Cameron Carter-Vickers has been crucial to the Celtic backline since joining the club in 2021 and other clubs are beginning to take notice.
West Ham United, Nottingham Forest, and Brentford are all interested in acquiring Carter-Vickers from Celtic, a source close to the player confirmed to SBI. All three clubs are keen in bolstering their backlines and Carter-Vickers’ impressive two seasons in Scotland have led to growing interest this window.
Carter-Vickers originally joined Celtic on a season-long loan from Tottenham in August 2021, proceeding to win the Scottish Premiership and Scottish Cup that season. The American defender’s move became permanent in June 2022 and he later led Celtic to a domestic treble last season.
He has made 101 combined appearances for Celtic over two-and-a-half seasons, scoring five goals and adding two assists. The 26-year-old was named to the SPFL Best XL in both 2022 and 2023, which has led to his USMNT return.
Carter-Vickers has earned eight of his 16 total caps over the last two years, most memorably logging 90 minutes in the USMNT’s 1-0 group stage victory over Iran at the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar. That triumph helped the Americans reach the knockout stage before suffering a Round of 16 exit at the hands of the Netherlands.
He most recently featured in both of the USMNT’s CONCACAF Nations League quarterfinal matches vs. Trinidad & Tobago last fall.
He last featured for Celtic on Boxing Day against Dundee FC before a hamstring injury forced him to miss back-to-back victories over Rangers and St. Mirren.
West Ham are sixth in the English Premier League standings and remain in the UEFA Europa League competition. Both Nottingham Forest and Brentford are in the bottom half of the league table, sitting in 15th and 16th places respectively.
A move to Nottingham Forest would team Carter-Vickers up with fellow USMNT teammate, Matt Turner.
He’s been very good for Celtic, has some UCL experience and still has tons of room to grow. He should challenge himself, and make the best move available.
yeah, i agree, he should sign EPL and go on another 6 loans around all corners of england before returning to scotland seeking regular playing time.
He was a member of Spurs academy, that’s what EPL teams do with academy players because their reserve league is not very good. If a team bought him at this point in his career it’s not to loan out, he’d at least get these next 6 months to prove himself. If he doesn’t work out though they’ll send him out in August.
he found an actual home where he is well liked, and started consolidating a NT role. to me it’s silly fanboy overambitious careerism to think he then needs to reject scotland as not prestigious enough, and keep on moving right back to the level where he bounced and bounced and bounced which was then used as an excuse to dismiss a NT role.
Your statement might have validity if it wasn’t based on your theory that players stop developing after age 20. But since really no one else believes that…
JR: i would never say they don’t develop past 20. ching, etc. i do think past a point in your early 20s it’s naive to run your career — particularly a floundering one — on assumptions that you will magically get better for signing a more ambitious piece of contractual paper. which seems to be the fanboy concept.
i’ll talk to kids seeking advice on college soccer and track recruitment. i generally advise the track kids to premise their application and recruitment strategies on the times they have actually run. look at schools where those times are wanted. maybe make a list of some slightly better schools you will pursue if you drop your times some. but some of the chatter on here sounds like the kid with D3 level times whose goal in life is D1 walkon. “yeah, if you drop 10-15 seconds on your mile this year.” occasionally someone does it. usually it’s a depressing process where they abandon their wheelhouse schools to apply to the D1 who turns them down as a walkon.
i think CCV has improved a little but enough where he should sign EPL where he never saw the field? or back to sometimes playing in the c’ship? to me at celtic he’s like the fulham guys who are institutions there, been there years. compete for the league, UCL every year, and they want to start him.
CCV is 26 and not 18. he spent most of the time around that “20” you are boostering, bouncing around england pursuing YOUR STRATEGY. to his credit, he got out of the loop for his mid 20s and made the qatar plane. why on earth would you get back in the loop? sit down and enjoy it a while.
IV your analogy is interesting but not exactly accurate. Brentford, Forest, and even West Ham are not Spurs. That’s more like your track kid trying to walk on at UT but that doesn’t mean they couldn’t run for Rice or UT-San Antonio. If this was CCV trying to get on at Man City or Arsenal sure he’s not going to make that jump but mid table EPL rosters pretty comparable to the players on Celtic. He and his agent need to do their homework and find a good fit (whereas Richards picked a spot with 2 international quality CBs already in place in 4 back setup).
“CCV is 26 and not 18. he spent most of the time around that “20” you are boostering, bouncing around england pursuing YOUR STRATEGY. ”
IV,
Bullshit.
That was CCV’s strategy. He was a Spurs kid. It was Harry Redknapp who was a big advocate for loans when he realized that the Reserves were a horseshit way to develop your young ones. Spurs loaned out Kane 4 times before he became a regular.And when he came back from every loan CCV had increased his value. And being a centerback 26 is not too late to start maturing into the position.
“why on earth would you get back in the loop? sit down and enjoy it a while.”
Money. And maybe it’s something CCV has wanted to do his whole life. Who the fuck are you to tell him what to shoot for. He’s certainly served “development time”. What is a little surprising about this is that Postecoglou, who rates him very highly, hasn’t shown more interest.
Prolly not the best time to go with Forest due to their pending financial penalties.
yeah, since they have a couple weeks to respond and roughly that long in the window, any transfer ban is probably for the summer but if they get much of any points deducted they would be in trouble in a hurry. lot of points it’s over and they’re going down. as few as 5 and they’re in relegation territory but can try and fight their way out.
side point but if you’re getting dinged for losing too much money then i’d think they should be selling not buying.
Article I found said ruling is expected April 12 with the appeal process taking place on May 12.
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It did crack me up a possible penalty for losing too much money is a fine.
an april decision they’d still have a half dozen or so games left and FA could justify docking them this year. they could even cynically dock them an amount that at that point assures an outcome.
i would say the fines system reflects a sense of shame that may no longer exist much, and owners that are either modestly wealthy or care that they lost that much cash. may reflect when english teams had english owners with an actual squeal point. if you’re some shipping mogul or emir it’s a rounding error and the whole point is they don’t care if the thing sustains itself. and yeah, if they were poor a fine is absurd like debtor’s prison.