It looks like the gaffer wants to leave and I can't blame him... the board sold him short in the summer and it's the source of all the trouble

Brendan seems at the end of his tether and that's hardly surprising if you think about it

- CHRIS SUTTON

I'M starting to believe that Brendan Rodgers wants out of Celtic.

There, I've said it and I'm going to give the reasons why. With every passing moment of this current malaise, that's my belief. And do you know what? If that is the case, I couldn't blame him one bit.

Obviously, he can't come out and say it and he won't walk away. Not when he has promised to stay for three years.

Many fans felt he was within his rights to leave after that atrocious last transfer window and, had he not gone to Leicester at the time he did to end his first spell, then he may well have done so.

I also realise the board surely cannot get rid of a manager merely because he is just plainly pointing out the mistakes they have made upstairs. Not to mention his trophy record. It feels to me like an unhappy stalemate, so I think Rodgers is poking, being antagonistic. The question then becomes: Is he entitled to be?

My answer to that would be unequivocally yes.

I don't know how else to think when I look at what he's had to deal with. Crucial injuries to the likes of Cameron-Carter Vickers and Alistair Johnston just exaggerate the failings of the window. He constantly pointed out the needs and little was delivered.

Match of the Day interviews on the BBC last weekend. Why did that come about? Seemed like odd timing.

Rodgers said during the week he has never been more motivated at Celtic, yet that came days after his Honda Civic statements at Dens Park.