Liverpool defender Nat Phillips has agreed terms on a loan deal with Celtic, reports Anthony Joseph. The Sky Sports reporter adds: “It’s understood his situation will be reassessed in the January window. Phillips, 26, is joining the Scottish champions to help ease their centre-back injury crisis.”
This is great news, particularly with Sunday’s game at Ibrox fast approaching and with Celtic so weakened at centre back in recent weeks with three players all being injured the arrival of an experienced performer like Phillips will be news that is widely welcomed by the Celtic support.
And just like Cameron Carter-Vickers before him, Nat Phillips will have the chance to sample life at Celtic, which is set to include some mouth-watering nights of Champions League action, before deciding alongside Brendan Rodgers whether he’d like to hang around into 2024 and beyond.
He’ll have to do his talking on the pitch first and Sunday gives him a huge opportunity to hit the ground running and establish himself in the heart of the Celtic defence, probably playing alongside new signing Gustaf Lagerbielke.
UPDATE: Liverpool defender Nat Phillips has agreed terms on a loan deal with Celtic.
It’s understood his situation will be reassessed in the January window.
Phillips, 26, is joining the Scottish champions to help ease their centre-back injury crisis. https://t.co/rRe4AhkL8H
— Anthony Joseph (@AnthonyRJoseph) August 31, 2023
Nat is well thought off by Liverpool supporters who rate him quite highly, some are sad to see him leave, Scott Parker called him an exceptional player. So, welcome to Celtic Nat, home of the Scottish Champions as we learn later who we might face in the Champions League. A good player from a lovely family. His Faither once played for the dark side, but so did “Faithers, Faither”, – Ronnie Simpson and he didn’t do too bad.
Not sure how you can say it is a great signing, unless you have seen him play, our opponents on Sunday signed a defender from Liverpool who they thought would be a great signing. A big shout to put him in on Sunday, heard some pool fans saying he will stroll it up here, we have heard that many times about many players, and they bombed. Fingers crossed it turns out well for him and us. Good to see some of the doom merchants being a wee bit more optimistic about the upcoming game. If we can go and win on Sunday their fans will implode.
Great news ,would have been even better if had came before we signed all those centre backs.