Hugh Keevins says he is stunned Brendan Rodgers wasn’t offered a new contract this summer by Celtic.
The Hoops brought Rodgers back to Parkhead on a three-year deal in the summer of 2023 and that contract will expire next year.
Rodgers confirmed on Friday on the eve of the new Scottish Premiership season commencing that he hasn’t been offered extended terms by the Celtic hierarchy.
And that has left Keevins amazed as he namechecked majority shareholder Dermot Desmond, while also criticising the board’s reluctance to spend money on transfers.
Rodgers is clearly frustrated by the lacking of progress made in the current transfer window and said he would only stay on if his ambitions to build and grow the club were met by his bosses.
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Keevins blasts Celtic hierarchy with Rodgers now ‘fed up’
Keevins thinks Rodgers is now fed up with the likes of Desmond, Peter Lawwell and Michael Nicholson, the three most important figures in the running of Celtic Football Club.
Speaking live on Clyde 1 Superscoreboard, an animated Keevins said: “On Brendan Rodgers, I’m very, very surprised with regards to Dermot Desmond, Celtic’s owner in all but name.
“Because best business, for me, has always been that at the start of the manager’s last season, you establish whether there will be another season after that, or whether you are done with him.
“I am amazed that Celtic did not offer Rodgers a new contract to kick off the season in the most positive fashion possible.
“And I think Brendan Rodgers has looked around him now and said: ‘I’m fed up with these people’. Brendan Rodgers is fed up trying to get a show of ambition from the people who employ him.
“They have the cash, but there is inexplicable, unfathomable reluctance to spend money.”
Celtic’s spending so far this summer
With less than a month to go until the summer window shuts on September 1, Celtic have plenty of work to do in the market.
Rodgers wants two new wingers to replace the crocked Jota and the departed Nicolas Kuhn, who signed for Italian side Como in July.
A whole host of wingers have been linked, namely Michel-Ange Balikwisha, but the Hoops are yet to do serious business on that front.
Their biggest outlay on one player this summer is Benjamin Nygren, who was signed for just £2m from FC Nordsjælland.
Hayato Inamura and Shin Yamada are seen as project signings, at least initially, while Callum Osmand and Kieran Tierney were free transfers.
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