Brendan Rodgers ‘a contender’ to replace Arsenal legend Arsene Wenger

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16 hours ago, Volbeater said:

Would he take any of the “Invincibles” to Arsenal if he got the job? ? 

They couldn't afford Dumbele.

[Uilleam 5,960]

7 hours ago, the gunslinger said:

He would be mad to go there.

Double the money at least, add in the ego.......

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Would he take any of the “Invincibles” to Arsenal if he got the job? [emoji23] 

A few of them would improve the Arsenal team.

[Uilleam 5,960]

20 minutes ago, Gazza_8 said:

21 hours ago, Volbeater said:

Would he take any of the “Invincibles” to Arsenal if he got the job?  

A few of them would improve the Arsenal team.

You think? Name names.

 

Actually the thought of Brenda getting Arsenal to pay Scottish mhedia valuations for sellik players gives me the boke. 

[Scott7 6,159]

I can see the headline:

 

 “Bren/Brown SNUB Gunners to stay at Hoops. Ancelotti next in Frame?”

Edited February 28, 2018 by Scott7

[Uilleam 5,960]

Rimming Rodgers

 

A piece in today's Times, once a newspaper of record, by Mick Grant.

 

Although it comes the Rangers-hating two bob keyboard monkey, there remains something sad in seeing a grown man reduced to peddling this kind of thing. A paean of homo-erotic praise? You judge...

 

Let it gush, let it gush, let it gush.....

 

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/scotland/brendan-rodgers-will-have-it-all-figured-out-x3mrf2hz9 (Paywall)

 

MICHAEL GRANT

february 28 2018, 12:01am, the times

Brendan Rodgers will have it all figured out

michael grant, scottish football correspondent

 

Somehow the Celtic fans’ chant has always sounded a little more like a taunt than a celebration. “Bren-dan Rodg-ers here for ten in a row,” they sing, over and over. It was first heard last season and it’s now become a staple, struck up again after some fresh cause for jubilation or a moment when uncertainty is removed from a game. The subtext to all the other clubs and fans is: we’ve got Rodgers, he’s the best in the business, and he’s going to be around tormenting and dominating you lot for years.

Well, it would be staggering if Rodgers really was around for ten in a row. Even among those belting it out in the stands, how many of the calmer heads really believe that if he delivers Celtic’s seventh consecutive championship in the coming weeks he still will be around for eight, nine and ten? That would mean five full seasons in Scottish football for a guy whose reputation is still defined by the football scene in England. No-one has done five years in charge of Celtic since Martin O’Neill left in 2005. The landscape has changed enormously in the 13 years since then.

Celtic landing Rodgers in 2016 was such an impressive feat because it was counter-cultural: big name players and managers don’t leave England for Scotland unless they’re on their last legs. Rodgers was a startling appointment because of his profile, alternative opportunities and age. He has been here almost two years and he’s only just turned 45. Nor did he arrive as any sort of broken figure. But having said all of that it is clear that he isn’t held in as high esteem in England as he is Scotland and plenty of Arsenal supporters appear unimpressed by the suggestion he might soon take over from Arsene Wenger. A manager who nearly won the league with Liverpool is a fantastic figure for Celtic to land. Not so for Arsenal. Celtic’s domestic domination under him could be of no consequence to Stan Kroenke and the rest of the Arsenal board. Nor has he enhanced his reputation over Celtic’s two European campaigns, where heavy defeats to Barcelona and Paris Saint-Germain would give cause for alarm.

 

As recently as December Rodgers said there had been “possibilities” for him to leave Celtic for the Premier League. He remains a big figure in English football’s collective consciousness. There are chairmen who would want him. Moving already wasn’t on his radar, he said. He might get more money somewhere else but happiness was the most important thing. His personal ambitions did not have to be fulfilled only in the England. Still…“this is not to say I won’t go back there one day.”

Celtic fans lapped it up when he raised his two open hands to them after a win against Kilmarnock last April. Their interpretation: look, he’s one of us, sticking it to Rangers. “I was just stretching my fingers,” was his arch explanation. It was a ten-in-a-row gesture of sorts, everyone knew that, but by his own admission Rodgers isn’t the type to be consumed by that target, let alone hang around at Celtic simply to be the manager who gets them across that finishing line. Those who venerate Rodgers should also respect his priorities. How many times does he have to say he is motivated and most excited by developing players and making teams better? Winning ten consecutive league titles is an entirely local feat which matters only to Celtic and Rangers supporters; their equivalent of who can pee the highest up a wall. Literally no-one else in Scotland cares, let alone anywhere beyond that. No-one should kid themselves that if Arsenal or Valencia or Inter Milan ever phoned Glasgow with an offer that Rodgers would say: “Ach this is really flattering but, sorry guys, I really want to hang around to get more SPFL titles than Rangers managed in the nineties”.

There are plenty of Celtic fans whose enthusiasm for Rodgers has cooled: many on the flights home from Russia on Friday were deeply unamused by the lack of character and fight in the meek second leg against Zenit St Petersburg and they reckoned the blame lay in the dug-out. But in the main they still bristle whenever there is talk of Celtic being relegated to the small fry who can lose a boss when a richer club fancies him. That comes with the territory. Appoint a “name” manager on a £2.5 million-a-year salary and you should be prepared for stories like those in England yesterday which suggested Rodgers, Leonardo Jardim of Monaco, Germany’s Joachim Low, and former Arsenal midfielder Mikel Arteta were on a shortlist to replace Wenger.

 

Three full seasons to the summer of 2019 has always seemed like a natural crossroads for Rodgers in Scotland. The adulation afforded to a successful Celtic manager might be addictive to a man’s ego and his rule is absolute at the club. He is the man. But there always comes a point when they grow restless, bored or ground down by the endless demands and scrutiny of west of Scotland football. It’s easier to imagine Rodgers one day leaving for the likes of Valencia, Villarreal, Sevilla or Real Betis than getting an offer from Arsenal. He has learned some Spanish and likes the way of life and the football there, and it would be a more palatable move for Celtic supporters than seeing him go to anything except one of the top clubs in England.

But since the day he arrived in Glasgow Rodgers has seemed like a Premier League manager in exile.

Edited February 28, 2018 by Uilleam

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6 hours ago, Gazza_8 said:

On 2018-02-27 at 04:49, Volbeater said:

Would he take any of the “Invincibles” to Arsenal if he got the job?  

A few of them would improve the Arsenal team.

Who?

[StuGers 477]

22 hours ago, Uilleam said:

Rimming Rodgers

 

A piece in today's Times, once a newspaper of record, by Mick Grant.

 

Although it comes the Rangers-hating two bob keyboard monkey, there remains something sad in seeing a grown man reduced to peddling this kind of thing. A paean of homo-erotic praise? You judge...

 

Let it gush, let it gush, let it gush.....

 

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/scotland/brendan-rodgers-will-have-it-all-figured-out-x3mrf2hz9 (Paywall)

 

MICHAEL GRANT

february 28 2018, 12:01am, the times

Brendan Rodgers will have it all figured out

michael grant, scottish football correspondent

 

Somehow the Celtic fans’ chant has always sounded a little more like a taunt than a celebration. “Bren-dan Rodg-ers here for ten in a row,” they sing, over and over. It was first heard last season and it’s now become a staple, struck up again after some fresh cause for jubilation or a moment when uncertainty is removed from a game. The subtext to all the other clubs and fans is: we’ve got Rodgers, he’s the best in the business, and he’s going to be around tormenting and dominating you lot for years.

Well, it would be staggering if Rodgers really was around for ten in a row. Even among those belting it out in the stands, how many of the calmer heads really believe that if he delivers Celtic’s seventh consecutive championship in the coming weeks he still will be around for eight, nine and ten? That would mean five full seasons in Scottish football for a guy whose reputation is still defined by the football scene in England. No-one has done five years in charge of Celtic since Martin O’Neill left in 2005. The landscape has changed enormously in the 13 years since then.

Celtic landing Rodgers in 2016 was such an impressive feat because it was counter-cultural: big name players and managers don’t leave England for Scotland unless they’re on their last legs. Rodgers was a startling appointment because of his profile, alternative opportunities and age. He has been here almost two years and he’s only just turned 45. Nor did he arrive as any sort of broken figure. But having said all of that it is clear that he isn’t held in as high esteem in England as he is Scotland and plenty of Arsenal supporters appear unimpressed by the suggestion he might soon take over from Arsene Wenger. A manager who nearly won the league with Liverpool is a fantastic figure for Celtic to land. Not so for Arsenal. Celtic’s domestic domination under him could be of no consequence to Stan Kroenke and the rest of the Arsenal board. Nor has he enhanced his reputation over Celtic’s two European campaigns, where heavy defeats to Barcelona and Paris Saint-Germain would give cause for alarm.

 

As recently as December Rodgers said there had been “possibilities” for him to leave Celtic for the Premier League. He remains a big figure in English football’s collective consciousness. There are chairmen who would want him. Moving already wasn’t on his radar, he said. He might get more money somewhere else but happiness was the most important thing. His personal ambitions did not have to be fulfilled only in the England. Still…“this is not to say I won’t go back there one day.”

Celtic fans lapped it up when he raised his two open hands to them after a win against Kilmarnock last April. Their interpretation: look, he’s one of us, sticking it to Rangers. “I was just stretching my fingers,” was his arch explanation. It was a ten-in-a-row gesture of sorts, everyone knew that, but by his own admission Rodgers isn’t the type to be consumed by that target, let alone hang around at Celtic simply to be the manager who gets them across that finishing line. Those who venerate Rodgers should also respect his priorities. How many times does he have to say he is motivated and most excited by developing players and making teams better? Winning ten consecutive league titles is an entirely local feat which matters only to Celtic and Rangers supporters; their equivalent of who can pee the highest up a wall. Literally no-one else in Scotland cares, let alone anywhere beyond that. No-one should kid themselves that if Arsenal or Valencia or Inter Milan ever phoned Glasgow with an offer that Rodgers would say: “Ach this is really flattering but, sorry guys, I really want to hang around to get more SPFL titles than Rangers managed in the nineties”.

There are plenty of Celtic fans whose enthusiasm for Rodgers has cooled: many on the flights home from Russia on Friday were deeply unamused by the lack of character and fight in the meek second leg against Zenit St Petersburg and they reckoned the blame lay in the dug-out. But in the main they still bristle whenever there is talk of Celtic being relegated to the small fry who can lose a boss when a richer club fancies him. That comes with the territory. Appoint a “name” manager on a £2.5 million-a-year salary and you should be prepared for stories like those in England yesterday which suggested Rodgers, Leonardo Jardim of Monaco, Germany’s Joachim Low, and former Arsenal midfielder Mikel Arteta were on a shortlist to replace Wenger.

 

Three full seasons to the summer of 2019 has always seemed like a natural crossroads for Rodgers in Scotland. The adulation afforded to a successful Celtic manager might be addictive to a man’s ego and his rule is absolute at the club. He is the man. But there always comes a point when they grow restless, bored or ground down by the endless demands and scrutiny of west of Scotland football. It’s easier to imagine Rodgers one day leaving for the likes of Valencia, Villarreal, Sevilla or Real Betis than getting an offer from Arsenal. He has learned some Spanish and likes the way of life and the football there, and it would be a more palatable move for Celtic supporters than seeing him go to anything except one of the top clubs in England.

But since the day he arrived in Glasgow Rodgers has seemed like a Premier League manager in exile.

All those words written and it doesn’t matter a jot.

 

Rodgers is, and always will be, a joke figure in England. Winning the league with a financially superior Celtic won’t change that. 

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They should go for Teuchal