CELTIC left no stone unturned in the quest to bolster their defensive line back in the summer window. The bhoys had a huge turnover of defenders with many leaving the club and new bhoys brought in.

The bhoys brought in Christopher Jullien, Greg Taylor, Boli Bolingoli, Hatem Elhamed and Moritz Bauer.

According to his agent, Kosovo defender Amir Rrahmani could have joined the club this summer too but opted to move to Hella Verona in Italy.

Back in June there was a report we were interested in the player from a Belgian Publication dhnet.be, however, other than that there wasn’t much to the rumour at the time.

Given the player is versatile and can play all across the defence it may have been an option before Celtic signed Hatem Elhamed from Hapoel Be’er Sheva.

Speaking about the summer interest in his client – his agent Adrian Aliaj revealed why he chose Italy over Scotland.

“He had played in the Europa League and came from an already good level,” Adrian Aliaj told TeamTalk.

“He is playing for the first time in Serie A and is doing very well. I am very happy as his agent, but so is the company and the coach.

“Honestly, I didn’t expect Hellas could do so well in this early part of the season, because he was coming from Serie B anyway. He did a very hard preparation with Juric, but already in the first few games he had shown that he had personality and could be dangerous on set pieces.

“I have known Amir for 4-5 years and I’m sure the Serie A for him is really the right championship. He is very happy because he plays in a difficult championship that will make him grow a lot. He feels like he is at home, he has set himself very quickly. We hope to continue like this.

“Juric was also important for me as an agent, because in the summer there were Standard Liege and Celtic, but seeing that he was on the bench of Hellas we decided with Amir to make this choice.”

Celtic had a positive window overall but there were times when Neil Lennon thought he was close to announcing a deal that never materialised – this could have been one of them.

1 COMMENT

  1. Thank you, but we are very happy with the signings we made.
    Your guy is surplus to requirements.
    Another non-story from this blog.

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