CELTIC TOLD ‘NO WAY’ BRENDAN RODGERS AGREED TO 23-YEAR-OLD’S SIGNING, HE COULD NOW LEAVE.
Who would have thought that Liam Scales, on-loan at Aberdeen last season, would be one of Celtic’s most important players by the New Year and partnering Stephen Welsh against Rangers?
Well, whilst two separate injuries to Cameron Carter-Vickers have played a part in that, the disappointment of summer arrivals, such as Gustaf Lagerbielke and Maik Nawrocki is another reason.
Kenny Miller says there is ‘no way’ Brendan Rodgers accepted or was the one who signed the Sweden international for £3 million in the summer, as he told Clyde 1.
If you recall, Gustaf Lagerbielke did start Celtic’s 1-0 win at Ibrox at the start of the campaign, but he did look fishy and has hardly played since.
Now there are suggestions that he could be headed for the exit door in January, which raises the question as to who allowed this signing to happen.
If it was Brendan Rodgers, then surely the Celtic boss would have given the 23-year-old time to prove himself, but as Kenny Miller alluded to, that’s clearly not the case.
Gustaf Lagerbielke and Brendan Rodgers
“Three centre-backs have come in and I know there have been an injury to Nawrocki,” said Miller.
“But three centre-backs have come in during the summer and none of them have played effectively. You went to two academy products in an Old Firm game, with Scales and Welsh.
“Lagerbielke from the Old Firm game at Ibrox. I thought he looked really, really dodgy. He didn’t look up to it. Scales was his partner that day, he was the one who looked like the steady chip.
“There is no way Brendan Rodgers signed him. No way that Brendan Rodgers signed the player five months ago and now he’s not good enough.
“If you have signed him, and you believe he could be this player, then you don’t write it off that quickly.”
Will Brendan Rodgers be backed?
For a while now, the Northern Irishman has spoken about Celtic needing quality and hoping for proven players to come through the doors.
It’s still early days, but from an incoming standpoint, it has been a fairly quiet January transfer window so far.
Perhaps when players return to action, that’s when things will start to kick off, or as it typically happens, during the last few days of the window.
If you are going to bring a manager like Rodgers back to the club, especially given what he won in his first spell, then there is no need to mess about, just back him properly, let him bring in who he wants and get on with it!
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