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Chris Sutton blasts Brendan Rodgers with ridiculous claim about Celtic
BRENDAN RODGERS has “downgraded” by leaving Celtic for the Leicester job.
That’s according to a fuming Chris Sutton, who reckons Rodgers should have stayed where he was.
Rodgers was appointed Leicester boss on Tuesday following former Foxes boss Claude Puel’s sacking on Sunday.
The appointment shocked disappointed Celtic fans, who were expecting Rodgers to at least stay until the end of the season.
Rodgers was on course to win a triple treble, but the allure of the Premier League proved too much.
And Sutton, who played for Celtic for six years, believes that Rodgers has downsized his job.
“If Brendan Rodgers is a Celtic fan and this is his dream job - just see it through until the end of the season!” he said on BT Sport.
“Nobody would have had a problem with that.
“He has downsized, he has downgraded going to Leicester City, and that is a fact."
Sutton was then made a controversial quip about the the stature of Leicester as a club.
“Celtic reserves are bigger than Leicester City!” he added.
Rodgers signed a three-and-a-half year deal with Leicester, but the former Liverpool manager has already spoken of a return to Glasgow one day.
"I would be hugely, hugely disappointed if I never could go back there," he said.
"I would be incredibly disappointed if I never could after everything that I've given.
"Would I work in Scotland again? Of course I would.
"I loved every single second of being there. When it calms down in maybe 10 years, I could maybe go back to Celtic."
And when quizzed on if a return would be in a managerial sense, he replied: ”Yes. Absolutely. 100 per cent."