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Brendan Rodgers’ first signings for Celtic

Brendan Rodgers is back in football management with Celtic
Brendan Rodgers is back in football management with Celtic

Brendan Rodgers’ first signings for Celtic are going to be crucial.

The Hoops this afternoon unveiled 43-year-old Rodgers as the club’s new manager, replacing Ronny Deila on a 12 month rolling contract.

The Northern Irishman’s first task will be in the transfer market where he will need to improve the current pool of players available to him.

The make-up of the northern Irishman’s new group is all wrong. Too big and stacked in the wrong areas, it left Deila looking like he had no idea what his strongest line-up was.

While short on options at the back and with only one credible striking option in 40-goal Leigh Griffiths, the new boss has 17 midfielders to choose from – plus another five out on loan at other clubs.

Rodgers will have to quickly strip out the dead wood and beef up the defence and forward areas.

Deila wasted almost £4million on flops Stefan Scepovic and Nadir Ciftci, with more spent on the likes of Tyler Blackett, Saidy Janko, Colin Kazim-Richards, Carlton Cole and Dedryck Boyata amongst others, who have all disappointed.

Rodgers next must produce a much better success rate in the transfer market.

At Liverpool, Rodgers, alongside the transfer committee of Michael Edwards, Ian Ayre, Michael Gordon, Dave Fallows and Barry Hunter, oversaw the signing of 33 players.

Those signings totalled an eye-watering £292,050,000. Safe to say Rodgers is aware his budget won’t be anywhere near as generous in the east end of Glasgow.

Listed below are his Liverpool signings – Philippe Coutinho and Daniel Sturridge proved to be inspired purchases but the likes of Oussama Assaidi, Iago Aspas and Mario Balotelli didn’t work out quite so well.

His first Liverpool signings were players he knew well and believed he could rely on but who ultimately disappointed, in the shape of Fabio Borini and Joe Allen. Celtic fans will be hoping that Rodgers’ first Celtic signings have more of an impact than his initial forays into the transfer market with Liverpool.

All 33 of Brendan Rodgers’ Liverpool signings

Fabio Borini from Roma for £10,400,000 , July 2012

Fabio Borini

Joe Allen from Swansea City for £15,000,000, August 2012

Joe Allen

Oussama Assaidi from Heerenveen for £3,000,000, August 2012

Assaidi

Nuri Sahin from Real Madrid on loan, August 2012

Sahin

Samed Yesil from Bayer Leverkusen for £1,000,000, August 2012

Samed Yesil

Daniel Sturridge from Chelsea for £12,000,000, January 2013

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Philippe Coutinho from Inter Milan for £8,500,000, January 2013

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Luis Alberto from Sevilla for £6,800,000, June 2013

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Iago Aspas from Celta Vigo for £7,000,000, June 2013

Iago Aspas

Simon Mignolet from Sunderland for £9,000,000, June 2013

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Kolo Touré, free transfer, July 2013

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Aly Cissokho from Valencia on loan, August 2013

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Mamadou Sakho from Paris St Germain for £15,000,000, September 2013

Mamadou Sakho failed a drugs test

Tiago Ilori from Sporting Lisbon for £7,000,000, September 2013

Tiago Ilori

Victor Moses from Chelsea on loan, September 2013

Victor Moses

Rickie Lambert from Southampton for £4,500,000, June 2014

Rickie Lambert has revealed a potential move to Aston Villa came 'at too short notice' for him to quit Liverpool

Adam Lallana from Southampton £25,000,000, July 2014

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Emre Can from  Bayer Leverkusen £9,750,000, July 2014

Emre Can has the potential to be a future Liverpool captain, according to assistant manager Colin Pascoe.

Kevin Stewart free transfer, July 2014

Kevin Stewart

Lazar Markovic from Benfica for £19,800,000, July 2014

Lazar Markovic impressed against Bournemouth in midweek

Dejan Lovren from Southampton for £20,000,000, July 2014

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Divock Origi from Lille for £9,800,000, July 2014

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Javier Manquillo from Atletico Madrid on Loan, August 2014

Manquillo

Alberto Moreno from Sevilla for £12,000,000, August 2014

Moreno

Mario Balotelli from AC Milan for £16,000,000, August 2014

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Joe Gomez from Charlton Athletic for £6,000,000, June 2015

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Adam Bogdan, free transfer, July 2015

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Danny Ings, from Burnley for £6million, July 2015

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James Milner, free transfer, July 2015

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Nathaniel Clyne from Southampton for £12,500,000, July 2015

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Roberto Firmino from Hoffenheim for £29,000,000, July 2015

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Christian Benteke from Aston Villa for £32,500,000, July 2015

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Allan Rodrigues de Souza from Internacional for £500,000, September 2015

Allan Rodrigues de Souza