Brendan Rodgers in talks over Celtic return as Scottish Premiership champions hunt for new manager

Now let's turn to more of the breaking news regarding Celtic that we brought you in the last 30 minutes. We can confirm Brendan Rodgers has held initial discussions with the Scottish Premiership champions in recent days. More negotiations are expected to take place this week. The Daily Mail first reported those talks. Rodgers is understood to be considering various options though. He won seven trophies first time round at Celtic before he left them for Leicester in 2019. Michael Bridge has rejoined me. Hi again Michael, just update us fully then, where are we with that? More talkspan for this week. Yes Joe, I think the key is what you're saying as well. They are looking at other candidates to Celtic but of course there is interest in Brendan Rodgers. Of course had a very successful spell at Celtic. He left Celtic in 2019 linked with a vacant job at Leeds. I've been told that West Ham would potentially look at him if David Moyes left the club. We now know that David Moyes is staying at the club after a fantastic Europa Conference win. They see Rodgers as a preferred candidate but we do know one other thing that they're considering other targets which is the key. Who are the other targets? Well that's Manchester City's Enzo Maresca. Funnily enough Leicester City have also been linked with Maresca. Now another key bit of information here, they're not going to rush into Anj Pasterkoglu's replacement. The good news for Celtic is they've qualified straight into the group stages for the Champions League. It's always a very quick pre-season in Scotland but that does give them a little bit of a buffer in what is a huge decision for them. First time around at Celtic under Rodgers they had a very successful time. Seven major trophies, couple of league titles in that but he left didn't he when they were heading for another title in 2019 tempted away by Leicester. It ended there for a bit of a sour note. So how would this potential return go down with the Celtic faithful? Well first few answers on our Sky Sports Scotland Twitter account is from four accounts. Yes, yes, yes and yes. But there are some fans, Celtic fans, I've got a friend of Celtic fans who finds it hard. You know he said look he left in February. It's not like when Pasterkoglu left at the end of the season when they won the treble. But look why would Celtic fans want him back? This is the reason. He's got a very very good record there. Look Rangers weren't in the top division in all those seasons. Brendan Rodgers was there but he did do a very good job up there. We know he's a top manager. So would Celtic fans look at it and say look this is a tough season potentially coming up. A lot of these players are from signings that Ange Pasterkoglu made. That could be a bit of an issue for the new Celtic manager as well. These players, a lot of these players would come from Asia and played under Pasterkoglu. Will they want to stay? All of them want to stay. Will they be linked with other clubs? So it's a potentially big summer ahead and of course Celtic might you know they won the league very comfortably. We have to say that but of course Rangers are going to be strong potentially you'd imagine under Michael Bill. We could have a great title race in Scotland the season ahead and of course I think a lot of Celtic fans are upset as well because they were thinking of the 10 in the row when Brendan Rodgers left in that February. But it's very interesting development as we say nothing is done yet. There is interest in other managers elsewhere but a return for Brendan Rodgers is completely not ruled out and there's certainly interest there. Okay we'll watch the space and see how it develops. Thank you very much Michael.