Brendan appeals to SFA for sense
BRENDAN Rodgers has confirmed that Celtic will look for common sense to prevail ahead of Scotland’s friendlies against Peru and Mexico this summer.
The Hoops will be busy preparing for Champions League qualifiers and Rodgers has maintained that players such as Kieran Tierney are at risk of “being broken” by over-exposure.
“It’s not ideal,” he said. “We’ll do a letter to the SFA and it will obviously be easier once there is a manager in place because then that allows for communication.
“It is not just for Celtic, it is a wider issue for the team that is in there trying to represent Scotland in the Champions League format. You want to have every chance to get in there. Why? Because you are representing Scotland first and foremost and you are in there as that sole team from the nation.
“When you qualify, as we have done for the last few seasons now, the money that is generated from that goes to every Scottish club and sometimes that is the most money that they get.
“Already my feeling is that this feels like a back-to-back season up here. Some of our players got six days off, the maximum some of them had was three weeks, and then they are into a real schedule. Of course I am concerned as a Celtic manager with eight players in the squad but also I am concerned for Scotland as a game.
“Are you going to break young players like Kieran Tierney? These young players who are coming through, they are not robots. I know that the game is about stats and numbers and tactics on a computer but these are human beings.”