Celtic bolstered their centre-back options with a deal for Marvin Compper last month.
Dedryck Boyata has told The Sunday Post that although he is looking forward to playing with new Celtic team-mate Marvin Compper, he won’t give up his centre-back spot without a fight.
Celtic completed a £1 million deal (The Scotsman) for the former RB Leipzig defender last month.
The 32-year-old brings plenty of experience with him to Glasgow and the German earned a cap for his country back in 2008.
Boyata is arguably most at risk of dropping to the bench as a result of Compper’s arrival, but the Belgium international says he is determined to keep his place in Brendan Rodgers’s side in order to boost his hopes of going to Russia for the World Cup next summer.
“I am looking forward to working with Marvin Compper,” he told The Sunday Post.
“He is an experienced player, 32 years old with a cap for Germany. So I am sure he is a very good player.
“But I want to stay in the team because I have the World Cup coming up in the summer with Belgium. This could be a very big six months for me.”
Boyata had a terrible month of December and the winter break certainly came at a good time for him.
Kristoffer Ajer had displaced him in Rodgers’s best XI and it remains to be seen what the manager’s plans are when the domestic schedule resumes in two weeks time.
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