Celtic delighted to welcome Sam Johnstone to the club | OneFootball

Celtic have signed goalkeeper, Sam Johnstone, on a season-long loan from Wolves, subject to international clearance.

The 33-year-old England internationalist will supplement Celtic’s goalkeeping squad, joining Viljami Sinisalo and Ross Doohan, and he brings a wealth of experience garnered in English football over the past few years since he began his career with Manchester United back in 2011.

He has spent the past two seasons at Wolves, and made 17 appearances for the club last season. He has also gained four caps for England, and kept a clean sheet in all four of those international games.

Speaking to CelticPlayer after signing for Celtic, Sam Johnstone said: “It’s a great feeling, I’m buzzing to be here and I'm excited to get going.

“I didn't need convincing by anyone, but Joe Hart rang me the other day just to reiterate what a place this is, what a great group of lads and how the fans are unbelievable.

“Like I said, I didn't need convincing, but for someone like that to ring me up and reiterate again the size of the club and what it means to people, it just made me so excited to get here and get started.

“I think everyone knows the goalie groups are a tight-knit group. We work closely together every day and hopefully I can help Vil and he can help me, and we push each other and we support each other along with the other goalies and the goalie coaches.

“You hear about the size of the club, and you know about the size of the club, but just being here for a day, you notice how big the club is.

“And the pressure to win, which is what I like – pressure to win, pressure to perform and we all want to win trophies.

“You hear about the atmosphere at the stadium and that's something I can't wait to play in front of.”

Celtic manager, Martin O’Neill said: We are really happy to welcome Sam to Celtic.

“He is a quality keeper with excellent experience at the highest level and I think he will be a very good addition to our goalkeeping team.

“He is really looking forward to joining Celtic, to add competition to our team and we are pleased to bring a goalkeeper of this quality to the club.”