Tom Rogic was pictured in first team training this morning at Lennoxtown.
The midfielder hasn’t played any sort of football this season and was left out of Celtic’s pre-season trip to Austria and Switzerland to work on his fitness.
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Since reporting for the Asian Cup at the end of December Rogic’s club career has been virtually on hold with a scan on a hand injury in January discovering a knee issue that required surgery.
It had been hoped that a summer without any international action, the previous summer’s he had played in the Confederation Cup and World Cup, would help his fitness but that hasn’t been the case.
Ryan Christie has taken on the ‘Rogic role’ in the Celtic side but the return of the 26-year-old would be a welcome option for Neil Lennon with the transfer window set to close in less than two weeks.
At today’s media conference the fitness of Kris Ajer will be the main concern for Celtic fans.