It has been 9 months since Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain final performed – he was subbed on for 11 minutes in a Turkish Tremendous Lig recreation – so what precisely would Celtic be getting ought to the 32-year-old signal?
After six years on Merseyside Oxlade-Chamberlain left Liverpool in 2023 with winners medals from the Champions League, Premier League, FA Cup, League Cup, Tremendous Cup and Membership World Cup.
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At his peak the midfielder – a £35m signing for the Reds from Arsenal – was a pacy, dynamic and artistic presence who might play anyplace throughout the midfielde.
However accidents have hampered his profession and that explosiveness. He missed a 12 months of soccer from April 2018 with knee ligament injury and was a bit-part participant in his remaining season at Anfield following a hamstring downside.
In response to , Oxlade-Chamberlain sat out 105 Liverpool video games due to harm. Regardless of that, the England worldwide managed 18 targets and 14 assists in 146 appearances.
He joined Turkish aspect Besiktas in 2023 and made 50 appearances – together with 32 begins – in his two-year spell, scoring 5 targets and organising one.
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He lifted the Turkish Cup throughout his first season however was frozen out for six months within the following marketing campaign by former Rangers boss Giovanni van Bronckhorst, earlier than turning into a first-team mainstay in a defensive midfield position when Ole Gunnar Solskjaer took cost.
Maybe that position hints at how Martin O’Neill would utilise Oxlade-Chamberlain at Celtic.
“He might play midfield for us, simply,” O’Neill mentioned earlier this week. “Is he a type of gamers who might go previous the gamers on the skin, huge? I would not ensure. However he might do a job.”
Oxlade-Chamberlain has 35 England caps – the final of them in 2019 – and 7 worldwide targets however missed the 2016 Euros and the 2018 World Cup by harm.
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His England debut got here in 2012, a 12 months after leaving first membership Southampton for Arsenal, the place he received the FA Cup 3 times and made 198 appearances, netting 20 occasions and offering 25 assists. He has been coaching with the Gunners since his Besiktas contract was mutually terminated final August.
Oxlade-Chamberlain brings years of expertise on the highest degree and loads of silverware – now it is all about proving his health and recapturing the shape from his Premier League days.