I drove to Manchester with £800 and Joe Hart sold me on Schmeichel - the untold story of Celtic stopper's Falkirk loan
dailyrecord.co.ukJohn Hughes has revealed that he was convinced to sign Kasper Schmeichel for Falkirk by fellow stopper Joe Hart and lifts the lid on just how the deal came about.Denmark veteran Schmeichel - who replaced Hart between the posts at Celtic in the summer after Brendan Rodgers snapped him up on a free transfer from Anderlecht - previously caught the eye for the Bairns in a loan spell in the second half of the 2006/07 season, memorably keeping a clean sheet in a 1-0 win against his future employers.
And Hughes, who managed Falkirk between 2003 and 2009 before going onto the likes of Hibs, Livingston and Inverness - winning the 2015 Scottish Cup with the latter - has opened up on just how the ex-Manchester City keeper ended up at the Falkirk Stadium.Appearing on the The Warm-Up Podcast with current Motherwell striker Tony Watt ahead of the Hoops' Premier Sports Cup quarter-final clash with the Bairns on Sunday, he said: “When we were at Falkirk we were never away from Manchester, mostly Manchester United watching all their young players.
That was part and parcel of the job we’d learned from Jim Jeffries and Billy Brown when we were players at Falkirk. Every Tuesday after training they’d be in the car down south looking at players.“We were looking for a goalkeeper, we had buttons – about £800 in our pocket and we went down to Manchester City.
We’re in among all the scouts and I recognised four or five guys in Manchester City tracksuits. I went over to ask them about the goalkeeper [Kasper] Schmeichel.
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