{"id":235233,"date":"2025-10-31T04:07:14","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T04:07:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/235233\/"},"modified":"2025-10-31T04:07:14","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T04:07:14","slug":"i-feared-celtic-were-turning-into-rangers-as-brendan-rodgers-exit-proves-one-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/235233\/","title":{"rendered":"I feared Celtic were turning into Rangers as Brendan Rodgers exit proves one thing"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hoops legend Peter Grant admitted Parkhead was an unhappy place towards the end of Rodgers’ tenure<\/p>\n

18:32, 30 Oct 2025Updated 19:33, 30 Oct 2025<\/p>\n

\"DermotDermot Desmond was in the stands(Image: PA)<\/p>\n

Peter Grant admits he feared Celtic<\/a> were turning into Rangers after a bitter fallout between Brendan Rodgers and the hierarchy.<\/p>\n

Rodgers packed his bags on Monday after it was announced in a bombshell statement <\/a>that he had resigned as boss following a turbulent start to the season.<\/p>\n

The Irishman was at loggerheads with the board over a calamitous transfer window and refused to draw a line under it, aiming repeated digs at the hand he was dealt – and claiming he had been chucked the keys to a Honda Civic.<\/p>\n

An unnamed club insider briefed against Rodgers<\/a> in a tabloid paper in September accusing him of “engineering his exit” and “tearing the club apart” – with fans also at odds with the club’s under-fire board.<\/p>\n

Desmond then aimed a blistering parting shot at Rodgers<\/a> when it was announced he had left the club for a second time – accusing him of creating a “toxic” atmosphere and breaking the trust of his paymasters.<\/p>\n

It was an astonishing character assassination that sent shockwaves across football.<\/p>\n

And with Rangers also suffering years of turmoil across the city, Hoops legend Grant feared Celts were heading down a similar road.<\/p>\n

He told Go Radio: “That was a worry for me, Brendan coming out with the wee comments.<\/p>\n

“If you keep chipping away with that, especially after he came out and said a couple of times ‘Let’s put that to bed until we can get back into the market’, and then he’d come out and throw something else again.<\/p>\n

“You have to be very careful. I thought it was the wrong time. He said he didn’t regret it and tried to explain it.<\/p>\n

“But if you are on the other side of that, and you know certain things, it’s going to be hurting you.<\/p>\n

“People don’t want to hear it. The fans are sick of hearing it. Let’s take responsibility for performances.<\/p>\n

“No matter what anyone says, without a shadow of a doubt, you needed players in.<\/p>\n

“After Kairat and all of that, there was a massive pressure because the bottom line is, the performances weren’t good enough.<\/p>\n

“But the players there were still good enough to beat them, but it didn’t happen.<\/p>\n

“I know what it’s like to be part of the management team. We had a few bad results and we were out the door. We had one horrendous result and you lose your job.<\/p>\n

“So you have to be very, very careful because nobody is above that, no matter how successful you are.<\/p>\n

“I thought we were turning into Rangers, there was that much talking about infighting and change.<\/p>\n

“You can’t constantly do that, because it’s not a happy place.<\/p>\n

“You saw what happened at Ibrox. How many managers have they had in a short period of time?”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hoops legend Peter Grant admitted Parkhead was an unhappy place towards the end of Rodgers’ tenure 18:32, 30…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":235234,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[7336,2817,12431,218,2714,8058,11728,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-235233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-brendan-rodgers","tag-celtic-fc","tag-dermot-desmond","tag-football","tag-rangers-fc","tag-scottish-premiership","tag-scottish-professional-football-league","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235233","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=235233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235233\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/235234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}