Celtic manager Brendan Rodgers has revealed that he has a fondness for Bayern Munich star Arjen Robben.
Robben has been a mainstay of the Munich side for many years and despite being 33 he is still able to perform at the highest level.
The Bhoys are currently preparing to play against the German giants next week in a Champions League encounter during which they will be underdogs.
One of the players that they will probably have to try and curb on the day is Dutch international Robben. Rodgers knows Robben having worked with him while the duo were with Chelsea.
While talking about Robben, Rodgers said: “Arjen Robben I know very, very well. As a player, people won’t know, but his last game for Chelsea was against Hampton and Richmond [in August 2007]. If Carlsberg did reserve teams I had the best reserve team in the world there.
“It was [during the transfer] window, we needed a game and as you can imagine [we] had a lot of players. There was just no-one to play against at the time. I said to Jose [Mourinho] the only teams I can get in are two part-time teams.
“I had [Carlo] Cudicini in goal, Juliano Belletti at right-back, who had won the Champions League with Barcelona. I had Alex at centre-half, and I had a young boy Jeffrey Bruma beside him. [Patrick] van Aanholt, John Obi Mikel.
“Scotty Sinclair on the left side, [Claudio] Pizarro and Arjen on the right. We won 7-0 and Arjen was the captain and scored. The next day he went to Real Madrid. So that tells you about the mentality of him, and the player he was; he was an unbelievable player.”
