Brendan Rodgers: Celtic in advanced talks with former manager over return

Celtic are successful precocious talks with Brendan Rodgers implicit the anticipation of the 50-year-old Northern Irishman returning arsenic manager.

The Scottish champions are seeking a replacement for Ange Postecoglou, who joined Tottenham Hotspur this summer.

Rodgers was sacked by Leicester City successful April earlier they were yet relegated from the Premier League but had a palmy archetypal spell astatine Celtic.

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