Cameron Carter-Vickers. Hearts v Celtic, Scottish Premiership, Tynecastle. 23 November 2024. Photo Vagelis Georgariou (The Celtic Star)
Q: As usual, with this time of year, there always is a bit of speculation. Earlier on this month, you’d been linked with Bayer Leverkusen, and they’d been noted with an interest in you. Is that the type of thing you’d taken any notice of at all?
Cameron Carter-Vickers: “For me, not really, to be honest, because there’s always going to be talks in the papers and stuff like that. But first of all, a lot of stuff you read is not always true. And for me, as long as I’m here, I’m prepared to play each game to the best that I can.”
Q: Is that the thing? Is it quite easy to just focus on what’s happening on the pitch when you’re always chasing victories, chasing trophies and success at this club?
Reo Hatate celebrates with Cameron Carter-Vickers at the Premier Sports Cup semi-final, Celtic against Aberdeen. Photo AJ for The Celtic Star
Cameron Carter-Vickers: “Yeah, 100 per cent it definitely is. And the amount of games you’ve had, it’s kind of no time to think about anything else. It’s game, recovery, rest, repeat. So that’s kind of been the rhythm I’ve been in.”
Q: Do you almost get flattered, like any other player, if you get linked to another club?
Cameron Carter-Vickers: “Yeah, no, it’s always nice to know that people are kind of taking notes of your performances. But again, like I was saying, you never really know how true it is when you just read it on the paper or on a website or anything like that.”
Q: Since the foot injury, since you’ve come back, have you had to do anything different in training to kind of manage that?
Cameron Carter-Vickers: “Yeah, not really. The toe was kind of a difficult one because I played with it for a few games and it just kind of got too painful to carry on and kind of needed that rest time. But it also recovers fairly slowly. So, when I first come back from it, I was still in a bit of pain and kind of got some special inner soles and boots and that made it, which helped it along the way. But at this point now, it pretty much was back to normal. I’m still aware of it, but no real pain.”
Cameron Carter-Vickers opens the scoring in the 6-0 win against Aberdeen in the Premier Sports Cup semi-final at Hampden on 2nd November 2024. Photo AJ for The Celtic Star
Q: And I was talking earlier about the big games, a couple of more domestic games and big European matches coming up. How important is it to continue that momentum going into them?
Cameron Carter-Vickers: “Yeah, 100 per cent. Like I was saying earlier, for us, I think right now we’re performing at a really good level and it’s just about maintaining that level and trying to obviously improve and get better. But also just knowing that we’ve got to be consistent in our work day in, and day out and that will show in the games.
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