Former Celtic target Aaron Hickey has scored for Serie A side Bologna tonight – prompting rumours that Celtic should have signed him after all and not had to put up with the left-hand side problems that Ange Postecoglou continues to face.
Bologna face Genoa in a north Italian clash tonight, and Hickey gave the home side a 1-0 lead over their opponents – only to be pegged back by their red and blue counterparts.
Hickey signed for Bologna in the summer of 2020 for a fee of £1.5million; which was well within Celtic’s budget, but the board chose not to act upon the steal from Hearts and instead chose to sign Diego Laxalt on loan from AC Milan – we all know how that worked out.
Seen as the second-coming of Kieran Tierney, Hickey turned down offers from European giants such as Bayern Munich before moving to Bologna on the promise that he would receive guaranteed first-team football in Emilia-Romagna – which he has done with 15 appearances before his season was cut short last season.
Celtic would have been well suited to sign the full-back, especially given the fact that he is familiar with the club having left at the age of 16 to join Hearts.
And his goal against Genoa is a timely reminder that Celtic’s defensive vulnerabilities could have been solved had they signed Hickey for that measly sum just 13 months ago.
Aaron Hickey scores his 1st goal for @BolognaFC1909en
Only his 2nd career goal, gives them the lead.
A peach 🏴⚽️🇮🇹 pic.twitter.com/VOmxE7p1B4
— ScotsAbroadPod (@ScotsAbroadPod) September 21, 2021
Is that ‘cos the board only know about money and not football. Celtic Park is a factory just like every other factory in Britain. Most run by shite management.
‘”prompting rumours that Celtic should have signed him after all”. This sentence makes no sense at also. I