Celtic manager Brendan Rodgers has spoken about the way he feels he has been treated by some during his return to the club.

Despite an unbelievably successful first spell at the club, Rodgers has been questioned throughout the season, with pundits even questioning whether he would be at the club next season.

However, he has hit back at such claims in an eye-opening interview.

Rodgers said: [Sky Sports], “You always, as a coach and a manager, always feel that if it is the team and it gets criticism, then you always take it on board. But I think it’s overstepped the mark on a number of occasions this season, and that’s my own fault in terms of probably where the expectation that I maybe had here from the first time when I left here. I’d won seven out of seven trophies, we played really well, and we had done some great work here.

“And I went away for four years, finished up Leicester with three of the four highest finishes in the history of the club. We won the FA Cup, we won the Community Shield. So I come back here a more decorated manager, yet it felt like that when I came back I was a novice, which was interesting.”

With some going as far as to say that Rangers would win the league in February, Rodgers has clearly seen these opinions as disrespect to himself, despite showing that he is a class above Philippe Clement across the city.

Rodgers is spot on; he is an established Celtic manager but also established in English football with the trophies he won at Leicester, an incredible achievement.

Ultimately, at the end of the season, Rodgers will likely have the last laugh at his doubters.

Despite a poor start to the season, he turned things around when it mattered most, in a sign that he can manage poor situations just as well as positive ones.