“I am fed up talking about transfers,” Brendan Rodgers

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·5 de agosto de 2025

“I am fed up talking about transfers,” Brendan Rodgers

Celtic boss Brendan Rodgers confessed that he has grown tired of discussing transfers, but supporters shouldn’t stop talking about our glaring issues on and off the pitch…

Celtic Manager Brendan Rodgers Celtic v St Mirren, Scottish Premiership, Celtic Park, 3 August 2025. Photo Stuart Wallace, IMAGO / Shutterstock (The Celtic Star)

Sunday’s performance against St Mirren made it plainly evident to the club hierarchy sitting in the Main Stand, that transfers are desperately required. Not ‘club signings,’ not ‘players for the future,’ but players who can come in and improve the squad now.

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Rodgers made a few statements over the weekend

Rodgers made a few statements over the weekend. The omission of summer signings Hayato Inamura and Callum Osmand from the 18-man squad highlight that the manager does not think these guys are good enough for competitive senior football yet. Indeed, four of Celtic’s six summer signings were nowhere to be seen on the pitch on Sunday. Three weren’t even in the squad.

The decision to bring on exit-bound Johnny Kenny instead of Shin Yamada was also damning. Basically, Rodgers was saying to the board that your penny-pinching development signings are not even going to cut it for domestic football. And he’s absolutely bang on.

Mg Como 23/07/2025 – amichevole / Como-Al Ahli / foto Matteo Gribaudi/Image nella foto: Nicolas Kuhn. IMAGO / Gribaudi/ImagePhoto

The squad is weaker than what we finished last season with. There is not even a debate about that. Twenty-five days has passed since Nicolas Kuhn departed the club for Como and the club still have not replaced him. In what planet can our boardroom call themselves serious operators?

Celtic are short in the winger department; they lack any sort of quality up front. The manager has been saying this for at least a month. With Liam Scales going to left-back following Kieran Tierney’s substitution, Rodgers is obviously crying out for a natural left-back as well. Which is vital given KT’s worrying injury record.

Kieran Tierney of Celtic sits on the pitch with a suspected injury. Celtic v St Mirren, Scottish Premiership, , Celtic Park, 3 August 2025. Photo Stuart Wallace, IMAGO / Shutterstock (The Celtic Star)

There are deficiencies left, right and centre and the club have failed to address them ahead of a two-legged Champions League playoff in two weeks time. For me that is totally indefensible.

However, Rodgers reckons he needs to just work with what he’s got. Speaking post-match over the weekend, he said via Daily Record: “We will wait until the end of the month, we concentrated on the players that are here and hope to do some business over the period. I am not going to get bogged down on it, we know what we need. We will continue to work to play like we did today.

Celtic Manager Brendan Rodgers Celtic v St Mirren, Scottish Premiership, Celtic Park, 3 August 2025. Photo Stuart Wallace, IMAGO / Shutterstock (The Celtic Star)

“I am fed up talking about transfers. We have got to the end of the window; we concentrate on what is here.”

“I am fed up talking about transfers. We have got to the end of the window; we concentrate on what is here. A lot of work going on behind the scenes to improve the squad,” Brendan Rodgers said after the 1-0 season opener against St Mirren at Celtic Park.

“There is a long way to go in the market. Today is about the players. Throughout pre-season, all the staff as well, it’s been a good pre-season. It’s always nice when you get that victory in the first game of the season, it’s a victory for everyone. Really pleased.”

Michael Nicholson at Celtic Park. Sunday 18 May 2025. Celtic v FC Women v Motherwell. Photo AJ (The Celtic Star)

Back the manager. It’s as simple as that

Well, I am also fed up writing about Celtic’s inactivity in the transfer market despite accumulating £65.4 million in the bank in the last accounts and with plenty more added since then, including the £17m received from Como for the sale of Nicolas Kuhn.

Back the manager. It’s as simple as that. And see if you do back him, offer him a new contract whilst you’re at it and park your egos and self-preservation elsewhere.

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