Celtic told what would happen if Brendan Rodgers took Tottenham job if Ange Postecoglou was sacked

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Celtic hero Ange Postecoglou is having a mixed time of it as the Tottenham manager.

You wonder why given that they haven’t won a trophy since 2008 and last won the English title in 1960, but that’s what happens with overhyped expectations.

When Postecoglou first walked into Celtic in 2021, the club was on its knees after that ill-fated Neil Lennon spell and it proceeded Brendan Rodgers leaving the club.

Rodgers’ decision to join Leicester City in 2019 was a bad call, because, at a club where he thrived and won it all, he quickly became very unpopular.

That’s why some were surprised to see the Irishman return to the Parkhead dugout last summer because he had a lot of making up to do.

Fast forward to the present and Rodgers’ second spell is going very well, including Celtic beating Rangers in the League Cup final on Sunday.

And many are quickly starting to forget what happened all those years ago.

Brendan Rodgers ‘couldn’t set foot in Scotland again’ if he replaced Ange Postecoglou at Tottenham

For some reason, there is pressure on Postecoglou at Tottenham and he has a huge League Cup quarter-final clash against Manchester United to deal with on Thursday evening.

You sense that if he loses that, then there will be noises around his future, even though there shouldn’t be.

The Open Goal pundits were talking about Rodgers and if he would leave Celtic for a Premier League club again.

Mark Wilson stated that the 51-year-old ‘can’t leave for three years now’ and if the Spurs job became available, and he took it, then he ‘couldn’t set foot in Scotland again’.

“Nah, he will stay for three years, he can’t leave for three years now,” responded Wilson on if Rodgers would take a Premier League job again.

On if Rodgers would take the Tottenham job: “No, I don’t think he would,” added Wilson.

“I don’t think he can do it again. People are just getting over it now. He couldn’t set foot into Scotland again.”

What Rodgers has changed in his coaching since Celtic return

From masterminding Swansea City to promotion to winning the Treble with Celtic. It has been some career for Rodgers so far.

It started in 2006 as Chelsea’s reserve coach and he is still going nearly 20 years later.

But things are starting to change for Rodgers because, in comparison to his first Celtic spell, he told Premier Sports that he is now taking a ‘backward step’, in terms of coaching on the grass.

“John (Kennedy) is brilliant for us,” said Rodgers about his assistant. “Obviously, my first time here, I got to know him and his work. At that time, I would have done a lot of the coaching. But a lot of the guys have now worked with us before and they understand what it is we want to do.

“So, I can leave that to John and liaise closely with him in some of the principles and tweaks I would like within that. Just even for penalties, it’s very clear, we do the work, we understand who is taking it and in what order. The coaching staff on a day-to-day, for me, are absolutely brilliant for me.

“That’s something that was difficult for me because I was a coach all my life. My work was on the grass. It’s probably only in the last maybe three or four years where I have taken a wee bit of a backward step.”