Ange Postecoglou has fired straight back at Steve Clarke after the Scotland boss shared his disappointment that no Celtic players will be on Scotland duty in Turkey next week.
As internationals go this one is so pointless that it hasn’t been delegated by FIFA meaning that clubs aren’t compelled to release players to their countries.
Since February Celtic have been using the World Cup break to take a two match trip to Australia, other than the players actually going to the World Cup Postecoglou will take his strongest squad.
Clarke had been critical of Celtic’s decision but picking up on the pre-match comments of the Celtic boss with Radio Scotland, The Sun reports Postecoglou saying:
Steve’s got every right to be disappointed, he’s the national team manager. I’ve been there and I’ve been disappointed.
As a club manager sometimes we’re disappointed when players go away with national teams and get injured or don’t play. We all get over our disappointment pretty quickly.
I’ve no issue with Steve. I wish him all the best but, for us, this has been in our planning for quite a while.
Were Celtic right to withhold players from the Scotland squad
No, always a great honour to represent the SFA
Yes, Celtic comes first every time. Great decision, at last
In September Callum McGregor played three matches in seven days on the 21st, 24th and 27th against Ukraine twice and Ireland. On October 5 against RB Leipzig he suffered a knee injury and hasn’t played since.
David Turnbull reported to that squad but was sent back injured to Celtic.
Celtic fc 1888 owe Scotland national team and more important sfa who have never backed us so what comes around as they say sfa chairman and ex hibs chairman has brought his personal hate to the table when it comes Celtic-FC_1888 stopped transfers sold mcghinn from under noses when asked to keep us informed always made it hard for Celtic_fc_1888
If Scotland had qualified for world cup Ange would have been happy to release his players.