Steven Fletcher
We were first linked with Steven Fletcher in the “Wilo Flood window” when the need for a striker was chronic and we went out, instead, and purchased Dundee Utd’s midfield supremo. Fletcher would have reputedly cost us a little over £2 million, which the Celtic board are alleged to have balked at. Would they have changed their minds had they known the ridiculous sums this player would eventually be sold for? Oh most definitely.
Fletcher went to Burnley from Hibs, and as his time there neared its end he was linked with a move to us again. But he’d been playing in England, of course, and was now being touted at ridiculous prices which didn’t seem to be justified by his number of goals.
He want to Wolves for £6 million, an eye watering price when one considered we’d last paid that for Neil Lennon and before that for the strikers Sutton and Hartson. Was he as good as any of those guys? Nobody thought so, but even more bizarre was his move to Sunderland for double that fee. And from there … well, you’d have thought the rumours would have ceased.
Yet Steven Fletcher is the ultimate example of a transfer story that just won’t die. He’s been linked with our club in every season since leaving Scotland and in particular the last few windows, where he’s moved to Marseille on a free and then Sheffield Wednesday in this one.
His is the story that just goes on and on and on, seemingly without end, in spite of no actual evidence that we’ve made a move for him since he played here for Hibs.
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