CELTIC announced the signing of Matt O’Riley on a four-and-a-half-year contract on Thursday night. the deal was complete pretty quickly, as have all deals under Ange.
The midfielder offers more options for the manager as well as quality depth. After a thin squad for the opening half of the season, this was something Postecoglou was keen to resolve.
Speaking today, the manager revealed that the club has had its eyes set on the English midfielder, who is available for Denmark, for months. [Daily Record]
“I’m very pleased to get him in. He’s a player who we’ve scouted for quite a while in terms of the football club. I became aware of him when I joined the club in the summer.
“He was one of the ones we were kind of looking at and it didn’t quite work out then.
“I followed his progress through the first half of this season with MK Dons and he’s had a really good season, strong season, and I see some really good football attributes in him that I think will fit in well with what we’re doing here.”
O’Riley has had an impressive start to the season with seven goals and five assists to his name at the halfway mark.
Just 21-years-old, the player still has time to develop and become a top player. MK Dons fans described the deal as a ‘steal’ and his transfer fee would increase by 10 times in just a couple of years.
