Brendan Rodgers sets reporter straight about Celtic board relationship as he hits out at mischief makers

Brendan Rodgers claims people are trying to "drive a wedge" between him and the Celtic board as he hit out at what he feels was a misrepresentation of his comments on the club's transfer business.

Speaking in his pre-match press conference ahead of Saturday's 3-0 Premiership victory over Livingston, Rodgers was asked if he was "content" with the business done at Parkhead over the summer. He replied: "No. If you ask any manager they will always want more of course. But we work with the players that’s here. I’m not saying that in any disrespectful way but every manager will tell you they maybe wish they could have done one or two more signings but the window closed."

But when asked about them by BBC Scotland prior to kick-off at the Tony Macaroni Arena, Rodgers said: "I will correct you as always there's always something made out of what managers will say. What I did say was that any manager who goes into a window will always feel at the end of a window they maybe could've done a little bit more.

"I never said anything else other than that so I've been really happy with the boys that have come in. We know the areas that we want to improve in, we know the areas that we have to improve in. You're never going to do that in one window.

"What we aim to do and what we want to do going forward is improve the quality within the squad. That doesn't mean I'm not happy with the club so I'm pretty sure that people will look at that and focus on that and try to drive a wedge very, very early on between myself and the board.

"Whatever stories try to get created around that, they'll be false. The minute I'm happy here, really happy with everything is the time I probably move on because to drive standards and move things forward you have