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Blair Meikle

Brendan Rodgers hits back at people who 'don't like him at Celtic'

Brendan Rodgers has claimed there are a number of people who "don't like" him being at Celtic.

The Parkhead boss was speaking after his side's 2-0 away win at Aberdeen, making it two wins from two with no goals conceding after defeating St Mirren by a goal to nil last weekend.

Despite that positive start, there has been somewhat of a negative narrative around the club because of a perceived lack of transfer activity.

Rodgers feels this is a result of him not being a popular figure.


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He said: "There'll always be a narrative around it, you know. I I read something the other day about the two years I was here, we don't play good football, don't play this, don't play that. We've never played that in the last two years.

"So, I think there's a number of people that really don't like me here at Celtic. But with me and looking at the team, I'm really happy to to see how the the players are, the current players that we have.

"Two clean sheets, controlled a difficult game, showed a resilience last week to break through, and we're ticking along nicely.

"And as we know what will make the football always smile a wee bit more and a bit more creative is the level of player. So but hopefully we can do that and then we'll be hopefully be, by the end of the month, in a really good place.

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