{"id":194870,"date":"2025-12-16T15:22:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T15:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/194870\/"},"modified":"2025-12-16T15:22:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T15:22:08","slug":"brendan-rodgers-former-celtic-boss-joins-saudi-club-al-qadsiah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/194870\/","title":{"rendered":"Brendan Rodgers: Former Celtic boss joins Saudi club Al-Qadsiah"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Brendan Rodgers has been appointed manager of Saudi Pro League side Al-Qadsiah.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Rodgers, who has previously led teams including Liverpool and Leicester City, left Celtic in October after guiding the Scottish giants to back-to-back league titles during his second spell in charge.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">His exit from the Glasgow club was marked by controversy, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/articles\/cze6r1yd31po\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">after majority shareholder Dermot Desmond described Rodgers&#8217; behaviour<\/a> as &#8220;divisive, misleading, and self-serving&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Al-Qadsiah chief executive James Bisgrove, who previously held the same role with Rangers, told club media the arrival of Rodgers was &#8220;a landmark moment&#8221;, adding: &#8220;The calibre of his experience and track record of winning reflects our ambition and long-term vision to establish Al-Qadsiah as one of Asia&#8217;s leading clubs.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Rodgers, who will be joined by former Celtic coaches John Kennedy and Jack Lyons, replaces Spanish boss Michel, who parted ways with the club after over two years in charge.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Former Real Madrid defender Nacho and Italian striker Mateo Retegui play for Al-Qadsiah, who sit fifth in the Saudi top flight after nine games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Brendan Rodgers has been appointed manager of Saudi Pro League side Al-Qadsiah. Rodgers, who has previously led teams&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":194871,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-194870","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194870","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194870\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/194871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}