Richard Keys catches Brendan Rodgers with bizarre sucker punch as Celtic boss roasted in Man Utd rant of rage
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Brendan Rodgers has been caught in the crossfire of a Richard Keys rant about Manchester United’s decision to sack Erik Ten Hag.
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Hide AdThe Dutchman has paid the price for a poor start to the season at Old Trafford. Keys has provided his verdict on the decision, with the former Sky Sports presenter and football pundit going off on one about various aspects of the club. But it’s Celtic boss Rodgers who also is targeted, despite a dominant start to the season with the Hoops
He wrote a raging rant about Man Utd, bizarrely citing Rodgers’ exit at Liverpool nine years ago despite the fact he’s had three jobs since, and ended with a lesson in philosophy. Keys vented: “When everybody is talking about the same thing my natural instinct is to go in another direction, but on this occasion that’s impossible.
“At last. But what on earth took United so long? What a shambles of a club they are right now. Ten Hag should’ve been sacked in the summer. He wasn’t a United manager when he was appointed. He wasn’t a United manager when he was in post. He was never going to be a United manager.
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Hide Ad“He was weak. He cut a pathetic figure week after week on that touchline. He was clueless. All he had to offer in both pre and post match conferences was ‘we schtick together. We schtick to the plan’. Nonsense. In recent weeks I don’t think even he was convinced he was the right man for the job.
“If he’d had any pride or dignity he’d have walked out in the summer when he found out Ratcliffe and his brains trust were hawking his job all round Europe. In the end he was their fourth choice for his own job.
“It was typical of Ratcliffe’s penny pinching that ten Hag was kept on. The bottom line is Ratcliffe wouldn’t pay the going rate for a top coach. So they triggered an extra year in ten Hag’s deal and then tried to persuade us he’d been handed a new contract. That lie quickly back-fired.
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Hide Ad“Instead of firing ten Hag they sacked his back room team and started appointing people they’d chosen to put round him. Is anyone even a teeny bit surprised van Nistelrooy has been given the job? It was the Spanish-American philosopher George Santayana who famously warned that those who fail to learn the lessons of history are doomed to repeat it.
“That strategy never works. Never, ever works. It didn’t go too well for Liverpool and Brendan Rodgers did it? There are so many examples of failed tinkering down the years - keeping the coach but changing everything around him.
“So that makes another famous philosopher, Aldous Huxley correct - the English writer said ‘the most important thing we learn from history is that we never learn from history’.”
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