GLASGOW, SCOTLAND - JULY 19: Newcastle's Harrison Ashby (L) and Celtic's Adam Montgomery during an Adidas Cup friendly match between Celtic and Newcastle United at Celtic Park, on July 19, 2025, in Glasgow, Scotland. (Photo by Craig Foy/SNS Group via Getty Images)
Adam Montgomery is set for another loan move with Livingston strongly linked with a move for the 23-year-old.
After making his Celtic debut late on in the lockdown season he had a brief run in the team under Ange Postecoglou, providing the assist for Jota’s late winner away to Aberdeen that provided Celtic with their first away win in more than six months.
While that proved to be a turning point for the new manager Montgomery’s Celtic prospects faded after the January 2022 transfer window when Reo Hatate, Daizen Maeda and Matt O’Riley were signed up.
A loan move to Aberdeen never quite worked out with Montgomery’s career dogged by bad luck ever since.
This morning in the Daily Record (8.39) reported:
Livingston are set to sign Adam Montgomery, writes Scott Burns
The Lions are closing in on a deal for the Celtic full-back on-loan.
Davie Martindale has managed to fight off English and Scottish interest to get him to the Premiership new boys.
Montgomery still has another two years left on his Celtic contract.
The 23-year-old has had loan spells at Aberdeen, St Johnstone, Motherwell and Fleetwood Town.
Montgomery also had a successful loan at Queen’s Park last season.
Livi are also set to sign Hearts midfielder Aidan Denholm on loan and former Willem II striker Jeremy Bokila.
At the start of the 23/24 season Montgomery went on loan to Fleetwood Town but playing time was limited after Scott Brown was sacked, a January switch to Motherwell barely got underway due to injury, last season he made 14 appearances on loan at Queens Park.
His CV demonstrates the need for a clear policy over developing players through loan, a task that Shaun Maloney has been taken on to carry out.

Usually wouldn’t give the loathsome Martinjail or his cuckoo club the steam off my Scheidt but I assume we’ll have the sense to include the obligatory clause preventing him playing against his parent club. Don’t see what the player will get out of working under a coach who makes Buckfast Barry sound like Pep Guardiola though – I can’t see him improving in an environment like that.
Absolutely correct, Cap’n, not to mention a plastic pitch that should be barred from pro football. But ‘Peter’ thinks it’s okay, and Peter being Peter knows what’s best at CP and, no doubt everything throughout the universe!
I’d almost forgot the plastic pitch. I try to think about Livingston as little as possible TBH. They mustn’t reckon the lad Montgomery has any sort of first team future at Celtic so just sending him there to play for a move at the end of his contract.
Sevco’s Findley Curtis seems quite a decent player but like Montgomery and McArdle and the rest he would never have been given a chance at Celtic.
Rangers always come good in these early European games because they never stop running and it often catches out the supposed technically better opposition as did found Celtic to their cost.
The passing game Celtic play probably wastes around 40 mins futering about when they could be attacking and then they start trying, even MacGregor, if they find themselves down 20 mins to go.
I was hoping Martin was going to bring in a passing game and therefore lose the energy but it seems he resorted to type and well we saw the result and they will easily go through as very few managers, Including Mourinho and Rodgers know how to deal with it.
Doesn’t look good for the Glasgow Derby if Celtic don’t change their midfield and tactics which I doubt BR is capable of doing.
I would like to add that the biggest problem at Celtic is laziness.
Laziness in preparation at the transfer window, in management with only having plan ‘A’, players commitment on the field with that stupid 3 yard passing game, in coaching as no players seem to improve unlike say Christie when he went to Aberdeen.
It permeates the whole club and seems to personified by Peter Lawwell’s big grinning bawface.
People, the players train, for the most part, all week to run about a park for 90mins, compare it with your own job, and give their all but spend the time sauntering about being midfield chocolate generals. Passing and then pointing where the ball should be played. You know who you are.
It doesn’t matter who we sign, we are in for another season of nonsense.
The Newcastle game was an aberration.
…and yes this frustration comes from the result last night.
I don’t think your that far wrong there Charlie,we need to change our tactics or they’ll run through us like they did last season,I don’t know why but they always seem to get a rub of the green in these euro games,like them English cows last night.I hope we’re on the up for our euro qualifier.
Jim as Gary Player said “The harder you work, the luckier you get.”
The Greek manager admitted he didn’t how to prepare against Sevco because the players were new but I just think he watched their past games a came to the conclusion he didn’t know how to deal with non-stop effort.
The minute you lose the ball to them you are suddenly under attack and compare that to Celtic’s tactics which allow the opposition to organise while the midfield and defence are playing with themselves.
“Rangers” are dead Charlie…
But other than that these are very excellent points that you make in both of your posts !
laziness ?
least proper word describing celtic players.
several were in the top 50 of their category analytics for UEFA.
159 goals in all comps.
but thems win a game, so last season was shite .
i love possession football, a skill in itslef.
St you make a very valid point and one I had not considered. I assumed 99% of the fans would prefer the type of football which devastated Aberdeen a while back, a team that beat us in the cup final.
Statistics?
I wonder what percentage of fans like yourself are happy with tippy-tappy football for want of a better word?