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‘I suspect’… Mark Guidi now makes claim about Brendan Rodgers and Celtic’s transfers
Not for the first time this week has Brendan Rodgers’ role in Celtic’s summer transfer business been questioned.
The Celtic manager said at the recent AGM that he had the final say on all incoming players at Celtic. TBR Celtic told on Sunday how Peter Martin questioned that when the pundit claimed it was ‘an absolute fact’ that Rodgers didn’t pick all the players this summer.
And now, Mark Guidi has weighed into the argument by claiming that Rodgers went along with the summer business because he felt he would have won the league with the players he inherited.
Guidi said [], “For me maybe the biggest thing about Brendan Rodgers would be that, and it’s a very hard lesson he has learned, is that I think Brendan Rodgers, maybe and I don’t know he would need to be asked, but I suspect that he too readily accepted the transfer structure in the summer and wasn’t hands-on enough or didn’t fight his corner.
“Whatever of the two because I’d like to think that Brendan Rodgers wouldn’t have been happy with the transfer action in the summer.
“But he’s probably thought, ‘The squad is good, winning mentality, we can be fine. We can still win the league despite the fact that I’m not in full control of the transfer policy.’
“It needs to get better and it needs to be better in January, otherwise, it could eventually cost him his job.”
Does Brendan Rodgers have control of Celtic’s transfers?
All you would have to say is that he has. Because he said he has and the Celtic fans have to take the manager at face value for that.
However, questions can be asked. Questions like how Rodgers managed to run the rule over eight signings just weeks into the job.
Players from Australia and South Korea, you would have to think that negotiations would have been going on for weeks to get those deals done.
Rodgers was officially announced as the Celtic manager on the 19th of June this year. Oding Thiago Holm was signed on the 23rd.
Marco Tilio put pen to paper on the 30th and Hyeokkyu Kwon and Hyunjun Yang joined on the 24th of July.
That’s a lot of homework Rodgers had to be doing on incoming players whilst trying to assess the players he already had at the club.
However, the Celtic manager is adamant that he has the final say on transfers so now he has to shoulder the responsibility of them because if reports are correct and at least four of the new arrivals are set to leave next month, it is fair to say that the summer window was a disaster for Celtic.
In other news, BBC journalist shares what Brendan Rodgers did at full-time at Celtic Park on Saturday