Many pundits and reporters have had their two bobs worth when it comes to commenting on the Celtic goalkeeping situation this summer.
With Celtics £5m man, Vasilis Barkas, clearly toiling at the club, the club made moves to rectify this and signed Joe Hart for £1m from Tottenham Hotspur.
You would think then that the debate would now be shut down as Hart has impressed so far in his relatively short time at the club but now the conversation has returned and the topic is cover for the new Celtic number 1.
Barkas may yet show a glimmer of the goalkeeper that made the Hoops shell out £5m for him, but it doesn’t look likely and with Bain and Hazard clearly not deemed good enough, if Hart succumbs to injury, Celtic could be back at square one.
Speaking on Clyde 1 Superscoreboard, journalist Hugh Keevins has the solution to Celtic’s, currently non existent issue, and urged the Hoops to raid Derby County and end Scotland kepper’ David Marshall’s agony as he now finds himself surplus to Wayne Rooney’s requirements, “He (Barkas) has no future at Celtic. The club should be trying to get him away somewhere else.
“They will never get what they paid for him, because anyone who has seen him in a Celtic strip would never pay 5 million pounds for him.
“Scott Bain will not be back in the team. Conor Hazard is a mile off being good enough to be in the team and if David Marshall, can be persuaded, his family live in Glasgow.
“He had an outstanding time at Celtic as a younger man. Right now, he’s going to sit on Derby County’s bench.
“I think if you had the combination of Joe Hart and David Marshall then, you know, Joe Hart has known slumps in form before.
“I think it’d be good signing for Celtic, and they do need to cover. They do need more defenders to return to be brought in because, middle to front they are perpetual motion, and the perpetual motion is very attractive to look at.”
There is no doubt Marshall is a fine goalkeeper and his career was cut short at Celtic after the arrival of Artur Boruc but would he come to Scotland to be Celtic’s number two keeper?