I told Celtic to sign Matt O’Riley and now there’s another EFL star who could make them millions
Conway has been a key player for Bristol City and Evans wants to see him sign for Celtic.
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Steve Evans reckons Tommy Conway should make the same move as Matt O’Riley and take Celtic by storm.
Striker Conway has been a key man for Bristol City this season and shot down Evans’ Rotherham at the weekend. He scored his 12th goal of the season on City’s way to a 2-0 win and still harbours hopes of a late run into Scotland contention for Euro 2024. Glasgow native Evans claims a role in the Hoops signing O’Riley – who has just been nominated for PFA Scotland Player of the Year after a stunning season under Brendan Rodgers – from MK Dons in January 2022.
He now reckons Conway could be the next man to make them millions. And he’s told the striker to get in the car and go TODAY if there is interest from Parkhead. He said: “The last player I recommended Celtic should sign, when I got a call from the manager, was the boy who went from MK Dons who’s now worth multi-millions. I see a lot of Celtic – they’re the only club other than Rotherham that I’d have left Stevenage for – and if you’re asking me, could Conway play at Celtic? Absolutely. Get in the car and go today, he could play there.
“But he’s also at a very good football club here with lots to achieve and if I was Liam Manning I’d be saying to the board, ‘we need to keep players like that, if we’re genuinely going to challenge for the Premier League.’ He might want to go to Celtic, but you can’t (let him), he’s a gifted boy.”
Conway has made it clear he wants to play for Scotland at the Euros but is he good enough for an international call? “He’s a really good player, first and foremost, and does Steve Clarke have enough really good players? Possibly not,” Evans said. “Stevie Clarke has taken a country that was despondent about the national team and how they were playing and he’s come in with his staff and they’ve worked incredibly hard. But I would think anyone who’s come to watch the boy Conway must be saying, ‘we know he’s in the 21s, we know he’s in the organisation’ so they’ll have a handle on him.
“But I certainly know some players who play in that first-team squad for Scotland and I’m sure the boy Conway could go into that and play some minutes, for sure, but in fairness that’s Stevie Clarke’s decision.”
