Published: 13:49, 28 October 2025 | Updated: 13:51, 28 October 2025

Brendan Rodgers' Celtic split is the latest explosive chapter in a career littered with the dramatic, controversial and occasionally cringeworthy. 

The 52-year-old, eviscerated by major shareholder Dermot Desmond in an extraordinary 556-word statement branding the manager 'toxic', 'divisive' and 'self-serving', is no stranger to the kind of storm currently swirling around him. 

Rodgers jumped before he could be sacked during a disastrous campaign but Desmond still landed heavy public blows to the Northern Irishman's reputation. 

It is one that has already taken a pounding at times during his colourful 17-year management journey - during which he has been in the limelight for his personal life on numerous occasions. 

Rodgers' very public romantic proposal to the club's former travel coordinator Charlotte Searle in 2016 came just 68 days after his divorce was finalised.  

The dissolution of the marriage to his wife of 14 years, Susan, was official in December 2015 and in the following February Rodgers was seen on one knee in New York's Times Square.