The 3 Brendan Rodgers motivators a Celtic return would serve up in shape of Champions League, Rangers and Ange

Brendan Rodgers may return to Celtic with things to prove. Not to a fanbase in terms of his loyalty.

But in terms of making a proper dent in the Champions League, defeating a more competitive Rangers and showing he can take on Ange Postecoglou’s brilliant attacking style and lift it up to even more enthralling levels. Rodgers’ Northern Irish compatriot Steve Lomas doesn’t feel some fan unrest is a major issue.

The boss may have angered large sections of the support when he walked out of the door to Leicester in February 2019, but he’d also handed them trophy after trophy before he went. Former St Johnstone manager Lomas said: “Brendan Rodgers had unbelievable success before he left and is a Celtic fan. They say you should never go back, but I don’t believe in that. It’s a fallacy Listen, there are people running football clubs who have done some pretty unforgivable things. Football is a very fickle sport. As long as you are winning, everything is all right.

“This talk about people being sincere and all of that, look at what’s happening in golf. People like to have the morality and stuff, but there is very little morality in football. Apart from the fans who are the ones turning up and paying their money. They are the ones who do it every week no matter what.

“Let’s have it right, if you are being brutally honest, if Brendan goes back to Celtic and wins, that’s what it is all about, isn’t it? At Rangers and Celtic, it’s about winning. Everything is immaterial except for that.”

Lomas knows what it’s like to face a tough crowd. He was, after all, an ex-West Ham InterToto Cup-winning skipper who was appointed the manager of fierce-rivals Millwall in 2013 after his splendid two-year spell in Perth.

But he says that crossover