Christie’s dad Charlie started the ball rolling on all of this in the summer in an interview with Glasgow Times which we covered at the time. He reckoned that his son should have been a contender for Player of the Year last year (all the various awards went to Edouard) as his son had scored 20 goals in the season from midfield, despite having had a few injuries. He also hinted that his boy already had an eye on playing in the English Premier League and reckoned he was good enough to do well down there.
That article didn’t sit too well with a Celtic support who were being asked to fork out considerable sums of money for season tickets without any real prospect of seeing much action and this season there has clearly been a section of the now online support who are unhappy with the Highlander and his apparent selfishness in matches. Some reckon he’s been playing for himself probably trying to win a move.
Before that happened Christie was sent off at Livingston in early October 2019 for a late, studs showing tackle. Fair enough, these things happen in the game and a red card was just about the right call. The Celtic support was disappointed at losing the game 2-0 and as always happens a few on social media would have taken it out on the players. Jullien was getting it for being ‘rag-dolled’ by Dykes and Christie was criticised for getting sent off.
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The Christies came out fighting. Ryan made a big deal about deleted his social media accounts and his dad hit back at the trolls. It was way over the top. Christopher Jullien said nothing and rightly so.
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Last weekend at McDiarmid Park many Celtic supporters commented on the lack of celebration from Ryan Christie after the crucial late goal from Leigh Griffiths gave Celtic the breakthrough. We pointed out amid this criticism (Christie was the only player not to run over to the goalscorer, he simply turned away and clenched his fist) that moments after that goal it was Christie’s excellent block deep inside his own penalty area that prevented a St Johnstone equaliser. That game could have ended 1-1 rather than 2-0 to Celtic and Christie played a crucial part in that.
Ryan Christie, speaking to Scotsman before his COVID-19 frustrations (he is negative remember) had given an update on his current thoughts on signing a new contract with Celtic and it appears that he’s happy to avoid entering into talks about a new deal and is instead prepared to run down the clock on his current deal towards the last few months anyway.
That though is not the way Peter Lawwell and Neil Lennon will be thinking and we can probably now pencil in Christie as one of the want-aways that Neil Lennon spoke about after the Champions League exit in August. Here’s what Christie has being saying about his Celtic contract.
