Jack Hendry

Aye, 2 mill euro I believe but tahts the club agreement, would still need the player himself to agree terms etc.

He could refuse and say na I want to go back to celtic etc

 

Happy for the guy. Felt sorry for him when he was here, he just looked frazzled. Nice to see he’s turned it around.

 

I understand the option to buy is in place at 2 mill. If they sign him & sell for four it's still good business.

 

Oostende immediately selling him for five times the fee that we have agreed would be the cherry on top of this * of a season.

 

I'm not sure that loaning out a player and including a buyout is good business. If the player fails you get him back & if he succeeds you lose him.
It's a bit of a freebie for the club that has the option to purchase.

 

We do it plenty.. when you have someone as bad as Jack was when he was with us, you’ll agree to anything to get him off the books.

 

There’s way more than football about the decision to ship him out.

 

We moan when we don't agree buy outs on loans we bring in so we cannot complain I suppose.

 

I'm not sure I understand this comment.

 

The decision to ship him out wasn’t only based on his footballing ability or lack of it. Tickets for Ibrox is all I’m saying.

 

Ooh how mysterious

 

Apparently Rodgers wants him at Leicester.

 

Was selling tickets to fans and bumping them rotten apparently.

 

They will just offer him a big signing on bonus.

 

He's *. End of.

If he was going to achieve anything at this club he'd still be here and playing next to Ajer, he was given plenty of opportunity to prove that.

Comparison with Welsh who I think has shown far more promise in his game should be all we need to understand the matter.

* him.

 

Well people are saying he never got a fair chance at the club, if he hadn’t * it by flogging tickets for Ibrox then maybe he would’ve. But I guess we will never know now.

 

It wasn’t fair because he was playing centre back, that’s a handicap from the start

 

KV Oostende have opened talks with recalled Scotland star Jack Hendry over a permanent summer switch.

The on-form Celtic defender is currently on-loan with the Belgian shock troops, who are pushing for a Champions League spot.




Hendry, who was recalled to the Scotland team for the first time in three years this week for the World Cup qualifiers against Austria, Israel and Faroe Islands, has been one of the top defenders in Belgium this season and has attracted a flood of interest from top clubs in England, Russia and Germany.

Oostende have a pre-agreed fee with Celtic, as part of their season-long loan agreement, and have first option on the defender.

That agreement has to be finalised over the coming weeks and Oostende are looking to take it up.


Oostende Executive President Gauthier Ganaye said:“It is no secret that it is a loan with an option.

We have the option to make it permanent before the summer.




Hendry was signed from Dundee by Brendan Rodgers in 2018. He went in and made an immediate impression but then lost his place after he played on with an injury.

The centre half was then sent out on loan to Melbourne City last season but suffered a serious knee injury in only his second game.

He remained surplus to requirements under Neil Lennon and went to Belgium where he has starred, ironically as Celtic have struggled for genuine quality in the centre of their defence.

 

Looks like hes comming back

 

Jack Hendry played just three games in 2019-20 but turning out for Scotland at the Euro 2020 finals was among his pre-season goals.


The defender could now play his way into contention after joining up with Steve Clarke’s squad ahead of World Cup qualifiers against Austria, Israel and the Faroe Islands.


The former Dundee player made three Scotland appearances in 2018 after joining Celtic earlier in that year. But 2019 brought just two Celtic appearances, and a loan move to Melbourne City in January 2020 quickly turned sour when he suffered a knee injury two matches in.

Hendry has since rejuvenated his career on loan at Oostende, who sit fourth in the Belgian top flight, and his Euro 2020 dream is firmly in sight.



One of my goals at the start of the season was to achieve something like that and hopefully I’m on the right road to do that,” the 25-year-old said.



“Coming off a difficult time for myself, I had to back myself to go out and do the business. Thankfully I have been given an opportunity out in Belgium to showcase my talent. I still have a long way to go to reach my full potential but I feel I am on the right course.


“I feel it shows a lot about my mentality, coming back from setbacks, going out to an unknown and coming back strong. Hopefully that shows people a lot about my character.

“For me, my biggest achievement in my career so far was pulling on the Scotland jersey, so it’s something I am desperate to do again.”


Hendry feels he has become a better player and person through coping with major setbacks.

“There’s been a couple,” he said. “Coming off the back of Celtic where I wasn’t playing so much, had a couple of niggly injuries, maybe thinking I could have been playing and getting that fair crack of the whip. It just didn’t pan out at times.

“I tried to go to Australia, just to get away from everything, be in a good environment, get my mojo back, and two weeks out there I did my medial ligament.

“I was thinking ‘is this injury going to define my career?’ I just thought ‘I really need to focus here and come back and show people what I’m made of’.


“I used that time to work on my body, to work mentally, and come back all guns blazing. Thankfully it’s paying off.

“If you spoke to anyone in Belgium, they would see me as that kind of leader in the dressing room and a good person hopefully.”


Hendry has been playing in the centre of a back three for Oostende and feels the formation, which Clarke has recently employed for Scotland, suits him.


“I feel I have developed in these last six months in Belgium,” he added.


“First and foremost I have games under my belt consistently, coming off the back of a couple of years when I didn’t play so much. With the games you learn so much.


“And if you look at the Belgian league, there are some top teams in it. And even the teams you might not know, they have good quality forward players.


“Playing against international strikers helps coming into a squad like this. I am used to playing at that level and I feel I can play at that level and can go further.


“We have the third best defence in Belgium and for that team it’s a massive achievement. Defensively I am more solid, my reading of the game, my confidence on the ball, but first and foremost as a defender you need to defend, and I feel I have shown that in Belgium.

“I feel I have competed at a real good level against top strikers and if anyone who has watched those games, they can see how good a defender I can be.”


Oostende have an option to buy Hendry this summer but need to agree personal terms, and he could yet remain a Celtic player.

Hendry refused to look beyond his next game but, reflecting on his time at Parkhead, he said: “First and foremost, you have got to look at yourself, and what you could have done better.

“There are obviously external factors that might come into play. But I am just looking forward now.

“I have learned from it and I feel if I was to get an opportunity of that stature again, I would be ready to thrive in an environment like that.”