Gordon Dalziel

I think what makes it easier is quite simple for me, Andrew.

I think that he was obviously noticed with performances with Motherwell.

I don't think Stephen Welsh was anywhere near the centre half, the player, the guy that can come out with the ball and make things work.

He's not the biggest centre half I've ever seen, but very rarely seen him losing aerial battles.

He was a clever, clever player.

And I think the fact that he's played week in, week out with Motherwell,

I think it's benefited them and I think there's been a lot of clubs that will sit up and take notice he won't be short of offers and I think that's why he sat down with Celtic and as much as I say that a selfish manager if I went into Celtic I'd look at his performances I'd look at everything and think yeah I could keep him as a squad player I don't think he'd let you down but I like the fact that Celtic have decided look we're not going to stand in your way and we wish him all the best

bed him in quite quickly I think Chris is spotting the money the one thing I will say is I totally understand where Chris is coming from as a Celtic fan in a club saying look we could have got a bit of money for him and I don't think there's any doubt they probably could but I think they've just looked at the situation the lad's been there a long long time every time he's been asked never let Celtic down he's never caused problems

I think Celtic have just sat down and looked at him and thought, right, okay, we could sit here and, you know, make it a little bit, not difficult for you, but we could sit here and just dig our feet in here, dig our heels in here, sorry, and maybe try and get a couple of hundred thousand, half a million quid, whatever it may be, right?

I'm just throwing out numbers there.

But I think Celtic are doing the right thing, man.

I really do.

And I think Chris is right.

There's no doubt...

Motherwell manager will have a talk with him because he worked with him he made him the player he was let's be honest because I think everybody was surprised the way Stephen Wells played when he went to Firpar I looked at it at one point and thought I'm a bit on the fence here is that a good signing for Motherwell or not he was absolutely brilliant the boy absolutely brilliant so don't be surprised

Yeah, but listen...

We don't know who the manager's going to be and there's decisions already been made in at Celtic Park.

Right, so you talk about Stephen Wells, you're talking about other guys getting off for contracts.

You know, you can argue the same argument there by saying, well, what happens if Robbie Keane comes in and doesn't want to keep Scales in a long-term contract?

Doesn't want to keep Luke McCown in a long-term contract?