{"id":191067,"date":"2025-10-10T18:36:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-10T18:36:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/191067\/"},"modified":"2025-10-10T18:36:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T18:36:12","slug":"rodgers-to-quit-celtic-orourke-drops-verdict-after-signal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/191067\/","title":{"rendered":"Rodgers to quit Celtic? O&#8217;Rourke drops verdict after &#8216;signal&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img width=\"1140\" height=\"641\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Peter-Lawwell-and-Brendan-Rodgers-1140x641.jpg\" class=\"attachment-single-feature size-single-feature wp-post-image\" alt=\"Peter Lawwell focused on the left with a stern Brendan Rodgers on the right\" layout=\"fill\"  style=\"object-position: 50% 20%\" loading=\"eager\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" \/><\/p>\n<p>(Credit: Imago\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<p>   <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/1760121369_416_94399bd7ab42abd455aa00aa2aebfd9d\" width=\"64\" height=\"64\" alt=\"Pete O'Rourke, Transfer Correspondent\" loading=\"lazy\"\/>   <\/p>\n<p> Fri 10 October 2025 14:57, UK <\/p>\n<p>Brendan Rodgers is facing a potential exit from Celtic with his contract situation remaining uncertain.<\/p>\n<p>Sources told Football Insider on 13 September that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.footballinsider247.com\/brendan-rodgers-closes-in-on-celtic-exit-after-talks-collapse\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Celtic and Rodgers failed to make headway in contract negotiations<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Rodgers has grown frustrated by a lack of investment with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.footballinsider247.com\/celtic-reluctant-to-spend-big-in-january-amid-brendan-rodgers-exit-concern\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">January window for Celtic set to be a quiet one<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Hoops have also been knocked off first place in the Scottish Premiership as they risk being further embarrassed after a turbulent start to the season.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" loading=\"lazy\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Brendan-Rodgers-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"Celtic manager Brendan Rodgers arriving at the stadium.\" class=\"wp-image-697048\" \/>Credit: ImagoBrendan Rodgers to walk out on Celtic in the summer with no progress on contract talks<\/p>\n<p>As I revealed on the latest edition of <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/7Atmejn4fSX2w7S8NBVKdv\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Football Insider\u2019s Inside Track podcast<\/a>, the Northern Irishman is still looking highly likely to leave Glasgow come the end of his contract.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.footballinsider247.com\/brendan-rodgers-and-celtic-board-in-transfer-deadlock-there-will-only-be-one-winner\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Celtic and Rodgers have been locked in a contract talk stalemate<\/a> as they remain undecided over the direction of the club.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on the\u00a0Inside Track podcast, I explained: \u201cNo real developments on it [Rodgers\u2019 contract situation]. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" loading=\"lazy\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Brendan-Rodgers-Sep-2023-1-1-1024x683.jpeg\" alt=\"Celtic manager Brendan Rodgers looks dejected\" class=\"wp-image-606771\" \/>Credit: Imago <\/p>\n<p>MORE FOOTBALL INSIDER STORIES<\/p>\n<p>\u201cObviously, Rodgers is out of contract this summer and the longer it drags on, it does sort of maybe signal that there could be a parting of the ways between Brendan Rodgers and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.footballinsider247.com\/tag\/celtic\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Celtic<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cRodgers has said he will definitely see out his contract. There\u2019s no doubt about that. And then he knows he will sit down and have talks with the Celtic hierarchy at some point to discuss his future.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Daizen Maeda still determined to force move away from Celtic<\/p>\n<p>Sources told Football Insider that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.footballinsider247.com\/brendan-rodgers-doing-everything-he-can-to-stop-daizen-maeda-quitting-celtic\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rodgers is trying everything to keep Daizen Maeda at Celtic<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"726\" loading=\"lazy\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Daizen-Maeda-1024x726.jpg\" alt=\"Daizen Maeda pre-match for Celtic\" class=\"wp-image-606494\" \/>Credit: Imago<\/p>\n<p>The 27-year-old is in his fourth season in Glasgow and is open to the chance of playing elsewhere, especially as he enters the prime years of his career.<\/p>\n<p>The Japan international is contracted to the club until May 2027, which could prompt the Hoops to cash in on him sooner than expected.<\/p>\n<p>Otherwise, the club may risk losing him on a free transfer at the end of the 2026-27 season, a far from ideal situation considering the Bhoys\u2019 financial shortcomings.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(Credit: Imago\/Getty Images) Fri 10 October 2025 14:57, UK Brendan Rodgers is facing a potential exit from Celtic&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":191068,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[7336,10043,218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-191067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-brendan-rodgers","tag-celtic","tag-football","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191067","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191067"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191067\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/191068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}