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Rodgers returns

How do you improve on a near-perfect season? That’s the question for Celtic after the 2022-23 campaign in which they completed an eighth domestic treble and collected 99 Premiership points.

Rather than being allowed to savour his achievements, manager Ange Postecoglou was headhunted by Tottenham Hotspur, and Celtic brought Brendan Rodgers back to his first love in the east end of Glasgow.

His second appointment at the club was greeted with a radically more muted

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