Gordon Strachan’s Shock Warning: Celtic’s Fate Hangs on 30-Year-Old’s Fitness – You Won’t Believe Who’s Irreplaceable
With Celtic still top of the Scottish Premiership, albeit on goals scored, there is now no margin for error as Brendan Rodgers takes his team into the final 13 games of the season.
With a Glasgow Derby to negotiate before the split, Gordon Strachan has said that there is one player that Rodgers must ensure is kept fit and ready for that game.
Strachan said [Irish Daily Star print edition page 60], “If I was the manager, I would take Callum McGregor home every night after training and sit him down next to me.
“I’d keep him fed, watered, and wrapped in cotton wool. I’d tuck him into bed at night because he is such an important figure.”
“Celtic can handle the absences of every single player apart from one man: Callum McGregor. He is irreplaceable.
“If he got injured, I would be worried. If I was a Celtic fan I’d be worried about keeping McGregor fit for the remainder of the season.”
It goes without saying that the Celtic captain has been so pivotal to the success we have enjoyed not only during his tenure as skipper but throughout his whole career.
The 30-year-old midfielder is one of the club’s most decorated players in our history with eight league titles, five Scottish Cups and seven League Cups.
However, it is since McGregor turned captain that the legendary Celtic man has come into his own.
Dragging Celtic from the depths of despair after the COVID season, McGregor led Celtic under Ange Postecoglou to a domestic double in his maiden season as captain and then onto a record-breaking eighth domestic treble last season.
Now that there is a real title fight on his hands, Rodgers must do all he can to keep his captain fit and healthy for the remaining games of the run-in.
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