West Ham and Brendan Rodgers Leicester City are amongst five Premier League clubs in the hunt to sign Cameron Carter-Vickers, that’s according to a Team Talk report this morning.
‘The eight-cap USA international has played 90 minutes in all but one Scottish Premiership game this term. Indeed, he has helped Ange Postecoglou’s side keep 11 top-flight clean sheets.
Celtic therefore want to sign him on a permanent deal. They negotiated an option-to-buy clause with Tottenham which TEAMtalk understands is worth more than £10million including add-ons.
TEAMtalk has also learned, though, that the Glasgow giants will face summer competition from five Premier League clubs for the defender.
Leicester, West Ham, Wolves, Burnley and Watford are monitoring Carter-Vickers’ progress.’
Celtic have the Spurs centre half on loan for the rest of the season and are believed to have an option to buy clause inserted in the deal, however any such option works both ways and both player and club would have to be willing to agree to a permanent transfer.
Celtic of course you’d assume have already agreed on a purchase price for Carter-Vickers and if both parties are happy, it would likely be the easiest deal to proceed, however if such interest from Premier League clubs is factual, then Cameron Carter-Vickers would have a tough choice to make.
On one hand hailing from Essex may well mean the likes of West Ham in particular may well be appealing, although he’d have to consider his career options, as happened at Spurs, he may well amount to being a squad filler once again, whereby at Celtic Carter-Vickers is a guaranteed first team starter and could have the substantial attraction of automatic qualification to the Champions League to consider. For a player with USA international aspirations, first team football at Celtic rather than bench filling at a Premier League club is a far quicker route to international call-ups.
Of course, no decision on this can be made until the summer now, but it appears Carter-Vickers excellent performances in the Hoops may be attracting admiring glances from the EPL.
Niall J
Naebody after Starfelt then? Anybody? Please?