Celtic skipper Scott Brown advised his team mates Fraser Forster and Gary Hooper not to be lured into making a move to the Premier League in the summer, and believed that the prospect of being a part of Champions League football with the Scottish
outfit might force the duo into thinking otherwise.
Forster, a product of the Newcastle United Academy, arrived at Glasgow in August 2010 on a season-long loan and experienced a successful spell with the Scottish club. The Magpies goalkeeper helped Celtic finish second in the league during the 2010/11 campaign,
keeping 24 clean sheets in 44 appearances.
He returned to Tyneside after completing his term with the Hoops. However, after featuring in a couple of pre-season matches for the Toon, he was sent back to Celtic in August 2011 for the remainder of the season, where a played an important part in the
club’s league triumph in 2011/12 season.
Nevertheless Brown let out his desire to see the Newcastle player pen a permanent contract with Celtic, along with the club’s top goal scorer Hooper.
While talking to reporters, he said: “Fraser [Forster] has a year left at Newcastle and I'd love to see him back with us but I don't know what will happen.”
“There's the lure of the Premier League but we've the lure of the Champions League if we get through our qualifiers.”
Talking about the English striker, the http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Scotland-c756 International was all praise for the impact that he had made at Celtic Park since his arrival, and thought that he possessed the capability to go on and score 30 goals in a complete term.
Hooper has represented the Bhoys in 86 matches and went on a goal scoring spree in the last two seasons, netting 51 goals in total.
Despite both the players drawing interest from a number of Premier League teams, Brown was confident that the Celts march towards the Champions League will be enough for the duo to turn down lucrative offers from http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/England-c749.
He continued, “The Champions League is the tournament you want to be in. It's going to be hard to go down to England and experience that because you've got the big four or five teams fighting it out for places.”
He went on to stay that the current position of the Premier League is feasible for some players, and can prove to be detrimental for the careers of the others. He also revealed that he himself had been approached by multiple teams, but he set them aside
as he is going through the best time of his life at Scotland.
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