{"id":34145,"date":"2025-08-01T15:29:54","date_gmt":"2025-08-01T15:29:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/brendan-rodgers-celtic-boss-urges-continued-progression\/"},"modified":"2025-08-01T15:29:54","modified_gmt":"2025-08-01T15:29:54","slug":"brendan-rodgers-celtic-boss-urges-continued-progression","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/brendan-rodgers-celtic-boss-urges-continued-progression\/","title":{"rendered":"Brendan Rodgers: Celtic boss urges continued progression"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In his second stint in Glasgow, Rodgers has delivered two titles, a Scottish Cup and a League Cup, adding to the seven trophies he won between May 2016 and February 2019.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;[Principal shareholder] Dermot [Desmond], [chief executive] Michael [Nicholson] and I had a conversation over the summer on where we are at and I said I&#8217;m very happy here,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;There&#8217;s conditions we want to be able to improve because I&#8217;m not the type of manager that&#8217;s good at maintaining anything. If there&#8217;s just something to maintain, I&#8217;m not the manager for Celtic.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;But to build, grow, develop and push, then, of course, I love being at Celtic.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Celtic open their title defence at home to St Mirren on Sunday, with Kieran Tierney, Benjamin Nygren and Shin Yamada among seven new recruits.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But in a separate interview with Sky Sports, Rodgers pointed to &#8220;gaps in the squad that are very clear&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Nicolas Kuhn and Greg Taylor have been the high-profile departures, while Jota is sidelined with a long-term injury.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;This is a really fast moving club, it&#8217;s one of the biggest clubs in world football and it&#8217;s got a demand and expectation on it,&#8221; added the former Liverpool and Leicester City boss, who confirmed that a loan deal for Manchester City defender Jahmai Simpson-Pusey is imminent.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The message to the supporters is everyone here will be doing their utmost to improve on last season. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s a really exciting season ahead and if we can add where we need to add, it can be even better for us.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Returning to the questions on his future, Rodgers added: &#8220;I know what I give every single day. If the club choose to offer (a new contract) and see that as the way forward great, if not, it doesn&#8217;t really matter in relation to what I give to the job.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/articles\/c4gz37yj209o?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In his second stint in Glasgow, Rodgers has delivered two titles, a Scottish Cup and a League Cup, adding to the seven trophies he won between May 2016 and February 2019. &#8220;[Principal shareholder] Dermot [Desmond], [chief executive] Michael [Nicholson] and I had a conversation over the summer on where we are at and I said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":34146,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[469,1424,1426,11214,11215,1425,384],"class_list":["post-34145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-scotland","tag-boss","tag-brendan","tag-celtic","tag-continued","tag-progression","tag-rodgers","tag-urges"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34145"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34145\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34147,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34145\/revisions\/34147"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}