OK, tin hat at the ready. If – and it’s a big if – Arsenal offer Brendan Rodgers the manager’s job, then I have a hunch he would take it.

I have no claim to special insight into the Celtic boss’s thinking, and have no illusions of trying to speak for his mind. Perhaps he will be content to stay at Celtic to have a tilt at 10-in-a-row as John Hartson suggested to this paper today.

Who am I to argue with big John, after all, who could have me for breakfast and have room for seconds? But at the risk of falling on the wrong side of the big man, I just don’t see the logic in Rodgers staying at Celtic should the Gunners come calling.

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Maybe that’s because if Rodgers did rebuff the English giants, it would have to be a decision based on emotion rather than the cold, hard facts. Rodgers is not only a Celtic supporter, but he has a keen sense of their history, and what he wants his own place in that to be.

An ‘Invincible’ season and a treble is already in the bag, and although Motherwell will have other ideas, an unprecedented back-to-back treble may soon follow.

But there’s a reason the Celtic supporters’ song about their manager doesn’t go ‘Brendan Rodgers is here for back-to-back trebles’. There is one prize - an attainable one at least, as the European Cup will sadly never darken a Scottish trophy cabinet again - that all of those with Celtic in their hearts treasure above all others.

If Brendan Rodgers stays to deliver that, then it might not be too much of a stretch to say that his name will be up there, if just a little bit behind still, a certain Jock Stein in the pantheon of great Celtic managers.

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The problem with the lure of delivering a record-breaking 10 titles in-a-row though is that it is a full three seasons away. With the greatest of respect, that’s three seasons of midweek home games against St Johnstone. Three seasons of early Sunday kick-offs at Ross County (barring relegation). In other words, three seasons of intermittent drudgery.

And while the likes of Hibs, Hearts and Aberdeen will protest, if things carry on the way they are going at Ibrox, it will be three seasons of winning the league at an absolute canter.

Another three seasons of lording it over the blue half of Glasgow may sound like manna from heaven for your average Celtic fan, but for the one in charge of the team, it is hardly likely to be enough to keep his competitive juices flowing. For once, Rangers being so poor might just present a real problem for Celtic.

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Brendan Rodgers comes across as a thoroughly decent man, but make no mistake, he has a very clear idea of what he is worth and his standing in the game. And I fail to see how he can pass up a chance to go back to England with one of their genuine big guns, and a chance to prove that the season he came within a Stevie Gerrard slip of winning the Premier League was no fluke, over the sadly less salubrious charms of our game.

In our terms, Celtic’s relative riches place them way beyond the pale of their Scottish rivals, but it is plain to see that the yawning chasm which then exists to the elite clubs of Europe grates on Rodgers.

He is going into the Champions League and competing valiantly with both hands tied behind his back, but such is the way the competition is weighted these days, a tilt at the Europa League after Christmas is almost the best he can hope for. And when they get there, as was shown when they drew Zenit this season, they will still often be the poor relations.

And all of that is without mentioning the laborious qualification process for the Champions League that Celtic are forced to endure, starting their season in July with the risk of the whole campaign being branded a failure before we’ve put away the buckets and spades.

A move to Arsenal, and unlocking the untold riches on offer in the Premier League promised land, would open up a whole new world for Rodgers.

I hate talking Scottish football down, but in my opinion, he would have to be mad to pass that up. Whether being Celtic-mad is enough, remains to be seen.