Celtic Confirms High Profile Departure On Loan To Dutch Club.

Tonight we’ve gotten the first of the unwanted stars off the wage bill.

Barkas is heading to Holland to the Dutch club Utrecht. It looks at the moment like a one season loan, although I would imagine there is an option to buy. We won’t be hard to deal with.

Getting him of the wage bill was paramount.

He’s been a flop. But our fans will definitely wish him well and hope that he does a good job at his new club.

The Dutch league is a great place for him to go and get back on his feet.

It might even help us get some cash for him, although I think he’s probably near enough the end of his contract that this wouldn’t be a necessary requirement. He has played his last game for Celtic.

He goes down as a major mistake, but one we’ll get over.

Barkas cost us a big transfer fee and never remotely looked as if he would live up to it. But this is the thing with a club like ours; we can take a huge hit like this and move forward.

Others aren’t as well run or as able to absorb such a blow.

Whatever went wrong with this big guy, I am convinced that he’s a half decent keeper.

He arrived with a far better pedigree than any form he showed whilst at Parkhead. He was the target of an appalling, and unrelenting, media campaign … he is well clear of it all now.

We won’t get our money back if this guy goes to Holland and is a success, but I hope that he does it anyway because he didn’t deserve the way our media treated him. I want to see this guy go on and do well.

I want to see him get his career on track.

All the best to you Vasilis Barkas … do yourself proud big guy.