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‘Clearly’… Brendan Rodgers explains the real reason why Maik Nawrocki isn’t playing for Celtic

Patrick Sinat

Mon 4 December 2023 15:18, UK

The signing of Maik Nawrocki was heralded by Celitc as the player who was replacing Carl Starfelt after the Swedish defender made the summer switch to Celtic Vigo.

Unfortunately, the Polish u21 international got injured at the start of the season and is yet to make an appearance since the 3-1 away win at Aberdeen up at Pittodrie.

However, he has been training for a number of weeks now and many Celtic fans may have thought that they would have seen him in a Celtic jersey again by now.

But that’s not been the case and Brendan Rodgers has moved to explain exactly why a 22-year-old that Celtic paid £4.3m for is being left out of the team.

Rodgers said [], “It’s always personality. There are clearly players ahead of them. What always ticks my attention is training, I’m out there every day watching training and when I see players train and work with that personality they will edge closer to my thinking.

“Unfortunately, for Maik and Gustaf, Scales has come to the team and has really taken his opportunity.

“Nat Phillips has been a great positive influence. It’s an area of the team you don’t want to change too much.”

The Hoops fans will be keen to see the most expensive summer signing at one point this season but it seems that he has a lot to do to convince Rodgers that he should start ahead of Liam Scales.

That’s great news for the Republic of Ireland international as the Celtic manager looks keen to reward performances by keeping form players in the team instead of playing players based on their price tag.

With the games coming thick and fast for Celtic, Nawrocki is sure to get a run out at some point but, it seems, it won’t be anytime soon.

In other news, BBC pundit noticed what half of Celtic’s players did after James Forrest scored yesterday