When asked if he wanted to leave when Tony Mowbray sold him, he replied: “It wasn’t so much Tony sold me. The club had bought me for, I don’t know, £1.4 million or something like that. And I had been there two or three years. I was 31 at the time. And they were getting offered another £1.3 million for me again. So it made business sense. On my personal side, it was making business sense – for me financially.
“I probably wanted to stay. It was actually a great bit of business for Celtic. The club bought me for £1.3 or £1.4million, and then they sold me again three years later for the same price. And having gone and won a title and won a cup. So I’d done my job.
“It was probably the right time for the club to sell me and make their money back or it would have been dead money for them then. And then I went to Middlesbrough and it was good down there. But no, I didn’t really want to leave Celtic at that time. But I understood everything and why.”
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