‘What is the point?’ – Celtic told they can forget about Brendan Rodgers signing a new contract

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Brendan Rodgers has just 10 months left on his Celtic contract.

And there is no sign of the Northern Irishman renewing that deal given the club’s shoddy summer transfer window up until this point.

Celtic have just nine days to sign three quality starters and a back-up left-back for Kieran Tierney, especially if the Hoops make the Champions League.

Celtic were poor as they could only draw 0-0 with Kairat Almaty in the first leg play-off on Wednesday, and fans blame the result on the board.

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Chris Sutton’s brutal Rodgers contract verdict

Rodgers has been desperate for new recruitments but wasn’t given them in time to face Kairat Almaty, a gamble that could cost Celtic around £40m in revenue.

Chris Sutton thinks there are differences between the board and Rodgers in terms of their ambitions, and has told fans they can forget about the manager extending his time in Glasgow.

Sutton insists Rodgers doesn’t need to put up with the complacency, or even worse, the incompetence of the Celtic hierarchy for much longer.

In his Daily Record column, Sutton wrote: “It’s Celtic that clearly have an issue and there’s an obvious disconnect between the board’s thinking and the ambitions of the manager and the support.

“On the manager, you can forget about Rodgers signing a new deal. Why would he? He’s been sent into a Champions League play-off with both arms tied behind his back.

“He doesn’t need this grief. He must have looked at his bench the other night and wondered – f*** me, what is the point?”

Should Rodgers take some of the blame?

There’s no doubt the Celtic board are at fault this summer because as Rodgers has stressed many times, the hierarchy do the transfer wheeling and dealing.

Rodgers will have a say on who the club sign, but the likes of Michael Nicholson and Peter Lawwell are the dealmakers and get the business done at the end of the day.

However, it’s fair to say Rodgers has been backed by the Celtic board and has spent a lot of money on players such as Arne Engels and Adam Idah.

Both cost a combined £20m, but they are yet to really convince Celtic fans that the money was well spent.

Celtic have spent just under £63m since the summer of 2023 when Rodgers returned, with many of his signings that summer proving to be failures.