Brendan Rodgers has lifted the lid on the current recruitment process at Celtic, delving into how the club identify, and eventually look to sign, new players.
Speaking at a press conference at Lennoxtown this afternoon, Rodgers went into intriguing detail. CeltsAreHere asked the boss about recruitment.
“We’ve got a recruitment team who I can tell you have worked tirelessly over the numbers of months”, he said.
“Once those guys then go through that list of players that fit in with the profile and how we want to work, that will then come to me to ratify that player that we would want, and that will go forward to the board to do the deal.”
Since recruitment head Mark Lawell and lead scout Joe Dudgeon departed Celtic earlier this year, fans haven’t had any coherence over how the club go about signing players.
This update from Rodgers, though, provides an intriguing insight into how things operate behind the scenes.
Whether the current process is effective or not, though, remains to be seen. Indeed, Rodgers hinted at an overhaul of the recruitment team post-summer window.
He said: “It’s something for sure come the end of the window we have to have a look at that whole structure and set-up.”
Fans remain frustrated at the current lack of activity, but the manager does expect there to be some incomings between now and next Friday.
It will be an interesting week at the club, with supporters hoping the squad ends the window looking stronger than it was at the beginning of it.
