Celtic and Rangers are interested in signing Thomas Robert according to agent Paul Tait, who told the Daily Record that the Airdrie forward is capable of emulating Andy Robertson’s rapid rise.
It is hard to believe now, with Premier League and Champions League medals hanging around his neck, that arguably the world’s finest left-back failed to make the grade at Parkhead.
Long before he was flying down the flanks at Anfield, Liverpool star Robertson was being told that he had no future at Celtic, released as an U15 for the crime of being ‘too small’.
20-year-old Thomas Robert has a long way to go if he wants to replicate Robertson’s remarkable rise but, according to the Frenchman’s agent, the talented striker is capable of doing just that.
“There are guys like, for example, Andy Robertson is at Queen’s Park and goes to Dundee United then goes south and ends up at Liverpool. I believe (Robert) can follow a similar route,” Tait explained, before confirming interest from a pair of Old Firm giants in the Airdrie talisman.
“Rangers and Celtic have been watching him because I believe they don’t want to miss out before the English clubs swoop in.
“Thomas is worth a gamble for a few hundred thousand, because when he goes to the next level we will be talking millions.
“There is a lot of interest and we are waiting to see what comes up for him.”
The son of Newcastle legend Laurent Robert, former Montpellier ace Thomas admitted this week that it would be a ‘dream‘ to represent Celtic or Rangers in the future.
That ‘dream’ could become a reality sooner rather than later, especially as Aidrie are expected to let him go for ‘a few hundred thousand’.
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