Callum McGregor

Agreed! I'm not a massive fan of international football, but he always seems to play so well for Scotland as well. Does the nuts and bolts unbelievably well.

 

Needs 4 more seasons to reach Broony’s appearances total.

 

When you rhyme off those milestones ...' - Callum McGregor explains what underpins his Celtic success
Living in the moment, the primary concern for Celtic is Saturday afternoon’s trip to Ibrox. That’s where more bragging rights and the opportunity to navigate the season unbeaten by their Glasgow rivals is at stake.




But the game also offers them the chance to lay down some solid psychological foundations ahead of next term. “Of course, there’s always something to play for even if the trophy is done and dusted,” acknowledged the Parkhead captain Callum McGregor. “They will want to go into next season with a bounce on the back of a positive result in the final league game. It’s important we aim to do the same. It’ll be a good game as both teams will go at it. But we want maximum points.

The numbers have been important to the leader of men, in a season where he earned his 50th Scotland cap, made his 400th Celtic appearance, lost just one Premiership match, bagged two pieces of silverware – perhaps, three if they defeat Inverness Caledonian Thistle in next month’s Scottish Cup final. If they do, that would make him the only player in world football to have claimed five domestic trebles.




You look at how many domestic leagues there are around the world, and it doesn’t really matter what level you’re at, to have that consistency and that hunger to win and win again is something that drives me,” said the man who is on the shortlist for the PFA Scotland Player of the Year award, which will be presented on Sunday night. “To have that number of trebles would be really special but I don’t think you get there unless you have the mindset that you want to be as good as you can be.

“Every single day you need to push yourself and it becomes a combination of everyone else doing the same. When you rhyme off those milestones it makes me feel good and proud of what I have achieved. But, again, it’s all underpinned by being in a good Celtic team.”


It is a Celtic team that will face a partisan crowd on Saturday, as their own punters are shut-out of Ibrox. But they can enter the arena with their heads held high after wrapping up the title last weekend. Though buoyed by their achievements and keen to turn the screw on their city rivals, who will end the term empty-handed, McGregor says Celtic still need to be wary




There’s no such thing as a dead rubber in these games. There’s always something to play for. You’re playing for pride, your supporters – you’re playing for the badge. These players understand that, which is part of the reason we’re been so good in these games.

“It’s another good test for us to go there with no supporters, go in there with a siege mentality and try to get a positive result. We can go there full of confidence as we go there as champions and we can show our personality. But they will want to dent us.


We need to go in with a collective mentality. We know everyone will be against us but we have to use it, harness that energy, and try to turn the crowd against them. We'll be aggressive and try to get as much as we can from the game.”

 

No doubt Callum will be demanding we batter these scum Hun *.

 

Absolute * embarrassment of a performance..

 

Aye

 

We'll be going nowhere in the CL/EL if McGregor is our lynch pin. Not a knee-*, I've thought this for years. You can bookmark this for when we crash out of Europe again.

He got bullied today, barely passed the ball forward and gave Sakala a goal. Woeful.

 

Poor again. Do think he gets away with murder from a lot of our fans.

Fantastic player no doubt, but not this absolute superstar that some believe him to be.

 

Aye, he was poor today but his quality and consistency can't be questioned, he's about to Captain us to a treble ffs..

 

Poor today totally owned by cantwell and raskin.

Those in beside him let him down

 

They didn’t let him down. They were all as bad as each other.

 

This is the worst excuse I see made for McGregor when he plays badly. It always gets peddled as well.

McGregor was arguably our worse midfielder today.

Has he been good this season? Yes.

But he can be nullified and when he is you get what you get from him today. A complete nothing performance. Seen it so many times over the years, particularly in Europe.

 

He was poor and nullified by their set up. Let's not pretend that he isn't a fabulous player and captain cause we lost today though.

 

His worst performance since the covid season, just really poor.

 

If a team sits on him all game then it's hard for him to affect it. In these moments you need other players to step up to receive the ball with similar confidence and quality. That's where we were lacking. McGregor was poor and let himself down, but he was let down by others too, including Ange actually, as Rangers whole plan was to stop service to him