--- title: "Celtic: Jack Hendry linked with two Scottish Premiership clubs" canonical: "https://www.footballtransfertavern.com/celtic-jack-hendry-linked-with-two-scottish-premiership-clubs/" type: "post" language: "en-GB" author: "Liam Togher" section: "SPFL News" published: "2019-08-21T19:15:54Z" modified: "2019-08-21T19:15:54Z" --- # Celtic: Jack Hendry linked with two Scottish Premiership clubs **Celtic defender Jack Hendry is being eyed by two other Premiership clubs with a view to a potential move for the 24-year-old.** The [Daily Record](https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/sport/football/football-transfer-news/jack-hendry-transfer-fight-celtic-18972539?_ga=2.198484591.15466805.1566219065-1194075882.1560761803) reported that Motherwell and Kilmarnock are both keeping tabs on the player, who has fallen out of favour at Celtic under Neil Lennon. According to the [Daily Record](https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/sport/football/football-transfer-news/jack-hendry-transfer-fight-celtic-18972539?_ga=2.198484591.15466805.1566219065-1194075882.1560761803), Hendry is “[frustrated](https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/sport/football/football-transfer-news/jack-hendry-transfer-fight-celtic-18972539?_ga=2.198484591.15466805.1566219065-1194075882.1560761803)” at his lack of game-time with the Hoops and had the opportunity to sign for English Championship side Hull earlier this month. However, the [Daily Record](https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/sport/football/football-transfer-news/jack-hendry-transfer-fight-celtic-18972539?_ga=2.198484591.15466805.1566219065-1194075882.1560761803) added that Celtic stalled on Hull’s offer and subsequently asked for a higher fee, by which stage the Tigers had already turned their attention to another transfer target. ![](https://cdn.footballtransfertavern.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/THE-BREAKDOWN.png) Hendry was brought to Celtic from Dundee in January 2018 by Brendan Rodgers, signing on a four-and-a-half-year deal for the highest transfer fee received in Dundee’s history. \[[via BBC](https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/42890313)\] He played [11 times in the Premiership in his first half-season at Celtic](https://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/jack-hendry/leistungsdatendetails/spieler/363223) but featured in only [four league games last season](https://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/jack-hendry/leistungsdatendetails/spieler/363223) and [15 in all competitions](https://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/jack-hendry/leistungsdatendetails/spieler/363223). He has not been given a single minute of first-team action under Lennon, as noted by the [Daily Record](https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/sport/football/football-transfer-news/jack-hendry-transfer-fight-celtic-18972539?_ga=2.198484591.15466805.1566219065-1194075882.1560761803), with [his last appearance coming six months ago](https://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/jack-hendry/leistungsdatendetails/spieler/363223/plus/0/saison/2018/wettbewerb/SC1/verein/371) in a [4-1 win over Motherwell at the end of Rodgers’ time in charge](https://www.scotsman.com/sport/football/premiership/celtic-4-1-motherwell-controversy-as-celtic-continue-winning-streak-1-4878401). With Jozo Simunovic and Kristoffer Ajer playing [75 games between them last season](https://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/celtic-fc/leistungsdaten/verein/371/plus/0?reldata=%262018), and Lennon signing two more centre-backs in [Christopher Jullien](https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/48770628) and [Hatem Abd Elhamed](https://www.celticfc.net/news/16503) over the summer, Hendry’s prospects of playing for Celtic in 2019/20 did not look promising when the campaign began in the Champions League qualifiers last month. Even when some of those defenders have not been available, Lennon has preferred to [go with midfielder Nir Bitton at centre-back](https://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/nir-bitton/leistungsdaten/spieler/129788) instead of giving Hendry a chance. The 24-year-old has come in for unfavourable assessment from some pundits, with Chris Sutton writing in the [Daily Record](https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/mismanagement-celtic-industrial-scale-its-13097789) that “[I feel sorry for Jack Hendry](https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/mismanagement-celtic-industrial-scale-its-13097789)“, while [BBC](https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0079g4q)‘s Michael Stewart claimed that Hearts’ John Souttar was a better defender \[[via This Is Futbol](https://thisisfutbol.com/2018/08/blogs/scottish-premier-league/stewart-tears-into-hendry-after-celtic-elimination/)\]. ![](https://cdn.footballtransfertavern.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/Verdict.png) Celtic only conceded [20 league goals last season](https://www.skysports.com/scottish-premier-table/2018) with Simunovic and Ajer as [two of their three most-used centre-backs](https://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/celtic-fc/leistungsdaten/verein/371/plus/0?reldata=%262018) (along with the [now-departed Dedryck Boyata](https://www.herthabsc.de/de/intern/verpflichtung-dedryck-boyata/page/16026--17-17-.html)), so it is understandable that Lennon has trusted them more than Hendry. Also, with two new centre-backs signed over the summer and Bitton being chosen to start there ahead of Hendry on occasion, it seems quite clear that the ex-Dundee man is not in Lennon’s plans. With Simunovic, Ajer, Jullien, Abd Elhamed and Bitton [all able to play at centre-back](https://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/celtic-glasgow/kadernachposition/verein/371), Celtic seem well covered in that position, so allowing Hendry to leave shouldn’t affect them much and would enable the player to revive his flagging career. ***Celtic fans, should Hendry be allowed to leave the club? Give us your thoughts in the comments section below!***