{"id":197294,"date":"2025-06-19T13:57:09","date_gmt":"2025-06-19T13:57:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/197294\/"},"modified":"2025-06-19T13:57:09","modified_gmt":"2025-06-19T13:57:09","slug":"superstar-who-got-knocked-back-by-celtic-has-been-backed-to-secure-transfer-to-atletico-madrid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/197294\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Superstar’ who got ‘knocked back’ by Celtic has been backed to secure transfer to Atletico Madrid"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Celtic fans have watched some seriously talented players don the club\u2019s colours in the modern era. <\/strong><\/p>\n

One of the best of the modern era was the King of Kings, Henrik Larsson. You can also include the no-nonsense Scott Brown<\/a>. The exciting Moussa Dembele, and many more. <\/p>\n

Even now, the Celtic Park<\/a> faithful have been blessed to witness Japan play a huge part in the club\u2019s success, with the likes of Kyogo Furuhashi, Daizen Maeda and Reo Hatate certified legends. <\/p>\n

And, of course, the man who started all of that off was cult hero Shunsuke Nakamura<\/a>. <\/p>\n

But then, some slip by the wayside for one reason or another, yet still go on to forge incredible careers outside Glasgow.<\/p>\n

\"CelticPhoto by ANDY BUCHANAN\/AFP via Getty ImagesCeltic fan Andy Robertson backed to thrive at Atl\u00e9tico Madrid<\/p>\n

Andy Robertson is a lifelong Celtic fan<\/a>, and he was on the club\u2019s books as a youngster before going on to make a name for himself at Liverpool. <\/p>\n

Frank McAvennie<\/a> was discussing the left-back\u2019s future and where he could go next after being \u2018knocked back\u2019 by the club of his dreams as a youngster.<\/p>\n

There are suggestions that Robertson could join Atletico Madrid<\/a> this summer, and McAvennie backed the Liverpool title-winner to continue to be a \u2018superstar\u2019 if he links up with Diego Simeone, as he told his Let Me Be Frank Podcast. <\/p>\n

\u201cIf he is going to Simeone and Atl\u00e9tico Madrid,\u201d said McAvennie. \u201cAndy Robertson is a tailor-made player for him. <\/p>\n

\u201cHe is the kind of player he likes. A bit like Kieran Tierney. Full body goes in. He doesn\u2019t hold back from a tackle. He\u2019s up and down. But he\u2019s a good defender \u2013 he will be a superstar in Spain if he goes. <\/p>\n

\u201cAndy has done brilliantly. He got knocked back from Celtic. He was told that, \u2018he wasn\u2019t good enough.\u2019 Went to QPR. He\u2019s gone on to be a superstar. Fair play to the boy. He has dug in. <\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a good example, don\u2019t listen to people. It\u2019s only one man\u2019s opinion.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

What has Robertson said about Celtic?<\/p>\n

Every player would love to represent their boyhood club, and it would have been crushing for Robertson<\/a> to be let go by Celtic<\/a>.<\/p>\n

But rather than allowing that to weigh him down, the 31-year-old left Celtic in 2009, joined Queen\u2019s Park, and that journey then saw him move to Dundee United, Southampton, and then his famous transfer to Anfield.<\/p>\n

Back in 2022, Robertson told TNT Sports why he was released by Celtic, and everything that surrounded it. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\u201cI think height was a part of it,\u201d said Robertson on why he was released by Celtic. \u201cAlso, physicality, I wasn\u2019t exactly the muscliest. I wasn\u2019t really built, and things like that. <\/p>\n

\u201cI got released when there was a big change at Celtic. That summer, quite a lot of players got released of all ages. <\/p>\n

\u201cAt that age, it isn\u2019t make or break. But do you go full-time football? Or do you get released? That\u2019s the two options you have got. You haven\u2019t got anywhere else to turn.\u201d<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Celtic fans have watched some seriously talented players don the club\u2019s colours in the modern era. One of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":197295,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4100],"tags":[33159,94,54220,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-197294","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-andy-robertson","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-frank-mcavennie","11":"tag-sports","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114710383462529932","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197294\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/197295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}