Neil Lennon is concerned about his side’s growing injury list ahead of next week’s Champions League clash with Cliftonville.
A depleted Celtic side lost 6-2 to Greuther Furth last night with midfielders Scott Brown and Joe Ledley still to feature in the three games played so far.
Adam Matthews is another still waiting to see action with the midfield options starting to run thin with Victor Wanyama about to seal a £12.5m move to Southampton.
Fraser Forster and Charlie Mulgrew picked up knocks in last night’s defeat with neither player likely to be risked in Friday’s final tour match against Union Berlin.
“My main concern is we’re picking up a lot of injuries,” Lennon admitted.
“We’ve not seen Brown, Ledley or Matthews yet, and James Forrest and Gary Hooper have hardly kicked a ball on this trip.
“Charlie has picked up a strain too, and we will have to see how he is. That’s where we are, we are stretched and it’s all taking its toll.
“It’s a concern because I don’t know what team I’m going to have available for next week and we’ve still got another game to come in Berlin on Friday.”
Wanyama was due to play against Greuther Furth but was left out at the last minute with reports that his move to Southampton is back on.
The 22-year-old is expected to fly to Southampton to discuss personal terms as Celtic prepare to bank a Scottish record transfer fee.
all in there head
I thought some fans needed to get a grip with tales of woe. Mgt team seen to have caught same bug.
IS the wee crock Jamie Forrest still picking up injuries? What a LIABILITY! Time he was removed and replaced!
The biggest young talent in Scottish footbal if not the UK.
I genuinly don’t understand how a player can be a ‘liability’ when out injured.
He’s a young player and maybe he’s being rapped in a wee bit to much cotton wool at CP, but considering the vindictive hammer throwers he has to face in the spl maybe that’s not such a bad thing.
I honestly believe wee jamesy is going to be massive.
(That would be massive as in a football great, not as in sleekit sallys union jack granny pants ((sorry if anyone was eating there)).
HH
I bet you didn’t know he could rap anaw………ahem.
So Neil Lennons main concern is we’re picking up a lot of injuries FFS !
What about the shambolic displays in the last three games ?
That 6-2 defeat was a bloody disgrace!.
We can kiss qualifying for the UCL if this is any indication.
If these games were meant to get us ready for the qualifiers they have failed miserably.
We seem to only have 1st and 2nd gears. 1st is slow and 2nd is lumbering !.
Goodness sake. We’ve seen this all before. Time to chill.
They should sign James McFadden
What they need to do is get rid of Kevin Wilson to slow What I saw last night was not good thing better improve or the Neil Lennon Honeymoon will be over pretty quick Hail Hail