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Celtic: Fans react to James McCarthy transfer link

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Celtic fans on Twitter have been responding to the latest reported transfer rumour surrounding the Scottish club. 

This comes after Celtic news Twitter account @Celtic_HQ1 shared a post on their page saying that the Hoops want to sign Crystal Palace midfielder James McCarthy on loan this summer.

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This was also reported by 9omin, which claims that Celtic want to sign McCarthy as a potential replacement for Scott Brown.

This post then gathered a lot of replies from Celtic fans who were quick to share their thoughts on this potential deal.

Here’s a sample of Celtic fans responding to the post:

The 29-year-old, who is currently valued at £3.6 million has made a total of 256 Premier League appearances throughout his playing career in which he has scored 13 goals and provided 16 assists along the way (per Transfermarkt).

In the 2019 summer transfer window, McCarthy signed to Crystal Palace from Everton for a fee of £2.97 million.

In the 2019/20 season at Palace, the Irishman made 33 league appearances for the club in which he earned himself a season rating of 6.42/10 (per WhoScored).

Now that this news has found its way onto Twitter, this sparked a huge reaction with lots of Celtic fans sharing their thoughts on the possibility of McCarthy joining the club this summer.

However, there were some Celtic fans who were quite happy with the idea of this potential deal.

Would you take James McCarthy on loan this summer?

Yes

Yes

No

No

It appears that the majority of these Celtic fans are not crazy about the idea of McCarthy signing to the club on loan this summer.

It will be interesting now to see if Celtic approach Palace to take McCarthy on loan this summer and if Palace would be willing to let him go or not.

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