McGeady available at ‘right price’
Manager Tony Mowbray last week told McGeady’s suitors they would be wasting their time even picking up the phone to enquire about the winger’s availability.
That was amid reports Birmingham boss Alex McLeish was preparing an £8 million (€9m) bid for Celtic’s star player.
Mowbray’s assistant Venus does not want to lose McGeady but acknowledged the size of any offer would ultimately determine whether he stayed at Parkhead.
“Everyone undoubtedly knows that he’s a very, very good player,” Venus said.
“I thoroughly enjoy working with him every day in training.
“His appetite for the game and his desire for training and football is fantastic and I don’t personally believe he’s the type of player that we want to lose.
“But every footballer has a price, I would suggest at any football club.
“So it would be folly of me to sit here and say to you that there’s no way Aiden McGeady’s leaving.
“But I would suggest it would probably take a lot of money.”
Meanwhile, Venus has admitted Celtic’s season will be judged on silverware not silky football as they look to avoid crashing out of another competition tonight.
The Bhoys’ Active Nation Scottish Cup fourth-round tie at Morton finally looks set to go ahead at the third attempt after twice being claimed by the big freeze in the last nine days.
The interim has seen Celtic slip nine points behind arch-rivals Rangers in the Clydesdale Bank Premier League, while they have already been dumped out of the Champions League, Europa League and Co-operative Insurance Cup this season.
The Scottish Cup now looks their most likely avenue to salvage something from Mowbray’s first campaign in the Parkhead hotseat.
Like his Hibernian and West Brom sides in the past, Mowbray’s Celtic have earned plenty of plaudits for the quality of their football but Venus knows that will count for little come May.
“The bottom line is you’re trying to win games, you’re trying to win trophies,” he said.
“You plot your graph at the end of the season from the start to the end to see what you’ve achieved.
“If you don’t achieve anything, your graph probably doesn’t look very good.
“If you win something – however you go about it – then your graph probably looks okay.”
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