Josefin Lustig cried for a week when she discovered that Mikael was leaving Celtic.
For over seven years Glasgow has provided a family home with Josefin’s website providing some insight into the emotions behind what takes place on a football pitch.
The Scottish weather isn’t much different to the Swedish variety but after enjoying 16 trophy successes the Lustig family are about to move on to Belgium.
Usng her own website Josefin explained:
It’s been pretty tough lately. We should move and it came a little like a shock. It has been so much harder and harder than I thought it would be. In this life it can swing fast. But we’ve been in Glasgow for 7.5 years so it feels very tough to have to leave. Didn’t get that long to digest it either. I cried every day for a week after I found out. I feel completely exhausted. It has really taken on the forces.
Glasgow has given me so much. It really has been a trip. We were so young when we moved to Glasgow. I look forward to our new adventure as a little older, with more experience of life. I’m so grateful for everything that Glasgow has given us.
It’s been fairly obvious for a month that Lustig was about to move on with Celtic declining the option to extend his 2017 contract by another year.
In February it looked like his Celtic career would peter out quietly as deputy to Jeremy Toljan but the return of Neil Lennon as caretaker manager saw Lustig restored to first team action.
The 32-year-old’s last contribution for Celtic was to head the ball through for Odsonne Edouard to score the winning goal in the Scottish Cup Final against Hearts, clinching the Treble Treble.