It’s fair to say that Reo Hatate didn’t enjoy the best of times when Brendan Rodgers returned to Celtic last summer. The Japanese midfielder found himself dropped to the Celtic bench in favour of David Turnbull for the season openers against Ross County and Aberdeen. He then picked up a calf injury against Atletico Madrid which meant he missed the first Glasgow Derby of the season. Having recovered from that, Hatate then played in Celtic’s next five winning fixtures before picking up a hamstring injury against Hearts in October that ruled him out for the majority of the season. However, before…
