Neil Lennon claims Manchester United star ‘wouldn’t get in the Celtic team’

Neil Lennon has poured acold h2o connected rumours linking Celtic with a determination for Manchester United midfielder Christian Eriksen and claimed helium ‘wouldn’t adjacent get successful the team’.

Eriksen has been linked with a determination implicit the border up of the January transportation model arsenic Celtic look to fortify Brendan Rodgers’ squad.

Celtic person thrived since Rodgers’ instrumentality successful the summertime of 2023, winning the Scottish Premiership and Scottish Cup past season and pulling 4 points wide astatine the apical of the array this term.

Rodgers is said to beryllium keen to bring Denmark planetary Eriksen to Celtic Park but erstwhile manager Lennon ‘cannot see’ that woody happening and doubts the subordinate would adjacent get successful the team.

Eriksen has made 86 appearances for Manchester United implicit the past three-and-a-half seasons but looks acceptable to spot his game-time reduced nether caller brag Ruben Amorim, known for his high-intensity and pressing benignant of play.

That could pb to Eriksen looking for a determination elsewhere but Lennon does not deliberation helium volition extremity up astatine Celtic, particularly fixed the wages helium volition beryllium connected astatine Old Trafford.

‘With the endowment Celtic person astatine their disposal astatine the moment, I’m not definite that Christian Eriksen would get into the team,’ Lennon told BoyleSports.

‘He is simply a classy subordinate and ever has been, but I’m not definite who helium would travel successful to replace. You’d person to see the wages he’d privation arsenic well.

‘I can’t spot it happening and I’m not definite it would suit the nine astatine the moment.’

Lennon is simply a fable astatine Celtic, lifting 5 Scottish Premiership titles astatine the nine arsenic a subordinate and the aforesaid fig arsenic a manager.

Looking backmost connected his clip successful charge, the 53-year-old revealed helium was ‘very close’ to bringing England striker Ivan Toney to the nine earlier helium signed for Brentford successful 2020.

‘The 1 that got distant astatine Celtic was Ivan Toney, unluckily helium ended up going to Brentford,’ Lennon added.

‘We had a batch of discussions and adjacent had him astatine the grooming ground, we were precise adjacent to getting him but it wasn’t meant to be.

‘He’d person torn up the part and you tin spot that by looking astatine what helium has gone connected to do.’

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