Celtic have this afternoon confirmed that left back Birthday Bhoy Greg Taylor has signed an new deal that will keep him at the club until at least the summer of 2025.
Taylor turns 24 today and what better way to celebrate a birthday that sorting out a new contract with a pay rise and the security of four more years at Scotland leading and financially stable football club?
Taylor, who signed from Kilmarnock in September 2019, made his debut against St Mirren shortly afterwards. In total he has made 60 appearances for Celtic and has scored one goal (against KR Reykjavik) while he has a Scottish Premiership and Scottish Cup winners medal to show for his efforts to date, along with six Scotland caps.
While it is fair to say that Greg Taylor isn’t everyone’s cup of team then man that matters most, Celtic manager Ange Postecoglou rates him highly.
Speaking to the club’s official website Postecoglou said: “I am delighted that Greg has extended his contract with the Club. He has had an excellent start to the season and has made a really valuable contribution to the team.
I'd tear up that new contract immediately for that pubic explosion on his top lip. pic.twitter.com/Bxkf5SKrDT
— 🏴 Boyle🇻🇦 (@Boyle_67) November 5, 2021
“Unfortunately he has suffered the injury in recent weeks, but our focus and his, is now to get him back in the squad as soon as possible, have him pick up where he left off and playing at that same high level.
“I am really pleased he has committed his future to Celtic and I am sure he will be an important player for us over the next few years.”
Ange Postecoglou 💬 "I am delighted that Greg has extended his contract with the Club. He has had an excellent start to the season and has made a really valuable contribution to the team." 💪#Taylor2025 | #COYBIG 🍀 pic.twitter.com/LQYlIojyWr
— Celtic Football Club (@CelticFC) November 5, 2021
Glad to hear this, he is a very underrated player by some of the supporters. He is obviously rated highly by Big Ange and also by Steve Clarke and that’s good enough for me. After supporting Celtic for around 70 years the minority of the support who are super critical of players really annoy me, there is positive and negative criticism and some of our support fall into the latter group. Most of the Lisbon Lions would have been hounded out the club by these types of supporters as they all had several years of failure before blossoming into the best team in the clubs history because they were given time to develop. I know these are different times but some of the criticism of our players these days is way over the top.
I agree with you Michael he like other relatively new players deserve a chance under the new manager and we are seeing how Jack hendry has blossomed under someone else’s ideas and we have to learn from that