Boyd: Rodgers is getting away with everything 

Boyd: Rodgers is getting away with everything

However, Boyd said it was time the finger of blame was pointed at manager Rodgers.

During a heated exchange with Sutton, Boyd criticised Rodgers’ attitude, questioned his commitment to Celtic and stated the manager was failing to draw performances out of signings he had previously backed.

“The balls coming on the pitch [in protest at the board] is a total deflection,” said Boyd.

“That team replicates the way Brendan Rodgers is right now as well. Look at him. He looks as if he’s just switched off. The team is flat and looks as if there’s no energy about it.

“Rodgers…the signs are already there all of a sudden. Starting doing interviews with media companies down the road. ‘I’m still here, I’ll be available next year because I’m not going to resign with Celtic, there’s an opportunity…’

“And he’s getting away with everything.”

Sutton: “Did he say that?

Boyd: “Well, you know what it’s like. That’s what happened the last time. ‘I love Celtic, I love managing the club, I want Celtic to be the very best…’ until something else comes along for Brendan Rodgers.

“Everybody blames the players. Everybody blames the board for not bringing in players. When is Brendan Rodgers going to get criticism?”

Sutton: “I think he took a bit of responsibility there [in his post-match interview]. He said it was his issue to get the team playing better.

“He will point – and I think fairly so – to rotten recruitment.

“You look in the final third for that spark and the players who have left and have they replaced them. I get the argument but should the team be playing better?

“Reo Hatate, when he first came to the club, I thought he was going to be the next one to go down south to the Premier League. Miles off it this season.

“People are pointing the finger at Callum McGregor. I’m not saying he had a good game but I don’t see him being the biggest problem. Kieran Tierney has come back and looks a shadow of the player [he was].

“When you look to the bench for game changers… you go back through the last couple of seasons, Celtic always had a game-changer. That bench it’s just rotten.”

Boyd: “There’s a bit of money on it, though. [Arne] Engels £11m. [Michel-Ange] Balikwisha – a new signing in the summer that everybody was told he was going to be outstanding when he arrived, you’re yet to see it.

“Brendan said these two coming in were going to be outstanding signings.

“The whole Tierney thing as well, everybody saying what a signing this is going to be. Rodgers backed that one as well.

“He [Rodgers] will get away with it. The board will get the blame for everything – who, by the way, have backed him to the hilt. The money Celtic have spent since he came through the door…

“He’s not getting a tune out of the players right now.”