Celtic hired Brendan Rodgers as a new boss

Celtic named past Liverpool manager Brendan Rodgers as their new boss on a 12-month moving contract, the Scottish Premiership champions said on Friday.

Northern Irishman Rodgers, who has in addition overseen at Swansea City, Reading and Watford, was sacked by Liverpool in October and replaces Ronny Deila at the Scottish club.

“I am totally fulfilled to be named Celtic supervisor,” Rodgers, 43, said in a statement on Celtic’s site.

“This is really a gigantic honor for me. I have taken after Celtic all my life and to be given this amazing open passage and to be a touch of such a genuinely remarkable football club is a blessing from heaven.”