“I’ve spoken to the manager a few times up to this point. With everything going on, I didn’t think it was the right time to go into it. We hadn’t played football in so long and weren’t back playing. I’ve still got plenty of time on my current contract.
“Before this one, I was down to five months to go before we signed a new deal. So there’s plenty of time for that to resolve itself. It’s not occupying my thoughts just now and I’ve said that to the manager as well.
“It’s crazy these days when people go into the last two years of their contract and there’s a big freak out about when they’re going to sign the next one. It’s changed days. My dad always reminds me of when he’d go down to the last week of his contract and still hadn’t heard anything, it’s strange but I’m just enjoying playing again.”
Christie has ever right to eye a move to England – just as Armstrong and Tierney have done before him. However Peter Lawwell also has every right to do what is right for the club and that means not allowing the Christies to manufacture another Boyata situation.
Neil Lennon has better number 10 options already at the club. I remember a St Johnstone player telling us about their dressing room conversations about Celtic players and they reckoned that Tom Rogic was the most talented player in the league. They weren’t wrong. And in both Olivier Ntcham and more probably new signing David Turnbull Celtic are well covered in that position. Whether it’s in January or the summer, it looks pretty much certain that Ryan Christie will be leaving Celtic.
Business is business and it’s time for Peter Lawwell to be looking at maximising the fee for Ryan Christie to make sure there are no “cut price deals” like the one mentioned below.
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