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“I would love to be part of the Scotland set-up and I’m not going to give up on that”

“You left Celtic in 2020 to join Inter Miami for their inaugural season in Major League Soccer. How did that transfer come about?

I hadn’t really thought about moving to MLS. It wasn’t something that was at the forefront of my mind. It was just something that my agent brought to me and said that there was interest from Miami’s side in bringing me over for their inaugural season. I’d heard about interest pretty early, then it got to our Christmas break when I was in Dubai with Celtic at a training camp, and then it just went from 0-100 really quickly.

What’s it like joining a brand-new football club? How do you build team spirit with a completely new set of players?

I joined MLS at a weird time because of COVID. We had the MLS Is Back tournament and everything was a little bit strange and out of the ordinary. But I loved my time there. One of the obstacles, especially with COVID, was that it was

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