Boruc Continues Career With Celtic

January 6, 2008

27-year old Poland international Artur Boruc has signed a new 5.5-million pound deal with Celtic effective for three and a half years, which means that he is to stay with the club until year 2011. He has become the highest-paid player in Scottish football. After the speculated weeks of negotiations between AC Milan, Arsenal, Barcelona and Bayern Munich, he has finally decided to stay with Celtic.

After undergoing a knee operation early this December, he has returned to play with Celtic on a 3-0 away win against Gretna, putting the club back to the leading spot. His spectacular performances in the Champions League is said to have raised his market value to about 12 million pounds.

The Italian media earlier voted Boruc as the third most excellent keeper in the world which made Milan reportedly ready to negotiate with the player’s representatives.

During the month of July 2005, he penned a contract with Celtic from the Polish club Legia Warszawa. The deal was originally to be effective for a year but given a choice to make it permanent. Boruc then signed a one-year-deal with Celtic until 2009.

On November 2006 during a match against Manchester United, Boruc became the key to a knockout stage of the match. He was then considered the player of the month for December 2006 for the Scottish Premier League. This is a very rare incident for a goalkeeper. His performance also gained a nomination for the Scottish Professional Footballers’ Association’s player of the year award for the year 2007.

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