St Mirren starlet has decided to remain at the Paisley club despite them accepting a @125k bid from Celtic. The news was confirmed by St Mirren this evening via a statement on their official website:
‘St Mirren Football Club can confirm that last week it allowed Dylan Reid permission to speak to a fellow cinch Premiership club regarding a possible transfer.
‘We can now confirm that Dylan has turned down the opportunity to leave St Mirren at this point in time.
‘The St Mirren Youth Academy graduate became the youngest ever player to play for St Mirren, as well as the youngest ever Scottish Premiership player, when he made his debut for Saints at just 16 years and five days old in March 2021. He has since gone on to play for the first-team on five occasions – most recently as a substitution in our 2-0 win over Cowdenbeath on Saturday.
‘We are pleased that Dylan will remain at St Mirren and look forward to him continuing his development at the club.’
Celtic were planning to use the player in the Celtic B team playing in the Lowland League and Ange Postecoglou even went as far as saying that he was not directly involved in the transfer negations as it was essentially a B team matter.
Reid could have joined Celtic and may have had some first team exposure but the chances of breaking into the team would be remote to say the least. Now rather than playing in the Lowland League for Celtic he will continue his development playing in the Scottish Premiership for St Mirren, where he’ll get the chance to impress the likes of Ange Postecoglou.
Niall J essentially called this on The Celtic Star the other day, and it’s hard to argue with a word of that article. It also seems to be the correct decision reached by the St Mirren player.