Brendan Rodgers sensationally quit Celtic earlier this week.
Oliver Burke has revealed to a Celtic press conference [official YouTube] that he and his team-mates didn’t hear that Brendan Rodgers was leaving until the very last minute.
The Northern Irishman stunned Celtic fans this week by quitting to become Leicester City’s new manager.
Neil Lennon has since returned to the Hoops on an interim basis until the end of the season.
Rodgers left the Scottish Premiership leaders less than 48 hours after a 4-1 win over Motherwell.
And Burke says it was all very ‘last minute.com’, adding that Rodgers hasn’t yet contacted the squad.
He told a Celtic press conference, via the club’s official YouTube: “One minute he’s the manager and the next minute he’s gone. That’s football and things happen so quickly.
“It was very last minute [learning that Rodgers was off]. Last minute.com really.”
He added, when asked if Rodgers had been in touch: “Not for me personally, but no.”
In the midweek win at Hearts during Lennon’s first game back, Celtic fans unfurled a banner which read ‘You traded immortality for mediocrity. Never a Celt, always a fraud’.
There might be a similar anti-Rodgers vibe in the stands again at Easter Road this evening as the Bhoys visit Hibernian – whom Lennon quit last month – in a Scottish Cup quarter-final.
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