Falkirk have confirmed they received no contact from Celtic concerning interest in Calvin Miller on transfer deadline day.
The club’s chief executive, Jamie Swinney, set the record straight to quash rumours spun last week around the winger’s potential move to the Scottish Premiership side.
The speculation arose after former Celtic defender, Charlie Mulgrew, suggested the club aborted a deal that would see Miller return to his boyhood club at 8.30pm on the final transfer day.
However, Mr Swinney painted an entirely different picture.”Calvin Miller’s numbers in League One, the Championship and now the Premiership are astronomical as a wide player,” said Mr Swinney, adding how ‘natural’ it is that bigger clubs would be interested.
But he was clear there had been “no contact from Celtic whatsoever.”
“There was no contact from Celtic whatsoever, however, that doesn’t mean that he wasn’t discussed. He might well have been discussed, but certainly from our point of view, there was no contact.””What’s been really pleasing is that we’re doing this essentially with a full team of Scottish players.”
“We’ve got quite a lot of young players in the team, so we are going to have people saying ‘Who are some of these guys?'”
He told STV Radio’s Football Show: “It’s only natural. The thing is, there’s always bigger clubs than Falkirk, and therefore, there’s always going to be interest in our players.”
“We’ll hopefully keep them here for as long as possible because we feel that we’re building something really exciting.”
“I think we’d have been in a pretty good place given it was the last day of the window and he [Miller] still has 18 months left of his contract.”
“We certainly wouldn’t have been easy to deal with us as such. We don’t want to lose Calvin, of course we don’t. The fact the phone call never happened, I was quite pleased when I went to bed that night.”