A target from the first press conference of Rodgers' second coming can finally be answered
The thought of leaving a boot print on the Champions League is what has been making him tick from the start. That’s what Celtic’s manager said on the day his second coming was confirmed at a painfully low key unveiling back in Glasgow’s east end. He suspected he wasn’t really wanted back in the old place before he had put pen to paper. So the lack of fuss or fanfare outside Parkhead merely confirmed what he already knew to be true.
Tonight, however, Rodgers will get the chance to prove as good his word having spent much of his first 12 months in the job cajoling his own board into helping him to deliver at this level. Celtic’s approach to the summer transfer window was exactly as Rodgers had demanded of them. And that means, for the first time in his two stint in charge, he can now control the in game management of his side without risking a huge drop off in the standard of the players on the pitch. In short, not since the days of Martin O’Neill and the run to Seville back in 2003, have Celtic seemed so heavily armed and well equipped at the outset of a European campaign.
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