Tony Fitzpatrick wants Celtic’s Lewis Morgan at St Mirren

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Lewis Morgan joined Brendan Rodgers’s Celtic from St Mirren.

St Mirren’s chief executive Tony Fitzpatrick has told The Herald that he wants to sign Lewis Morgan from Celtic in the January transfer window.

According to The Herald, Hibernian have expressed their interested in signing the 22-year-old winger from Scottish Premiership rivals Celtic this month.

Celtic manager Brendan Rodgers recently suggested to The Scottish Sun he could send the youngster leave the Hoops on loan until the end of the season.

St Mirren’s chief executive Fitzpatrick has suggested that he would love Morgan to return to the club.

Fitzpatrick told The Herald about Morgan: “It would be a dream if Lewis was to come back to us. He knows what we think of him here, and what all the St Mirren fans think of him.

“He could be the one that makes a big difference to us. It would lift everyone in and around the club if it was possible to get him back.

“He’ll have so many options the boy so we’re not kidding ourselves that we’ll definitely get him. But we need him as he’s a special player and a special young man as well.”

Back to St Mirren

Morgan is struggling for playing time at Celtic at the moment, and it is hard to see the youngster establish himself in manager Brendan Rodgers’s starting lineup anytime soon.

The Scotland international joined the Hoops from St Mirren in January 2018 and stayed on loan at the Buddies for the second half of the 2017-18 campaign.

With St Mirren struggling for survival in the top flight of English football at the moment, Morgan will be a good signing for Oran Kearney’s side in their quest to avoid relegation to the Scottish Championship.