Celtic of Scotland attacker, Kelechi Iheanacho has been cited among a growing list of players whose injuries are giving the club’s returnee coach, Martin O’Neil sleepless nights, Sports247 reports.
Iheanacho has been out injured since September last year, which came just a month after he arrived from Middlesbrough of England, but no timeline has been placed on his likely return.
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It marks another major setback for the former Manchester City and Leicester City of England star, whose move to Sevilla of Spain in the summer of 2024 turned out to be a nightmare.
His days at Parkhead are also becoming bleak, as his former coach at Leicester, Brendan Rodgers, who took him to Celtic, resigned few weeks after, and he was already twice injured before the arrival of the next gaffer.
Incidentally, the second gaffer Celtic would have during Iheanacho’s time with The Bhoys was Wilfried Nancy, who happened to be the coach when the Super Eagles’ star went to Columbus Crew of USA on loan from Man City at the start of his career.
Sadly, Nancy was sacked last week, before ‘Kelz’ could shake of his fitness issues and return to action; yet the UAE 2013 FIFA U17 World Cup gold medalist and most valuable player is still not fit enough to play under the new man in charge.
Incidentally, this is the second stint O’Neil will have as Celtic’s interim coach since Iheanacho joined the team, but the Nigerian star is yet to play a game under his change.
‘Senior Man’ has now been cited along with United States’ centre-back, Cameron Carter-Vickers and Celtic’s captain, Callum McGregor, among the absentees who are giving O’Neil worrying thoughts, though the gaffer downplayed the effect.
O’Neil stated, “I’d love to blame other people, but it’s down to me. We are genuinely working really hard in the background, so there’s no impediment in that sense.
“It’s just trying to get some people in that we think could help us now, at least until the end of the season. I have discarded some, but we are making progress, or we think we are.”
