Adam Matthews

Lustig and Matthews were good as they were rarely injured at the same time, we've moved on from Matthews, I wish him well

 

Yep, Hooper was the same, where's he now still at Wednesday? No chance of winning anything, never play in the CL ever again etc. etc. Must be sittin in their hooses every night, Looking at their medals wi nae chance of adding to them.

 

Lustig's the better RB, no doubt in my mind. But I like Matthews, brought pace and aggression. Unfortunate to see his career in a tailspin, although with his comments after leaving, he maybe had karma coming.

 

Agression?

Matthews was a complete shitebag. The amount of tackles he pulled out of was disgraceful for a defender.

 

2011-15 Matthews made 150 appearances for Celtic.

Since leaving he's made just 2 appearances for Sunderland and 22 appearances on loan at Bristol City.

His last international cap was in March 2016, a friendly against Northern Ireland.

Safe to say the best days of his career were at Celtic.

 

Didn't watch as many games then as I do now, but anytime I watched him I don't remember him being a * when up against the opposition.

I usually found him hard pressing and quick to get on his man, althought I don't remember him being the greatest defender ever. As I said before, Lustig was and is still the better player, no question.

 

Bit of an enigma. Absolutely brilliant against Barca but I can remember him being * couple of times against the manky mob!

 

I think Wanyama, Petrov and Van Dijk would disagree with you.

While they haven't won the medals they would have done here, they've improved as players, enhanced their reputation, enhanced their bank balance and still played European football. Wanyama is playing for a side capable of challenging for the title, and it won't be long before Van Dijk moves up another level, too.

The guys playing in the Championship for smaller clubs - they're the ones who may regret leaving. Though that League is certainly still more lucrative and competitive than our own, I can't imagine it's as satisfying as playing in the Champions League, winning titles and walking out for a Cup final.

 

A few players went on to good success Macari, Dalglish, McClair, MacLeod, Mo Johnston, John Collins, Van Hooijdink, Di Canio, Stubbs, Viduka, Larsson, Petrov, Forster, Wanyama, Van Dijk.

Some probably regret they left Davie Hay, Charlie Nicholas, McAvennie, Paul Elliott, Cadete, Vega, Maloney, McGeady, Boruc, Hooper, Ledley, Kelvin Wilson, Matthews.

 

Hooper has really * his career.

 

He was good for a while then I seem to remember just stalled and actually regressed somewhat as a player.

My memory is sketchy at the best of times but I seem to remember away at AC Milan, everything was going to him he was finding so much space but for the entire 90 mins he couldn't cross a ball to save his live.

 

I'm sure they'll be upset sitting in there mansion, while crying driving their new super car down to the local steak house to eat a cheaply bought £200 wagu steak.

I do agree though, I'd rather a medal room filled with pictures and swapped tops with Messi etc on the wall while boring the grandkids to sleep with stories of how celtic battled the world's best and took them down.

 

Totally agree with this.

I hate the argument that they could have a short career so need to make x amount of money. Bollocks. They have a ridiculous amount of free time to gain some qualifications, and also with all that money could plan for retirement better etc.

In the grand scheme of things, there is no excuse for a footballer not to be able to move into a "regular" job that the layman has when they hang up their boots. Yep, their lifestyle may change, but such is life.

 

I don't think larson can be used as an example. Didn't we make him the top paid player in the UK at the time. Possibly Roy Keane was on more and that was it.