‘Either that or manager goes’: Celtic reveal transfer window plans as Brendan Rodgers has say on Chris Sutton

Rodgers believes team requires freshness this summer

Celtic manager Brendan Rodgers expects to have a busy transfer window after he admitted that there will be incomings and outgoings at the club this season – regardless of how the season finishes.

Celtic are on course for a domestic treble but have let their standards slip in recent weeks, the nadir coming last Sunday when they were surprisingly defeated 1-0 by bottom club St Johnstone in Perth. However, they can wrap up the title this weekend should they beat Kilmarnock at home on Saturday lunchtime and nearest challengers Rangers lose at Aberdeen the following day.

With the Premier Sports Cup already in the bag, Celtic are also in the semi-finals of the Scottish Cup and made the play-off round of the newly-revamped Champions League. Nevertheless, Rodgers showed his angry side after the loss at McDiarmid Park and expects a reaction from his players against Kilmarnock. And in the longer term, he anticipates movement within the dressing room – because he believes his squad needs to evolve further, pointing out that freshness comes either through player turnover or a change of manager.

“I think it’s all about improvement,” said Rodgers in his pre-match press conference. “I think naturally what you have at our club, and you guys will have seen it reporting on the club over many years, there is a natural slide of players that move out and come in every three or four years.

So I think naturally that will happen. It’s the nature of our model here, but it’s also the nature of players being here and maybe either looking to move on or want to come away from the pressure that’s here. Because three or four years of it, it’s a lot of pressure.