Brendan Rodgers left Celtic in October 2025 amid a highly public fallout with the club’s hierarchy. The official club statement cited that Rodgers tendered his resignation and left with immediate effect, while principal shareholder Dermot Desmond publicly criticized his conduct and communications as divisive and self-serving. In the aftermath, interim duties were assumed by former Celtic boss Martin O’Neill and ex-player Shaun Maloney as the club began the process of appointing a new permanent manager. These events followed a sequence of tensions over recruitment, a disappointing European campaign, and a domestic spell that left Celtic several points behind rivals, culminating in Rodgers’s departure.