the recruitment team? Would you consider these two windows a success?

It is a responsibility of us all as a club. You can’t label it solely on the recruitment team. The recruitment team clearly has a job to do like we all have a job to do. This is a collective responsibility. I understood where we were at in the summer coming in. I understand the structure even more now having been here since then.

I would go along with the supporters thinking we could be a little braver in terms of bringing in another level of player. That is something that is up to me to try and fix that over the course of my time here. You look at the strategy here at the club and you have to be careful because in some ways it has worked. You bring in players for a minimal fee and they go out and make the club a lot of money.

What I want to try and balance in my time here is to be able to still do that because it is an important part of the modern-day game bringing in a player that still had growth left in him but we also want to be brave enough to bring to hang out hat on a player who is a ready-made player and someone that can come in.

I fully understand where the supporters are coming from but likewise, that player has to be available. Now we bring in someone like Adam who is a big, big talent. He might be someone in the summertime who will be that type of player but we will get the chance to see that.

At last a podcast asking relevant questions , answering like a true politician,towing the party line. Get him out of our Club.

— John buchanan (@Johnbuc43412087) February 2, 2024

He’s part of the problem if he’s taking part of the blame.

— Garngadbhoy (@shamrockbhoy7) February 2, 2024

A great question and to give Rodgers some credit he at least seems to take some responsibility but until he changes things all it is is soundbites

— Charlie (@Charliebhoy99) February 2, 2024

That is not a happy manager speaking . Maybe he’s thinking he made the wrong decision coming back

— Scots (@jimcbriefs) February 2, 2024