‘Get stronger’: Barry Ferguson is worried about the return of Celtic’s ‘massive’ 25-year-old player

Cameron Carter-Vickers’ injury was one that all Celtic fans dreaded hearing about.

The injury to the US defender prompted the Hoops to bring in emergency backup in the form of Liverpool defender Nat Phillips, but he is likely to return to the Celtic first team following the October international break.

And that has former Rangers midfielder, Barry Ferguson, extremely worried for his old club.

Cameron Carter-Vickers’ Celtic return is bad news for Rangers

Cards on the table. Celtic are sitting top of the league, four points clear and have defeated their biggest rivals during one of the worst defensive injury crises’ I can ever remember.

Along with CCV, Celtic are also missing Maik Nawrocki and Stephen Welsh. At one point Yuki Kobayashi was also out injured and the Hoops had to shuffle along with a make-shift defensive partnership of Liam Scales and Gustaf Lagerbielke.

And that is what is worrying Ferguson.

Ferguson said [The Go Radio Football Show], “Look, they’re only going to get stronger because a player that you mentioned, [Cameron] Carter-Vickers, he’s a massive player for Celtic.

“So the most important thing for Rangers is that they don’t lose any more ground. How poor they played at the weekend, they still collected the three points.

“But they need to they need to start performing a lot better.”

Carter-Vickers is universally regarded as Celtic’s top defender. He is a rock in the center of the Hoops defense, and when he returns, the first team improves immediately.

With Celtic already in the midst of a dreadful run of away games and yet unbeaten, Ferguson is right to be concerned because when Carter-Vickers returns from injury, Celtic will be extremely difficult to beat.