Aiden McGeady has said that he would ‘love’ to return to Celtic in a new capacity.
Having spent ten years at his boyhood club as a player, McGeady has already made his mark at Parkhead, but he now has his eye on a post-playing return.
He became the most expensive ever export from Celtic and Scottish football when he joined Spartak Moscow in 2010. He went on to play for Everton, Preston and Sunderland.
Since retiring, he has worked as a technical manager at Ayr United, and now works as a scout for Wigan Athletic.
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McGeady told the Daily Record this week: “You’d have to ask the powers that be if there would be a role or not…
“But yeah, I’d love to. You’re talking about wingers there, there’s things I think I could help players on, and little things in a game to coach them.
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“Especially wingers and forwards. Everything I could do could apply to the whole Academy. It is something that I think is needed in football.
“Why would you not want to give players that you are paying a lot of money for or your Academy players every bit of help that they can get?
“Let’s be honest, everybody wants Academy players and young players in their first team, like when I was younger.
“I’d love to do something like that, whether or not that happens remains to be seen.
“It is something that I’d like to do because I feel that I’ve got too much experience and knowledge to keep it to myself and not pass it on.
“I’d love to be able to help. If that was first team or B team or younger Academy I’d love to be able to help them. Not to make the mistakes that I made, help them round their game in any way possible.”
Celtic already have another ex-winger working in the academy in Jonny Hayes, who will take charge of the B team’s last-ever Lowland League game this weekend.
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The Celtic career of Aiden McGeady
Widely viewed as one of the most talented players to ever emerge from Celtic’s academy, McGeady was given rave reviews from a young age and scored on his debut under Martin O’Neill in 2004.
It wasn’t until the arrival of Gordon Strachan that he emerged as one of the team’s most important players, contributing in the Champions League as the Hoops won four consecutive league titles.
Despite being the club’s Player of the Year in 2008, he endured a difficult relationship with Strachan, which was highly publicised. This turned attention away from his undoubtable talent as a player.
He was named the club’s Players’ Player of the Year in 2010 before finally making his big-money departure. The only surprise was that he chose to move to Russia.
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