Celtic wasted £6.5m on flop

Celtic wasted £6.5m on flop

Joe Hart has declared that he will step down at the conclusion of the current campaign. Celtic intends to use the summer transfer window to acquire a backup goalkeeper.

since summer 2021, when he became a permanent employee of Ange Postecoglou. The squad has benefited greatly from the 36-year-old goalie. He was formerly a member of Tottenham Hotspur.

when the Hoops captured the 2022–2023 and 2022–2023 Scottish Premierships. In the campaign, Hart started 72 of the team’s 76 games.

Though Celtic had far less success, the big flop Vasilis Barkas. The former England international replaced at Parkhead less than three years ago.

Celtic wasted £6.5m on flop

For an estimated £4.5 million in addition to £1 million in salary annually. Former Hoops manager Neil Lennon pounced to recruit the goalkeeper from Greek team AEK Athens in the summer of 2020.

Barkas was unable to secure a regular berth in the starting lineup for the Scottish giants. Therefore the move did not work out as planned for any of the parties involved.

He played just five more games and was benched for 16 of the team’s first ten Premiership games.

In 18 league games in 2020–21, Scottish goalkeeper Scott Bain emerged as Lennon’s first option in net, stopping 69% of the attempts on target.

Nevertheless, in 15 Premiership games, commentator Frank McAvennie called Barkas “awful”. Out of all the shots on target, just 60% were saved. implying that he was not qualified to take Bain’s post.

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