Brendan Rodgers has been speaking to the press ahead of Saturday’s game against Livingston.
The Hoops host Livi at Celtic Park this weekend after the disappointing 0-0 draw with Kairat Almaty in the Champions League play-off first leg.
Fans chanted ‘sack the board’ during and after the game as they blamed the poor result on the Celtic hierarchy amid an underwhelming transfer window thus far.
Rodgers is desperate for new signings to inject more quality into his squad, but he has confirmed there is no unrest between him and the board.
No ‘conflict’ between Rodgers and Celtic board
The Northern Irishman reiterated that he and the board want the best for the football club, while explaining the transfer ‘cycle’ he wants to see at Celtic.
Rodgers said: “People try and look to find that conflict between me and the board or me and whoever – it really isn’t the case.
“You know, the board here at the football club of over many years managed the financial side of the game and run the club to an impeccable level.
“My job here as the football manager is to really drive and demand and for us to live in a cycle where we understand that we will lose some players, but that it doesn’t have this massive impact that it seems to sometimes do.
“And that we can just lose big players and then bring in other ones rather than to wait. So that cycle I want us to be in, but there’s certainly no conflict.
“Everyone at this club from the board to myself we want the very, very best.”
Rodgers addresses his contract situation again
Rodgers then said he isn’t thinking about the long-term picture at Celtic with regards to his future – he just wants to focus on the here and now.
He continued: “Longer term I don’t think so much as the manager.
“Now the season starts, I only want to think of the football. I don’t want to think of the contract. Just think of the football and that will come away later on if it does.”
Asked if he would consider walking way from the job like he did in February 2019 when he joined Leicester City, Rodgers delivered an emphatic reply.
He responded: “No chance. Absolutely no chance. No chance! We’ve done that one before. It didn’t go down well!
“So, no, no, listen, I said from the first day, and there’s no hidden messages, and there’s no this and that. I said I’d be here for three years. I’m here for three years.”
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