Celtic have reportedly included Moses Odubajo in their pre-season tour of Austria.
Celtic need to strengthen a number of positions this summer, but right-back is certainly one of them.
Mikael Lustig endured a very mixed second half to the 2017-18 campaign and displayed some worrying signs of decline in a number of different games.
Still, the 31-year-old, contracted to Celtic until next summer, is unlikely to be going anywhere, but could one of his team-mates?
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According to The Daily Record, Hoops boss Brendan Rodgers took Moses Odubajo on the club’s pre-season tour, which suggests that the Northern Irishman could sign the 24-year-old.
And surely that would have negative implications for Cristian Gamboa.
Despite Lustig’s struggles, Gamboa seldom got chances to displace the Swede but the Hull City right-back – who is out of contract on Saturday – is good enough to compete with Lustig and therefore push Gamboa even further down the pecking order in Glasgow.
If Odubajo signs, Gamboa must seriously question his role and with Anthony Ralston also in the mix, it isn’t unthinkable that Rodgers could exile him completely.
The Costa Rica defender, who joined from West Brom in 2016 for £1 million [The Scotsman], has plenty to offer a number of teams, but it looks less and less likely that Celtic is one of them.
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