Former Leicester City defender Danny Simpson trained with Neil Lennon’s Scottish Premiership champions Celtic last week.
Danny Simpson is 32 years old.
At this stage of his career, it looks very unlikely that the veteran right-back will be offered another chance to play for a team who have lifted nine trophies in the last three years, a team fighting to qualify for the Champions League.
So you’ve got to wonder why he turned down the chance to sign for Celtic, according to The Sun (23 July, page 57).
The report claims that Simpson, who trained with The Hoops last week after his departure from Leicester City, has no interest in sitting on the bench at Parkhead with Celtic set to make Hatem Abd Elhamed their number one right-back.
But Celtic will be planning to fight on all four fronts next season. There are two domestic cup competitions and European football too. Simpson wouldn’t have been short of game-time, even if manager Neil Lennon did see him as a back-up option.
So where will the former Manchester United defender end up now? A middling, bottom-half Premier League side? A Championship club?
Either way, don’t expect to see Simpson playing against the very best in Europe’s premier cup competition in 2019/20, or end the campaign as a league champion.
He might just have turned his back on the best move he’ll ever get.
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