Chris Sutton urges Brendan Rodgers to clarify his Celtic future as he makes Jurgen Klopp comparison

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Celtic manager Brendan Rodgers

Chris Sutton has called on Brendan Rodgers to clarify his Celtic future amid the civil war that’s engulfed the club.

Fuming fans are piling pressure on the Parkhead board with supporters groups uniting to call for a Europa League boycott and a series of protests on the back of a blundering transfer window and the disastrous 1000 word blame game statement last weekend.

Rodgers’s long-term position is also uncertain with the Irishman out of contract at the end of the season and Celtic failing to refute reports the boss had caused division in the club and was trying to engineer his exit.

The Parkhead gaffer is set to address media on Friday ahead of Sunday’s Premiership clash with Kilmarnock and the Record Sport columnist said: “I think Rodgers will simply now have to come out and tell everyone if he’s going to be staying or going.

“If he’s going at the end of the season, so be it.

“We saw it at Liverpool with Jurgen Klopp and it’s happened elsewhere.

There needs to be some clarity – for everyone.

“It could be that he’s not made his mind up yet, or even that the club wants to go down a different route, which is another matter altogether.

“You look at the muck being thrown around with claims about Rodgers trying to engineer an exit, which wasn’t mentioned in the statement.

"Are they going to stumble on with a manager who doesn't want to be there and a club that feels the same?

How is that going to work?

“The entire situation just needs resolving, because it sure isn’t going away.

“It’s going to be a cloud hanging over the club all season.

“And then you thrown into the mix reports someone at the club is accusing Rodgers of tearing the place apart with his summer transfer comments and trying to engineer an exit.

“It all just needs to be settled once and for all.”

Jurgen Klopp and Brendan Rodgers (Image: Getty Images)

Rodgers insisted a fortnight ago there was no breakdown between him and the Celtic board.

But Sutton insisted there doesn’t look to be a united front with the club’s statement at odds with the manager’s calls for quality all summer.

He said: “The last week or so has made it even more necessary.

It wasn’t so long ago Rodgers said the club was connected.

“But Celtic could not look any more disconnected right now.

“The ill-judged statement last weekend claimed the manager has full say on all of the signings.

“If that is the case then why are four of the summer arrivals not in the Europa League squad?

“There’s clearly been a breakdown in terms of the recruitment, whether it's the players scouted, the board conducting the deals and the manager wanting the ones that have come in for Europe.

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“And it all comes down to Rodgers’s future.

There’s unrest in the stands and the board needs to try to find a way to repair that relationship.

“But there is uncertainty in the dugout – and that is not a recipe for success on the pitch.”