{"id":245850,"date":"2025-10-28T07:42:23","date_gmt":"2025-10-28T07:42:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/245850\/"},"modified":"2025-10-28T07:42:23","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T07:42:23","slug":"celtic-manager-brendan-rodgers-quits-leaving-possible-opening-for-ange-postecoglou","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/245850\/","title":{"rendered":"Celtic manager Brendan Rodgers quits, leaving possible opening for Ange Postecoglou"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Brendan Rodgers, who succeeded Ange Postecoglou as Celtic manager, has resigned and former boss Martin O&#8217;Neill and Shaun Maloney have been put in charge of the Scottish giants on a temporary basis.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">The move has prompted speculation that Postecoglou could return to the club that he led in two highly successful seasons before moving to England in 2023.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">He was recently sacked from his second English Premier League job with Nottingham Forest.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Rodgers&#8217;s second spell at Celtic ended after Sunday&#8217;s 3-1 Scottish Premiership defeat at Hearts left the team eight points adrift of the Edinburgh side.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A middle-aged man in a winter coat claps his hands as a football players wander by on a ffield.\" class=\"Image_image__5tFYM ContentImage_image__DQ_cq\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/4dccbf9f6ac5bcc02e9af9acb67eb69f\" loading=\"lazy\" data-component=\"Image\" data-lazy=\"true\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"Typography_base__sj2RP FigureCaption_text__zDxQ5 Typography_sizeMobile12__w_FPC Typography_lineHeightMobile20___U7Vr Typography_regular__WeIG6 Typography_colourInherit__dfnUx\" data-component=\"Typography\">Brendan Rodgers resigned after a 3-1 loss to Hearts. (Getty Images: SNS Group\/Craig Williamson)<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">The beleaguered champions have dropped 10 points in their opening nine matches.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">&#8220;Celtic Football Club can confirm that football manager Brendan Rodgers has today tendered his resignation,&#8221; a club statement released late on Monday read.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">&#8220;It has been accepted by the club and Brendan will leave his role with immediate effect.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">&#8220;The club appreciates Brendan&#8217;s contribution to Celtic during his two very successful periods at the club.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The process to appoint a new permanent manager is underway and the club will update supporters further on this as soon as possible.&#8221;<a href=\"https:\/\/iview.abc.net.au\/show\/end-game-with-tony-armstrong\" data-component=\"FullBleedLink\" class=\"RelatedCard_link__rsgR9 FullBleedLink_root__lTw_U interactive_focusContext__yRhc_ interactive_defaults__AKxUU FullBleedLink_showVisited__g3Xvz\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Stream End Game with Tony Armstrong on ABC iview<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"Typography_base__sj2RP RelatedCard_synopsis__cFwMW Typography_sizeMobile14__u7TGe Typography_lineHeightMobile20___U7Vr Typography_regular__WeIG6 Typography_colourInherit__dfnUx\" data-component=\"Typography\">Tony Armstrong will tackle Australia&#8217;s overdue reckoning with racism in sport, with the help of some of its biggest sports stars.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Postecoglou won back-to-back Scottish League titles with Celtic and the domestic treble in 2022-23 before moving to English club Tottenham.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Despite leading Spurs to a breakthrough Europa League triumph earlier this year he was sacked shortly afterwards, primarily due to a poor league record.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">The 60-year-old then lasted eight winless games at Nottingham Forest before being dumped for the second time in five months.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">AAP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Brendan Rodgers, who succeeded Ange Postecoglou as Celtic manager, has resigned and former boss Martin O&#8217;Neill and Shaun&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":245851,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1531,10752,113571,43,44,1527,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-245850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-ange-postecoglou","tag-brendan-rodgers","tag-celtic","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-nottingham-forest","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245850","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245850"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245850\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/245851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}