Ben Summers

New deal signed until 2026.

 

Good, now set a clear path to the first team for him. Start that with a better loan than Dunfermline

 

Good stuff, now get Turnbull and Vata tied down and sign some effing starters.

 

Good now a proper loan deal at spfl Premiership level and let's see how he goes

 

Ben Summers has today signed a new contract which will see him remain at Celtic until at least 2026.

The highly-rated 19-year-old has come through the club’s Youth Academy, and made his first-team debut last season.

That was back in April when he came on as a substitute late in the game against Kilmarnock at Rugby Park, and he followed that up with another substitute appearance on the final day of the Premiership season, a 5-0 home win over Aberdeen.

Ben, along with a number of other young Celts, trained with Brendan Rodgers’ first-team in pre-season and he was part of the Celtic squad which travelled to Portugal and Japan.

Everyone at the club wishes Ben every success at Celtic over the next few years

 

Away to Dunfermline on loan

 

That's not a good loan for someone that is one of our top prospects

 

Yeah surprised no one in the top flight took a chance on him tbh.

 

6 month loan and returns as Ben Winters

 

Dunfermline Athletic are delighted to announce the loan signing of attacking midfielder Ben Summers from Celtic.

A regular for the U18s and Celtic B, Ben has been at Celtic from the age of seven. He made 22 appearances for Celtic B last year, while scoring five goals, he also started every match in their Uefa Youth League campaign.

He today signed a new contract with the Glasgow side until 2026. He has also represented Scotland at U21 level. Ben will wear the squad number 16

Dunfermline Athletic manager James McPake commented:

“He’s an exciting young player that i’ve seen a lot of from Celtic B. Ben also spent time around the Celtic first team last season and made a couple of appearances, which is testament to how highly thought of he is. We’re delighted to get him in and start working with him ahead of Saturday’s match. I’d also like to thank Celtic and Darren O’Dea for helping with the loan agreement.




Ben demonstrated his potential to Ange Postecoglou last season when training with the Celtic first team and James added:-

“He’s a very good player, technically excellent, but he’s also got a bit about him. Just to train every day with them in that environment is great. That doesn’t guarantee you anything when you go to first-team level, whether that’s Celtic or us. I saw an interview with Ange when he said that nobody gets a debut or anything under him unless it’s earned. He made a couple of appearances off the bench and was on the bench in other games.

“Celtic have got a very good B team and they do well, but they’re desperate to get players out and playing proper football and into the first-team. When I had the conversation about Ben last year, Celtic were desperate to hold onto him because they believed he was going to break through – and that proved to be right.

“So, the year training with that first-team and being in that environment, as much as he hasn’t played much men’s football, will have developed him. Now, it’s up to him to come out and do well in a first-team environment. He’s got ambitions to go on and play for Celtic and Celtic have got high hopes for him to be a Celtic player. So, this is the first step in his career away from Celtic now to prove that he’s good enough to play first-team football and then kick on from there.”

Described as an attacking midfielder Ben was more attacking when James first saw him.

“He’s got lots to the game and that’s been developed over the years at Celtic. He played in the number 10 role, and then in the system they adopted under Ange Postecoglou he became an eight or a wide man.

“He likes to get goals, he likes to take shots on, and he has got very clever feet and a great footballing brain for someone so young. I can see why Celtic were so desperate to keep him and expose him to the first-team environment. I’m just glad we could get him out because he’s an exciting one for the football club and for me, he’s certainly one who will come in and add to our group.”

 

He'll get game time which is important but he's better than that level. Weird..

We barely get our players out to top flight clubs..

I remember Lucy Connelly having to go to league 1 and championship in Scotland when he was easily good enough to get a bottom 6 top flight club. I don't get it..

Summers is one of our best prospects with some first team game time and could easily get 30 games or so for a Dundee at the very least..

 

Tbf Men's football was a big step up for oor Lucy..

 

It was the long hair

 

Getting a loan like Johnston to Portugal was more what I would have hoped for. Another premier league team in Norway, Denmark, English Championship, or similar, Aberdeen or Hibs too. But Dunfermline at 19 is a strange one.

Would rather he was kept round the first team squad and given opportunities at when we are ahead or against weaker teams. He's not making any dent in Celtic first team prospects no matter how well he does at Dunfermline. No idea why we extended him that being the case.

 

Seen someone on Facebook was having a moan and brininging up names doak and hjelde … fair point about doak … but hjelde only 3 appearances for Leeds and on loan at Rotherham … he made the wrong decision


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Do you not think it's part bitterness from others not wanting to just improve our young players.

They'd rather take players less fancied by us that they feel they might have a chance getting permanently e.g Christie and Scales. Albeit that backfired with Christie.

 

The issue isn't not getting to a top flight Scottish team,the issue is that Dunfermline isn't going to be a proper attacking team and will likely be mid at best in that league, of we're loaning to Championship then it should be to the ones with realistic aims to be top, that way it's at least a similar position as it wil be with us.

It's a limited pool in the SPL, the top ones are less keen to loan from us as that leaves them weak against us as the players can't play against their parent team, change that rule it might encourage more, but it could also be we just don't make the moves to get them out on loan to them enough as well

 

Dunfermline scored a few minutes after he came on, no idea if he played a part

 

Cracking move for him that, he’ll play more often than not