Premier League ace reveals terrible breakdown of life-changing Celtic transfer as Ally McCoist strikes the Rangers fear.
Premier League ace reveals terrible breakdown of life-changing Celtic transfer as Ally McCoist strikes the Rangers fear.
Trevor Carson recalls the events of his aborted Celtic transfer, while Ally McCoist analyzes Rangers’ European draw.
Trevor Carson, an experienced Dundee goalkeeper, has opened up about his sadness at losing out on a ‘life-changing’ move to Celtic in 2018.
for the time, the eight-time Northern Ireland international was the first-choice goalkeeper for Premiership club Motherwell, where the squad had reached two cup finals but lost both to Celtic.
By January 2018, Carson’s form had earned him the admiration of the Celtic recruitment team, who believed the Sunderland academy graduate would be the perfect deputy to Craig Gordon in the Hoops goal.
Carson claimed that after a long-bidding war, he had agreed to sign a four-and-a-half-year contract at Celtic Park only to be denied the move at the final moment.
Speaking on Open Goal, Carson explained: “At one point, everything was agreed, it was done. It would’ve been life-changing; it was a four-and-a-half-year deal. It was a chance to go and win trophies.”
“Obviously, it happened (Celtic bid), my agent had said all along they were going to get to the fee, it was just playing a bit of hardball with Motherwell, but we knew they would get there in the end and they finally did.
“Motherwell were signing the boy Freddie Woodman from Newcastle on loan, so Freddie is getting ready to come up, on his way up, and Joe Lewis gets injured at Aberdeen that day in training; this is the day before the window shuts.
“He’s on his way up. Obviously, Aberdeen come in for him, and he picks Aberdeen over Motherwell. Now I’m in the office with Stephen Robinson and Allan Burrows, and Robbo was like, ‘You can’t sell him; I’m resigning if you sell him.
“We got to a cup final, but in the league, we weren’t doing great; we were still hovering eighth or ninth in the league, we certainly weren’t away from relegation. Robbo’s point was, I need Trevor as my number one; we can’t sell him.”
Ultimately, it wasn’t to be for Carson and the Hoops instead moved for Dundee’s Scott Bain on a loan deal, which was later made permanent.
Bain has made 53 league appearances throughout his time as back-up goalkeeper and has proved a useful addition. Meanwhile, Carson remains in the Premiership and ironically now finds himself as the first choice shot-stopper of Bain’s former club Dundee.
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