Brendan Rodgers’s Celtic and Leicester City reportedly want Manchester City-owned Girona winger Patrick Roberts next summer.
Manchester City-owned Girona winger Patrick Roberts has spoken highly of Celtic to The Scottish Sun.
Roberts spent two-and-a-half years on loan at Celtic from Premier League giants City from January 2016 until the end of the 2017-18 campaign.
During his time at Celtic Park, the former Fulham winger won the Scottish Premiership title three times, and the Scottish League Cup and the Scottish Cup twice each.
Roberts, who was signed by then manager Ronny Deila at Celtic, is hugely popular among the Celtic Park faithful and played his best football to date at the Scottish Premiership club.
“I might be in Spain now, but I watch as many of Celtic’s games as I can,” Roberts told The Scottish Sun. It’s a club that will always be special for me.
“I’ve got Celtic TV out here and I keep in touch with boys like Kieran Tierney and Nir Bitton. So I’m fully up to date with what’s going on at the club.”
Future Celtic return possible?
According to The Sun, Roberts will consider leaving City permanently at the end of the season when his loan spell at Girona runs out.
The British tabloid has claimed that Celtic would lead the chase for the 21-year-old next summer, and that Leicester City want the youngster as well.
Roberts’s aforementioned comments underline how much he still loves Celtic, and perhaps the Hoops could be able to persuade the former England Under-20 international – who joined City from Fulham in the summer of 2015 for an initial transfer fee reported by The Sun to be worth £4 million – to move to Celtic Park next summer.
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