Emilio Izaguirre has arrived in Germany to join in Celtic’s pre-season preparations.
The defender was on World Cup duty with Honduras until June 19 but after a fortnight on holiday he’s preparing for the new season and the challenge of helping Celtic through to the group stage of the Champions League.
Neil Lennon is looking to bring in a left sided player to challenge Izaguirre for his place in the Celtic side but after three seasons at the club the Honduran has no intention to moving aside or moving on.
“My contract runs until 2015 and any change would be upto my club and my agent,” he told Honduran newspaper la Trubuna. “I don’t like talking about contracts, my focus is on playing football.
“After two weeks holiday it’s time to get back to work and prepare for important games in the Champions League.
“Our first game is in Ireland with the aim of reaching the Champions League again, I’ll never forget playing against Barcelona and Juventus and we want to be playing teams like that again.
“The rest of the squad has been in training for 10 days but after my holiday I’m feeling good and looking forward to starting work again.”
Izaguirre and the other returning internationalists will be put on a separate fitness programme in Germany from the players who’ve already been working out at Lennoxtown.
Let’s hope he can pick up his form at the end of last season after the blip he had in form he had after injury.
A quality player.
HH
Ps. Guest Cpt for the Hoops tonight………..Abraham Lincoln!!
I like him hope he stays at Celtic hope his form keep up he is a good player
I hope we do sign another left sided defender with real pace and allow Izzy to push further forward to get the most of his talents.
He has the right sort of attitude though…..more players could do with the same.
I see lennon brought in a trialist for tonight from Wolverhampton apparently played well ok we got beat but it first game only training exercise but were some good displays from new boys