“That’s why Brendan jumped ship,” Peter Grant says of the former Leicester City manager’s departure.

With all cards on the table, Peter Grant is genuinely one of the best pundits around.

The former Celtic star, who is not afraid to speak his mind about Celtic and our rivals (which I will discuss later), is both informative and succinct whenever he appears on radio phone-ins or football shows.

This week’s topic of discussion was, of course, Ange to Leeds, and while the media was getting their knickers in a twist trying to sell the move to the Celtic manager by claiming a move to the EPL would be on all managers’ radars, my site, and others were busy smacking that narrative on the head.

Because there aren’t many bigger clubs in the EPL than ours. Not by a long shot.

Many people point to Brendan Rodgers’ departure from Celtic for Leicester as some sort of coherent argument for leaving the club, but Grant points out that there is no basis for comparison because the reasons Brendan left were completely different.

“I think it’s slightly different for Brendan,” Grant said on The Go Radio Football Show.

“I’m led to believe there were two other managers in for the Leicester job at that particular time and whoever was willing take it was going to get it.

“Because if they were to wait until the summer, it was the other person who’s going to get the job instead of Brendan and I think that’s why Brendan jumped ship in respect of that.

“That’s what I was led to believe, based on the stories you hear.

“I know how much Brendan enjoyed Celtic, but at the end of the day, he wanted the [English] Premiership.

“I think Brendan Rodgers did an amazing job at Liverpool. People tend to forget this.

“The way he did it, and he nearly won the league for the first time in a long, long time, but I definitely thought he laid the groundwork for what’s happened in the last few years,” says the coach.

Ange has never been contacted by Leeds. That is a proven fact.

He has also shown no sign of thinking of the EPL as his be-all and end-all, as Rodgers did.

Using the Rodgers argument is a tired old rope of an argument that breaks apart the moment you put pressure on it.

Ange isn’t going anywhere for the time being. And when he does leave, he will do so with the Celtic family’s best wishes.

And to a more prestigious club than Leeds United.