Rodgers better than Mourinho

Psycho Sonny · 18 Dec 2017 at 12:37

Brendan Rodgers 69 game unbeaten run in Scotland domestically comes to an end.

People say there is no competition up here but I didn't see Celtic doing anywhere near this before. So it's not as easy as some of the jokers seem to think it is.

Also people saying Rodgers isn't a good manager. Well he took a team that was just winning the league with Delia and transformed them into a team winning it by 20+ points and invincible. treble in his first season, etc. Something none of his predecessors could do. So if he's not a good manager then I'd like to see one that is.

He got unlucky with liverpool. Wasn't allowed to spend as much as klopp has. Now look at how bad Liverpool are defensively. He only just missed out on the league title with them and they have never got close since.

This is a feat that we may never see again. 69 games without a loss domestically. you could see the loss coming as they have been bad for the past few weeks and never turned up. Hope this gives them the boot they need to be up for the fight again.

I'd easily say Rodgers is in the top 5 managers in the UK. He'd walk into the Arsenal job with his style of play. I hope he stays here for 10 league titles in a row though.

Psycho Sonny · 18 Dec 2017 at 12:55

Shamikebab said:
What

It's great that you don't agree. More titles for us.

Psycho Sonny · 18 Dec 2017 at 13:01

Shamikebab said:
I'm pretty sure even David Moyes could manage to win the title with Celtic.

Yeah but no way would he get anywhere near a 30 match unbeaten run

Psycho Sonny · 9 Nov 2019 at 17:50

Thought I'd bump this for all the noobs who said Rodgers isn't a good manager. How are Leicester doing this year?

Psycho Sonny · 9 Nov 2019 at 19:19

Mark1989 said:
No one said he wasn't a good manager, but he can't be judged for what he did in Scotland as any one could win with celtic.

Rodgers wasn't even bad for us imo, Im glad he and Leicester are doing well

I can read at least two people who said he was average at best.

Do I really need to quote them?

Anyone can win with celtic?

Say that to ronny Delia, John Barnes, etc

Psycho Sonny · 9 Nov 2019 at 21:48

IronSpider said:
Delia won two titles. Barnes can at least use the faint excuse that he had no management pedigree already and there were two teams in the fight instead of one.

BR is an excellent manager but I don't rate his Scottish titles at all. He was licking his wounds while repairing his reputation waiting for a better job. I think he also did a fine job at Liverpool, but Celtic was treading water.

It's not just the titles the guy won 2 trebles in a row as well as 3 cups in a row undefeated domestically for over a year. he went a whole season without being beaten domestically.

Gerrard has come up here and got several loan players from Liverpool with him and he see's how tough it is. He thought it would be a breeze.

He did a great job domestically up here that nobody else has ever done. He made it look easy. Delia won 2 trophies yes. In the same time Rodgers won 6. See the difference between 6 and 2?

Psycho Sonny · 10 Nov 2019 at 00:26

IronSpider said:
That's not what you implied. You implied he was on the list of non winners.

Rangers haven't been a threat for years, it was easy to clean up while they repair themselves. Look at the list of multiple Celtic title winners in the modern era. What have they won elsewhere? BR is by far the best of the bunch granted, but the standard of competition is laughable.

Why would our players be winning stuff elsewhere? We have kept a hold of the majority of them. Also we are talking about Brendan Rodgers here not what celtic title winners have won elsewhere. Show me what united have won in the past 5 years with over 1 billion spent on players? As said before our budget doesn't stretch that far. When teams are buying Wan Bissaka's for £50m to play right back and our whole team averages around £3m per player.

Take a look at McGinn and how well he is doing in the premiership. We have several players better than him. If you want to do the argument our players aren't good enough, some of them are and they have shown it time and time again.

If it's all about winning then I could show you a long list of english players who never won anything internationally, etc. Celtic was the first team in Britain to lift the european cup. They did it before any team in England did.

The point is what Brendan did here at Celtic was make them serial winners. No other manager apart from Stein (the guy who won the european cup) has ever done before. They haven't lost a domestic trophy now in over 3 years maybe even 4 years depending on how you split it. That wasn't something they had before. Now you can see what he has done at Leicester.

The point is he is a good manager. He's terrible at signing players though. He shouldn't be allowed to sing anyone. However what he achieved up here and has done so far with Leicester proves he's well above average as a manager. As we have had plenty of good managers at celtic before him and only 1 was better than him Stein. Delia was the manager before him and he inherited his team and he did a lot better with it. You have to remember Delia had Van Dijk in his team. So Delia even with the best defender in the world couldn't do what Rodgers did.

If you want to talk about previous celtic title winning players winning elsewhere. Van Dijk and Henrik Larsson say it all.

Psycho Sonny · 11 Nov 2019 at 14:58

IronSpider said:
I wasn't talking about players, I was and we were discussing managers. Which Manager in the modern era that has won multiple titles has won anything of note elsewhere?

And again in recent years it's been a 1 horse race.

Since Stein we have only had 2 good managers. Martin O'Neill and Brendan Rodgers. I think Rodgers speaks for himself with his achievements this year. Also with the wages we are able to pay we cannot attract the type of manager who is capable of winning Champions League, etc. Again you have failed to take the point being made. We are talking about Brendan and the marvellous job he done which no other manager since Stein managed to do. Even with it being a 1 horse race at times nobody was able to do what Brendan did when it became a 2 horse race.

Psycho Sonny · 29 Nov 2019 at 10:38

Best league in the world? Arsenal can't win against diddy teams yet Scotland has 2 teams sitting at the top of the Europe League Groups. Man who as well? Losing to a team from kazakhstan is embarrassing when they are already a mid table club.

Give us all £200 million a year and we would be destroying these teams.

I hope Arsenal try and sign Gerrard

Psycho Sonny · 29 Nov 2019 at 10:54

jonneymendoza said:
Frankfurt are actually a decent team mate lol.

Many of the so called big clubs are having a bad time in england

They don't play in the best league in the world though, do they?

chroniclard said:
Are you boasting about being marginally better than 2 of the poorest teams in the league? To be fair Utd are already through and played the kids.

Marginally better? Last time I checked we had beaten them all comfortably.

Shamikebab said:
Both Arsenal and Utd could beat Celtic pretty comfortably. He's just on the windup at this point through some kind of small team complex and this thread should be closed really.

Give St Mirren £200 million a year in cash from Sky, etc and they could comfortably beat Arsenal and Utd.