Revealed: The Celtic player at the heart of acrimony between Brendan Rodgers and board

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(Credit: Getty Images/Imago) Wed 1 October 2025 7:00, UK Brendan Rodgers is on course to leave Celtic at the end of the 2025-26 season with his contract set to expire.Sources told Football Insider on 13 September that contracts talks between Celtic and Rodgers collapsed after a serious lack of investment.Moreover, Celtic missed out on Champions League football which highlighted the club’s mistake in not backing the Northern Irishman over the summer.Worryingly for the Hoops, Football Insider exclusively revealed that Premier League clubs are monitoring Rodgers’ situation at Celtic as he looks destined to leave Glasgow.Credit: ImagoSebastien Tounetki transfer delay reflects Celtic hierarchy’s lethargyAs I revealed on the latest edition of Football Insider’s Inside Track podcast, the former Leicester City boss is growing increasingly impatient with the evident lack of faith from the Bhoys’ hierarchy.Celtic fans were angered by the club’s sluggishness in signing Sebastian Tounetki after they were knocked out of the Champions League.The Tunisian wasn’t brought in until transfer deadline day and has impressed, yet Rodgers will feel he should’ve been signed far sooner which sums up the negative trajectory of the Hoops at the moment. We know that he was looking at backing in the transfer window to sort of move Celtic forward and to ensure that they did build on their success in the Champions League last season.

Credit: Imago“He’s made a good impact so far Tounetki and that’ll be the frustration for Rodgers saying: ‘why couldn’t we get him in probably at the start of the window when he could have come in and had a huge impact for Celtic rather than being brought in on deadline [day]’. “Brendan Rodgers, he has asked for backing.

He didn’t really get it in the summer window. And when he did, he got it a bit too late.