{"id":196563,"date":"2025-10-13T07:14:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-13T07:14:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/196563\/"},"modified":"2025-10-13T07:14:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T07:14:11","slug":"peter-grant-says-there-was-always-talk-of-defender-with-405-appearances-for-chelsea-joining-celtic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/196563\/","title":{"rendered":"Peter Grant says there was ‘always’ talk of defender with 405 appearances for Chelsea joining Celtic"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Peter Grant was a highly appreciated player at Celtic and one of the most underrated players of his time.<\/p>\n

In the modern game, Scotland might find it hard<\/a> to lure some of the top players to the Premiership, especially from the English Premier League, because of the money.<\/p>\n

But once upon a time, Celtic could financially match teams in England<\/a>, and have some top performers donning their famous green and white colours.<\/p>\n

One man, who is now proving to be a record-breaker as an international manager, was constantly talked about joining Celtic, according to Grant<\/a>, and that\u2019s a certain Steve Clarke<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"Scotland'sPhoto by ANDY BUCHANAN\/AFP via Getty ImagesScotland coach Steve Clarke was \u2018always\u2019 talked about joining Celtic <\/p>\n

Clarke might be boring Scotland fans now<\/a> as the national manager, because his football is pretty diabolical to watch.<\/p>\n

But he was a serious player during his days on the pitch, and Grant told Go Radio he was \u2018always\u2019 talked about joining Celtic<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Grant explained that Celtic were looking for a replacement for the \u2018great Danny McGrain\u2019, but a move for Clarke didn\u2019t materialise, as he went on to have a \u2018great\u2019 career elsewhere. <\/p>\n

\u201cWhen I was at Celtic, Steve Clarke was one who was always mentioned to come and play for Celtic,\u201d said Grant. <\/p>\n

\u201cHe would have been a terrific player, at the moment in time. After the great Danny McGrain, we struggled a little bit to get someone for that position. Stevie was one who was mentioned all the time with Celtic.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut then, all of a sudden, he had a fantastic career. Even in his coaching, he has worked under some fantastic managers.\u201d<\/p>\n

Billy Dodds: \u201cQuite strong and aggressive. You worry as a player. See the guy who is booting you; he just doesn\u2019t say a word to you.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cBut Clarkey, zilch. Nothing. Right, okay, he is coming again.\u201d<\/p>\n

Clarke\u2019s career stats<\/p>\n

In the modern game, it\u2019s the norm for players to represent several clubs across the board, as Clarke only played for St Mirren and Chelsea during his playing days. <\/p>\n

This was during a time before the money was thrown into Stamford Bridge and the crazy trophy success of the Roman Abramovich era.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Despite Clarke hanging up his boots in 1998, he still picked up three trophies at Chelsea and made over 400 appearances for the London club.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Games for Chelsea: 405Trophies: European Cup Winners\u2019 Cup, FA Cup, and League CupScotland caps: 6 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Peter Grant was a highly appreciated player at Celtic and one of the most underrated players of his…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":196564,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,50128,101,58034,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-196563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-football","tag-peter-grant","tag-sports","tag-steve-clarke","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196563\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/196564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}