Marvin Compper has struggled to play for Brendan Rodgers’s Celtic.
Compper, who joined Celtic from RB Leipzig in January 2018 for a transfer fee reported by BBC Sport to be worth £1 million, has played just 83 minutes of competitive football for the Glasgow giants, as reported by The Scottish Sun.
Rodgers has said that he suggested to the 33-year-old defender to leave in the summer transfer window.
Rodgers told The Daily Record when asked if Compper will get his chance: “I’m not sure. When Marvin came to the club last year we wanted to use his experience. He was injured in that first six months.
“I made it clear to him in the summer there were players who came in during that six months and they had jumped ahead of him.
“It was made clear to him if he wanted to play regularly in the last few years of his career then he’d have to move. He decided he wanted to stay and you have to respect his decision.”
Future bleak
Given that Compper has not been used despite Celtic’s issues at the back in the opening weeks of the season, it does not seem very likely that the German has a future at Celtic.
After all, as Rodgers himself suggested to the former Fiorentina defender that he was free to leave in the summer, the 33-year-old will struggle to establish himself in the Hoops’ starting lineup.
Celtic will take on RB Leipzig away from home in the Europa League Group B on Thursday evening.
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