Opinion: Celtic treble winner's time at club seems all but over

It seems very likely that Christopher Jullien will not be a Celtic player for much longer.

The central defender gave an interview to Goal last week, where he stated that he was fit but he hasn’t been selected by Ange Postecoglou, and that he would like some more playing time than he is getting.

That playing time didn’t come in the last game of the season against Motherwell, Jullien didn’t even make the bench.

Indeed, he only played once for the Hoops this season, and that was as a second-half substitute against Raith Rovers, and that was only for 16 minutes.

Now that he is fit again after a year out injured, Jullien is understandably keen to play football once more, but that doesn’t look likely at Celtic.

The Frenchman, who won the treble with the Hoops in season 2019/20, has one year left on his contract, and it seems that won’t be renewed, and therefore it makes sense for the Hoops to look to sell Jullien so they can get some kind of good transfer fee for the player.

You have to think that Celtic will sign at least one central defender this summer, and we don’t yet know it Cameron Carter-Vickers will return to the club, and Nir Bitton, who often played centre-back for the Hoops, is leaving the club.

If another centre-back comes in, that will be yet another player that is ahead of Jullien in the pecking order.

Being honest, if Jullien was a favourite of Ange Postecoglou he would have played for the Hoops towards the end of the season, getting minutes in games that the Bhoys had already won.

However, it hasn’t happened, and it would be the best thing for both Jullien and Celtic if he moved on from the Hoops in the summer.

Celtic could still get a decent fee for the 29-year-old, as he was a good player for the Bhoys until