Only 24 hours ago, Chris Sutton was defending Brendan Rodgers on Sky amid Celtic’s troublesome start to the season.
Fast forward to the present, and Rodgers has left Celtic following the weekend’s defeat to runaway leaders Hearts, which leaves the champions of Scotland eight points behind Derek McInnes’ men.
It’s never a dull day at Celtic, and that has proven to be the case again, with Martin O’Neill returning to the Celtic Park dugout on a temporary basis.
It’s not yet known whether O’Neill, who spent five years in Glasgow, including winning the Treble, will be given the full-time gig, but he has been joined by former player Shaun Maloney.
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Chris Sutton reacts to Brendan Rodgers leaving Celtic
Sutton has continually made the point that Rodgers has been done over by the board, and the club’s abject 2025 summer transfer recruitment has played a part.
That’s why, on Monday evening, when the news broke about Rodgers leaving, Sutton sarcastically wrote on social media, ‘So in the end it was all Brendan’s fault.’
The former Celtic striker also made it clear that he wants Ange Postecoglou back in the Celtic dugout, after he was sacked by Nottingham Forest last week.
@chris_sutton73 wrote: ‘So in the end it was all Brendan’s fault… good luck to Martin O Neill and Shaun Maloney in the short term… bring back big Ange.’
Sutton also added on BBC Sport: “It is astonishing, but I think there is a general feeling after Brendan Rodgers said his piece before the season, didn’t get the players in which he would have liked, the desired quality. This was rumbling on. In press conferences, he had little digs and pokes at the fact that he didn’t get players in, and digs that seemed to be aimed at the board.
His dissatisfaction was that he wasn’t given the team he wanted. When you go back to last season, and the relative success Celtic had in the Champions League, he felt it was about progressing the club, and that hasn’t happened. They have had a poor start to the season, out of the Champions League and even domestically, not as dominant as they should have been.”
Rodgers’ relationship with the Celtic hierarchy
It won’t shock anybody that Rodgers’ relationship with the Celtic board was broken, and he has made his feelings public, including calling a club insider, who criticised him via a tabloid newspaper, a ‘coward.’
That was touched upon by Sutton, and how that has affected the performances on the field of play.
“They lost players, didn’t replace them, added Sutton. “It has been an unhappy club at the start of this season, and there has been a friction between Rodgers and the club hierarchy.
Last week, he described his team after the defeat at Dundee, he compared them to a Honda Civic. That’s not going to go down well in the dressing room. I think that was another dig at the club.
“Watching the club on a daily basis and realising they are miles off it, that’s the way Celtic have been this season, and he has resigned.”
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