Liam Scales earned Celtic trust with Rangers rearguard action as path chosen at teenage crossroads pays off
dailyrecord.co.ukIf you’d said a year ago that Liam Scales would soon be Celtic’s best Champions League centre-back you’d have been ridiculed.Even the player himself might have chuckled at what seemed at the time such a preposterous notion.
But football has a weird and wonderful way of throwing up stories like the Irishman’s. Loaned out to Aberdeen last season, it appeared his time at Parkhead was probably up.
The arrival of new gaffer Brendan Rodgers – as well as THREE new central defenders – in the summer surely had put the tin lid on an potential future at the club.Yet on Tuesday night in Rotterdam, there he was – excelling against Dutch champions Feyenoord at the highest level in Europe.
A few weeks earlier Scales was immense at Ibrox in Celtic’s 1-0 Old Firm victory over Rangers. The turnaround in fortunes for the 25-year-old is dreamland stuff.
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