Celtic’s Ross Barkley interest gets serious
Respected Chesea source Simon Phillips has claimed that Celtic have made an offer to sign Ross Barkley on a permanent basis.
Over the last week there has been a couple of mentions linking the player with Celtic but with 300,000 Twitter followers almost exclusively drawn from Chelsea fans Phillips has no issue with credibility.
With a year to go on his contract and his career appearing to be side-tracked Chelsea are keen to move Barkley on with no future at Stamford Bridge.
Barkley was one of the rising stars in the EPL when he moved from Everton to Chelsea in January 2018 for £22.5m but many others he lost his way in London.
At the age of 28 he already has 33 England caps but has been out in the cold since November 2019 with no prospect of a World Cup place.
Ross Barkley has an offer from Celtic (permanent). Other clubs still interested – Brighton, Newcastle, West Ham, Aston Villa and Everton. Will leave this window.
— Simon Phillips (@siphillipssport) August 13, 2022
Whether Celtic can put together a deal to appeal to Chelsea would be a major issue- after that it looks like there is plenty of EPL options open to the midfielder.
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CLICK HERE for Barkey’s England record