According to 90min, Celtic is close to concluding a deal to bring back former manager Brendan Rodgers to the team.
The Premier League's Tottenham Hotspur recently hired Ange Postecoglou, so the Scottish champions have been working rapidly to find a replacement.
Enzo Maresca of Manchester City and Pascal Jansen of AZ Alkmaar were on Celtic's shortlist of potential hires, but Rodgers has since emerged as their main choice.
Dermot Desmond, the owner of the Hoops, has been facilitating negotiations with Rodgers, who has given his general consent to rejoin the team, and the two parties are now prepared to seal a contract. Desmond has committed to comply with Rodgers' demands about transfer cash in order to assist
Rodgers left Leicester City before the end of the previous season, and he is presently unsigned. The notion of taking over at Elland Road had been raised by Leeds United, but 90min believes the former Liverpool manager had little interest in managing in the Championship at this time in his career.
Four years after leaving Celtic Park to take the Leicester position, Rodgers is now prepared to come back. Glen Driscoll and Jack Lyons are among the familiar employees who Rodgers plans to bring back to Celtic, but his former assistant Chris Davies is heavily rumored to be applying for the Swansea City position and is unlikely to follow.
Rodgers also wants to convince John Kennedy to remain with the team.
A team that was once thought of as "the best of the rest" has fallen into two relegation battles in as many seasons due to financial mismanagement, bad hiring practices, and dubious managerial appointments.
Everton's days of consistently finishing in the top six while operating on a shoestring budget under David Moyes are long gone, but not so long ago, the Toffees looked primed to contend for, at the at least, a spot in Europe.
Yes, a significant portion of the issue has been the hiring and dismissing of managers under Farhad Moshiri, but Everton finished eighth under Marco Silva in 2018–19 and again in 2020–21, games that were primarily played behind closed doors during a time when football seemed to be played nonstop to alleviate the boredom of lockdowns.
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contend for, at the at least, a spot in Europe.
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