Brendan Rodgers believes that Celtic either needs a team freshness or a new voice in Dugout if they will be protected from complacency.
Celtic’s manager has emphasized his focus will be on adding the team to the wine transfer market as he predicts a natural circulation.
Rodgers confessed his anger after Sunday’s loss from the Lower St Johnstone club, which eradicated the opportunity to capture the title of the prime minister at home of Kilmarnock on Saturday, Live in Sky Sports.
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Having lost only twice throughout 2024 in all competitions – at Rangers and Borussia Dortmund – Celtic have suffered six losses so far this year.
Rodgers think they have lost an advantage after leaving the Champions League against Bayern Munich, but he was always determined in the summer, especially after the club failed to replace the Kyogo Furuhashi striker in January.
“It’s about upgrading,” said Rodgers, who has already provided the return of Kieran Tierney from Arsenal to a pre-control.
“I naturally think of what you have in our club, there is a natural slide of players moving out and coming every three or four years.
Kieran Tierney will turn to Celtic this summer
“So I think it will naturally happen. The nature of our model here. But it is also the nature of the players here and maybe either seek to move forward or want to get away from the pressure here. Because three or four years of it is a lot of pressure.
“We should always be ready to replace any playing players. But obviously important to us is improvement.
“We always want to improve the team, improve hunger in the team. This is always important. Because one of the ways to succeed and save on what I have talked about is that you need freshness.
“It is either she or the manager goes. As simple as it. There is no missile science in it. You can’t be in a club for a long period of time with the same group of players.
“And, so, the same group of players need a different voice perhaps. But at the moment, it will have to do with the improvement of the team.
Celtic did not sign a replacement for Kyogo in January
“I think change is needed. This freshness, that new energy that comes to your team that facilitates any of that kind of complacency.
“So we’ll bring players to challenge the team and the team for summer. That’s natural in every team.
“However, this team does at the end of the season, we want to improve it. The team needs competition.”
Rodgers awaits a positive reaction after claiming in Perth that there was a “comfort” in his team he did not like.
“There is no doubt that the gap in the league, and also perhaps a little of the league of the Champions League, has just taken a slight advantage,” he said.
“So this is a mentality that I have to continue working inside the team in order to improve it.
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“It is understandable. But I also know that last year when it was close, you saw the advantage in the team. You saw it at the beginning of the season, the team’s advantage when it was narrow and everyone started with zero points. How we are able to stop it then and find that consistency and quality.
“But I don’t want this to stop. And I want us to continue with that mentality.
“I understand why sometimes it doesn’t happen. I don’t forget how well they did. But I can’t accept what was last week.”
