Brendan Rodgers resigns as Dermot Desmond slams ex Celtic manager! | Keeping The Ball On The Ground
Open Goal - Football Show
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4.8 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 28 October 2025
⏱️ 144 minutes
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Summary
It's an unmissable podcast this week as Si Ferry, Slaney and Andy Halliday react to Monday night's bombshell news that Brendan Rodgers has RESIGNED from Celtic with Martin O'Neill and Shaun Maloney replacing him in interim charge. The boys also discuss majority shareholder, Dermot Desmond's personal statement HAMMERING the departing boss, labelling him 'divisive, misleading and self-serving'!
We're then joined by Ross McCormack and Dylan McGeouch to discuss the rest of the weekend's headlines including the Hearts title charge as they went 8 points clear of Celtic after their 3-1 win at Tynecastle. They also review Danny Rohl's first win as Rangers boss over Kilmarnock and consider whether Jimmy Thelin's time is running out at Aberdeen!
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| 0:00.0 | Yes, welcome keep the morning of ground! |
| 0:05.0 | Yes! |
| 0:06.0 | To the intro's the one video? had two intros in one video? We called in an emergency... First time we won't go to history. Yeah. News broke last night Brendan Rogers resigned for you, first we shopped and then second what's your thoughts on it? It's good with you, we've heard for you first mate. No, I was not shocked in the slightest. You won't the shocked at all? I was actually shocked. |
| 0:38.3 | Is that I had the tri-colour at the wind. But I was, I said last week something had to give. I think we asked what we see at the season, I have said no right away. For both sides I thought he would either walk, resign which he has, or they would have been sacked. And I think, yeah, after that Hart's result I thought Hart's had their hands on the title if Brendan Rogers stayed I would have thought Hartz would still have on it now I don't do not keep it strong enough to knock their hands off the title he's be paused but I just think it was the right time he's been making a lot of noise and I think even go back to the after the Dundee game when he came out with the comments about, like the Honda Civic nonsense comments. And I just feel like even throughout his time at Celtic, his second spell, I mean, very successful, obviously. But I just feel sometimes like the Celtic measures, it should be the best job possible. Like he was doing a favour by being. Sometimes you go to that feeling like and I just feel sometimes like the Celtic measures should be the best job possible. |
| 1:28.0 | Like he was done in your favour by being? |
| 1:29.5 | Sometimes I go to that feeling like and I just, I didn't sit well in with that. |
| 1:34.2 | But I sure thought it's not at you shot. |
| 1:35.4 | I was shocked, to be honest. |
| 1:38.3 | And it's probably a bit surprising that you're shocked given like what he's been saying |
| 1:41.4 | in the press, the friction between fans board players manager |
| 1:45.9 | and obviously some of these comments over the last couple of weeks but |
| 1:48.4 | he obviously did that interview at the start the season saying there's no i'm seeing out my |
| 1:52.4 | contract there's no way i'd leave again and date again because i know how it went over last time |
| 1:57.6 | and i think the timing's mad for me you've got a semi-final against Rangers next weekend. So does that play a decision? You know, when's the timing right for him to do it? When's it no? Why do you think he has done it? I don't know. Well, for me, if Celtie... But if Celtic beat Hartzhenky resigns and... |
| 2:17.7 | No, no chance. |
| 2:18.8 | If Celtic'd be a little bit of the league now, he's no resigning. |
| 2:20.6 | No. |
| 2:21.4 | So, again, I don't know. |
| 2:22.9 | There's obviously, listen, there's definitely been, obviously, a breakdown in relationship |
| 2:27.6 | between the board and Brendan Rogers. |
| 2:29.6 | So I think inevitably, I never fought for one minute to be the Celtic manager next year. |
| 2:33.2 | I just assumed they'd see out the season and trying day his best for the club but we did say they didn't know so the podcast is going to follow this for yesterday that recorded think did we not say it was the right time for him ago did you did you I was going to ask I was going to ask you that did you think it was the right time for me go I just didn't see Celtic win in the league with him in charge. Like, the way they were playing in the middle performance in the field that he |
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