Brendan Rodgers has dramatically improved Celtic since taking over from Ronny Deila.
Brendan Rodgers has suggested to The Scottish Sun that the Celtic squad he inherited was nowhere near as fit as it presently is.
Rodgers took over from Ronny Deila two years ago and has since won every domestic competition on offer, after leading the Hoops to a historic double-treble in Scotland.
Lewis Morgan, a £300,000 signing from St Mirren in January, joined up with Celtic this summer and remarked that every player was in peak physical condition, despite it being the begining of pre-season.
The Northern Irishman says that level of fitness is now par for the course, in comparison to the squad’s strength and conditioning prior to his arrival.
“Yeah. It wasn’t at the beginning when I came in,” he told The Scottish Sun, when being asked about Morgan’s comments.
“The culture now is that our worst player this season in terms of tests and measures has a score that would have been our best when I came in.
“That doesn’t happen overnight, you have to create it and cultivate it.”
Rodgers has clearly improved Celtic dramatically from Deila’s era, and it goes to show that much of the improvement perhaps stems from improvement on the training ground.
Of course, he has added the likes of Olivier Ntcham, Moussa Dembele and Scott Sinclair but, on the whole, the Bhoys look head and shoulders above their so-called rivals in the Premiership both in terms of quality and fitness, whereas under the Norwegian it might’ve only been on quality.
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