CELTIC Invincible Gary Mackay-Steven has sealed his football comeback with a move to Mark Wilson’s Partick Thistle.
The 35-year-old winger joined former club Ross County in the summer, but made only six starts in an injury-hampered spell and left the Highlanders at the turn of the year.
Ex-Hoops right-back Wilson has ended the one-time Scotland international forward’s spell on the sidelines to take him to Firhill in a final push for promotion to the Premiership as they sit in second place, five points behind St Johnstone.
ACTION MAN…Gary Mackay-Steven puts pressure on Partick Thistle keeper Scott Fox duiring his Celtic spell. Now the winger has joined the Firhill outfit.
Coincidentally, the Jags play the Dingwall side in the Championship in Maryhill this evening and there could be a quickfire debut for the new boy who has agreed an initial deal until the end of the season.
Ronny Deila signed Mackay-Steven for the Parkhead club in a £2million double deal along with Stuart Armstrong from Dundee United in January 2015.
He made 10 appearances during Celtic’s all-conquering 2016/17 season under new gaffer Brendan Rodgers when the team went through the domestic campaign without defeat on their way to the club’s fourth treble in history.
After leaving Parkhead, Mackay-Steven joined Aberdeen in July 2017 before heading for a reunion with Deila in the MLS with New York City FC two years later.
He returned to Scotland with Hearts and spent two years at Tynecastle before a spell at Kilmarnock. Now he is back in Glasgow following his brief stay at County.
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