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Brendan Rodgers vows 'no barriers' on Celtic in the Champions League but boss offers one caveat
@Source: dailyrecord.co.uk
Brendan Rodgers insists there's no barrier on what he wants to achieve with Celtic as he targets an even better run in the Champions League next season. The Hoops are on the verge of clinching another Treble and this season reached the knockout stage of Europe’s premier club competition for the first time since 2013. Only a 94th minute Alphonso Davies goal stopped them taking Bayern Munich to extra time in that round of 16 play-off clash in the Allianz Arena. And asked if it was realistic to target going even further in next season’s Champions League , Rodgers said: “Yeah, you have to dream of that. “I don’t think we can put any sort of barriers on what it is we want to achieve. But you have to be realistic as well. “We had a great feeling, we saw how close we ran Bayern Munich over two legs. That will hopefully give us a good feeling and we have to continue to recruit good players that allows us to grow and develop at that level. “The next phase will be seeing if we can continue with the impact in Europe. That felt really good this year. The performance levels in some of those games were absolutely great. “We want to be a team that consistently does that. It’s really sustaining this club as a really respectable competitive club in European football at the highest level while continuing to be hungry to dominate domestically. “On a personal level it’s more than the trophies it’s how much money can I help bring in to the club through the sale of players, improving players, young players, establishing the academy so we can get young players through quicker. Rodgers can eclipse Jock Stein as the first Hoops boss to win three Trebles if his side beat Aberdeen in next Saturday’s Scottish Cup Final. And he knows he’s on the cusp on something special. He said: “You never get tired of it. “It’s a symbol of your work and that you are working well. The first time coming towards that first treble you’d be so focused, then when the final whistle went against Aberdeen I knew I was joining the ranks of some incredible managers who had gone before me. “So I know the narrative around this one being the first manager to win three trebles. That will probably only sink in - if it happens - later on.”
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