Kenny Dalglish adamant Celtic won't suffer Rodgers repeat with Ange Postecoglou thanks to Champions League game changer

Kenny Dalglish says Ange Postecoglou can fulfil all his career ambitions and has everything he needs at Celtic if he can become a Champions League regular.

He believes clinching the title and banking the £30million riches will give the victors a massive advantage over their defeated Glasgow rivals.

Postecoglou has revitalised Celtic in just nine months. The Aussie has built a team which is on the brink of regaining the Premiership and also on course for a Treble in less than a year.

His work has not gone unnoticed. His reputation is soaring and, naturally, admiring murmurs are coming from south of the border.

Recent title winners such as Brendan Rodgers and Steven Gerrard have headed for the Premier League. But Dalglish says Postecoglou can have it all at Celtic due to the size of the club and the chance to mix with the elite.

The former boss reckons it would be “rude” if English chairmen weren’t looking at him, but then said: “He’s at one of the biggest clubs here.

“If he’s got ambition to go to the Premier League, I don’t know. He’s certainly done brilliantly for Celtic and that’s the most important thing.

“It’s not a given but they are obviously favourites to win the league. They’re straight into the Champions League sections.

“Where is he going to go and get a job that will give him that? He might get all he wants here. That might be all he wants.

“I’ll tell you for a fact it wasn’t the first option either of them (Rodgers and Gerrard) got. They had been rattled before, I would imagine. They moved on. The English Premier League is an attraction for managers in Scotland.

“But it’s less attractive if you’ve got a team in Scotland that is getting straight into the Champions League section.

“Everybody is different