Nu broom: the awkward convo that led Joe Hart to Celtic
We’ll never understand why Joe Hart‘s career nosedived to the extent it did, but he’s finally found his feet at Celtic, who won the Old Firm derby 2-1 on Sunday.
Hart arrived in Scotland after Spurs boss Nuno Espirito Santo froze him out at the club, and the keeper recently recalled the meeting where the gaffer told him he wasn’t wanted:
He was like, ‘I’ll speak first. Just to be clear, there’s someone I’m signing, there’ll be three goalkeepers. Let’s be absolutely clear: no matter what happens, you’ll not kick a ball this year’. I was like ‘right, okay’… I said ‘just out of interest, remove yourself from the situation, you used to be a goalkeeper… apparently… why has it come to this? Why am I now completely surplus to requirements in a squad, to not even be able to back up the first-choice? Speak freely’.
He just went ‘in my opinion, we all reach a point in our career where the body won’t allow you to play football. We’re at it now. I would not feel comfortable with you playing one minute for me. The ball’s too quick for you, you’re too old, you’re not moving, you’ve got no strength in your body’. I’m starting to chuckle here. He literally buried me and I’m laughing, because, whether I’m deluded or not I was like, I don’t agree with any of that.
I went to the sporting director, he went ‘erm, err’, I was like ‘yeah I get it, it’s pretty awkward’.
Quite brutal.
