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‘He needs to’… 22-year-old summer signing has been told to leave Celtic to save his international career
Celtic added no less than eight new players to their squad in the summer and out of those, only one has yet to make a start for the club.
22-year-old Marco Tilio has featured just once for Celtic this season since becoming the Australian A League’s record transfer export.
Reports last month suggested that the young winger was thinking about leaving Celtic in January but now he has been told by Craig Moore that he must get out of Parkhead if he wants to progress his career with the national side.
Moore said [], “He needs to get himself another football club. And I’m saying that because he’s an Aussie boy and he has a chance in terms of having an impact with our national team for a good amount of time.
“But like any player, he needs to get himself in a situation where he’s playing football. Unless several players fall over, that’s not going to happen at Celtic.”
Brendan Rodgers admits Marco Tilio is struggling at Celtic
The Celtic manager referenced why Tilio was not starting for Celtic despite overcoming a serious injury at the start of the season.
Rodgers revealed that the 22-year-old was struggling with the transition of coming from Australia to Glasgow and that he needed time to settle.
Rodgers said, “It’s just time. He will admit it himself, it’s been a really, really hard transition for him.
“It’s always difficult, you are a new player coming into a club and you end up being injured virtually all of pre-season and into September.
“He has started to find his feet in the last three or four weeks. It’s going to take him more time but I am not in any big rush for Marco. He will bring himself to the team as quickly as he can produce in training and over his time here.
“He is adapting but it’s taking a wee bit longer for him just purely because the intensity of the game is totally different to where he has come from.”
Tilio is certainly a player I am keen to see in a Celtic jersey. The youngster is highly rated back in Australia and the fact that Celtic shelled out such a large fee for him shows that they think he is a player.
Pundit’s opinions believing that Rodgers doesn’t rate the youngster seem wide of the mark when you look at the Celtic manager’s comments but surely with Hyunjun Yang struggling for form, Tilio must be close to getting his first start for the club?
Hopefully, the Celtic fans will get to see more of Tilio but with Liel Abada and Daizen Maeda now back in training, the chances of seeing him in a Celtic jersey look slimmer by the day.
In other news, Matt O’Riley says Brendan Rodgers has now done something he’s never seen from him at Celtic before