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Lawwell denies Barton claims
- Updated: September 20, 2016
Celtic chief executive Peter Lawwell has denied Joey Barton’s claims that they tried to sign him once they knew he was close to completing a move to Rangers.
An extract from Barton’s autobiography, published in the Daily Mail, said that days before the player signed a two-year deal at Ibrox he “took a call from an agent, who had been contacted by Peter Lawwell, Celtic’s chief executive”, adding: “The message he conveyed was straight and to the point. ‘Is there anything we can do together? Can we have a conversation?'”
More recently, Barton told The Guardian: “I was never going to change my mind and let down Rangers. So I wonder how that will play out when people hear about it.”
However, Lawwell decided to respond to those claims and insisted it was actually the other way around.
“I think Joey’s …
