Wonder boy Islam Feruz looks to have played his last match for Scotland.
The Somalia born 17-year-old turned his back on Celtic last summer and seems certain to cold shoulder Scotland after not getting the red carpet treatment at the weekend Den Haag tournament.
After starting just two of the five matches- played in under 48 hours- the petted lip was out in style.
Feruz is a notorious loner choosing his company carefully and is suspicious of anyone that tries to mix with him.
In March he went AWOL for Scotland’s u-17 European Championship qualifier against Iceland but was welcomed back three days later into the team that lost to Denmark.
Rather than face a punishment or suspension from the national side Feruz was promoted to the u-21 squad and became the youngest player to be capped at that level when he appeared as a substitute against Italy in April.
Scotland have been anxious to retain the Chelsea player knowing that he could play for any of the home nations or for three African countries due to his complex background.
The weekend Den Haag tournament seemed to stretch the tolerance of the wonderboy whose has regularly turned to twitter to let off his frustrations.
At the weekend he tweeted: ‘Not enjoyed this trip!’ and ‘Home time 😀 thank f*** for that!!!’
Later on he declared: ‘Would love to play in the African Nation Cup! Despite being eligible to play for 2 African countries other than Som 😛 MyDream!!! :D’.
Having found their loyalty repaid in the same way as Celtic it seems that the Scotland camp are no longer prepared to indulge the Chelsea player.
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Feruz’s time at Celtic was punctuated by regular disappearing acts with his last two competitive appearances at u-17 and u-19 level resulting in red cards against Rangers and Hearts.
Scotland u-20 coach Ricky Sbragia admitted: “I’ll be honest with you, I don’t think anybody should have a divine right to play.
“No matter who they are, we are there to test them. From my point of view Islam’s just got to knuckle down and get on with it.
“It’s a great tester, he goes to the U21s then comes back down to us – how does he deal with it? Is he above it? Who knows?”
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Your a lot worse than he is. What do you think Neil Lennon, Tommy Burns, or Jock stein would say about your comment?
THE PATHETIC COMMENT YOU REFER TO HAS BEEN DELETED, THE ‘AUTHOR’ WON’T BE POSTING ON HERE AGAIN
No. adding hyphons doesn’t make this acceptable. there is plenty of forums on the darkside for that.
He was never going to make it at celtic anyway,a clear sign of this twats attitude and some are right, celtic were trying to keep him to develop him and hope his attitude would change and for future revenue on his sale as they put so much time and effort to keep him in scotland and his family, IS THIS WRONG OF THEM!!!!
NO…..
does every club playing pro football do this to try and gain some financial benefit from every player on there books!!!
YES….
just because its not your club selling or making money dont hold it against another club or nation, its the way footbal is now, a business.
Who or what is Islam Feruz? Is he or it important?
Spoke to a certain ex Celtic player involved with being through players and he thought he had every chance of making it, but his attitude was poor and he let Celtic know he wasn’t interested in staying.
People seem to forget he is still a young lad.
IMHO one of the main culprits here are Chelsea,they go & offer crazy money & turn the boys head.
I don’t have a problem with him wanting to play for Somalia but he needs too focus & try to keep a true compass or his career will be ruined.
Never going to play for Scotland, full cap,
Watched him since he arrived til he left the academy, good player, but listening to scouts
during games he played,, I think it was a case
of “emperor’s new clothes” very lazy at training, maybe Chelsea will sort him out , Celtic indulged him too much, hushed up more than a few incidents on and off the park, that would have not tolerated if it was any other bhoy McCart reaped what he sowed!!