Celtic manager Brendan Rodgers was clearly unhappy as the Glasgow giants look set to lose their most talented youngster, Daniel Cummings, in the summer to West Ham.
The young forward has cut a peripheral figure for the Bhoys this season, and his expected progression into first-team play has stalled. Rodgers is understood to believe Cummings lacks the athleticism to play in the SPL, which has resulted in the attacker’s reluctance to sign a new deal.
West Ham had hoped their offer of £500,000 would be accepted by Celtic to sign Cummings today in an effort to force the deal through quickly.
Sources confirmed that the youngster has committed to West Ham in the summer once he becomes a free agent, with training compensation set by FIFA regulations. As per Claret and Hugh earlier, West Ham’s offer was rejected.
Celtic manager Rodgers was clearly unhappy about the situation and made his opinions known about Cummings and his absence from the squad.
“He was with the second team yesterday and he was ill in the warm-up, so he didn’t play.”
“I believe there’s interest from another club for him, but that’s been the case with a lot of our young players.”
“You get to a certain age where they have their contract running out, and then they have a decision to make.”
“Do they stay and follow the example of a Callum McGregor, trust the club, be patient, and know that you might not be ready at 17 or 18, but you have to be a special talent to be.”
“Can you just be patient and wait a little bit longer? Or do you do what a lot of players have done and take the opportunity at 18 to look elsewhere?”
“So, I think that’s the situation that young Daniel is in with his agents. We will just wait and see what happens.”
Whether Cummings will actually get any game-time between now and the end of the season, when he will join West Ham, remains unclear. Knowing Rodgers had already stated that the youngster was not strong enough for the rigours of first team football it sounds perhaps as if the Celtic manager is just keeping Cummings in the squad ‘because he can’.
Makes a change to get a young promising talent instead of loosing them . We have him for next year if nothing else so well done potter et al
Typical sour grapes from a manager, we have lost as many as any other club that way. He is right players now even when young want to make good financial decisions, they don’t earn much and many will never make it, so why not earn as much as you can while you are trying to breakthrough.
People were raving about Sonny Perkins he has done nothing, Reece Oxford the same, there was Elliot Lee we could name numerous few who will reach the heights, Declan Rice was discarded by Chelsea. If any of us could do it we would probably do the same, in his case they have just resigned Jota so he is getting nowhere near the playing time he could elsewhere. Potter has a good record developing talent as do West Ham and if not now at the end of the season he will be joining COYI!!!
Tony mobray is now in charge of west brom and he knows a bit about young talent and he’s given dianga a glowing testament lamenting what I’ve seen here so far he’s a great talent
If Cummings was half as good as Cummings believes himself to be he would not be heading to West Ham.
We have seen players leave Celtic for the likes of Bayern Munich and top clubs only to come across them a few years later playing for Dumbarton and the like. Chelsea poached a player from Celtic a few years back, who was apparently the new Neymar. Last i heard of him he was selling baseball hats and was hanging around so dodgy characters, i believe he also tried his hand at being a gangsta rapper, i can’t even remember his name!
Young promising players have also left West Ham only to fail. Not just happens at Celtic.
That’s true, but if i was a 17 year old at Celtic or West Ham, i would think twice about upping sticks and leaving, after watching those who did and failed miserably into the bargain. A fella called Morrison left Celtic for Bayern Munich a few years back and he turns up on loan at Queens Park, if that’s not the biggest kick in the nuts i don’t know what is, try to spin the fact that you are back in Glasgow and playing for Queens Park to your mates and they’ll laugh in your face,
If your a pro footballer on 3 grand a week, that’s more than 95% of 17 year olds are earning. And it’s not as though you can go on a three day bender with your mates enjoying the fruits of your labour, so it doesn’t really make much difference if you are on 3 grand a week or 300 grand a week, it’s going to be at least another 20 years before you have the time to even think about spending this money in the foolish manner which it should be spent.
Some of these young fellas are believing their own hype and are destined to fail. All the players that were ‘promising’ and were poached by clubs down south have dropped off the radar altogether, there was a wee ginger winger who was the next Jimmy Johnson. Signed for some club down south and i have heard sight nor sound of him since. They didn’t become bad players overnight.
First off, A+ user name. Magnificent.
Secondly, you’re dead on. But given his record in the B team, one would figure Rodgers would give the kid more of a shot than what’s he’s been getting. He’s probably thinking that his form has earned him more senior time but he’s not getting it. It’s a shame agents want their players to chase more money, but I also understand the frustration from guys Cummings and Mubama.
Hardly stealing if the player doesn’t want to renew his contract. What is more worrying about this if Rodgers doesn’t think he is good enough for the SPL he won’t make in the Premier League. He is currently playing for Celtic B in the Lowland League which is probably equivalent to step 3 in English non league system so completely untested
Is this really any different to what’s happened with a number of our young players ?
By and large they’re not nearly as good as anyone thinks and end up at Orient like Sonny Perkins or making a pigs ear of it on loan at QPR like Harrison Ashby.
Add Ngakia, Diangana and others to that.