Former Rangers striker Ally McCoist has now backed Celtic to complete the signing of a high-earning Premier League player in 2026.
McGregor finds positives after Celtic draw
The Hoops could only draw 0-0 at home to Hibernian in the Scottish Premiership on Saturday, allowing Hearts to finish the weekend top of the table.
Despite the result, Callum McGregor was still in relatively positive spirits, also focusing on the areas that Celtic can improve in as the season goes on.
“For all the good play, we couldn’t put the ball in the back of the net.” McGregor said. “Ultimately that’s what matters. “We have to keep working and generally, if we play like that and create as many big chances as we did then, in the main, it will fall for you and it will go in.
“It’s probably as slick as we’ve been in the first half. We created a lot of chances and their keeper made a few good saves. The guys who came in were really good and everyone was in sync and moved the ball. Everyone who came in did well.”
New signings in the January transfer window could help ensure that Celtic retain their league crown, and a big-name player has now been mentioned as an option for them in the winter transfer window.
Sterling could be tempted to join Celtic – McCoist
In quotes relayed by The Glasgow Times, McCoist said Celtic could sign Chelsea winger Raheem Sterling in January, but the Blues would have to pay some of his current £325,000-a-week wages.
“You’d have to say his parent club would still shoulder the vast majority of his wages because there’s absolutely no way that Celtic could compete or would want to pay that level of wage. It’s an interesting one, though, because the one thing you have to say is, for Raheem Sterling, what does he want to do?
“I think the ball’s in his court as well, as much as anything. He probably understands and realises he’s not going to get that wage at another club. So, he’s going to have to take a hit somewhere along the line. It’s just how much he wants to take a hit and where he wants to take that hit. But that hit is going to have to be taken, no doubt about it.
“It’ll be an opportunity to kickstart his career again in Scotland, because it’s a shame. He looks lost. He certainly looks unrecognisable to the Raheem Sterling that we knew back in the day at Liverpool and obviously Chelsea and things like that when he was firing on all cylinders.”
Celtic signing Sterling would be a major coup, even though the 30-year-old doesn’t appear to be the player he was during his peak years for Manchester City and England.
He is still young enough to have a big impact at in the final third at Parkhead, and his pedigree speaks for itself, having won four Premier League titles with City, also scoring 20 goals in 82 caps for England.