The Hoops had a nightmare with the goalkeeper whose contract was terminated.
Following Joe Hart’s announcement that he will be retiring at the end of the current campaign, Celtic will be looking to add a replacement goalkeeper during the summer transfer window.
The 36-year-old goalkeeper has been a fantastic asset to the team since joining on a permanent basis from Tottenham Hotspur in the summer of 2021.
Between the 2022–2023 and 2022–2023 seasons, Hart started 72 of the team’s 76 Scottish Premiership games as the Hoops won the championship in both..
Vasilis Barkas, the massive flop the former England international replaced at Parkhead less than three years ago, was Celtic’s biggest disappointment.The sum that Celtic paid Vasilis Barkas to sign himFormer Hoops manager Neil Lennon pounced to sign the goalkeeper from Greek team AEK Athens in the summer of 2020 for a reputed £4.5 million, plus $1 million in salary annually.Barkas failed to secure a regular berth in the starting lineup for the Scottish giants, therefore the deal did not work out as planned for any of the parties involved.He appeared in just five more Premiership games after starting nine of the team’s first ten. He also spent 16 games on the bench.
Between the sticks, Scott Bain became Lennon’s go-to choice when the Scottish stopper stopped 69% of the shots he faced in 18 league games in the 2020–21 season.Barkas, on the other hand, was deemed “awful” by analyst Frank McAvennie for saving just 60% of the attempts on his goal in 15 Premiership matches, indicating that he was not talented enough to start over Bain.
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