Brendan Rodgers won two Scottish Premiership titles with Celtic but jumped at the chance to return to the Premier League with Leicester City.
Gordon Strachan says Celtic fans need to accept the harsh reality of their situation after seeing Brendan Rodgers walk out to take over at Leicester City last month, in quotes reported by the Daily Record.
Celtic supporters were left furious when Rodgers replaced Claude Puel at the King Power Stadium in February, the Northern Irishman leaving the Hoops in the lurch with three months remaining in the 2018/19 season.
Plenty of critics have argued that Celtic are a ‘bigger’ club than the 2017 Premier League champions and suggested that Rodgers’ decision smacked of a lack of ambition.
But Strachan, himself a former Hoops manager, says fans need to accept that England possesses an allure that Scotland simply cannot match.
“The leagues are completely different. Celtic are a bigger club in world football but Leicester are a top club playing in the top league in the world. That is the decision,” said the 62-year-old, who was at the helm between 2005 and 2009.
“It is not a slight against Celtic, it is reality, which is not really accepted in Scotland. There is a reality that our league is not that great.”
It is hard to disagree with Strachan’s comments.
Celtic are one of the most historic football clubs on the continent and Rodgers surely feels honoured to have represented such an institution for two-and-a-half years.
But it seems there is a glass ceiling in Scottish football with the Premier League offering far more exposure.
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