Brendan Rodgers dismissed Kris Boyd’s claims of a divide in the Celtic dressing room, before telling the attacker he’d be better off spending his time focusing on getting into Kilmarnock’s team.

After watching Killie inflict the champions’ second defeat of the league campaign, Boyd said internal divisions were clearly set in at Parkhead.

The former Rangers striker made his point by highlighting Olivier Ntcham and Scott Sinclair’s recent drops in form and Dedryck Boyata’s refusal to play after Celtic rebuffed Fulham’s move for the Belgian.

When made aware of Boyd’s comments, Rodgers said he would look into them, but did quickly shoot down the notion of a split in the dressing room.

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On Boyd’s comments, he said: “Not overly comfortably listening to that, it’s the first I’ve heard of it really.

“Kris would be better suited trying to get back in the Kilmarnock team and we’ll concentrate on our job here.”

He added: “When teams lose games, the logic is there’s a split in the dressing room, sometimes there’s no Plan B.

“For us, we’re very much unified as a club, we’ve set high standards over the last couple of seasons.

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“Yes, we haven’t started how we would want but it’s very early in the season and we’re very much together.

“It’s something I’m very calm with, we have a stable blueprint and have shown we have a winning strategy.

“From time to time, we won’t win but we have to accept that.

“There is a bit of heat that comes with that but it’s important you stay calm and that’s what we are.”

The Scottish champions have dropped eight points in their opening six league matches, the same total they let slip across the whole of the Invincibles campaign of 2016/17.

Rodgers said he takes “total responsibility” for the recent defeats to Hearts and Kilmarnock having rung the changes before both away trips.

“The two games we’ve lost, I take total responsibility for that,” he added.

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“I made big changes for both. Away at Hearts, while preparing for a Champions League game I made a number of changes, more than normal.

“At the weekend, we had six changes. I trust all the players but maybe I changed too many.

“It’s something I need to think about. I need to look at myself with that.”