Craig Halkett quit Ibrox side Glasgow Rangers after seeing what a current Celtic player was doing in the second tier.
Craig Halkett has revealed to The Record that a current Celtic player inspired him to quit Rangers in 2016.
Searching for first-team football, the 23-year-old left his boyhood club Rangers three years ago and joined Livingston in the Championship.
The young defender claims that he was inspired by Lewis Morgan’s exploits in the second tier, with Morgan since earning himself a move to Celtic.
Halkett had spent the guts of 12 years on the books at the Ibrox side but, with no realistic path to the first team, joined the Lions and hasn’t looked back.
He faces his former club at the Almondvale Stadium tomorrow afternoon, and insists that he has no regrets about leaving the side who are battling Celtic for a Scottish Premiership title now.
“I remember feeling a real sense of my decision being a big gamble. Taking the step away from a huge club like Rangers isn’t an easy one to take. It felt like stepping off the edge of a cliff,” he told The Record.
“I was 19 years old but I looked around at other boys I’d been brought up with either playing with or against and many of them were playing first-team football.
“I saw the likes of Lewis Morgan playing week in and week out with St Mirren and knew leaving was the right thing to do.”
Morgan, in his first season at Celtic, is hardly ripping things up in what’s his first season at Parkhead, after officially joining from St Mirren a year ago.
There is quite a contrast to Halkett, who is now an established Premiership star since quitting Rangers.
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